Lemon Squeezy vs Candis
Side-by-side trajectory, velocity, and editorial themes.
Lemon Squeezy ships fundamentals — localization, charts, webhook tooling — then goes quiet.
Lemon Squeezy's public changelog has been visibly idle for roughly nine months. The last shipped work centered on payment-platform fundamentals: 34-language checkout localization with no configuration required, MRR/ARR chart accuracy improvements, manual webhook simulation for developer integration, account-level 2FA, and partial refunds with credit notes.
The arc through 2024 and into mid-2025 was filling out merchant-of-record table stakes — international checkout, refund flexibility, security, integration ergonomics. Since then, the public surface has gone silent. That can mean a deliberate move toward larger less-frequent releases, focus on the parent company's roadmap (Stripe acquisition era), or genuine reduced cadence. The entries themselves don't disambiguate.
The next public update is unclear from the visible signal. If shipping resumes, the most natural extensions of the prior trajectory are subscription dunning workflows or richer tax/VAT automation atop the localized checkout.
Candis extends from AP into procurement — purchase requisitions, auto-tax, and a mobile expense app land together.
Candis is shipping aggressively at the procure-to-pay seam for DACH finance teams. The May releases bring purchase requisitions inside Candis with auto-matching against incoming invoices, automatic tax calculation derived from account tax keys, DATEV-style Automatikkonten support, and a Mobile App 2.0 that lets approvers handle expenses from a phone. The credit-card transaction surface is also being tightened — faster table, better automatching against invoices.
Candis is broadening from 'AP automation for DACH SMBs' into a fuller P2P stack: requisition through invoice through expense, with DATEV at the core of the accounting integration. The DATEV-flavored features (Automatikkonten, account-derived tax rates) signal a deliberate optimization for the German accounting workflow rather than a generic European AP tool. Mobile expense approvals plus central user management across multiple Gesellschaften suggest mid-market multi-entity customers are now the target.
Expect a tighter Bestellanforderungen + budget approval workflow next, with vendor-level controls on top of the new requisitions surface. The DATEV-specific tax automation will likely roll out to all eligible customers within weeks, and at least one more accounting connector (likely an ERP, after Microsoft Business Central and Sage earlier this quarter) should land.
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