Gumroad vs Sellwire

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.

Sellwire lets sellers offer downloadable digital goods through product links, handling checkout and file delivery. Sellers upload products such as plugins, scripts, ebooks, songs, videos, or photos, but remain responsible for having a store or website. Customers can access earlier versions of files and receive alerts when sellers add a new version. Sellwire provides order tracking, receipt pages, per-file and overall reports, and a six-month breakdown report. Sellers can set fixed or percentage discounts with time or redemption limits, offer product upgrades, and generate software license keys with renewals and API validation. PayPal and Stripe are supported, and Sellwire says it adds no fees on top of those processors. The service lists EU VAT MOSS support and reporting for VAT MOSS and EC Sales List for B2B sales. Its free plan is free and allows one file. Solo is $9 a month, Agency is $29 a month, and Enterprise is $89 a month. The maximum file size is 300MB, which the FAQ says makes the service a poor fit for large files such as videos.