Payhip vs Solidus

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.

Solidus is an eCommerce platform for brands that need control over storefronts, business logic, and administration. Its open architecture and API let businesses tailor all three, including for distinctive digital experiences or complex enterprise integrations. Catalog tools include dynamic variants, segmented pricing, product drops, bundles, rich taxonomies, and personalization quizzes. Inventory and fulfillment features cover backordering, split shipments, global fulfillment, WMS or 3PL connections, exchanges, and self-serve returns. Tax support includes per-product rules, VAT, GST, sales tax, automated filing, refunds, and customer exemptions. Businesses can configure promotions and checkout, from time-based offers to one-click or multistep flows. A native subscription engine connects payment methods, promotions, checkout, and fulfillment. Solidus runs via API, on the web, or self-hosted, and supports multichannel sales. The DIY Edition is free; businesses supply their own infrastructure. No transaction fee is listed, and abandoned cart recovery is not available.