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Self-hosted alternatives to Gumroad

Gumroad is a hosted platform where creators sell digital products, memberships and courses directly to their audience. One listed app does its main job and runs in your own Cloudflare account.

Each answer comes from the app’s README and source code, compared with the features Gumroad describes on its own site.

  • Paymug dashboard

    Storefront and checkout for digital products, license keys and subscriptions, with payments going straight to your own Stripe or PayPal account

    Deploy
    One-click
    License
    Apache-2.0
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Gumroad features, app by app

FeaturePaymug
Sell digital products and downloadsYes
Memberships and subscriptionsYes
Pay-what-you-want pricingNo
License keysYes
Storefront with a custom domainPartly
Email broadcasts and automationsPartly
Sales tax and VAT handlingNo

Storefront and checkout for digital products, license keys and subscriptions, with payments going straight to your own Stripe or PayPal account

What a Gumroad user would miss
Paymug does not collect sales tax or VAT for you, and email broadcasts and automations need the paid Pro license.
What it adds
Payments go straight to your own Stripe or PayPal account with no platform fee, and buyers can be given access to a private GitHub repository.
  • Yes Sell digital products and downloads. Downloads stored in R2 and delivered after payment.
  • Yes Memberships and subscriptions. One-time products and subscriptions.
  • No Pay-what-you-want pricing. Not mentioned in the README or on the site.
  • Yes License keys. License keys delivered after payment.
  • Partly Storefront with a custom domain. Storefront served from your own Worker; custom domains per store are on the roadmap.
  • Partly Email broadcasts and automations. Email campaigns and automations need the paid Pro license.
  • No Sales tax and VAT handling. Not a merchant of record; you handle tax yourself.

Sources:github.com/Paymug/paymug#featurespaymug.coworkersnative.directory/api/apps/paymug