Making the work
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Running the business
Both cover merch & print on demand and digital products & storefronts. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Order Desk | Sellfy | |
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| Starting price (they differ) | From $20 | From $29 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Paid subscription | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial (they differ) | 30 days | 14 days |
| API | Yes |
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.
Route orders to whoever is printing them
Order Desk sits between the shops a creator sells on and the printers who fulfil the orders, applying rules that decide which item goes to which supplier. That matters the moment a catalogue spans two print partners or a marketplace and a storefront at once. It integrates with several hundred services rather than being tied to one. This is plumbing, and it is bought by people whose fulfilment has already become a spreadsheet.
Our note
Do the crossover sum before picking a tier, because at a few hundred orders a month Pro is already cheaper than Starter once the per-order fee is counted. Anybody still on one supplier should wait, since this is infrastructure that only earns its fee when routing gets complicated.
A storefront for downloads and merch
Sellfy sells digital files, subscriptions and print-on-demand merchandise from one storefront, prints and ships the merchandise itself, and takes no cut of a sale. The plans are banded by annual sales instead, which is the trade: a flat fee that steps up as you grow rather than a percentage of everything you ever sell.
Our note
Against Gumroad the choice is a flat fee against a percentage of every sale, so Sellfy wins once the shop is turning over a few hundred a month and loses under that. If merchandise is part of the plan, the print-on-demand side settles it.
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| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
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| Their cut | Not stated | None |
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| Runs on | Web | Web |
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| Covers | Merch & Print on Demand, Digital Products & Storefronts | Digital Products & Storefronts, Merch & Print on Demand |
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| Works with | Nothing in particular | 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 | 1 | None right now |
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