Payhip is a hosted shop for selling digital products: ebooks, templates, courses, memberships and coaching, plus physical products. It's for creators and solo founders who want to start selling today without a monthly bill. The free plan includes all features and unlimited products and revenue, for a 5% fee per sale. Plus is $29 a month with a 2% fee, and Pro is $99 a month with no Payhip fee. Stripe and PayPal charge their usual rates on every plan.
What it can do for you
Upload a file or build a course, set a price, and share a link or a branded store, with payments going to your own Stripe or PayPal account. Courses can include quizzes, drip release and certificates. Payhip handles digital UK and EU VAT by default, which removes a real headache for UK sellers. A built-in affiliate programme lets others promote your products.
What people like
Reviewers praise how quickly you can get set up, the free plan with no feature-gating, and support that answers quickly. The tax handling is the standout for European sellers.
The honest downsides
- Not a full merchant of record. Reviewers stress that you're still responsible for sales tax outside the UK and EU, and for chargebacks through your own Stripe or PayPal account.
- Basic storefront. Reviewers call the design dated and limited, with restricted SEO control and some reports of slow page loads.
- Thin analytics and marketing. You get sales figures, not funnels, and email automation is light.
- Strict content rules. Payhip's policy allows accounts selling banned content, such as resale-rights products, to be deleted without notice.
Skip it if
- you want a fully custom, SEO-led storefront
- you need someone else to carry all global tax and chargeback liability
Alternatives
There's nothing we list that's better for UK and EU digital sellers starting free.
- Gumroad acts as merchant of record, but at a higher fee.
- Thinkific if courses are your main product and you want deeper course tools.
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