# Buy Me a Coffee > Creator page for tips, memberships and a simple shop Buy Me a Coffee gives creators a page where fans can send one-off support in a couple of taps, join monthly or yearly memberships, and buy items from a shop such as ebooks, commissions or one-to-one calls. Every feature, including posts and emails to supporters, is free to use; the company takes 5% of each transaction, and Stripe's processing fees come on top. - **Category:** Selling Digital Products - **Made by:** Buy Me a Coffee (since 2017) - **Website:** https://buymeacoffee.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing Buy Me a Coffee is free to use. - **Pricing model:** Free - **Free plan:** No monthly fee and every feature included. Buy Me a Coffee keeps 5% of each transaction, and Stripe charges 2.9% + $0.30 plus 0.5% for payouts. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Buy Me a Coffee | $0 | No monthly fee. A 5% platform fee per transaction, plus Stripe's 2.9% + $0.30; creators can choose to have supporters cover the card fee. | Read from https://help.buymeacoffee.com/en/articles/8105744-how-to-calculate-charges-on-your-payment on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Buy Me a Coffee before buying. ## Key features - **One-off support:** Fans pay in a couple of taps without signing up, pick how many coffees to buy and leave a message on the creator's page. - **Memberships:** Monthly or yearly membership tiers with exclusive posts and messages, email alerts for new posts and perks such as discounts. - **Shop:** Sell ebooks and other files, art commissions or one-to-one Zoom calls, with one-tap checkout and buyer ratings. - **Posts and emails:** Publish posts and email supporters from the same account, with no extra charge for publishing or sending. - **Creator tools:** Stream alerts, QR codes and buttons for websites point fans to the page. - **Payment methods:** Supporters pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Cash App or other global methods, processed by Stripe and Wise. ## Good for - Creators who want tips and memberships without a monthly bill - Podcasters, writers and streamers asking fans for support - Creators selling a few ebooks, commissions or calls ## Worth knowing - Each payment costs 5% plus Stripe's 2.9% + $0.30 and 0.5% payout fee; international payments add 1% and subscription payments 0.5%. - Payouts go straight to a bank account, but only for creators in the 44 countries Buy Me a Coffee supports. - The help center describes one 5% platform fee for every creator, with no paid plan that lowers it. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Buy Me a Coffee lets fans support you in a couple of taps without signing up, join a membership, or buy an ebook, commission or call from your shop. Every feature is free, and it takes 5% of each payment plus Stripe's fees. It's simpler than Patreon, and payouts only reach creators in 44 countries. - **Value for money: C.** Graded against its alternatives, tip and membership pages. 5% of $1,000 is $50 a month, with Stripe's 2.9% + $0.30 and 0.5% payout fee on top (not counted). The same as Ko-fi's 5% and half Patreon's 10%, with no plan that lowers it. - **Free plan and trial: A.** Every feature is free, including posts and emails to supporters, with no monthly fee and no cap. You pay 5% of each payment instead, and the value grade counts that. - **Features: C.** Graded against its alternatives. One-tap support, monthly or yearly memberships, a shop for files, commissions and Zoom calls, posts, emails and stream alerts. It does that job fully, but it's a smaller kit than Patreon's, with no video hosting or podcasts in the listing. - **Ease of use: C.** 4.4 from about 1,900 App Store ratings, just short of the 4.5 a B needs. Fans can pay without signing up, which helps. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with Stripe, Wise and Zoom, plus buttons, QR codes and stream alerts to point fans to your page. No desktop app, which an A needs. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Buy Me a Coffee's own pages on 18 October 2026, and its App Store rating. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among tools for selling digital products - Buy Me a Coffee's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 6 of the 14 other tools for selling digital products we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on free plan and trial (A, above 7 of 14) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Buy Me a Coffee has no paid plan. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/digital-products ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Buy Me a Coffee is free, so making your own would save you nothing. And it is not the kind of software a weekend replaces. - You could make: Digital downloads and paid newsletters: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## What people say - **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.4 out of 5 from 1,877 ratings in the United States, read Oct 18, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1480229954 ## Works with Stripe, Wise, Zoom **Tags:** Digital downloads, Paid newsletters ## Alternatives - [Ko-fi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ko-fi): Creator page for tips, memberships, a shop and paid commissions. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buy-me-a-coffee-vs-ko-fi) - [Patreon](https://toolgpa.com/tools/patreon): Paid memberships, a shop and community for creators and their fans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buy-me-a-coffee-vs-patreon) - [Gumroad](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gumroad): Sell downloads, memberships and courses for a cut of each sale. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buy-me-a-coffee-vs-gumroad) - [Stan](https://toolgpa.com/tools/stan-store): Link-in-bio store for creators selling downloads, courses and calls. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buy-me-a-coffee-vs-stan-store) - [Memberful](https://toolgpa.com/tools/memberful): Membership platform for paid newsletters, podcasts and communities. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buy-me-a-coffee-vs-memberful) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026: - https://help.buymeacoffee.com/en/articles/8105744-how-to-calculate-charges-on-your-payment - https://help.buymeacoffee.com/en/articles/8105320-how-to-eliminate-the-credit-card-fee-from-your-earnings - https://buymeacoffee.com/faq - https://buymeacoffee.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/buy-me-a-coffee Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).