🆚 Payhip vs. WHMCS

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

E-commerce platform
E-commerce platform

About

Payhip is an e-commerce platform that enables creators to sell digital downloads, courses, memberships, coaching, and physical products directly to their audience through a hosted storefront or embedded checkout.

It includes a customizable store builder, supports unlimited product listings on all plans, automatically handles EU and UK VAT, provides built-in marketing tools like coupons, affiliate programs, and cross-sells, and integrates with payment gateways such as Stripe, PayPal, Square, and Mollie.

WHMCS is a self-hosted recurring billing and automation platform used by web hosting providers to manage clients, services, and payments.

It offers automated invoicing and subscription management, domain registration and lifecycle management, configurable products, bundles, and pricing, a ticket-based customer support system, fraud screening, and tax and VAT handling.

It also provides provisioning modules for cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, and various cloud platforms, and integrates with more than 80 payment processors, including PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net, Skrill, 2Checkout, and BitPay.

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom

Website

Pricing

Free
Transaction fee5%
Plus
$29/month
Transaction fee2%
Pro
$99/month
Transaction feeNone
Free version ❌
Plus
(250 clients)
$29.95/month
Professional
(500 clients)
$44.95/month
Business
(1,000+ clients)
$69.95+/month

Categories

E-Commerce › Rank #74
E-Commerce › Rank #36
Subscriptions › Rank #13

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The WHMCS e-commerce platform is 2.2 times more popular than Payhip.
Total websites

Market share

E-Commerce

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

WHMCS is more popular in the United Kingdom, Turkey, and Canada, while Payhip is more popular in the United States, Norway, and Belgium.
United States
United Kingdom
Turkey
Canada
India
Australia
Germany
Brazil
Italy
France

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

WHMCS is more popular among sites focused on Internet services, business, and software and hardware, while Payhip is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference sites.
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Recreation/Hobbies
Travel
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
#2,177
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#91,391
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Rank
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See also

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