How Gumroad actually makes money — every claim cites a verbatim quote from a public source.
"10% + $0.50 Per transaction for all sales through your profile or direct links to your customers."
"it's the platform that has helped creators sell over a billion dollars of products directly to their audiences."
"At the start, we took a pure transaction fee of 7.5% + 25¢. We eventually restructured this to 5% + 30¢."
"Gumroad monetizes by taking a 5% cut and 30 cents out of every transaction."
"the platform keeps a 10% cut of every sale"
"Users are asked for a credit card number... to buy the item."
"Gumroad... increased prices to a flat 10% transaction fee from a variable 3.5-8.5% take rate."
"our creators earn over $175 million a year"
"Choose between one-time, recurring, or fixed-length payments in your currency of choice."
"sellers pay 5% plus 30 cents for each sale."
"we shipped Gumroad Memberships, a year in the works and now used by hundreds of creators to earn over $1,500,000 per month."
"I launched Monday morning and I made a few hundred bucks."
"Today, 99% of Trends.VC revenue is recurring in the form of annual and quarterly subscriptions."
"we switched to a hybrid model with a couple of options: free and 8.5% + 30¢ a transaction $10/month and 3.5% + 30¢ a transaction"
"We accomplished this by doing absolutely nothing special: we shipped about a hundred small iterative improvements to the core Gumroad experience, mostly around product creation and editing."