# The Payhip alternative that starts at 0%. > Payhip charges $99/mo to escape their transaction fee. Shoprocket Starter is $29/mo with 0% fees, multi-language, AI, and live chat included. Payhip charges $99 a month to remove their transaction fee. Shoprocket Starter starts at $29/mo with 0% fees, multi-language, AI content, and live chat already included. [Start Free Trial](https://app-v3.shoprocket.io/signup)[See the ladder](#the-ladder) 14-Day Free Trial No Credit Card 0% Platform Fees 4.9★ Trustpilot 0% Platform fees Any Website 200+ Payment methods 21 Languages ● The honest answer ## Payhip or Shoprocket? Here's when each one wins. Payhip is a solid, honest creator platform with one of the cleanest pricing pages on the internet. This page is not here to talk anyone out of Payhip who is happy there. It is for creators who have outgrown the tier ladder. 01 ### You are selling your first product. Payhip's Free tier is genuinely free. No monthly fee, no lock-in, they take 5% of each sale and nothing else. If you have not validated the product yet, that is the lowest-friction start in the category. 02 ### Your sales are heavy in the EU. Payhip automatically calculates, collects, and remits EU and UK VAT on every sale. If half your revenue is European digital goods, that compliance work is genuinely valuable and something most platforms make you configure yourself. 03 ### You run an affiliate programme from day one. Payhip ships affiliate management on every tier, including Free. Creators who lean on ambassador programmes to drive sales get real value at zero monthly cost. Shoprocket gates affiliates to the Business plan. ● The bigger platform ## Then there's everyone who needs more than Payhip ships. Payhip is deliberately minimal. Same feature set across every tier, priced by how much of your revenue they take. That works until you need things Payhip simply does not build. 01 ### You want 0% fees without paying $99/mo. Payhip makes you climb to the Pro tier at $99/mo to escape their platform fee. Shoprocket Starter is $29/mo with 0% platform fees from day one. Same outcome for a third of the price. 02 ### Your audience is global, not English-only. Payhip is English-only across the creator dashboard and storefront. Shoprocket auto-translates your entire store (products, slugs, meta, even live chat messages) into 21 languages the moment you hit save. 03 ### You want to talk to customers before they buy. Payhip has no native live chat. Shoprocket ships a live chat widget on every plan with AI auto-translation between you and the customer, they type in their language, you reply in yours. 04 ### You want AI-generated content and translations. Payhip has no AI tooling. Shoprocket generates product descriptions and meta, translates everything across 21 languages on save, and translates live chat messages in real time. 05 ### You want a real API and SDKs. Payhip does not publish a REST API. Shoprocket ships a full REST API with auto-generated OpenAPI docs, plus Core JS and React SDKs, so you can wire your store into anything. 06 ### You want real analytics and a real storefront. Payhip ships a basic sales dashboard and a hosted storefront. Shoprocket gives you real-time analytics with a live globe view, advanced reports, UTM tracking, 40+ themes, and a drag-and-drop site builder. The ladder ### Payhip's Pro tier is $99. Our Starter is $29. Payhip runs three tiers (Free at 5%, Plus at $29/mo with 2%, Pro at $99/mo with 0%) and they ship identical features at every tier, the only thing you are paying more for is a smaller cut taken from each sale. Shoprocket Starter at $29/mo already includes 0% platform fees plus multi-language, live chat, AI content, and real-time analytics. Payhip Pro costs triple for a smaller platform. - – Payhip Pro: $99/mo for 0% fee, English-only, basic analytics - – Shoprocket Starter: $29/mo for 0% fee, 21 languages, live chat, AI - – At the same revenue level, Shoprocket saves you around $840 a year and gives you more platform The Shoprocket answer ### One flat plan. No tier ladder to climb. Payhip's 0%-fee experience lives on its $99/mo Pro tier; the cheaper tiers take a cut of every sale. Shoprocket gives you 0% platform fees from the $29/mo Starter, and the price doesn't jump as you grow. The plan you pick is all you pay, nothing stacks on top. - ✓ Same price at any sales volume - ✓ 0% platform fees on every plan - ✓ No tier ladder, no per-sale cut ● Side by side ## Everything Payhip does. Plus what it doesn't. Feature-for-feature comparison of what actually ships in the box. Payhip Shoprocket Pricing model Payhip Three tiers: Free (5% fee), Plus $29/mo (2% fee), Pro $99/mo (0% fee). Same features at every tier. Shoprocket Four tiers from $29/mo to $199/mo. 0% platform fees on every plan. Path to 0% platform fee Payhip Upgrade to Pro at $99/mo. Shoprocket Included on every plan, starting at $29/mo. Product types Payhip Digital downloads, courses, memberships, basic physical. Shoprocket Digital, physical, subscriptions, license keys, gift cards, all in one store. Storefront Payhip Payhip-hosted storefront with custom domain support on every tier. Shoprocket Your own domain, 40+ themes, drag-and-drop site builder on every plan. Multi-language Payhip English-only. Shoprocket 21 languages auto-translated on save, products, slugs, meta, and live chat. Live chat widget Payhip Not built in. Shoprocket Built in on every plan with AI auto-translation between merchant and customer. AI content generation Payhip Not available. Shoprocket AI descriptions, meta, translations across 21 languages, translated live chat in real time. Affiliate programme Payhip Built in on every tier (including Free). Shoprocket Built in on Business plan. REST API + SDKs Payhip Not available. Shoprocket Full REST API with auto-generated OpenAPI docs, plus Core JS and React SDKs. EU VAT handling Payhip Automatic, Payhip collects and remits EU and UK VAT for you. Shoprocket You are merchant of record globally. Auto-calculated across 90+ jurisdictions with nexus monitoring, but you handle remittance. Analytics Payhip Basic sales dashboard. Shoprocket Real-time globe view of live orders, advanced reports, funnels, UTM tracking. Payment methods Payhip Stripe and PayPal. Shoprocket Stripe, PayPal, Authorize.Net, crypto, and 200+ payment methods. ● Switching ## Leave Payhip in an afternoon. Your products, customers, and content all move with you. Then the tier climbing stops. What comes with you ## Nothing gets left behind. 