Payhip vs Squarespace Commerce

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.

Squarespace Commerce is a hosted online store platform for selling products, services, subscriptions, and digital content such as music and ebooks. Customers can browse products, add them to a cart, check out, and leave reviews. Store management covers orders, payments, taxes, shipping, fulfillment, and customer engagement. Shipping supports flat-rate, weight-based, or real-time rates, and tools can automatically calculate sales tax. Businesses can schedule appointments with Acuity Scheduling, sell monthly or biweekly subscriptions, and keep inventory and customer data in sync across online and in-person sales. Digital content can be offered as direct downloads. The platform also includes abandoned-cart recovery, SEO tools, commerce integrations, connected social accounts, and an app marketplace. Its mobile app supports inventory tracking, product editing, customer connections, and shipping labels. Squarespace Commerce runs on web, iOS, and Android. There is no free plan, but a 14-day trial is offered. Basic costs $16 a month with annual billing; Plus is $39 a month and Advanced is $99 a month, both with annual billing. Transaction fees vary.