The 10 best Payhip alternatives in 2026

1. 1.ByteSellOur pick

   The straight swap for a seller who liked that Payhip gated nothing and disliked paying $99 to stop the percentage. Nothing is taken per sale on any tier, the free one included, and buyers pay the Stripe, PayPal or wallet in your own name. Tax filing comes back to you, which is the honest cost.

   Pros

   • Zero percent on all three plans, so the free tier is already the cheapest per order
   • Buyers pay your own Stripe, PayPal or crypto wallet with nothing held between
   • Subscriptions, affiliates, resellers and Discord or Telegram gating are on every plan
   • A theme you pick or write yourself, on your own domain from Pro

   Cons

   • The free plan stores 500 MB in total and will not accept a file above 50 MB
   • A custom domain and unbranded pages both start at $29 a month
   • Payhip settles US sales tax and EU VAT; here you stay the merchant and file your own
   • Licence keys are a pool of strings you upload, with no activation API and no expiry

   Payhip would take, in a year

   $1,500and ByteSell would take none of it

   On a $50 product selling 50 times a month, at 5%. ByteSell is 0% on every plan including the free one, and the buyer pays your own Stripe, PayPal or wallet, so nothing is held in the middle.

   Free plan, no card, keep every cent of every sale.

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2. 2.Sellfy

   The closest structural match on this list, since Sellfy keeps nothing from an order and charges a plan instead. Print on demand merchandise sits in the same shop as the files, which suits a creator whose readers also buy shirts. What it meters is how much you are allowed to sell in a year.

   Pros

   • No transaction fee on any of the three plans, at any volume beneath the ceiling
   • Print on demand merchandise sells beside the downloads in one storefront
   • Every plan includes email credits for campaigns, starting at 2,000 a month
   • Buyers pay your Stripe or PayPal, so nothing waits to be paid out

   Cons

   • Annual revenue is capped on every plan, at $10,000 on $39 Starter
   • The ceiling runs on a rolling twelve months rather than resetting each January
   • Past it, every order carries 2% until the account moves up a plan
   • Checkout is disabled for the entire fourteen day trial

   Sellfy fee calculatorSellfy alternatives

3. 3.SendOwl

   A checkout and delivery tool rather than a browsable shop, and it has been doing that job for a long time. No percentage on any plan and no funds held at any point, exactly like the arrangement you already have with your own processor. Its ceiling is order count rather than revenue alone.

   Pros

   • No percentage on any tier, and every feature is present on the cheapest one
   • Money never enters a SendOwl account, so no hold or minimum can apply
   • Chargebacks cost no platform fee, and download access is simply withdrawn
   • Subscriptions, affiliates and buyer emails are included from the entry plan

   Cons

   • Launch at $39 stops at 5,000 orders and $10,000 of sales a year
   • Crossing a limit upgrades the account automatically rather than warning first
   • Bandwidth past the monthly allowance is charged at a dollar per gigabyte
   • Sales tax is tracked but never remitted, so that work returns to you

   SendOwl alternatives

4. 4.Shoprocket

   Built for a seller who already has a website and wants the checkout inside it rather than a store to send people to. Nothing is taken per sale on any tier. Read the plan line carefully, because subscriptions and a custom domain both begin on the $79 Business plan rather than the $29 one.

   Pros

   • Nothing taken per sale on any tier, with revenue coming from the plan alone
   • The checkout drops into an existing site rather than replacing it with a store
   • Your own Stripe, PayPal or PayU connects and funds settle to it instantly
   • Instant downloads plus a pre-uploaded licence key pool emailed to the buyer

   Cons

   • Selling subscriptions begins on the $79 Business plan, not the $29 Starter
   • Connecting a custom domain starts on that same $79 plan
   • The entry plan is $29 a month where Payhip’s equivalent costs nothing
   • The included subdomain is a my-store.shoprocket.io address until you upgrade

   Shoprocket alternatives

5. 5.Lemon Squeezy

   The one to look at if what kept you on Payhip was that the tax was somebody else’s job. Lemon Squeezy is merchant of record everywhere it operates and its licence API activates and deactivates keys properly. Its cut is computed on the order total, which includes the VAT you did not charge.

   Pros

   • Merchant of record everywhere, so VAT and sales tax stay off your desk
   • No monthly charge at all, so a month without orders costs nothing
   • An activate, validate and deactivate licence API with activation limits
   • Half of Payhip’s free-plan rate on an ordinary sale at 5% plus fifty cents

   Cons

   • The fee is charged on the order total including tax, not on the price alone
   • Subscriptions add 0.5% and PayPal payments add 1.5% on top of the base rate
   • Payouts run twice a month after a thirteen day hold, with a $50 minimum
   • Buyers in eighteen listed countries cannot complete a purchase

   Lemon Squeezy fee calculatorLemon Squeezy alternatives

6. 6.Gumroad

   Also a merchant of record, and it carries a marketplace, which Payhip does not. There is no plan to buy and no revenue ceiling to watch, so a slow month costs nothing at all. The rate is a tenth of every sale plus fifty cents, and it never steps down whatever the volume.