01 ### Your products. Payhip lets you export your product catalogue as CSV. Drop the files into Shoprocket's importer and everything (digital goods, physical items, memberships, courses) imports in a single pass. 02 ### Your customers. Payhip exports your customer and sales history as CSV. Import into Shoprocket and you keep every email address and past order on file. 03 ### Your Stripe or PayPal. Both platforms use the same payment processors. Reconnect your Stripe or PayPal account and payouts resume immediately, no re-verification. 04 ### Your content and files. Digital files, cover images, and variant structure all import alongside the catalogue. Existing customer download links are rebuilt with redirect mapping. 05 ### Your domain and SEO. If you had a custom domain pointed at Payhip, it repoints to Shoprocket with a DNS change. Product URLs map cleanly so the SEO you built survives. 06 ### Your memberships. Active subscription members need re-authorisation on any platform change, that is a payment-processor constraint, not ours. We will help you design a flow that keeps as much MRR as possible through the switch. The switch · 4 steps ### Export. Import. Embed. Earn. Export your Payhip catalogue and customer list as CSV. Drop the files into Shoprocket, products, digital files, and customers all import in one pass. Paste our embed on your site or point a domain at a Shoprocket storefront. From the next sale onward, you keep the cut Payhip used to take. 0% PLATFORM FEES 21 LANGUAGES 14 DAYS FREE TRIAL 15 MIN TO SWITCH ● Switching questions ## Common questions from Payhip sellers. Straight answers. How does Shoprocket's $29/mo Starter compare to Payhip Pro's $99/mo? + Both get you to 0% platform fees. Shoprocket Starter costs around a third of Payhip Pro and includes multi-language, live chat, AI content, and real-time analytics that Payhip does not ship at any tier. For most creators past a handful of monthly sales, switching saves roughly $840 a year for more platform. Can I stay on Payhip Free until my revenue justifies switching? + Payhip's Free tier is genuinely solid for testing or selling a first product. The honest rule: if your platform fees (5% on Free or 2% on Plus) are already costing more per month than Shoprocket Starter at $29, switching pays for itself. For most creators that happens somewhere between $500 and $1,500 in monthly sales. What about Payhip's EU VAT handling? Does Shoprocket do that too? + This is the one thing worth pausing on. Payhip is the merchant of record for EU VAT, meaning they collect and remit it for you. On Shoprocket, you are the merchant of record. We auto-calculate VAT rates and flag nexus thresholds across 90+ jurisdictions, but you (or your accountant) handle remittance. For creators with heavy EU sales and no bookkeeper, Payhip's automatic VAT is a genuine reason to stay. What about Payhip's affiliate programme, does Shoprocket have one? + Yes, but with a trade-off. Shoprocket ships a built-in affiliate programme on the Business plan, not on Starter. Payhip gives you affiliates at every tier including Free, which is a real strength for ambassador-driven creators. If affiliates are core to your sales engine, factor that into the plan-tier comparison. Will I lose my audience if I migrate? + No. Payhip exports your full customer list as CSV. Import into Shoprocket and you keep every email, order history, and the right to market to your audience without paying a middleman a platform fee. What happens to my existing customers' download links? + We generate equivalent download links for existing customers and map redirects so old Payhip URLs still resolve. Nobody emails you asking where their file went. Does Shoprocket do memberships and recurring subscriptions? + Yes. Subscriptions and memberships are built in, monthly, annual, and custom intervals, with Stripe or PayPal as the payment source. One caveat: active Payhip subscriptions need re-authorisation from each member (a processor-level requirement, not ours). We will help you design a migration flow that keeps as much MRR as possible. Can I sell physical products alongside my digital ones? + Yes, and in a single store. Physical products, digital downloads, subscriptions, and license keys all live in the same Shoprocket store with one checkout and one customer record. No second platform to run for physical merch. Is Shoprocket really 0% platform fees? + Yes. Your payment processor (Stripe, PayPal, etc.) still charges their standard processing fee, that is the cost of moving money, but Shoprocket adds nothing on top. 0% platform fees applies to every plan, starting from Starter. What's actually different about Shoprocket's stack? + Shoprocket has been building commerce software since 2013. v3 is a ground-up rewrite on a modern stack for what commerce looks like now. The things Payhip simply does not ship: AI auto-translation into 21 languages on save, AI-translated live chat in real time, a full REST API with OpenAPI docs, multi-currency, real-time analytics, physical product operations, and a proper drag-and-drop site builder. Take the 14-day trial and judge for yourself. ## Same outcome. Third of the price. More platform. 14-day free trial. No credit card. Migrate in an afternoon and stop climbing the tier ladder. 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