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Digital Product Platforms: What They Actually Cost You
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items I use Beacons, Payhip, and Shopify to sell my own digital and physical products, and I've dug into a few other popular platforms to see how they compare. Whether you're selling courses, memberships, digital downloads, physical products, or booking ap...
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What I use
These are platforms I use to sell digital/physical products.
I sell my digital products through Beacons — setup and payment linking were super easy. The free plan works, but comes with a 9% cut on sales. Worth upgrading once you're making consistent sales since it drops the fee and adds custom domains, unlimit...
Beacons | Mobile Websites for Creators
Just started using Payhip a week ago, so no sales to report yet — but so far it feels more like an actual website than Beacons' link-in-bio vibe. The free plan gets you every feature, just with a 5% transaction fee (goes down as you upgrade). Worth k...
Payhip - Create a free website and sell online
I use Shopify for physical products, so full disclosure this isn't from digital-product experience — but it supports digital products, courses, and memberships too, just at a bigger scale than the rest of this list. 3-day free trial, then $1/mo for 3...
Shopify: The All-in-One Commerce Platform for Businesses - Shopify
Haven't sold on Skool myself, but I'm a member of several paid communities there from courses I've bought — good sense of the buyer experience. For creators: Hobby is $9/mo with a 10% transaction fee, Pro is $99/mo but drops fees to 2.9%, so like Sta...
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What I found
These are the platforms I found from other people’s recommendations and my own research.
Didn't use this one myself, but worth knowing about: instead of a transaction fee, Stan Store charges a flat monthly subscription — $29/mo or $99/mo for the Pro plan (cheaper if paid annually). No cut taken from sales, which is great once you're doin...
Stan - Your Creator Store
Didn't use this one myself, but worth flagging: fees run 10% + $0.50 per sale on your own links, but jump to 30% if someone discovers you through Gumroad's marketplace. One nice perk though — Gumroad handles all sales tax collection and remittance fo...
Earn your first dollar online with Gumroad
Didn't use this one myself, but worth flagging: Linktree charges a 12% seller fee on the free plan for digital products, dropping to 9% on paid tiers and 0% on their $30/mo Premium plan. Since it's primarily a link-in-bio tool, it's probably a better...
Link in bio tool: Everything you are, in one simple link | Linktree
Free for affiliates, and vendor fees run around 7-9% depending on region/transaction — enough nuance there that it's worth checking their site directly for exact numbers. Haven't used it myself, but it's known for integrating well with other tools li...
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