Payhip vs Smartstore
Payhip
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| Figure | Payhip | Smartstore |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $29/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 4 |
| Spec score · Ecommerce platforms | 9.3 (#5) | 8.8 (#38) |
| Audience | Payhip describes its intended audience as creators such as authors, designers, YouTubers, bloggers, musicians, podcasters, consultants, and teachers. | The maker positions Enterprise B2B for B2B customers and lists features such as direct orders, cart approval, budget limits, and PunchOut. |
| Company headquarters | Payhip lists 167-169 Great Portland Street, fifth floor, London W1W 5PF, United Kingdom as its contact address. | SmartStore AG lists Kaiserstrasse 63-65, 44135 Dortmund, Germany as its address. |
| Founded | 2011 | 1999 |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom | Dortmund, Germany |
| Integrations | Payhip names Zoom and Calendly for coaching scheduling, Zapier and email marketing platforms for automation, and provides webhooks and a public API for coupons and license keys. | Official integrations include REST API, OCI, cXML, BMEcat and OpenTrans for connecting business systems. |
| Licence | Payhip terms grant limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive site access and prohibit licensing, hosting, modification, reverse engineering and commercial exploitation of the service, indicating proprietary software rather than an open-source licence. | The Community Edition is released under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3; proprietary Smartstore plugins use separate EULAs. |
| Product | Payhip is an e-commerce platform for selling digital products, courses, coaching, memberships, and physical products directly to customers. | Smartstore is an open-source e-commerce platform for B2B, B2C, and multishop commerce. |
| Rating on Capterra | 4.5 out of 5 from 28 reviews. | 4.5 out of 5 from 22 reviews |
| Rating on G2 | 4.7 out of 5 from 5 reviews. | 4.6 out of 5 from 16 reviews |
| Rating on Trustpilot | 4.6 out of 5 from 551 reviews. | 4.2 out of 5 from 6 reviews |
| Support | Support is advertised 24 hours a day, seven days a week with a target response within 24 hours; there is no phone-support option. | The maker offers installation, server setup, backups, webinars, customization, and support contracts for Premium Edition. |
| What it does | Payhip is an ecommerce platform for selling digital downloads, courses, coaching, memberships, subscriptions and physical products through an embedded site or Payhip storefront. | Smartstore is a modular e-commerce and composable commerce platform for B2B, B2C, D2C and marketplace operations. |
Plans
Smartstore
- Community EditionFree
- Enterprise B2B EditionPriced on request
- Enterprise B2C EditionPriced on request
- Premium EditionPriced on request
In their own words
Payhip
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.
Smartstore
Smartstore has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.