Payhip vs WooCommerce
Payhip
payhip.com
WooCommerce
woocommerce.comSide by side
| Figure | Payhip | WooCommerce |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $29/mo | $2.42/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) | 9.5 (#1) |
| Spec score · No-Code E-Commerce Platforms | 9.0 (#7) | 8.7 (#11) |
| Documentation depth | The developer help category lists webhooks, software license keys, legacy license keys and the public API, while the API reference supplies endpoint examples and parameters. | WooCommerce publishes a code reference covering internal classes, API objects and functions, alongside merchant and developer documentation. |
| Founded | 2011 | 2005 |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom | San Francisco, California, USA |
| 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. | WooCommerce core is released under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. |
| Rating on Apple App Store | 2.0 out of 5 from 40 ratings. | 4.8 out of 5 from 7.8K ratings. |
| Rating on Capterra | 4.5 out of 5 from 28 reviews. | 4.5 out of 5 from 1,054 reviews. |
| Rating on G2 | 4.7 out of 5 from 5 reviews. | 4.4 out of 5 from 1,283 reviews. |
| Rating on Google Play | 2.1 out of 5 from 370 reviews. | 4.7 out of 5 from 41.9K reviews. |
| Rating on Trustpilot | 4.6 out of 5 from 551 reviews. | 2.2 out of 5 from 145 reviews. |
| 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. | WooCommerce is an open-source ecommerce platform and WordPress plugin for selling physical products, digital goods and services. |
Plans
WooCommerce
- WooCommerce coreFree
- WooCommerce mobile appFree
- Typical hosting$25 a month
- Extensions$29 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.
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is free, self-hosted software for running an online store with omnichannel sales channels. Its core plan costs nothing, billed free with no monthly subscription. The plan lists unlimited products, unlimited orders, and unlimited APIs, allowing catalog and order volume without those stated caps. WooCommerce supports digital products as well as general online-store sales, includes abandoned-cart recovery, and provides an app marketplace. The listed transaction fee is payment-only. Because the hosting model is self-hosted, the store runs on hosting managed by the user rather than a hosted WooCommerce environment. WooCommerce is made by WooCommerce, founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA. The combination of omnichannel selling, digital-product support, recovery tools, and extensible apps gives store operators a broad core setup without a subscription charge. Hosting management remains part of choosing this model.