Free Shopify Alternative

Free Shopify Alternative: Sell From Your Bio Link for $0 a Month

MinglyLink is a free Shopify alternative for small sellers: add products, digital downloads and bookings to your link-in-bio page and take orders with a real cart, with no monthly plan. Shopify’s Basic plan costs $39 a month ($29 billed yearly) and adds 2% per sale if you use your own payment provider. The link already in your bio becomes your shop.

Fees, in one sentence: MinglyLink takes 0% of your sales. Buyers place the order on your page and pay you directly, however you agree: cash on delivery, bank transfer or your own payment link, outside MinglyLink. When card payments through MinglyLink launch, they will carry the card processor’s fee plus a small MinglyLink fee; orders paid to you directly stay at 0%.

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Honest framing: who this is for

Most "Shopify alternative" pages oversell. Here is the honest version. Shopify is a full e-commerce platform built to run an entire store on its own domain, with deep inventory, shipping, and app ecosystems. MinglyLink is a free storefront attached to your link-in-bio page. For a huge number of creators and small sellers, that is exactly what they were paying Shopify for — a way to sell a handful of products or digital downloads to the audience they already have on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube.

Great fit: creators, coaches, and small businesses selling products, downloads, or bookings to a social audience.
Not the right fit: large catalogs that need warehouse inventory rules, complex shipping zones, or a fully branded standalone domain store. Stay on Shopify for that.

MinglyLink vs Shopify vs Stan Store

MinglyLink vs Shopify vs Stan Store (checked 26 September 2026, USD; Shopify at US prices)
Compared on	MinglyLink	Shopify	Stan Store
Monthly fee	Free: no paid plan	Basic $39/mo ($29 billed yearly); Grow $105; Advanced $399¹	$29 or $99/mo ($300 or $948 billed yearly); no free plan²
Platform fee on sales	0% MinglyLink fee: buyers pay you directly (cash, transfer or your payment link).	2% on Basic when you use a third-party payment provider instead of Shopify Payments (1% Grow, 0.6% Advanced)¹	0% (Stripe or PayPal fees apply)³
Built-in link-in-bio page	Yes	No: Shopify retired Linkpop in July 2025⁵	Yes³
What you can sell	Physical products, digital downloads and services	Physical and digital products	Digital products and coaching calls
Appointment booking	Yes, free	Through third-party apps	Coaching calls with Google Calendar sync⁴
Best for	Selling to a social audience for free	Full standalone stores	Digital products and coaching with checkout built in

Payment-processor fees (e.g. Stripe) apply on every platform. Shopify’s trial: 3 days free, then $1 a month for 3 months.

A creator shop, not a storefront builder

Shopify, Wix and Squarespace sell you a storefront builder: a theme to design, a domain to connect, apps to install, a plan to pay every month. A creator shop is the opposite. Your audience already follows you on Instagram, TikTok or YouTube; the shop just has to sit behind the one link in your bio and take the order. That is what MinglyLink is: products, downloads and bookable services on the page people already visit, with a cart and an order form — and what selling costs fits in one sentence: MinglyLink takes 0% of your sales. Buyers place the order on your page and pay you directly, however you agree: cash on delivery, bank transfer or your own payment link, outside MinglyLink. When card payments through MinglyLink launch, they will carry the card processor’s fee plus a small MinglyLink fee; orders paid to you directly stay at 0%.

What you can sell

Add a product, set a price and currency, and it shows up on your page with a cart and an order form. You can sell:

Physical products — merch, prints, anything you ship. Optional shipping address when ordering.
Digital downloads — presets, templates, ebooks, guides. A free alternative to tools like Gumroad for selling a few products.
Services and bookings — sell appointments or sessions with free scheduling built in.

How "free" actually works

Selling is free because MinglyLink is funded by ads from its own inventory, shown on pages, and we share 60% of that ad revenue with page owners. So instead of charging you a monthly subscription, the platform pays for itself. MinglyLink takes 0% of your sales. Buyers place the order on your page and pay you directly, however you agree: cash on delivery, bank transfer or your own payment link, outside MinglyLink. When card payments through MinglyLink launch, they will carry the card processor’s fee plus a small MinglyLink fee; orders paid to you directly stay at 0%. See the full breakdown under what selling through MinglyLink costs.

How to switch in a few minutes

Create your free MinglyLink page and claim your URL.
Add your products, downloads, or bookable services and set prices.
Put your MinglyLink in your Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube bios — that link is now your store.

Frequently asked questions

Is MinglyLink really a free Shopify alternative?

Yes for small sellers: there is no monthly plan and MinglyLink takes 0% of your sales — buyers pay you directly, however you agree (cash on delivery, bank transfer or your own payment link). It gives you a storefront with a cart and an order form attached to your link-in-bio page, which covers what most small sellers actually use Shopify for. It is not an enterprise e-commerce platform — if you need deep inventory rules, warehouses, or a standalone branded domain store, Shopify is still the better fit.

What can I sell on MinglyLink?

Physical products, digital downloads, and services or appointments (bookings). You add a product, set a price and currency, and visitors can browse, add to cart, and place an order directly from your page. You manage orders from your dashboard.

How can it be free with a 0% MinglyLink fee?

MinglyLink is funded by ads from its own inventory, shown on pages, and shares 60% of that ad revenue with page owners, so selling stays free. MinglyLink takes 0% of your sales. Buyers place the order on your page and pay you directly, however you agree: cash on delivery, bank transfer or your own payment link, outside MinglyLink. When card payments through MinglyLink launch, they will carry the card processor’s fee plus a small MinglyLink fee; orders paid to you directly stay at 0%.

How is this different from Stan Store?

Stan Store is built for selling digital products but has no free plan — it costs $29–$99/month. MinglyLink lets you sell from your link in bio for free. Both leave the standard payment-processor fee to you. See our full Stan Store vs Shopify vs MinglyLink comparison for the details.

Do I need a separate website or domain?

No. Your store lives on your MinglyLink page, so the same link you put in your Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube bio is also your shop. There is nothing else to host or pay for.

MinglyLink at a glance

Price: Free. One plan with every feature included: no trial, no paid tier, no credit card.
Platform fee on sales: 0% MinglyLink fee: buyers pay you directly (cash, transfer or your payment link).
Selling and booking: A shop with a cart and an orders dashboard (buyers are emailed at each step), plus appointment booking on the same page.
What you can add: Up to 100 items on a page (products, link cards, services, social links and section headers).
Not included: No built-in card checkout yet, no automatic file delivery, and the small “Powered by MinglyLink” footer credit can’t be removed.
Privacy: Public bio pages set no cookies and load no third-party tracking scripts; visits and clicks are counted first-party.
Company: MinglyLink Ltd, registered in England and Wales (Company No. 16484762), subject to UK GDPR.

Updated 12 October 2026

Start selling from your link in bio — free

No monthly fee. 0% MinglyLink fee: buyers pay you directly (cash, transfer or your payment link).

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