The best Stan Store alternative in 2026 — a website, not a link page
Stan Store is very good at being a phone-shaped shop for coaches and course sellers. It is $29 a month with no free plan, and it will never be a website. Here is when that trade stops making sense.
SitesPlaced starts free and costs $14.99/month against Stan Store's $29 minimum. Neither of us takes a cut of your sales. The difference is shape: Stan Store is deliberately one scrolling link-in-bio page, while SitesPlaced builds a full multi-page website with product pages, a blog and your own domain. If your income is mostly coaching calls, Stan's booking tools are better than ours and you should stay.
TL;DR
- • Stan Store: $29/month Creator, $99/month Pro, no free plan. SitesPlaced: free to publish, $14.99/month.
- • Neither takes a percentage of your sales.
- • Stan is one page by design. We build a website with a blog, which is how most creators get found.
- • Stan's booking and course tooling genuinely beats ours for coaches.
- • We handle physical products — stock, variants, shipping labels — which Stan is not built for.
Same commission, different shape
This is not a fees argument. Both platforms take 0% of your sales, which already puts them ahead of Gumroad and Beacons. The question is what you get for the monthly fee.
| Stan Store | SitesPlaced | |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest plan | $29/month | Free, then $14.99/month |
| Cut of sales | 0% | 0% |
| Format | One link-in-bio page | Multi-page website |
| Blog | No | Yes |
| Physical products | Not really | Yes, with shipping labels |
| Bookings and calls | Yes, strong | Not built in |
| Courses | Yes | Sell as digital products |
| Themes | One mobile layout | 17, all editable |
Competitor prices are from their own pricing pages, checked late August 2026. Plans change — confirm before you switch.
When Stan Store is the right answer
We would rather you picked correctly than picked us.
- • Your income is 1-to-1 calls, coaching packages or cohort courses. Stan's calendar and booking flow are better than anything we offer.
- • Your whole business genuinely runs from an Instagram bio link, and you want nothing more than that.
- • You value one opinionated layout that is already optimised for phones over the freedom to design your own.
When to move
- • You want to be found on Google. A blog on your own domain compounds; a link page does not.
- • $29 a month is heavy for what you currently sell. We start free and cost half that when you upgrade.
- • You sell objects as well as knowledge — prints, merch, anything that ships.
- • You want your store to look like your brand rather than like every other store on the platform.
Frequently asked questions
Is SitesPlaced a link-in-bio tool?
It can act as one, but it builds a full website with product pages, a blog and your own domain. Stan is deliberately a single page; we are deliberately not.
Can I sell coaching calls?
You can list them as products, but we do not have Stan's calendar and booking flow. If bookings are most of your revenue, Stan is the better tool today.
How do the prices compare?
Stan starts at $29/month with no free plan. SitesPlaced is free to publish and $14.99/month for a custom domain, AI and the extras. Neither takes a percentage of your sales.
Can I keep my link-in-bio page?
Yes. Plenty of creators keep a link page and point the shop button at their own store.
A website, from free
Publish free on a sitesplaced.com address, upgrade to $14.99 when you want your own domain. Half of Stan's price, and a real site with a blog.
