Whop vs Tebex vs Cartcord for Discord stores

What to Look for in a Discord Ecommerce Solution

Three questions decide it. Who receives the PayPal payment? What percentage leaves before that? Can the buyer start with /buy and get a file, key, link, role, or a manual order?

Cartcord's answers: your PayPal, 0% to Cartcord, and those five delivery types. The commands are only /store, /products, and /buy.

Detailed Comparison: Cartcord vs. Whop vs. Tebex vs. Upgrade.chat vs. Manual Tickets

Whop prices payment methods and additional services separately. Tebex publishes a 5% base platform rate and 15% for FiveM. Gumroad's direct-sale base includes 10% plus a fixed charge, with different discovery and high-volume rules. Patreon uses a 10% standard platform fee for newly published creator pages. Check each vendor's current terms before comparing the total cost.

Those percentages are the usual published ranges people compare, not a live quote from each company. Cartcord's price is exact: Free $0, Basic $29.99, Pro $59.99, Enterprise $129.99, and $0 of the order.

When to Use a Flat-Fee Discord Store Bot vs. a Marketplace

Use Cartcord when the audience is already in one server and the product is a file, key, link, role, or a job you fulfill by hand. Use a marketplace when you need their audience more than you need the margin.

Real ROI: Commission Lost at $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 a Month

A 10% cut is $100, $500, or $1,000 a month before PayPal. A year at $5,000 a month is $6,000. Cartcord Pro for that year is $719.88. The gap is the reason the fee calculator exists.

Written by the Cartcord team that builds the Discord store bot, PayPal checkout, and delivery pipeline.

The three numbers that decide the tool

First, identify the merchant, checkout provider and payout terms. Cartcord uses the seller's own PayPal account; processor fees and holds can apply. Second, compare the actual price schedule: Whop separates payment methods and additional services, Tebex has platform-specific charges, Gumroad has direct-sale and discovery rules, and Upgrade.chat has its own pricing and membership capabilities. Third, test the buyer's path. Discord commands start a Cartcord purchase, while payment approval takes place with PayPal.

At $1,000 a month, a 10% cut is $100. At $5,000 it is $500. At $10,000 it is $1,000, before PayPal. Cartcord's cost at those volumes is the plan that fits the order count: Basic at $29.99 up to 100 orders, Pro at $59.99 up to 1,000 orders, Enterprise at $129.99 after that. The yearly gap is why the fee calculator exists. It is not a promise that a named competitor charges one exact percent on your account.

Delivery coverage is part of the fee conversation

A tool that only assigns roles is cheap to describe and expensive when you also sell files and keys. Cartcord's five deliveries are a file URL, a single-use key, a private link, a one-time role, and a manual order. Docs for install steps are on Pro and Enterprise. Competitors in the comparison table are summarized as files, game assets, or roles, because that is the job they are known for. Read the live pricing on their sites before you migrate. The table is a map, not their contract.

Buyers browse and start checkout with /store, /products and /buy; web purchase recovery is available through Your purchases. There is no cart command and no extra checkout command. They can also open the public store URL. After PayPal captures the payment, delivery is a file link you host yourself, one unused license key from your pool, a private URL, a Discord role granted once, or a manual order that stays pending until staff act. Optional timed passes require an available expiry service; payments do not recur. Basic+ supports private uploads with short-lived signed links or optional 24-hour single-use downloads within the published storage limits. Plans stay server-wise. Free is $0 with 3 products and 3 orders a month, which is enough to prove one offer. Basic is $29.99 with 25 products and 100 orders. Pro is $59.99 with 150 products, 1,000 orders, coupons, themes, and store docs, and it is the plan most active stores should use. Enterprise is $129.99 with unlimited products and orders, fraud guard, and signed webhooks. None of those prices is a percentage of the sale. PayPal's own processing fee still applies, and Cartcord does not hold the payout.

The operating rules that do not change with the niche

For a fee comparison, the sale is finished only when PayPal has captured the payment and the delivery you configured has been sent. Cartcord takes 0% of that order. The monthly cost is the server plan, not a slice of revenue. PayPal still charges its processing fee, and that fee is between you and PayPal. Cartcord never holds a balance you later withdraw, so Cartcord does not impose a wallet payout schedule; PayPal can still apply fees, holds or account restrictions.

