Making the work
Growing an audience
Running the business
Both cover memberships & subscriptions and monetization & payments. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Paid Discord memberships with a sales funnel
Sell access to a community with no monthly fee
DoorFee | Whop | |
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| Starting price | From $28 | Free |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Free |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing (they differ) | Monthly or annual | Usage-based |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Yes |
Paid Discord memberships with a sales funnel
DoorFee sells access to a Discord server and gives you the pages and email that sell it, which is the half most access tools leave to you. Payments run through Stripe and roles are granted and revoked automatically. The page builder, affiliate program and coupon codes are what separate it from a bare paywall bot.
Only on this side
Sell access to a community with no monthly fee
Whop sells memberships, courses, software and communities from a storefront that handles the checkout and the access control together, so a paying customer lands inside whatever they bought rather than in an email thread. There is no setup cost and no monthly cost; the money comes off each transaction. Rates differ by how the customer pays, with cards cheapest and instalment financing dearest. The marketplace side brings its own traffic, which is either the reason to be here or noise to ignore depending on what is being sold.
Our note
Push customers towards cards if you can, because the gap between 2.7 percent and the 4 to 5 percent charged on other methods is the largest single lever on what you keep. Compare against Gumroad and Lemon Squeezy on the all-in rate rather than the headline, since all three price differently once payouts and disputes are counted.
Ratings are the average of reviews readers left. The facts are stated by each tool’s own listing and are not verified by CloutStack. How we make money.
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| Their cut | 2.5% of what you earn | Not stated |
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| Runs on | Not stated | Web, iOS, Android |
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| Covers | Community Platforms, Memberships & Subscriptions, Monetization & Payments | Monetization & Payments, Memberships & Subscriptions |
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| Works with | Discord | Nothing in particular |
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| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
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| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
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| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
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Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.