Payhip vs Sylius
Payhip
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Sylius
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| Figure | Payhip | Sylius |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $29/mo | €66.67/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 4 |
| Spec score · Ecommerce platforms | 9.3 (#5) | 9.3 (#7) |
| Company history | Payhip says it was created in 2011, is bootstrapped and profitable, and has a team distributed across several countries. | The official history says the open-source project began in 2011 after Paweł Jędrzejewski rewrote a family eCommerce platform on Symfony. |
| Founded | 2011 | 2011 |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom | Opole, Poland |
| 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. | The API is intended to connect ERP, CRM, PIM and other best-of-breed enterprise systems. |
| Product | Payhip is an e-commerce platform for selling digital products, courses, coaching, memberships, and physical products directly to customers. | Sylius is an open-source headless eCommerce platform for mid-market and enterprise brands seeking custom solutions. |
| Rating on Capterra | 4.5 out of 5 from 28 reviews. | 4.9 out of 5 from 11 reviews |
| Rating on G2 | 4.7 out of 5 from 5 reviews. | 4.3 out of 5 from 8 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. | Community support is available through Slack, Stack Overflow and GitHub, while Sylius Plus offers SLA-backed vendor support. |
| 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. | Sylius is a headless, open-source eCommerce framework built on Symfony for customizable B2C and B2B commerce. |
Plans
Sylius
- Sylius Plus€800 a year
- Sylius StandardFree
- Sylius StandardFree
- Sylius Plus€800 a year
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.
Sylius
Sylius is an open-source headless eCommerce platform for mid-market and enterprise brands building custom commerce solutions. Its framework supports B2C and B2B use cases and provides a customizable REST API built with API Platform for headless frontends and microservice architectures. Sylius Standard is a Symfony application with Sylius core as a dependency; it can be installed with Composer or Docker and run on a standard VPS. Docker and Kubernetes are also deployment options for cloud environments. The Addons marketplace lists plugins and third-party integrations. Sylius Plus adds commercial modules such as advanced multi-store, returns management, multi-source inventory, loyalty, partial shipment and request for quotation. Standard is offered under the MIT license with community support and no response-time guarantee; Plus lists SLA-backed support with a one-day response time. Standard has no native quotation process, so customers cannot start price inquiries online. No Standard price is listed. Sylius Plus starts from €800 per year.