Payhip vs ShopWired

Payhip is an e-commerce platform for selling digital and physical products, courses, coaching, and memberships directly to customers. Its drag-and-drop website builder supports storefronts, landing pages, and custom CSS, while product delivery can use a download page and email links. Course tools include videos, quizzes, certificates, drip content, and progress tracking. Sellers can set one-time payments, subscriptions, payment plans, pay-what-you-want pricing, and membership free trials. The platform names several payment gateways and integrations, and provides webhooks and a public API for coupons and license keys. Payhip says it automatically calculates, collects, and remits VAT and sales tax in the USA, Canada, UK, and EU. Protection features include PDF stamping, download limits, expiring links, customer and regional blocking, and account two-factor authentication. All plans include unlimited products, customers, revenue, bandwidth, and storage. Free Forever costs nothing with a 5% transaction fee; Plus is $29 a month with a 2% fee; Pro is $99 a month with no transaction fee. Payhip was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

ShopWired is a hosted ecommerce platform for creating and managing online stores through web and API access. Its responsive themes can be customised with colours, images, and text without coding or software installation, and are designed for mobile and tablet devices. From one account, merchants manage product catalogues, customers, orders, promotions, digital products, abandoned-cart recovery, and multichannel sales. The app store lists hundreds of apps and integrations, including direct connections with more than 300 third-party platforms and 35+ UK payment gateways. Accounting integrations named by the pricing page include Xero, Sage Online, QuickBooks, KashFlow, and ClearBooks. B2B tools cover tiered pricing, bulk discounts, trade pricing, trade-only categories and products, and minimum or maximum order quantities. Packages include hosting, PCI DSS compliance, and free SSL certificates. ShopWired says it does not provide email hosting or domain registration. There is no free plan, but a 14-day trial requires no card details. Essentials costs £34.95 a month billed monthly, with lower listed rates for longer terms.