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The sources behind the numbers.

Published standard fees with links to the official schedules. Your country, payment method and account terms may affect your fees.

Payment processor

Stripe

0% + $0.00

Platform fee · no modeled monthly plan fee

Separate processing: 2.9% + $0.30.

US standard cards. Does not include a storefront, file delivery, Stripe Tax, Billing or other paid services.

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Merchant of record

Gumroad

10% + $0.50

Platform fee · no modeled monthly plan fee

Separate processing: 2.9% + $0.30.

Card processing is additional. New direct sales after $20,000 in monthly paid sales use a 5% platform rate. The model assumes refunds happen after that month’s sales; actual timing can change eligibility. Discover is not included.

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Merchant of record

Lemon Squeezy

5% + $0.50

Platform fee · no modeled monthly plan fee

Separate processing: 0% + $0.00 (included in platform fee).

Payment processing is included. Non-US transactions add 1.5%. PayPal, subscriptions, marketing and payout fees are not included in this card-payment baseline.

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Storefront

Payhip Free

5% + $0.00

Platform fee · no modeled monthly plan fee

Separate processing: 2.9% + $0.30.

5% platform fee plus the separate payment processor. Change processor fees for your country or gateway.

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Storefront

Payhip Plus

2% + $0.00

Platform fee · $29/month

Separate processing: 2.9% + $0.30.

$29/month plus 2% and payment processing. The plan fee applies even with no sales.

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Storefront

Payhip Pro

0% + $0.00

Platform fee · $99/month

Separate processing: 2.9% + $0.30.

$99/month with no platform transaction fee. Payment processing still applies.

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What is verified, and what you supply

The baseline platform schedules above come from their linked official pages. Your expected orders, acquisition cost, refund rate, delivery costs and profit goal are assumptions. We do not claim to verify them. Customized fees replace the selected platform’s preset and are labeled as custom.

How updates are handled

The calculator uses a stored fee schedule, not live account data. An update is applied only after the official sources pass verification; changes must match a second retrieval. If a source is unavailable, ambiguous or changes its pricing structure, we retain the previous schedule for review. Saved plans recalculate using the current schedule. Follow the official links before choosing a platform.

Countries, taxes and refunds

All modeled amounts are USD. Stripe and Payhip card-processing defaults refer to US accounts. Published international supplements can be enabled, but FX, tax-inclusive fee bases, payout charges and other extras are not automatically inferred. Refund fee retention is a separate user assumption; actual policies differ by provider and account connection.

Lemon Squeezy’s base fee is confirmed on its pricing page ; its additional charges are described in the linked documentation. Gumroad’s help page describes separate processing and volume discounts that a headline percentage does not fully explain.

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