Keep the command list short when you announce a fee comparison. Members run /store to see the shop, /products to browse, and /buy to pay. They can also use the public store URL, which is the address a person outside the server, and a search engine, can open. Do not invent a cart command. Do not ask them to open a ticket to pay for something the bot can already deliver. Tickets stay for support and for the rare order you marked as manual.

Delivery for a fee comparison is one of five setups. A file uses an external URL or a Basic+ protected managed version. Managed uploads allow 25 MiB per file and 250 MiB reserved storage per store. A license key is one unused line from the pool, and a resend repeats that same line. A private URL is a link. A role is granted after capture. Optional timed passes require a live expiry service and are paid once, without recurring billing. A manual order stays pending and pings staff with the buyer details and the instructions you wrote. Publish guard is what stops the product going live while PayPal, the delivery, or the stock is missing.

Pick the plan from the order count, not from a feeling about the niche. Free covers 3 products and 3 orders a month. Basic is $29.99 for 25 products and 100 orders. Pro is $59.99 for 150 products and 1,000 orders, and it adds coupons, themes, store docs and scoped merchant API keys. Enterprise is $129.99 when you need unlimited volume, fraud guard, and signed webhooks. The example of 10% on $5,000 is a $500 scenario input, not a statement of any vendor's current rate. Pro is $59.99 and none of the $5,000. Use the fee calculator for your own sales number, and read pricing before you promise a buyer a feature that sits on a higher plan.

When a fee comparison is live, check three things after the first real payment. The PayPal capture should show on the order. The delivery status should show sent, or pending if the buyer's DMs were closed. The public store URL should be the same shop the commands show, so a member who shares the link is not sending people to an empty page. If a name looks like a test, a demo, or a sandbox, or the shop has no products, that storefront is noindex and stays out of the sitemap. A real shop with products can be indexed. From any of these guides you can open pricing, the fee calculator, and the solution pages linked under the article.

A clean launch for a fee comparison is a short announcement, not a new website. Name the server, list the three products with their prices and whether the buyer receives a file, a key, a link, or a role, and tell them the commands. The announcement generator on the tools page drafts that message. The fee calculator puts a percentage marketplace next to the flat plan so the owner can see the year, not just the first sale. Pricing is the page that states Free, Basic, Pro, and Enterprise without a sales adjective doing the work. Those three links are the next step after this article, and they are the same facts the rest of the site is willing to stand behind.

Buyer recovery, refunds and feature boundaries

Use Your purchases with the original Discord login to recover eligible content. A paid order can have failed, pending or held delivery. Fix the underlying issue and retry the existing order instead of charging again. Basic adds protected file versions, Pro adds API keys for product/order reads and non-key stock updates, and Enterprise adds risk review and signed webhooks.

The merchant issues refunds in PayPal. Verified completed partial refunds preserve access; cumulative full refunds close new delivery access and queue eligible saved role removals through the scheduled access service. New recovery/staff bot commands still have a separate rollout. Existing signed links and downloaded copies cannot be universally recalled. Signed license verification with device limits is available only after developer integration. Optional single-use downloads protect managed uploads, not external URLs. Timed passes require a ready expiry service and are blocked for new setup while it is unavailable. Pro+ creator referrals issue store coupon rewards after qualifying paid delivery; they do not create cash balances or automatic payouts. Basket checkout, component bundles, recurring buyer billing, seller Stripe/crypto checkout, game-server command delivery and automatic booking are not released.

Compare responsibilities as well as the headline fee

A flat subscription and a merchant-of-record service are different operating models. A merchant-of-record arrangement can include responsibility for collecting certain taxes and handling payment obligations. With Cartcord's direct PayPal checkout, the seller operates their own payment account and needs to manage their own tax, refund, and dispute workflow. A lower platform fee is useful only when the complete arrangement fits the business. Compare supported payment methods, geography, recurring billing, and game-platform restrictions alongside delivery automation.

Build the estimate from an actual month of orders. Record gross sales, order count, average price, refunds, fixed transaction fees, conversion costs, and the features that require a particular subscription. At a low order value, a fixed per-order charge can matter more than a small percentage difference. At high volume, a rate may change after a published threshold. Use the calculator as a scenario model and replace its assumptions with the rates that apply to your account. Keep the dated vendor pricing links with the estimate so a colleague can reproduce it after a pricing change.

A worked platform-fee comparison

This example assumes a $35 average order, a 10% platform commission, and the Cartcord plan required by order volume. Processor fees, taxes, refunds, and product costs are excluded.

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