Taplink alternative: a page that sells, books, and captures leads without the assembly
Taplink gates payments behind the Business plan, redirects checkout to a separate payment page, and sells plans in three-month blocks. Here's a side-by-side with Keepp — pricing, fees, on-page checkout, bookings, and lead capture.
By Keepp Team
Taplink is a block-based page builder — you stack blocks on a canvas, pick a theme, and end up with something far more capable than a list of links.
The people who go looking for a Taplink alternative usually aren’t unhappy with the builder. They’ve hit one of three specific walls: the block they need to sell something is gated behind the top plan, the checkout sends buyers to a separate payment page instead of closing the sale where they are, or they’ve realised they’re building a store out of form fields because there’s no purpose-built block for what they’re doing.
This post lays out what Taplink actually costs and does, and where Keepp closes the gaps that send people looking for an alternative in the first place.
What Taplink actually costs and does, as of writing
A few facts worth getting straight, because most “alternatives” posts skip them:
Taplink’s free tier. The BASIC plan gives you pre-designed themes, unlimited links, text and custom blocks, messenger and social buttons, a map block, page-view statistics, shared access, and a QR code — none of which takes payment.
Paid plans are sold in blocks, not months. Taplink doesn’t do conventional month-to-month billing — you pay upfront for a three-, six-, or twelve-month period, with roughly 30% off at six months and 50% off at twelve. Third-party pricing trackers put the Business tier at around $27 for three months as of writing, which works out near $9/month at the shortest commitment and closer to $4.50/month if you prepay a year. Prices move and vary by region, so check their pricing page before you commit — but the structural point holds: the cheapest way to use Taplink seriously is to commit for a year in advance.
Payments require the Business plan or higher. This is the important one. On Taplink, accepting money runs through the “Form and payments” block, and the documentation is explicit that your profile must be upgraded to Business before you can connect a payment provider at all. Custom domains sit at the same tier.
You bring your own payment providers, and Taplink takes no cut of its own. You connect Stripe, Paddle, Flutterwave, or others yourself, assign payment methods to each — your provider’s own processing fees still apply, and it only becomes available once you’re on Business.
Checkout is a form, then a redirect. The buyer fills in your form fields on your Taplink page, and then moves to a separate payment page listing the methods across your connected providers. It works. It is not the same thing as paying without leaving the page.
Booking is a form field, not a calendar. Taplink’s own guide for the Form and payments block documents text, dropdown, radio, checkbox, email, and phone fields. There is no documented date-and-time slot picker tied to real availability, no calendar sync, and no automatic video-meeting link. You can absolutely ask someone “what day works?” in a dropdown — you just then handle the scheduling yourself.
Keepp vs. Taplink
| Keepp | Taplink | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Fully customizable page, keepp.link/handle, basic analytics, Stripe checkout included | Themes, unlimited links, text/custom blocks, messengers, map, view stats, QR code |
| Paid plans | Pro $9.99/mo, Influencer $24.99/mo — billed monthly | Sold in 3/6/12-month blocks paid upfront; ~$27 per 3 months at the Business tier as of writing |
| Taking payment on the free plan | Yes — Stripe checkout works on Free | No — payment providers require the Business plan or higher |
| Fee on sales | 5% Free / 3% Pro / 0% Influencer, on top of Stripe’s processing fee. 0% on free and pay-outside-Keepp listings | 0% from Taplink; your payment provider’s fees apply |
| Checkout experience | On-page checkout through your own connected Stripe account — you’re the merchant of record | Form on-page, then redirect to a separate payment page |
| Bookings | Real availability, Google Calendar sync so you’re never double-booked, automatic Zoom or Google Meet link per remote appointment | No documented slot-based booking block; scheduling handled through form fields |
| Affiliate & promo-code cards | Purpose-built affiliate cards with promo codes, alongside for-sale and pure showcase cards | Link and product-style blocks; no dedicated affiliate/promo-code card type |
| Lead capture & export | Form blocks with your own fields; submissions filterable and exportable to CSV | Form block collects submissions; requires Business plan when combined with payments |
| AI-assisted page management | HTTP Agent API — point an AI assistant at your page to add products, change prices, update hours | Not offered |
| Custom domain | Included on Pro ($9.99/mo) | Business plan and above |
Where the difference actually shows up
Selling on day one, not on the top plan
The single biggest structural difference is where selling lives. On Keepp, Stripe checkout works on the free plan — at 5%, dropping to 3% on Pro and 0% on Influencer. On Taplink, connecting any payment provider means being on Business.
That changes who each tool is for. If you’re testing whether people will actually buy the thing you make, Keepp lets you find out for $0 and a percentage of money you’ve already received. Taplink asks you to prepay a quarter first.
There’s a second wrinkle: Keepp doesn’t force money through a checkout at all. A product can be priced free, or set to display pricing — the real price shown, the order captured with the buyer’s name and email, confirmed instantly, and payment settled however you already settle up. Keepp charges nothing on those, because there’s no transaction to take a cut of. That’s the three-ways-to-get-paid model in short: link out, capture the order and handle payment yourself, or run real checkout. Same page, chosen per item.
Bookings that are actually bookings
If your page sells your time, this is where the comparison stops being close. A Keepp booking block holds real availability, syncs with Google Calendar so a slot that’s taken elsewhere disappears here, and generates a Zoom or Google Meet link per appointment automatically for remote sessions — that last part is on the free plan. A booking can be free, display-priced, or paid through Stripe like any product.
Building the equivalent on a form-field-based builder means a dropdown of times you maintain by hand, no protection against double-booking, and a meeting link you create and email yourself.
Blocks that already know their job
Both tools are block builders. The difference is how much each block already knows. Keepp’s blocks are shaped around specific jobs — products with real checkout, cards for for-sale, affiliate, and showcase items, forms for leads and feedback, bookings, maps, menus — so adding one gives you a working piece of page rather than a container to configure. Our guide on choosing the right block is essentially a map of that.
The affiliate case makes it concrete. An affiliate card in Keepp is its own card type: your link, your promo code, presented as a recommendation rather than a bare button. On a general-purpose builder you approximate that with a link block and some text.
If you want to see the finished result rather than the parts list, Ashlee Monroe’s page is the most block-diverse example in our case studies — real products with working checkout, affiliate cards with promo codes, a paid booking, and a lead form, all on one page. Nothing there was custom-built. Every piece is a block anyone can add.
Capturing people who aren’t ready yet
Most visitors won’t buy on the first visit. A Keepp form block collects leads or feedback with fields you choose, and every submission lands in one place you can filter and read or export to CSV. Purchase and booking history is equally yours and equally exportable.
Worth saying plainly, because it’s unusual: Keepp never emails your leads or buyers on your behalf. There is no such mechanism in the product. Your audience is not a list we market to.
Managing the page without opening a dashboard
Keepp exposes an HTTP Agent API so you can point an AI assistant at your own page and manage it conversationally — add a product, adjust a price, update your hours — instead of clicking through an editor. There’s a guide for setting it up. If you update a catalogue often, this is the difference between a weekly chore and a sentence.
What to weigh
Taplink asks you to prepay a quarter and reach the Business plan before you can take a single payment. Keepp’s selling, booking, and lead-capture behaviour arrives already working — on the free plan, monthly billing, with a commission that only applies when Keepp is actually running your checkout. Start by claiming your page, set up your profile, style it, and put the link in your bio. If the page grows long, structuring it well matters more than any feature on this list.
Claim your page at keepp.link — free to start, no card required. Full details on pricing.