19 August 2026 · Comparison
Sellfy vs Podia: Which Should You Pick in 2026?
The short answer
if you sell digital files, physical products, or print-on-demand merch and want 0% transaction fees.
if you build and sell online courses, coaching, memberships, or community spaces.
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Verdict: Sellfy wins if you sell THINGS - digital files, physical products, print-on-demand merch, or subscriptions - and want to keep 100% of every sale with 0% platform fees. Podia wins if you sell KNOWLEDGE - hosted online courses, coaching, memberships, and community - and need a full course builder and community platform. The decision is product-type first, price second.
Sellfy and Podia both bill themselves as “everything for creators” platforms. They are not actually the same product. Sellfy is a store where you sell products. Podia is a platform where you sell courses and memberships. Stack their feature lists side by side and they barely overlap, because they serve two different kinds of creators.
The cleanest way to decide: if your product is a file, a t-shirt, a mug, or a subscription box, you want Sellfy. If your product is a course, a coaching program, a membership, or a community, you want Podia. Everything else - fees, price, email, design - matters only once you know which of those two you are.
Pricing: Sellfy 0% vs Podia’s 5% on the entry plan
Sellfy has three plans, all with 0% platform transaction fees (you still pay Stripe or PayPal roughly 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction, which counts against every seller on every platform):
| Plan | Monthly (annual) | Monthly (month-to-month) | Annual Sales Cap | Transaction Fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $29/mo | $39/mo | Up to $10k/yr | 0% |
| Business | $59/mo | $79/mo | Up to $50k/yr | 0% |
| Premium | $119/mo | $159/mo | Up to $200k/yr | 0% |
The plan comparison table confirms the 0% fees, sales caps, 10/15/20GB file limits, email credits, cart abandonment, 24/7 support, and migration tiers above.
Prices accurate as of August 2026; check Sellfy’s site for current rates.
If you exceed your plan’s annual sales cap and don’t upgrade, Sellfy “may” charge a 2% overage fee on the excess. Payment processing (Stripe/PayPal) is separate and paid by you. A 14-day free trial lets you build a store, but you must upgrade to a paid plan to actually sell.
Podia also has three plans. The key difference: the entry Mover plan charges a 5% transaction fee, and Podia’s entry price is higher than Sellfy’s.
| Plan | Monthly (annual billing) | Transaction Fee | Email Subs incl. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mover | $42/mo | 5% | 100 |
| Shaker | $84/mo | 0% | 500 |
| Earthquaker | $150/mo | 0% | 1,000 |
Prices as of June 2026; check Podia’s site for current rates.
Sellfy’s current prices are $39/$79/$159 monthly, or $29/$59/$119 billed annually.
The fee math: Sellfy Starter beats Podia Mover at almost every revenue level
The 5% fee on Podia’s Mover plan is the single biggest cost gap. Because Podia’s entry price is already higher, the math rarely favors Mover:
- At $200/mo in sales: Sellfy Starter costs $29 flat. Podia Mover costs $42 + $10 (5%) = $52. Sellfy saves you $23/mo.
- At $500/mo in sales: Sellfy $29. Podia Mover $42 + $25 = $67. Sellfy saves you $38/mo.
- At $1,000/mo in sales: $12,000/yr blows past Sellfy Starter’s $10k cap around month 10, so the honest comparison there is Sellfy Business $59 vs Podia Mover $42 + $50 (5%) = $92. The 5% fee alone ($50) nearly covers Sellfy Business’s entire monthly price.
The gap only widens as you grow. Sellfy is cheaper than Podia’s entry plan on cost at essentially every realistic revenue level for a small creator.
But that’s the whole point of the honest twist in this comparison: Podia’s higher fee and price only matter if Podia is the right tool for you. If you’re a course creator, Podia’s course builder is something Sellfy doesn’t offer at any price, so the fee comparison is almost secondary.
Where Sellfy Wins
0% transaction fees on every plan. You keep 100% of revenue (minus the processor’s standard cut). Podia’s Mover plan takes 5% on top of your base, and its fee-free Shaker plan starts at $84/mo, far above Sellfy’s $29 entry. For anyone selling meaningful volume, this is the difference between a side project and real margin.
Physical products and built-in print-on-demand. Sellfy lets you sell physical merch and has print-on-demand built in. You design a t-shirt or hoodie, set a price, and Sellfy prints and ships it. Podia does not support physical products or POD at all - it is digital and knowledge products only.
Larger per-file limits. Sellfy allows up to 10GB per file on Starter, 15GB on Business, 20GB on Premium - heavy video and large-file sellers get plenty of headroom.
