Store costs

What a direct book store costs

The monthly bill for selling your books direct depends on where you sell, how many books you have and how much you sell. Here are three stores, priced on six well-known places to sell and on Lanternbee, with every price sourced.

  • Starting out

    3 titles, ebooks. About $500 a month in sales from 50 orders.

  • A growing backlist

    8 titles, ebooks, audiobooks. About $2,000 a month in sales from 160 orders.

  • A busy store

    20 titles, ebooks, audiobooks, print books. About $10,000 a month in sales from 500 orders.

Cost for a year, US prices on monthly billing, card processing included.
Where you sellStarting outA growing backlistA busy store
Gumroad$1,458$4,836$20,484
Payhip$858$2,304$6,672
Shopify$1,686$2,628$6,636
Squarespace$978$1,944$5,952
Wix$990$1,908$5,916
WooCommerce$937$1,855$5,863
Lanternbee$654$1,812$5,820

Each row uses the cheapest plan for that store's sales. For Lanternbee that is Free (5% fee when you sell, up to 5 titles) or Author, whichever costs less. Open a row to see every line, what we counted and what we left out, with the sources.