Yes! You can start selling on Beacons for free today with no upfront cost. There is a free forever plan along with pro subscriptions. Stan only offers a 14 day free trial, and then pricing starts at $29/month.

On Beacons, you can start selling digital products, appointments, courses, and start sending sales emails for free with no upfront costs. This includes ALL promotional functionality like discount codes, payment plans inventory limits, shareable graphics, and readymade sales emails (for free)!

You can upgrade to Beacons Store Pro for $10/month to unlock 0% platform fees and additional digital products to sell, like memberships. The Courses Add-On is an additional $20/month to sell unlimited courses and video hosting.

On Stan, pricing starts at $29/month, which includes appointments, digital products, courses, subscriptions, and email collection. You can upgrade to the $99/month plan to unlock email marketing, discount codes and upsell offers, and payment plans.

Stan Store is a digital storefront that allows users to sell digital products, appointments, courses, and memberships.

Stan Store is a digital storefront for users to sell digital products. The products are listed on a link in bio. For $99/month, you can unlock email marketing to help sell these products.

Linktree is first and foremost a link-in-bio platform. Users can add links that take their visitors away to another platform, but it does not have natives sales and marketing capabilities in the product.

Beacons is an all-in-one platform for creators that includes a digital storefront, best-in-class link in bio (with over 3 million users!), and email marketing designed specifically for creators. Creators can get started using all of these products together to sell digital products and grow their creator business for free with no upfront costs.

No, Stan Store does not currently offer a free plan. They offer a 14 day free trial which requires a credit card. Stan Store pricing starts at $29/month to start selling.

Beacons is an excellent alternative to Stan for creators looking to start selling digital products, appointments, courses, and more for free with no upfront costs. Beacons offers extensive selling and marketing functionality for free—such as discounts, sales emails, and payment plans—that users need to pay $99/month to unlock on Stan.

For creators who are just getting started selling digital products, Beacons is a perfect choice to start selling risk-free. For creators who already have a strong business selling digital products, switching to Beacons means you’ll access more selling and marketing features for lower subscription costs and put more of the money you earn directly into your pocket.

Beacons referral plan provides creators an additional stream of recurring, passive income.  Creators can easily refer others with their unique link.  Then you can earn 25% of whatever they pay Beacons every month, forever.  Stans only pays 20%.

YES, you can offer your customers payment plans from industry leading providers Affirm and Klarna, powered by Stripe for all products over $50 USD.

Beacons store supports payments in over 20 different currencies.  Which include, AUD, EUR, GBP, CAD, BRL, MXN and more.  You can find the full list of supported currencies here.