Discovery: gone
Gumroad's feed stays behind, so every buyer now arrives because you brought them. Look at where your sales came from last month. If you brought them then too, the feed was never what you were paying for.
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Coming from Gumroad?
Gumroad takes 10% of every sale plus 50 cents, and 30% when the buyer arrives through their marketplace. That pays for a storefront, file delivery, and a discovery feed. The only question that matters is whether the feed is really sending you buyers.
The bundle you signed up for
Gumroad's promise is that you can start with nothing, not even a website. You upload a file, get a page, share the link, and their feed might put you in front of buyers you never met. Starting from zero, that is a real head start. It stops being one the day the audience becomes yours.
When the bundle stops paying
Ten percent plus 50 cents comes out of every sale, including the ones your own newsletter, video, or following brought to the page. The rate does not fall as you grow, and no plan buys it down. Creators who already have an audience are paying a storefront fee on buyers the storefront never found.
What stays the same
You can still sell files without touching any infrastructure. Attach the file to your product, and when a payment confirms, we deliver it from our side with no bandwidth bill for you. The part of Gumroad people actually loved survives the move.
What the cut was buying
Delivery: kept
Automatic file delivery is a core feature here, not a premium one. We host the file and serve the download the moment payment confirms.
The checkout: upgraded
Buyers check out on your page instead of a hosted store. Pay-what-you-want pricing is built in. Crypto and mail sit behind the same buy button as cards.
Weigh it honestly
What you gain
- A flat price instead of a cut: free up to 50 transactions a month, then Pro at $24.
- Sales on your own page, under your own brand.
- Pay-what-you-want pricing built in.
- Payment options Gumroad does not offer: crypto and pay-by-mail.
What you give up
- The discovery feed, and whatever buyers it was genuinely sending you.
- Hosted product pages, which matters if you do not have a site of your own yet.
- Their email blasts and affiliate tools.
How to make the move
- Create a project and connect your own card provider.
- Recreate each product, attaching its file for automatic delivery.
- Paste a button per product on your site.
- Repoint bio links and posts at your page, and test in test mode.
- Leave the old store up while past buyers re-download, and retire it when it goes quiet.
Past buyers' download links live in the old system, so a slow wind-down is kinder than a hard cutoff.
When staying makes sense
If the feed is genuinely sending you buyers you could not have reached, then 10% is a marketing cost and it may be worth every point. Check your own numbers before you assume it is, because the cut comes out either way.
Try it before you decide
The free plan is a full sandbox. You get every feature and 50 transactions a month, and we never ask for a card.