Gumroad vs Robora

Gumroad is a platform for selling digital products and services such as books, memberships, and courses. Creators can customize a storefront, connect a custom domain, or place payment and follow widgets on an existing site; adding those widgets requires the ability to edit its HTML. Payment options include one-time, recurring, fixed-length, and pay-what-you-want charges in different currencies. Memberships can provide a content library with billing periods including monthly, quarterly, biannually, and yearly. Digital product support includes PDF, ePub, and Mobi versions, plus generated software license keys and lightweight DRM. Creators can import email lists, export follower and customer details, send broadcasts, and create automated workflows. Sales analytics and tracking support Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, and TikTok Pixel. Gumroad also provides an API and buyer apps for Android and iOS. Payout methods vary by country; direct deposit or PayPal may be available. The maker says it handles worldwide sales-tax collection and remittance as merchant of record. Direct sales cost 10% + $0.50 per transaction; Discover sales to new customers cost 30% per transaction.

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.