Gumroad provides product pages and checkout for digital creators selling files, courses and memberships. Its direct-link sales and Discover marketplace have different fee structures. It can suit a creator who prefers a sale-linked platform bill and a merchant-of-record arrangement over paying for a larger store subscription.
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Payhip is a hosted storefront for downloads, courses, memberships, coaching and physical products. Its packages retain the same advertised feature set while changing the monthly subscription and platform fee. Sellers can begin without a monthly charge and evaluate a paid package against their own sales volume rather than upgrading merely to unlock the store builder.
Vendor-described capabilities; availability can depend on the plan.
✓Digital downloads and course sales
✓Memberships and recurring access
✓Product pages and embeddable sales components
✓Discover marketplace distribution
✓Merchant-of-record sales tax collection and remittance
Gumroad pricing considerations
No monthly fee; sales fees apply
Headline direct/profile platform fee: 10% plus US$0.50, with card or PayPal processing additional. Discover: 30% including processing. A current high-volume direct-sales discount has specific monthly conditions; check account terms and currency.
No monthly subscription; a fee is deducted from sales. This is ongoing fee-based selling access, not fee-free commerce.