Bandcamp vs Blink

Bandcamp is an online record store and music community where fans discover artists, follow their work, and support them directly. Artists can run customizable stores selling digital music and physical merchandise. Free fan accounts include playlists, wishlists, artist following, a music feed, a customizable collection page, and high-quality downloads of purchases. The free iOS and Android apps stream purchased music and support queues, playlists, and offline listening. Artists can also set monthly or annual subscriptions that offer releases, catalog items, subscriber-only music or merchandise, or community access. Bandcamp charges 15% on digital items and 10% on physical goods. The digital fee drops to 10% after $5,000 in sales if the artist maintains at least $5,000 in sales over the past 12 months. Pro for Artists costs $10 a month and includes Shopify inventory integration, batch uploads, private streams via links, and uploads up to 2 GB per track. Label Accounts start at $20 a month. Playlists are in beta and require a fan account; sampling unowned tracks is limited by artist settings, three plays by default.

Blink provides a storefront and checkout tools for selling digital products, templates, services, and other products. Sellers can adjust storefront layout, colors, visual style, and light or dark mode. They can create unlimited product-specific checkout flows, share checkout links, or embed overlay checkouts on their own sites. Growth tools include cart recovery, checkout bumps, one-click upsells, affiliate programs, geo-pricing, email broadcasts, revenue splits, newsletters, and analytics. Blink runs on Stripe and supports Google Analytics, tracking pixels, and custom code; the site also links to a Framer plugin. Blink says it supports 85+ currencies and automatically calculates, collects, and remits tax. Payouts are available to sellers in 118 countries, while customers can buy from almost anywhere except restricted regions. Blink says it includes fraud protection and payment risk monitoring, with full payment data handled by its payment partners. Its terms identify Blink as the merchant of record, which charges customers and issues invoices. The Starter plan is listed at free, with a 5% + 50¢ fee per transaction and all features unlocked. Standard processing is 5% + $0.50 per sale; other listed charges can apply.