Keepp vs Payhip: a Payhip alternative with a real page, bookings, and leads — not a store bolted onto a link
Payhip charges 5% on its free plan, 2% at $29/month, and 0% at $99/month, with Stripe or PayPal's own processing on top of every tier. Keepp matches that 5% on a free plan that also takes bookings, captures leads, and gives you a page — and reaches 0% at $24.99/month, not $99.
By Keepp Team
Payhip is a digital-product storefront: upload a file, set a price, sell it through a Payhip-hosted checkout. It does that job cleanly, and for a creator whose entire business is downloadable files, that focus is the whole pitch.
People start looking for a Payhip alternative once their business needs more than a product list — a booking for a 1:1 call, a lead form for people who aren’t ready to buy yet, or a page that’s actually theirs rather than a store page wearing your logo.
What Payhip actually costs
Payhip runs three tiers:
- Free — $0. Unlimited products and revenue, all core features unlocked, 5% transaction fee.
- Plus — $29/month. Same feature set, 2% transaction fee.
- Pro — $99/month. Same feature set again, 0% transaction fee.
Payment processing sits on top of all three — Stripe or PayPal’s own fee (roughly 2.9% + $0.30 for Stripe in the US), which Payhip doesn’t absorb at any tier.
The break-even is worth doing in your head before you upgrade: Plus only pays for itself once you’re consistently clearing roughly $967/month — below that, the 5% free-plan fee costs less than $29 plus 2% combined.
Keepp’s pricing, for comparison
Keepp has three tiers, and the commission drops at every one:
- Free — $0 forever. A fully customizable page at
keepp.link/yourhandle, basic analytics, automatic Zoom and Google Meet links on bookings, and real Stripe checkout at 5% — the same rate Payhip charges on its free plan. - Pro — $9.99/month. Everything in Free, plus customizable forms for lead collection, 2,000 free actions a month, free and pay-outside-Keepp pricing options, unlimited products and bookings, scheduled blocks, full analytics, a custom domain, and 3% on sales.
- Influencer — $24.99/month. Everything in Pro, plus 10,000 free actions a month and 0% on sales — the same zero commission Payhip charges $99/month for.
Full detail is on the pricing page.
Keepp vs Payhip, side by side
| Keepp | Payhip | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | $0 forever — full page, real checkout, bookings | $0 — unlimited products, 5% fee |
| Fee ladder | 5% Free → 3% Pro ($9.99/mo) → 0% Influencer ($24.99/mo) | 5% Free → 2% Plus ($29/mo) → 0% Pro ($99/mo) |
| 0% option | Free and pay-outside-Keepp pricing carry 0% Keepp fee (Pro and up) | Pro tier, $99/mo |
| Who holds the money | You — your connected Stripe account, you’re the merchant of record | Payhip-mediated checkout |
| Digital products | Yes — with content hosted privately behind checkout | Yes — Payhip’s core product |
| Physical products & bookings | Yes, same page, same checkout | Physical products supported; no booking/calendar feature |
| Bookings & calendar | Real availability, Google Calendar sync, auto Zoom/Meet link — on the free plan | Not offered |
| Affiliate cards & promo codes | Dedicated card kinds for affiliate links and promo codes | Discount codes and an affiliate program on products |
| Lead capture + CSV export | Custom forms, submissions filterable and exportable to CSV (Pro) | Email capture tied to product purchases |
| AI-assisted page management | HTTP Agent API — point an assistant at your page | Not offered |
| Custom domain | Pro, $9.99/mo | Available on all tiers |
| Page design | Full page — colour, gradient, or image backgrounds, font pairings, mixed block types | Product-page templates; a storefront, not a page |
A store is one page among several jobs
Payhip is built to be a storefront, full stop. Keepp treats selling as one block among several the same page can hold.
Digital products stay private until checkout. A product block can hold a gated file, video, or link that only unlocks after payment — see hosting your content privately for the mechanics. Checkout runs through your own connected Stripe account: you’re the merchant of record, money lands directly, and payouts and refunds happen on your own Stripe dashboard and timelines.
Bookings aren’t a workaround. If part of what you sell is your time — a coaching call, a critique session, office hours for students of a course you sell — a booking block holds real availability, syncs with Google Calendar, and generates a Zoom or Google Meet link automatically for remote sessions, on the free plan. Payhip has no equivalent; the usual workaround is a separate scheduling tool linked from a product description.
Leads aren’t only people who already paid. A form block captures the people who aren’t ready to buy yet — a waitlist signup, a question before a bulk order, an application for a cohort — and every submission lands in one place you can filter, tag, and export to CSV. Payhip’s contact list is built from people who’ve already purchased; it has nothing for the visitor who hasn’t yet.
Affiliate links sit next to products, not apart from them. A card block covers for-sale items, affiliate links with promo codes, and pure showcase pieces on the same grid — useful if part of your income is recommending things you don’t personally sell.
Priya Shah’s page is the concrete version of this: a freelance-writing course sold through on-page checkout, an “apply to work with me” style form ahead of a paid critique session, and the whole thing on Keepp’s Pro plan at 3%. Payhip would handle the course file cleanly; the booking and the qualifying form would both need a separate tool. See the rest of the case studies for more.
Running the page from an AI assistant
Keepp exposes an HTTP Agent API, so you can point an AI assistant at your own page and manage it conversationally — add a product, change a price, mark something sold out — instead of opening an editor. Managing your page with an AI agent has the setup. Payhip has no public API for this.
What to weigh
Both platforms sell a 0% plan. Payhip’s costs $99/month; Keepp’s costs $24.99. That’s the whole comparison at volume — there’s no crossover point to calculate, because a flat $24.99 is below a flat $99 at every level of sales. Lower down the ladder, Keepp Pro at $9.99 + 3% stays cheaper than Payhip Plus at $29 + 2% until roughly $1,900/month, and the free plans charge the same 5%. For anything that isn’t a straight product sale — a booking, a lead form, an affiliate card, a page that needs to look like more than a product list — Keepp does it on the same page at every tier.
Start by claiming your page, setting up your profile, and choosing the blocks that match what you sell.
Try it
Claim your page at keepp.link — free forever, no card required, checkout included on the free plan. See pricing for the full breakdown, or get paid your way for how Keepp’s three payment modes work.