The 10 best Stan Store alternatives in 2026

1. 1.ByteSellOur pick

   Matches Stan on the rate and answers all three of the walls: a free plan instead of a trial clock, affiliates and coupons at no extra tier, and a checkout you can embed into a site of your own. The free plan is tight on storage, which is the thing to check first.

   Pros

   • Zero percent on all three plans, and a free plan rather than a trial that expires
   • Affiliate management, coupons and upsells are included everywhere, including the free tier
   • Checkout embeds into a site you already run, and Pro puts the store on your own domain
   • Stripe, PayPal and crypto connect as accounts you already own, with nothing held in between

   Cons

   • The free plan allows 500 MB of storage in total and no single file above 50 MB
   • Free serves 5 GB of downloads a month and keeps seven days of analytics history
   • Licence keys come from a pool of strings you upload, with no activation or expiry API
   • There is no booking or appointment scheduling, which Stan includes on its $29 plan

   Stan Store would take, in a year

   $348and ByteSell would take none of it

   On a $50 product selling 50 times a month, on its $29 a month plan. 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.Payhip

   The strongest reply to a $70 tier gap, because Payhip gates nothing at all and its free plan carries the complete product. The exchange is a percentage where you currently pay none: 5% on that free plan, 2% at $29, and zero only at $99 a month.

   Pros

   • Payhip gates no feature by plan, so nothing sits behind a $99 wall
   • The free plan costs nothing monthly, which removes the subscription before a first sale
   • US sales tax is collected and remitted for you and EU VAT is handled
   • Thirteen processors are documented, widening who can pay you

   Cons

   • Sales carry 5% on the free plan where Stan takes none
   • The $29 Plus plan still keeps 2%, and only $99 Pro reaches zero
   • You can normally connect PayPal and one other processor rather than the full list

   Payhip fee calculatorPayhip alternatives

3. 3.Sellfy

   Keeps the zero you are used to on every plan and adds print on demand, so merchandise and downloads share a store. The metering moves to revenue instead of features, starting at $10,000 of annual sales on the $39 Starter plan, after which orders carry 2%.

   Pros

   • No transaction fee on Starter, Business or Premium
   • Print on demand runs in the same storefront as the digital downloads
   • Every plan includes email marketing credits rather than reserving them for a top tier
   • Sellfy refunds its own subscription within thirty days of an upgrade

   Cons

   • Annual revenue is capped per plan, at $10,000 on the $39 Starter tier
   • Beyond the cap every order costs 2% until the account moves to the next plan
   • The fourteen day trial has checkout switched off entirely
   • Affiliate tools begin on the $79 Business plan

   Sellfy fee calculatorSellfy alternatives

4. 4.Ko-fi

   The cheapest way to keep a creator page running while you work out what comes next, with nothing owed monthly and money arriving in your own account as it is sent. Shop sales and memberships cost 5%, and the page cannot move onto a domain of your own.

   Pros

   • No subscription of any kind, so a slow month costs nothing to survive
   • Payments transfer immediately into your own PayPal or Stripe with no minimum
   • Memberships, commissions, tips and a shop all live on one page
   • The Contributor tier allows 1,500 shop items and 200 GB of storage

   Cons

   • Shop sales, memberships and commissions all cost 5% where Stan costs nothing
   • New creators default to Contributor, which puts 5% on one-off tips as well
   • No custom domain is available, so the page keeps a Ko-fi address
   • Memberships taken through Stripe keep their original rate even after upgrading to Gold

   Ko-fi fee calculatorKo-fi alternatives

5. 5.Podia

   Worth pricing against Creator Pro rather than Creator, since the email marketing Stan reserves for $99 comes bundled here. Shaker costs $99 and takes nothing per sale, while the $49 Mover plan below it still removes 5% from every order before you see it.

   Pros

   • Email marketing arrives with the plan instead of waiting for a top tier
   • Courses, a members’ area and the mailing list run from one subscription
   • Shaker at $99 and Earthquaker at $179 charge nothing per sale
   • Thirty days of trial with no card required before deciding

   Cons

   • Mover at $49 takes 5% of each sale, on monthly and annual billing alike
   • PayPal cannot be used on Mover, only on the two more expensive plans
   • Beyond 100 contacts the email allowance costs extra, at $70 a month for 10,000
   • Accounts in five listed countries cannot have Podia collect its fee via Stripe

   Podia fee calculatorPodia alternatives

6. 6.Beacons

   The link-in-bio peer with a free tier, which is the thing Stan does not offer at all, plus email tools and an AI media kit around the store. The rate is the trade: 9% of every sale on Free and on the $10 Creator plan, falling to zero at $30.

