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As a big user of Gumroad for eBooks and subscriptions this will really hurt our business. The timing couldn’t have been worse in this economy. I don’t mind pay
by alexellisuk 4y ago
As a big user of Gumroad for eBooks and subscriptions this will really hurt our business. The timing couldn’t have been worse in this economy.
I don’t mind paying more, but this is 3x. It incentivises customers to move SaaS subscriptions off the platform.
The fact that Sahil thinks this is fair game makes me worry he’ll get overconfident and increase it further to 20% at a moment’s notice. What can he do to restore credibility after this move?
- alexellisuk 4y agoTurns out this poor communication from Gumroad actually means a 13+% fee since the Stripe fee is no longer included in what Gumroad take. So 10% + 2.9% + 50c?
- monological 4y agoYou should check out prodbump.com, they only charge 1% (plus stripe fees). Seems like they have a pretty clean interface.
- tut-urut-utut 4y agoApples to oranges. Prodbump is not merchant of record. If you want to compare apples to apples, you should take a look at Getrevin.
- unD 4y agoI didn't know Getrevin, but it's possibly out of scope for the average Gumroad creator. I mean, they charge $799 per month (according to them, they're competitive if you have a monthly volume of 150K) There's plenty of MoRs out there: FastSpring, Paddle, Lemonsqueezy, and I'm sure the ones that I don't know will flood Twitter in the next days :-)
- tut-urut-utut 4y agoWow. What a jump. I swear last time I checked, maybe few weeks ago, they were charging flat 1% plus Stripe fee. Looks like it’s not only Gumroad rising prices.
- strzibny 4y agoI am building a list of alternatives that handle VAT: https://nts.strzibny.name/gumroad-alternatives-eu-uk-vat/ https://nts.strzibny.name/gumroad-alternatives-eu-uk-vat/