Selling on Discord without giving away a cut of every order

By Cartcord Team · Tips · 2026-10-19

"No commission" gets abused in ads, so here is the plain version. Cartcord does not take a percent of your customer orders. A $20 sale does not become $18.40 inside our system, because the $20 never sits with us. The buyer pays your PayPal. We bill the server a monthly or yearly plan.

PayPal still charges whatever PayPal charges you for receiving a payment. That is a processor fee. It is not a Cartcord fee, and it does not disappear because a landing page said 0%. If someone promises zero fees of any kind, they are leaving out the card network.

Why the distinction matters when you are small

A percent model is painless at $30 a month in sales and ugly at $3,000. A flat plan is the other way around: it feels like a lot when you have not sold anything, and it gets cheaper per order as the server actually sells.

That is why Free exists. 3 active products, 3 completed orders a month, $0. Use it to see a real DM arrive. Do not use it to run a launch. You will hit the order cap and the next buyer will be stopped before PayPal charges them.

Basic is $29.99 a month, or $299 for the year. 25 active products, 100 orders a month, product announcements, basic analytics. Pro is $59.99 a month, or $599 for the year. 150 products, 1,000 orders, coupons, themes, store docs, growth analytics. Enterprise is $129.99 a month, or $1,299 for the year, with no product or order cap, plus fraud review and signed webhooks.

Annual is one charge for the year, not a mystery discount stacked on top. Compare it with twelve times the monthly price if you want the saving in dollars. You can cancel. Access runs until the end of the time you already paid. After that the server drops to Free. Products are not deleted. You just cannot have all of them active above the Free cap.

What a marketplace cut usually buys

Marketplaces take a percent because they bring the buyer and sometimes hold the money. If your buyers already live in your Discord, you are paying that percent for a checkout button and a payout delay. A store bot is the other trade: you bring the buyer, you hold the PayPal relationship, you pay a subscription for the catalog and the delivery.

If you do need strangers to discover you, a marketplace can still be right. Cartcord will not invent an audience. The public store page can be indexed and shared. It is not a billboard we run for you.

How to check you are not being clipped

Open a test payment in PayPal. The gross amount should match the product price, minus PayPal's fee, in your PayPal, not in a Cartcord balance. There is no Cartcord balance. If a dashboard somewhere shows "available to withdraw," you are on a different kind of platform.

Coupons change the amount the buyer pays. A 20% code on Pro means PayPal sees the discounted price. A 100% code never touches PayPal. That is not a commission trick. It is a free claim, and it still counts as an order against your monthly cap.

The live prices are on cartcord.com/pricing, loaded from the plans in the dashboard, so if a number in an old post ever drifts, the pricing page is the one to trust.

A quick way to compare a real month

Write down last month's sales and the percent a marketplace would have taken. Then put the Cartcord plan next to it. If you did $200 in a month, Basic at $29.99 is real money and a 5% marketplace fee would have been $10. Stay on Free until the orders exist. If you did $2,000, a 5% cut is $100 and Pro at $59.99 is the smaller number, before you count the time you spent sending files by hand.

Do the math with your prices, not with a tweet. PayPal's fee comes off both versions, so leave it out of the comparison or put it on both sides. It should not be counted as the cost of Cartcord.

If a month is quiet, cancel before the renewal. You keep the plan until the date you already paid through. The store falls back to Free after that. Your products stay. You just cannot keep more than 3 of them active.