   Pros

   • The Free plan costs nothing and allows unlimited digital products
   • Creator Plus at $30 and Creator Max at $90 both take 0% of a sale
   • Sale proceeds transfer straight into the Stripe or PayPal account you connect
   • Email marketing, courses and an AI media kit come in the same toolkit

   Cons

   • The Free plan and the $10 Creator plan both take 9% of every sale
   • Memberships are available only on the $30 Creator Plus plan
   • Removing Beacons branding from your pages also needs that $30 plan
   • Email sends are rationed, at 50 a month on Free and 500 on Creator

   Beacons fee calculatorBeacons alternatives

7. 7.SendOwl

   A checkout and delivery engine rather than a hosted page, which is exactly right if the reason you are moving is that the store cannot sit inside your own site. Nothing is taken per sale, and the $39 Launch plan stops at 5,000 orders and $10,000 a year.

   Pros

   • An embeddable checkout ships on the entry plan rather than a higher one
   • Plans differ only by volume, bandwidth and support level, so no capability is tier locked
   • Funds route to your gateway directly, so SendOwl never has a balance to release
   • SendOwl bills nothing on a chargeback and responds by withdrawing the buyer’s download access

   Cons

   • The cheapest plan is $39 a month, ten dollars above Stan’s entry price
   • Launch allows 5,000 orders and $10,000 of yearly sales, measured on a trailing twelve months
   • Passing a cap upgrades the account automatically rather than warning first
   • SendOwl keeps track of the tax you owe but cannot make the payments for you

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8. 8.Shoprocket

   Designed around the embed you cannot get on Stan, dropping a checkout into a site you already run and settling to your own gateway with no cut taken. Read the tier line carefully: subscriptions and a custom domain both begin on the $79 Business plan.

   Pros

   • The whole product is an embeddable checkout, which is what Stan cannot do
   • Zero percent on every tier, with revenue coming from the monthly plan only
   • Your own Stripe, PayPal or PayU receives the money instantly, with no Shoprocket payout
   • Digital delivery includes instant downloads and an automatic licence key pool

   Cons

   • Selling subscriptions starts on the $79 Business plan, not the $29 Starter
   • Connecting your own domain also waits for that $79 plan
   • The entry price matches Stan’s at $29, so the saving comes from features rather than fees

   Shoprocket alternatives

9. 9.Gumroad

   The option with no subscription to justify, which matters if the $29 has been outrunning the sales. Its marketplace can find buyers, and the price of both is 10% plus 50 cents of every order, a seven day wait, and no payout under $100.

   Pros

   • No subscription at all, so the platform costs nothing in a month with no sales
   • Its own marketplace can surface products to buyers outside your following
   • Gumroad is merchant of record and handles sales tax wherever the buyer is
   • Buyer emails are visible in the dashboard and download as a CSV

   Cons

   • Ten percent plus 50 cents on every sale, against nothing per sale on Stan
   • Marketplace sales through Discover are charged at a flat 30%
   • Each sale is held in a Gumroad balance for seven days
   • Payouts require a $100 balance, with a higher minimum in some countries

   Gumroad fee calculatorGumroad alternatives

10. 10.Linktree

    Worth naming because a Stan seller usually has one already, and because Linktree can sell directly. On rate it is the wrong direction, at 12% on the free plan and 9% on the two tiers above, deducted before the payout arrives with you.

    Pros

    • The best known bio page in the category, with strong QR and email integrations
    • A free tier that costs nothing to keep alongside whatever else you use
    • You remain the seller of record, contracting directly with your customer
    • Payout timing is yours to set in Stripe as daily, weekly or monthly

    Cons

    • Twelve percent of a digital sale on Free and 9% on Starter and Pro
    • The fee comes off automatically before the payout is sent to you
    • Stripe is the only documented processor, through an account Linktree creates
    • Community links open Discord, WhatsApp or Slack with no paid gate behind them

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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.

Compare	ByteSell	Stan Store
Platform fee on each sale	Yes.0% on every plan	Yes.0% on both plans
Your own branded storefront	Yes.Free storefront, your own domain from Pro	Partial.Mobile-first link-in-bio store, not embeddable
Use your own Stripe or PayPal	Yes.Included	Partial.A Stan-managed Custom Stripe, no existing account
Your money is never held	Yes.Non-custodial	Yes.Funds settle to your own Stripe or PayPal
Subscriptions and recurring billing	Yes.Included	Yes.On the $29 Creator plan
Coupons and discounts	Yes.Included	Partial.Creator Pro $99 only
Upsells and order add-ons	Yes.Included	Partial.Creator Pro $99 only
Affiliate program	Yes.Free on every plan	Partial.Creator Pro $99 only
Accept crypto payments	Yes.To your own wallet	No.Not built in
Paid Discord and Telegram access	Yes.Included, auto-revoke on lapse	No.No grant-on-purchase gating
Full built-in analytics	Yes.Included	No.A basic dashboard only
Local card processors (Paystack, Razorpay)	Partial.Stripe and PayPal today, more on the way	No.Stripe and PayPal only
Live chat with your buyers	Yes.Included	No.Not built in
PDF stamping and watermarking	Yes.Included	No.Not built in
Fraud and checkout controls	Yes.Included	No.Not built in
Fixed, predictable cost	Yes.Free, or a flat monthly price	Yes.$29 or $99 a month, no free plan

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