   Pros

   • Nothing to pay monthly, so an idle catalogue costs you nothing
   • A built-in marketplace can put a product in front of new buyers
   • Gumroad stands as merchant of record, so sales tax is remitted for you
   • Buyer email addresses are visible in the dashboard and export as CSV

   Cons

   • Ten percent plus fifty cents on every sale, twice what the Payhip free plan takes
   • There is no volume tier, so the rate is identical at every size of store
   • Sales sit in the Gumroad balance for seven days before becoming payable
   • Payouts wait for a $100 balance, and some countries set that floor higher

   Gumroad fee calculatorGumroad alternatives

7. 7.Podia

   Worth opening if the catalogue is turning into teaching, because Podia puts lessons, a members’ area and your mailing list on one bill. The trial is thirty days with no card asked. Mover costs $49 a month and still takes 5%, and PayPal cannot be used on that plan at all.

   Pros

   • Lessons, a members’ area and email marketing come on one subscription
   • Thirty days of trial with no card required at any point
   • Shaker at $99 and Earthquaker at $179 take no cut of a sale
   • Payments run through your connected processor, so Podia holds nothing

   Cons

   • Mover costs $49 a month and still deducts 5% from every sale
   • PayPal is not offered on Mover, only on the two plans above
   • Email contacts past a hundred are billed on top, with 10,000 adding $70 a month
   • Podia cannot collect its fee through Stripe for accounts in five named countries

   Podia fee calculatorPodia alternatives

8. 8.Ko-fi

   The lightest thing here and the cheapest to run, with a shop, memberships and monthly support on one page and nothing owed each month. It keeps 5% of anything sold rather than given, which matches the Payhip free plan exactly, and there is no custom domain to move onto.

   Pros

   • No monthly charge on either of the free tiers
   • Funds transfer immediately into your own PayPal or Stripe, with no minimum
   • Contributor allows 1,500 shop items behind 200 GB of storage
   • Ko-fi says outright that you are the merchant of record on every transaction

   Cons

   • Five percent on shop sales, memberships and commissions, matching Payhip’s free plan
   • New creators start as Contributors, which puts that 5% on one-off tips as well
   • There is no custom domain, so the shop stays at a ko-fi.com address
   • Ko-fi Gold at $12 removes the fee, and its own page says you no longer need it

   Ko-fi fee calculatorKo-fi alternatives

9. 9.Stan Store

   A mobile-first single link rather than a storefront, which is a narrower shape than the one you are leaving. Stan keeps nothing from a sale on either plan and includes courses, booking and subscriptions at $29. There is no free plan, so the meter starts before the first order does.

   Pros

   • Zero percent on both plans, so the monthly price is the whole platform cost
   • Courses, booking, community and subscriptions all sit on the $29 tier
   • Sales settle into a connected Stripe or PayPal account
   • Annual billing takes the Creator plan to $25 a month

   Cons

   • There is no free plan, only a fourteen day trial before billing starts
   • Discount codes, upsells, affiliates and email marketing wait for the $99 tier
   • The storefront cannot be embedded into a site of your own
   • The default Stripe path creates a Custom account Stan manages rather than using yours

   Stan Store alternatives

10. 10.E-junkie

    The outlier, and the cheapest monthly bill in this comparison at $8. It delivers files and nothing more, takes no cut, and never touches the money. Its own help centre states it cannot do recurring billing at all, so a Payhip seller with memberships should read that line before anything else.

    Pros

    • Eight dollars a month is the cheapest plan in this comparison
    • No transaction fee and no cut of a sale on any tier
    • Your own PayPal, Stripe or Authorize.Net receives the money directly
    • A fourteen day trial with no card required to start

    Cons

    • E-junkie states its system cannot handle recurring or subscription billing at all
    • The Starter plan holds ten products and 200 MB of files
    • The shop runs on an e-junkie.com subdomain, with no custom domain confirmed
    • Tax is calculated for you to collect but never remitted, since E-junkie holds no funds

    E-junkie alternatives

Every price above is computed from that platform's own published rates on its entry plan, which is the plan almost everyone is actually on. Where a charge applies only in certain cases, an international card or a payout, the row says so rather than adding it to the headline rate. To put your own prices through Payhip's full stack, use the Payhip fee calculator.

Compare	ByteSell	Payhip
Platform fee on each sale	Yes.0% on every plan	No.5% free, still 2% on the $29 plan
Your own branded storefront	Yes.Free storefront, your own domain from Pro	Partial.A templated store with a custom domain
Use your own Stripe or PayPal	Yes.Included	Yes.Stripe or PayPal
Your money is never held	Yes.Non-custodial	Yes.Non-custodial too
Accept crypto payments	Yes.To your own wallet	No.Not supported
Paid Discord and Telegram access	Yes.Included, auto-revoke on lapse	Partial.Third-party bots only
Subscriptions and recurring billing	Yes.Included	Yes.
Coupons and discounts	Yes.Included	Yes.
Upsells and order add-ons	Yes.Included	Yes.
Full built-in analytics	Yes.Included	No.Basic reporting only
Live chat with your buyers	Yes.Included	No.Not offered
PDF stamping and watermarking	Yes.Included	Yes.
Fraud and checkout controls	Yes.Included	Partial.Manual buyer blocking only
Sales tax handled for you	No.You stay the merchant of record	Yes.Sales tax and EU VAT collected and remitted
Local card processors (Paystack, Razorpay)	Partial.Stripe and PayPal today, more on the way	Yes.Supported today

Every Payhip figure and limit is quoted from its own pages, linked in the fee breakdown above.