How do you sell your digital products (not SaaS)?
I know a lot of people are very fond of Gumroad for selling digital goodies. Have you tried any alternatives?
Personally, I tried full-static low-code approach for Songcorder. This was with Webflow, Netlify, Stripe Checkout (client-only), Zapier, and Mailchimp.
It wasn't probably as much fun as setting up a page on Gumroad, but the fees are smaller this way.
What's your experience?
Paddle is a good alternative. You can list different types of products -- individual products and subscriptions.
In the individual product case, I have a bit of experience (Makerlog Ads packages are hooked up to that!).
It works very well. You can select fulfillment options, be it with webhooks or any other mechanism you desire. The fees are high, but they handle sales tax compliance for you and other neat things.
There's Podia and Payhip as well. Don't know much about them besides that Podia charges a monthly fee with no transaction fees. Which is good if you have a large audience.
Iโve just finished setting up Stripe Elements https://stripe.com/gb/payments/elements for my product. Iโd say if youโve got the time itโs worth the effort cos the stripe dashboard is brilliant!
Stripe Checkout https://stripe.com/gb/payments/checkout looks a faster method
Overall Iโd only use something like gumtoad for one time products or if I really didnโt have the time to do stripe subscriptions
Does anyone know the overhead of paddle or gumtoad in comparison to just setting up stripe ?
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