Sellfy Alternative With No Sales Cap — Pay Once, Self-Host

The reason you are here

Why creators look for a Sellfy alternative

Your bill rises when you do well

Every plan caps annual sales — $10k, then $50k, then $200k. A good year is what pushes you into the next price.

Past the cap there is a percentage

Cross the limit and Sellfy expects you to upgrade. If you do not, it may charge a 2% overage fee on the revenue above it — so the 0% has a ceiling written into it.

It sells files, not courses

No course player, no lessons or modules, no progress tracking, no member community. Sellfy hands over a download or a video stream, which is a different job from teaching.

Side by side

Sellfy vs SoloStore

Every number below came off the vendor's own pricing page, checked 15 August 2026.

Sellfy compared with SoloStore on price, limits and features
	Sellfy Business	SoloStore
What you pay	$59/mo billed annually (Business)	$497 once
Year one	$708	$581
Every year after	$708	$84 hosting
Platform cut of each sale	0% — up to your plan's cap	0% — always
Annual sales cap	$10k · $50k · $200k by plan	none
If you sell past the cap	upgrade, or a 2% overage fee	nothing to sell past
What comes off a sale	Stripe or PayPal, 2.9% + 30¢	Stripe's 2.9% + 30¢, paid to Stripe
Largest file you can sell	10GB · 15GB · 20GB by plan	your own Bunny storage
Courses with lessons & progress	No	built in
Members' community	No	built in
Order bumps & one-click upsells	post-checkout upsell, Business and up	order bump, upsell and down-sell
Built-in email marketing	yes — 2,000 to 50,000 credits/mo	no — connects to Kit
Affiliate program	Business and Premium	built in (beta)
Print on demand & merch	Yes	No
Physical products	Yes	No
Money lands in your own Stripe	Yes	Yes
You can host it yourself	No	Yes
You own the software	No	Yes
Five-year total	$3,540 on Business	$917

Sellfy figures are public list prices from sellfy.com/pricing, checked 15 August 2026. SoloStore's total is the one-time licence plus about $7 a month of self-hosting (Railway and Bunny, paid direct). Stripe's processing fee applies on both sides and is excluded.

The other side

What Sellfy does better than SoloStore

A comparison page that only flatters itself is an advert. Here is where Sellfy wins.

Sellfy is genuinely better at these

Print on demand and physical goods. Sellfy prints and ships t-shirts, hoodies and mugs for you, and sells tangible products beside the digital ones. SoloStore does neither.
Email marketing is built in. Between 2,000 and 50,000 email credits a month depending on plan, plus cart-abandonment emails. SoloStore tags buyers in Kit or MailerLite and leaves the sending to your email tool.
Its affiliate program is older. Business and Premium let you recruit affiliates and pay a commission per sale, and it has been doing it for years. SoloStore has one built in too, but it is new and still marked beta.
You can try it free. Fourteen days, no card. SoloStore asks for $497 up front and backs it with a seven-day refund instead.
It is cheaper to start. Starter is $29 a month against $497 once — and if you sell under $10,000 a year, the cap that this page is largely about will never once bother you.

Stay on Sellfy if merch and print on demand are part of the business, if you sell physical products, or if you are comfortably under the $10k Starter cap and happy there. This page is for the creator selling courses and memberships who has noticed that the bill goes up as the business does.

The catch

You host it yourself. That is the whole trade.

Two services, no markup, nothing paid to us — and a five-minute setup with no code and no terminal.

RailwayHosting your SoloStore $5.00

BunnyHosts your videos & downloads for pennies $2–3

Your whole monthly bill ≈ $7

Not sure what self-hosting means in practice? Watch the five-minute setup video — it is the entire process, start to finish.

Sellfy alternative FAQ

The questions people actually ask

How much does Sellfy cost?

Starter is $29 a month billed yearly or $39 month to month, Business is $59 or $79, and Premium is $119 or $159. Each plan also caps how much you may sell in a year — $10,000, $50,000 and $200,000 respectively. Figures read off sellfy.com/pricing on 15 August 2026.

Does Sellfy take a cut of my sales?

Not below your plan's cap — the published transaction fee is 0% on every plan, and what comes off a sale is Stripe's or PayPal's 2.9% + 30¢, which SoloStore's buyers pay too. Above the cap it changes: Sellfy expects you to upgrade, and says it may charge a 2% overage fee on the revenue past the limit if you do not.

What happens if I sell more than my Sellfy plan allows?

Sellfy notifies you as you approach the limit and expects you to move up a plan. If the account has not upgraded, it may start charging a 2% overage fee on the amount of revenue above the cap. SoloStore has no cap at all — one licence is one store with unlimited products, unlimited members and unlimited sales.

Can Sellfy host an online course?

Not as a course. Sellfy sells digital downloads, video streaming, subscriptions, physical products and print-on-demand merch, so you can deliver course videos as files or a stream — but there is no course player, no lessons and modules, no progress tracking and no member community. SoloStore includes all four in the one licence.

Is SoloStore cheaper than Sellfy?

Not on day one. Sellfy Business is $59 a month, while SoloStore is $497 once plus roughly $84 a year in hosting — so it costs more up front and less every year after. The table above runs both out to year five and shows where the lines cross.

Do I keep my own Stripe account?

Yes, and so does Sellfy — both pay out to your own Stripe or PayPal rather than holding your money. SoloStore runs on your Stripe keys and our cut of every sale is $0.00. If you would rather not deal with EU VAT and sales tax, Stripe's own merchant-of-record service is a switch you can turn on for an extra 3.5% a transaction.

Do I need to be technical to self-host it?

No. Setup is clicking through a Railway template — no code, no terminal, nothing to configure. There is a video of the whole thing on the homepage and a written guide in the box.

Other questions? Shoot me an email — matt@mattgiaro.com

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