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NearIQ can serve customers globally from a US company, but production rollout needs both product controls and external business review. This page is an operating checklist, not legal or tax advice.

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Business and tax checklist

  • Keep the Michigan LLC active and maintain its Michigan registered office, annual statements, and tax obligations.
  • Ask a CPA or attorney where the LLC is considered to be “doing business” outside Michigan. Foreign qualification can be triggered by employees, offices, repeated local operations, or other state/country-specific factors.
  • Confirm US federal and state tax treatment for international SaaS revenue, sales tax, VAT/GST, withholding, invoices, and customer tax IDs.
  • Enable Stripe Tax only after the Stripe account has the correct tax registrations and product tax codes.
  • Keep customer-facing Terms, Privacy Policy, DPA, subprocessors, refund policy, and AI/data-processing disclosures current for global customers.

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Pricing and currency

NearIQ plan amounts are USD base prices in PLAN_CONFIG. Landing and Billing pages use browser locale to show an estimated local-currency display where supported. The checkout session remains the source of truth for final price, tax, and presentment currency. For true local-currency subscription billing, configure Stripe Price currency options or separate regional Price IDs for each plan and interval, then update the STRIPE_*_PRICE_ID environment mapping. Do not claim exact local billing currency on marketing pages until the corresponding Stripe prices exist in production. Stripe Checkout is configured with:
  • locale: "auto" so Checkout localizes supported copy.
  • billing_address_collection: "auto" so tax and billing details can be collected when needed.
  • tax_id_collection enabled by default for business buyers.
  • automatic_tax controlled by STRIPE_AUTOMATIC_TAX_ENABLED=1.

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Platform applications

Review each connected app before launching in a new region:
  • Stripe: business profile, supported payment methods, tax registrations, tax IDs, refund policy, invoices, and regional subscription prices.
  • Hosting/CDN provider: production domains, privacy/security documentation, DPA, region/data controls, environment variables, and log retention.
  • Google: OAuth consent screen, production publishing status, authorized domains, brand verification, sensitive/restricted scopes, and Google Business Profile API quota.
  • Meta/Facebook: app mode, business verification, required permissions, App Review notes, data deletion callback, and regional privacy disclosures.
  • AI providers: model availability, regional terms, data retention settings, budget caps, and per-country pricing assumptions.

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Product requirements

  • Pricing UI must label estimated local display separately from final checkout billing.
  • AI Chat should answer international legal/tax questions with operational guidance and recommend qualified professional review.
  • Public docs should state that AI recommendations are informational and do not replace legal, tax, medical, or financial advice.
  • API docs should describe price/currency fields as source data, not verified legal pricing claims.