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Both cover digital products & storefronts. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Route orders to whoever is printing them
Digital delivery billed flat, with no cut of sales
Order Desk | SendOwl | |
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| Starting price (they differ) | From $20 | From $32.50 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Paid subscription | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | 30 days | Not stated |
| API | Yes | 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.
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Digital delivery billed flat, with no cut of sales
SendOwl delivers digital files after payment and prices that on volume rather than on a share of the sale, which is the difference that matters to anybody selling a high-priced product. Every feature is on every plan, so the tier only decides how many orders, how much revenue and how much bandwidth are covered. Products and storage are uncapped at all levels. The flat fee is worse than a percentage for somebody selling very little, and better for everybody above that crossover.
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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 |
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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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Our note
Work out where the flat fee beats a percentage on your own numbers, because the crossover against a platform charging 5 to 10 percent arrives at a few hundred dollars of monthly sales. Watch the revenue ceiling rather than the order count, since a dear product hits the sales cap long before the order cap.