Petje Af is a Dutch membership platform for independent content makers, operated by Petje.af B.V. from the Agro Business Park in Wageningen and registered with the Dutch chamber of commerce under KvK 76023745. Creators publish a page, offer recurring memberships and one-off donations, gate posts and media behind a membership, and get a helpdesk for their own supporters. The interface is Dutch only, and the creator base is almost entirely Dutch and Flemish.
Its structural decision is the interesting one. Petje Af describes it as no lock-in: the creator connects their own Mollie or Stripe account, and the platform never sits in the money flow. Petje Af charges 6% per transaction and the connected processor charges its own fee, but the payments, the customers and the payment data belong to the creator, who can leave at any point and take the billing relationship with them. Because Mollie is a Dutch, EU-incorporated processor and is already listed in our payments category, a creator who picks that option ends up with the only end-to-end EU money path available in this category. Pick Stripe instead and the same platform hands you a US rail, so here the sovereignty outcome is a configuration choice rather than a property of the vendor.
The platform layer does not match the payment layer. The site is served by Vercel and the API resolves into AWS eu-central-1 in Frankfurt, so the data sits in the EU while the infrastructure is operated by two US-owned companies; Cloudflare Turnstile handles bot protection, content is delivered from the Sanity CDN, and Google Workspace runs the corporate mail: Material. Petje Af publishes no data processing agreement and no sub-processors list, and its privacy policy refers to processors only as companies engaged for the performance of the contract, without naming any. The privacy policy also still shows an older Alphen aan den Rijn address while the company-details page shows Wageningen. Best fit: Dutch-speaking creators who want to own the payment relationship, and EU creators who specifically want their members' money settled by Mollie.