Bandcamp vs Robora

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.

Robora is a web service for selling products, content, and services through pages, links, and widgets. Its listed offerings include apparel, courses, e-books, video and audio content, webinars, subscriptions, subscription boxes, local meetups, and services. Sellers can run daily deals, sales or pre-sales, name-your-price offers, and recurring sales. Robora provides pages for files, products, services, and deals, and handles payments. Service charges can be hourly, monthly, annually, or one time. Sellers may share a link or add a widget to their own site; the file widget works with websites or blogs, keeps visitors on the seller’s site, and provides a list of downloaders. Robora says payments do not require a merchant account or PayPal account, and Stripe processes them. Its Starter plan is free with a $10 pricing limit and a 6% + 30¢ processing fee. Unlimited costs $15 a month, with no pricing limit and a 2.9% + 30¢ processing fee. Robora says it is currently available only to people living in the United States, with US customer payouts by direct deposit.