@Marie already ruled out the whole first page of this market: no Gumroad, no $100 payout gate, no WordPress. So the useful answer is not another “top 10” — it is who takes zero out of the sale, and who died last year. 
Dead platforms still recommended in 2026 tutorials — every guide naming these is stale: Sellpass / Antistock (shutdown) · Billgang (shutdown). Two live status trackers keep the list current, because half of “best platform” articles are recycled.
The zero-take-rate shelf — these take 0% of the sale itself:
- Sellix — $0/month, no listing fee, no take-rate; crypto checkout is built in
- Sellup — free tier 0%, 11 payment gateways, $24.99/mo only if you outgrow it
- PapelShip — free plan takes 1.69%, and it still does crypto
- shopl.io — $0 plan, 5% withdrawal fee rather than per-sale · all three compared live on that page
Then the fee nobody budgets for: the payout rail. A $50 month sent home the usual way loses $3–5 before it lands. Wise gives you local account details, so the platform thinks it is paying a domestic transfer, and conversion starts at 0.23%. @Marie’s complaint was never the platform cut — it was the gate and the spread. Fix both and 10 sales is real money.
The complete 2026 comparison, if she wants the whole table
33 platforms compared, updated October 2026 — fees, what each one pays out with, and what it refuses to sell.
How each payout method actually costs you — Wise, PayPal, Payoneer and the platform balances, ranked by the number that reaches your bank.
Two free platforms worth re-reading — she may be using them badly
Payhip at 5% is not the free storefront people think; Payhip at 2% ($29) beats it the moment she clears ~$1,000 a quarter. Ko-fi at 0% is the quiet one — no marketplace traffic, but every cent of every direct sale stays, and it can host files and commissions in the same page.
itch.io still lets you set the revenue share to 0%. Nobody remembers that.
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