Is there a free alternative to Stan Store if I mainly recommend products?

According to the help centre, Stan takes 0% of the sales in your store, and you only pay the subscription. The payment providers charge their own fees. Paying yearly instead of twelve monthly payments saves $48 on Creator ($300 instead of $348) and $240 on Creator Pro ($948 instead of $1,188). You can cancel under Billing in your settings, and your account stays usable until the end of the period you have paid for. Each subscription covers one store; a second store needs its own.

On Stan, an affiliate link is a “URL / Media” product. You paste the address, upload an image or pick one from Stan’s stock library, write a title, a description and a button label, and choose the Button, Callout or Embed style. According to the help centre, the same product type works for Amazon or Shopify storefronts, podcast episodes and videos. You paste the affiliate link as a finished address, the way your affiliate programme gives it to you, and that programme pays the commission under its own rules.

You pay the subscription even if nobody buys through your links. Say your programmes pay 5% commission on average on what is left after returns: the right-hand column shows the sales your links would need to bring in over a year before the commission covers the subscription. On the monthly Creator plan, that is $580 in sales through your links every month. The 5% is an assumption for this example, not the rate of any particular programme. Tax and payment fees are not included.

• Payouts go through Stripe or a second payment provider. You set up the Stripe account through Stan, and Stan manages it; you cannot connect an existing one. Germany, Austria and Switzerland are on the list of countries.
• You can price in euros, as well as in US dollars, pounds, Polish złoty and Swedish kronor, among others. The currency applies to the whole store and can only be changed once Stripe is connected.
• The admin, storefront and checkout are available in 12 languages, including English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian and Polish. German is not on the list.
• You have to be at least 18 to accept payments. According to Stan, its payment providers require this.
• Stripe payments are cashed out inside Stan once your available balance is worth at least $10, and only the full balance at once; sales through the second provider go straight to your account there. For creators outside the US, Stripe takes up to seven business days before a payment can be cashed out.

The details come from the providers’ own pages: LTK’s FAQ, Stylink’s terms (AGB, August 2026), ShopMy’s help centre, Linktree’s help pages and pricing page and Beacons’ pricing page, read on 21 October 2026. The wyrld row describes wyrld, the publisher of this page. On Linktree and Beacons, without a subscription means the free plan, which has fewer features than the paid plans. The ShopMy help pages listed here mention no subscription. ShopMy’s help pages describe the commission rate shown differently: one says it already accounts for ShopMy’s cut, another calls it the gross commission. Beacons’ pricing page does not say if its brand partners pay commission on purchases from Germany; when a paid Beacons plan without the 9% pays off is worked out on the Beacons page. According to its help centre, ShopMy also accepts creators outside the US.

Stan suits you if you want to sell your own courses, coaching, downloads or memberships. That is what the store is built for, and according to the help centre Stan takes nothing from those sales. What changes when you sell yourself is covered on the page about affiliate links versus your own products. If you mainly recommend other brands’ products, you don’t need the selling features, but you still pay the subscription.

You can combine the two. Stan itself lists Amazon and Shopify storefronts as common URL products. In the same way, you can add your wyrld storefront to your Stan Store as a URL product: courses and coaching stay on Stan, and your product recommendations sit in the storefront with price comparison.

Instead of creating a URL product with an image and text for each item, on wyrld you paste the product link or pick the product from the catalogue. wyrld recognises the brand, name and variant, looks for the same item across more than 90,000 partner shops and creates an affiliate link for every offer it finds. You don’t need to sign up with any network for this. There is no subscription, so there is no break-even point like the one in the table above: no sign-up fee, no cost per product; wyrld earns a share of what shops pay.

In your storefront, your community sees what a product costs at the shops found and buys wherever it likes, at no extra cost; “Best price” marks the cheapest new offer. According to Bitkom (2022), 65% of people who shop online in Germany say the lowest price is a decisive factor when choosing a shop. You earn per click, per sale or both, depending on the shop, even when your community picks a different shop from the comparison. At the start of the following month you receive a Gutschrift (self-billing credit note), even under the Kleinunternehmer (small business) scheme, so you don’t write an invoice. Commission on sales is paid out once the shop or affiliate programme has paid wyrld. You can take part as an Unternehmer (business) under § 14 BGB, meaning you work as a creator on a commercial or self-employed basis.

If you work with an agency, it gets its own dashboard on wyrld, maintains your storefront with you and sees the same figures. wyrld deducts the agreed commission share from your earnings, and the agency gets its own credit note for it. The wyrld creator terms do not require exclusivity, so your courses and coaching can stay on Stan. Through wyrld Boost, brands also pay for campaigns that run across many creators and pay out based on key figures (KPIs) set in advance. That is no promise that you will be part of one; taking part in a campaign is up to you.