Email marketing on a credits model. Sellfy includes 2,000 (Starter), 10,000 (Business), or 50,000 (Premium) email sends per month. Podia counts subscribers instead (100/500/1,000 by plan), so a store with a growing newsletter list hits Podia Mover’s 100-subscriber cap quickly while Sellfy Starter’s 2,000-credit allowance is friendlier at entry.
Cart abandonment emails built into Business and up. Sellfy includes abandoned-cart recovery. Podia’s feature list has no cart abandonment recovery.
Free email migration, with product migration on Premium. Sellfy’s team imports your email contacts free on every plan. Product migration (they upload your files and product descriptions) is Premium-only, and store design migration needs an annual Business or Premium subscription.
24/7 email support on every plan. Sellfy advertises round-the-clock email support. Podia offers business-hours live chat and email, not 24/7.
Where Sellfy loses
- No hosted course builder. You can sell a course file as a digital product, but there’s no student dashboard, lesson structure, quizzes, drip content, certificates, or progress tracking. This is Podia’s home turf - if courses are your business, Sellfy is not your platform.
- No community features. No spaces, group chat, DMs, badges, or activity feeds. Podia has all of it.
- No free selling plan. The 14-day trial builds a store but doesn’t let you sell; your first payment is at least $29/mo.
- Revenue caps per plan. Starter caps at $10k/yr, forcing an upgrade or a 2% overage. Podia caps products, videos, and subscribers instead.
- No pay-what-you-want pricing. Sellers can’t set a “name your price” option on Sellfy.
- Simpler store design. Themes plus drag-and-drop plus custom code, but fewer themes than full platform builders.
- Sellfy branding stays on Starter (removed on Business and up).
Where Podia Wins
A full hosted course builder. Podia has lessons, quizzes, drip content, certificates, cohort-based courses, waitlists, preview lessons, video captions, and student progress dashboards. This is the thing Sellfy simply does not have - you cannot run a serious online course on Sellfy.
Built-in community. Podia includes spaces, group chat, member-to-member and creator-to-member DMs, member profiles, badges, activity feeds, and paid membership tiers. Sellfy has no community layer at all.
A full website + blog + landing pages. Podia is a complete site builder with themes, a blog with scheduled publishing, and landing pages. Sellfy’s store IS the site - there’s no separate blog or multi-page marketing site.
Coaching and events. Podia supports coaching (with scheduling integration) and live or in-person events. Sellfy has neither product type.
Broader integrations. Podia connects with Zapier and major email tools and has a large embed library. Sellfy’s integrations are narrower (Google Analytics, Zapier, pixels, Google Merchant Center, Wix, webhooks).
A 30-day full-access trial. You can actually sell during Podia’s trial. Sellfy’s 14-day trial lets you build but not sell.
Where Podia loses
- Mover’s 5% transaction fee. At a few hundred dollars in monthly sales, the fee starts to hurt badly, and Sellfy is 0% on every plan.
- No physical products, no print-on-demand, no inventory or shipping. Podia is digital and knowledge products only. If you sell merch, Podia is not an option.
- Lower email ceiling. 100/500/1,000 subscribers by plan vs Sellfy’s 2k-50k email credits; a growing list outgrows Podia’s caps sooner.
- More expensive entry. Mover at $42/mo annual vs Sellfy Starter at $29/mo annual.
- No cart abandonment recovery. Sellfy has it built in (Business and up); Podia’s feature list doesn’t.
- No 24/7 support. Live chat business hours plus email, not round-the-clock.
The shared weakness: no marketplace, no discovery
Neither Sellfy nor Podia has a marketplace or discovery engine. Both vendors say so themselves. Sellfy’s own positioning notes it’s not for sellers who don’t have their own traffic, and Podia has no built-in marketplace either. You have to bring your own audience to both platforms.
If you have no audience yet, neither tool is the right start. Platforms with built-in discovery, like Gumroad’s Discover marketplace or Etsy, are the traffic plays. Our roundup of the best Gumroad alternatives breaks down the wider field, including both of these tools. Sellfy and Podia are both excellent platforms, but they amplify an audience you already have rather than finding one for you.
Bottom line
Pick Sellfy if you sell files, physical products, print-on-demand merch, or subscriptions and you want flat pricing with 0% transaction fees. It’s also the cheaper platform on cost at almost any revenue level, with larger file limits and built-in cart-abandonment recovery.
Pick Podia if you build and sell courses, coaching, memberships, or community - the hosted course builder and community features are things Sellfy doesn’t offer at any price. Pay the higher entry price and, on Mover, the 5% fee, because Podia is the only one of the two that can actually run your online school.
And if pushing your own traffic isn’t something you want to do, neither tool is for you - see the Gumroad alternatives roundup for platforms with built-in discovery.
