ByteSell vs Selly

These two platforms agree on the part most platforms get wrong. Neither one holds your money, neither one has a withdrawal queue, and both let you take crypto straight to a wallet you control. If you are comparing Selly against custodial marketplaces, it genuinely belongs in a different and better category.

The split is on price. Selly charges 2.5% on every sale of $9.99 or more, on top of a $19.99 or $59.99 monthly plan, softened by a fee-free allowance roughly equal to what the plan costs. ByteSell charges nothing on its free plan, or a flat $29 or $99, with a 0% platform fee on every sale at any volume. The 2.5% compounds every month as you grow and ByteSell’s rate does not.

Selly’s pricing has two layers. You pay the monthly plan, $19.99 for Starter or $59.99 for Plus, and then a 2.5% transaction fee on each sale of $9.99 or more. Small orders are exempt, and the company states that plainly on its fees page.

Selly also gives every plan a fee-free revenue allowance roughly matching the subscription price, about $800 a month on Starter and about $2,500 on Plus, and the 2.5% only applies to sales beyond it. That is a fair structure for a small shop, and it means the fee does not bite until you have real volume. The catch is that real volume is the whole point. A shop clearing $10,000 a month on Starter pays the $19.99 plan plus 2.5% of everything past the allowance, and that percentage grows with every good month you have. ByteSell charges a 0% platform fee on every sale, so the price you pay in your slowest month is the price you pay in your best one.

Selly runs the same non-custodial model ByteSell does. Buyers pay your own PayPal, Stripe, CashApp or crypto wallet, and the platform has no balance it could freeze. Selly’s own help center describes it exactly this way.

The same applies to crypto. Selly supports BTC, ETH, LTC, BCH, DOGE, BNB and Polygon, with payment addresses derived from keys the seller controls, which is the right way to do it. ByteSell works on the identical principle, and on both platforms you are the merchant of record, which means you handle your own tax and your own refunds. Since neither platform holds the money, the choice comes down to the ongoing cut and to what ships around the checkout.

Selly gives you a real storefront with custom domains, Liquid and CSS theming, and embeds, which puts it ahead of the link-page tools its niche is full of. ByteSell covers the same ground with a store-slug.mybyte.app address, your own domain, and custom themes and code, and then adds the layer Selly does not document. Native paid Discord and Telegram gating grants access on payment and revokes it automatically when a subscription lapses. Subscriptions and recurring billing are built in as products you can sell, and analytics, an affiliate program, coupons, upsells and license-key delivery come with the plan. If your product is a membership, a community or anything that renews, that is the gap that matters, because on Selly you would be wiring that access logic yourself.

Selly’s crypto support is excellent and mature. It takes BTC, ETH, LTC, BCH, DOGE, BNB and Polygon, seven coins in all, with payment addresses derived from a public key so the seller keeps full control of private keys and funds. For a shop where crypto is the primary rail, that breadth and that key model are hard to argue with.

It is also a proven name in its niche. Selly claims over 700,000 shops around the world, and it has real standing among resellers, gaming sellers and crypto-native shops. Its fee-free allowance is also a genuinely fair structure, and it means the 2.5% does not bite until a shop has real volume.

If you sell under about $800 a month, care most about crypto breadth, and want a platform with a long track record in the reseller scene, Selly is a reasonable choice and its non-custodial model is the real thing. The fee-free allowance means a small shop may never feel the 2.5% at all.

The case for ByteSell starts the month you outgrow that allowance. From there, Selly’s 2.5% scales with your revenue while ByteSell’s rate stays at zero, and you also pick up native Discord and Telegram gating, sellable subscriptions and built-in analytics that Selly does not document. Both platforms pay you directly, so switching costs you nothing in control. It just changes who takes a cut of your growth.