What problem does it solve?
Migrating payment processing between providers like Stripe, Paddle, or Lemon Squeezy to Polar traditionally involves high risk of revenue loss, customer friction from re-entering payment details, and time-consuming manual data mapping and system configuration.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Multi-Platform Migration Support: Pre-built workflows for migrating from Stripe Billing, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, and Gumroad to Polar.
- Flexible Migration Strategies: Choose between hard cutover, gradual customer-by-customer migration, or new-customer-only onboarding to match your risk tolerance.
- Parallel System Operation: Run old and new payment stacks simultaneously with unified routing logic to avoid service gaps during transition.
- Automated Customer Communication: Pre-written email templates and reminder sequences to notify customers of payment updates and reduce support tickets.
- Post-Migration Verification: Built-in checks to confirm all subscriptions are successfully transferred and old platform resources are properly cleaned up.
Use Case: A SaaS business moving from Stripe to Polar can use this skill to export active subscriber data, map their existing product catalog to Polar equivalents, send automated payment update emails to customers, and cancel old Stripe subscriptions only after confirming successful Polar checkout.
Quick Start
Use the polar-migration skill to walk your engineering team through a full Stripe Billing to Polar migration, including customer data export, product pricing mapping, and customer notification workflows.
