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Payhip
Sell digital downloads, courses and memberships with EU VAT handled.
NOT REALLY
why this verdict
Keep it — OpenAI has not replaced it
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the e-commerce job, so this one is still worth keeping open.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- AI site builders bundle a store into any generated page. OpenAI, January 1, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers not the job editorial call
- Parts of it. The job still needs the tool to get finished.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 1 of 2 listed replacements have a usable free tier: Gumroad.
- What the call is worth nothing to cancel
- No paid entry tier tracked, so there is no subscription to cancel.
Reason composed from the fields above missing: announcement linked recorded: free replacement listed recorded: two or more escape hatches
- Threatened by
- OpenAI
- Since
- January 1, 2025
- List price
- free
- Per year
- —
The backstory
Payhip's quiet advantage is tax: it acts as seller of record for EU VAT, the sort of tedious compliance nobody prompts their way out of. Any AI builder can generate a shop page; none of them will file your VAT returns.
Escape hatches
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Lemon Squeezy Also merchant of record, developer-friendly.
lemonsqueezy.com open_in_new G 
Gumroad Simplest possible checkout.
gumroad.com open_in_new1 of 2 replacements have a usable free tier.