The Payhip alternative that starts at 0%.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Everything Payhip does. Plus what it doesn't.
Feature-for-feature comparison of what actually ships in the box.
Leave Payhip in an afternoon.
Your products, customers, and content all move with you. Then the tier climbing stops.
Nothing gets left behind.
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.
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.
Your Stripe or PayPal.
Both platforms use the same payment processors. Reconnect your Stripe or PayPal account and payouts resume immediately, no re-verification.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Common questions from Payhip sellers.
Straight answers.
How does Shoprocket's $29/mo Starter compare to Payhip Pro's $99/mo?+
Can I stay on Payhip Free until my revenue justifies switching?+
What about Payhip's EU VAT handling? Does Shoprocket do that too?+
What about Payhip's affiliate programme, does Shoprocket have one?+
Will I lose my audience if I migrate?+
What happens to my existing customers' download links?+
Does Shoprocket do memberships and recurring subscriptions?+
Can I sell physical products alongside my digital ones?+
Is Shoprocket really 0% platform fees?+
What's actually different about Shoprocket's stack?+
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.