Feature by feature, against Stan

Apps and devices

• iPhone app

  Stan

  Yes — a creator app, rated 4.9 stars on the App Store

  Marktmorgen

  Not available — Stan is ahead here. The studio installs to the home screen instead, and sends notifications of sales and bookings on iOS 16.4 or later

• Android app

  Stan

  No — none, by their own documentation

  Marktmorgen

  Not available. The studio installs to the home screen instead, and sends notifications of sales and bookings

• Buyer app

  Stan

  Yes, on iPhone only: the Stan Community app, for members of a creator's community

  Marktmorgen

  No app-store app. Each store installs to the home screen on both phones as an app of its own, with the store's name, icon and color

• Annual plan inside the app

  Stan

  Not possible — browser only

  Marktmorgen

  Same price on every device

• Add to home screen

  Stan

  Not advertised

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on Android and iPhone: the studio, with notifications, and every store as its own app

Stan's help center, article 406, read September 17, 2026: the Stan app is “currently only available on iPhone and iPad through the iOS App Store.”

The store

• Store page on a phone

  Stan

  Yes

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, and faster (97–100 against 57–58 on PageSpeed)

• Themes and colors

  Stan

  Yes, limited

  Marktmorgen

  Yes — four themes, ten colors or any color of your own, and your photo. Every color is checked for contrast before your page uses it

• A line about you on the page

  Stan

  A short profile bio, and no separate About Me page

  Marktmorgen

  Every store, under your name

• Products on one store

  Stan

  Unlimited

  Marktmorgen

  Up to 2,000 products and 100 links, 24 products a page on the store and search in your studio — Stan is ahead here

• Product pictures

  Stan

  Yes — thumbnails shown as Button, Callout or Preview

  Marktmorgen

  Yes — a picture on each product, shown as Button, Callout or Preview, the same three

• Several prices for one product

  Stan

  Not available

  Marktmorgen

  Up to three, each with its own file or link

• Sales pages for a product

  Stan

  A checkout page for each product, with a description and a video, which can be made a private landing page on every plan. Funnels of several pages on the $99 plan

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $29 plan: up to 30 blocks per product — hero, video from YouTube, Vimeo or Loom, benefits, what is inside, about you, questions, guarantee, buttons and reviews — with its own search title and description and a share picture drawn for it

• Reviews

  Stan

  Added by the creator. Their help center says customers cannot write one

  Marktmorgen

  Written only by paying buyers, checked on your Stripe account. You can answer or hide one, never edit or delete it; hidden reviews still count in the average, and a full refund takes the stars out

• Your own domain

  Stan

  Not available

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $99 Pro plan, with the certificate handled for you

• Custom code on the page

  Stan

  Explicitly not supported

  Marktmorgen

  Not available

• Embed the store on your own site

  Stan

  Not available

  Marktmorgen

  Not available

• Several stores in one account

  Stan

  Not in one account. Several accounts, each with its own email and its own subscription

  Marktmorgen

  Up to five in one account, each with its own address, Stripe account and plan, switched at the top of the studio

• A team with roles

  Stan

  Not for the store: their help center says the only way to give someone admin access is to share your login. Admins and moderators exist inside the community only

  Marktmorgen

  Up to five people per store, as Admin, Editor or Support, each signing in with their own email, checked on our server, with an activity log

What you can sell

• Digital downloads

  Stan

  Yes, up to 5 GB

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, up to 5 GB

• Selling something bigger

  Stan

  Their help center: host it on Google Drive or Dropbox and use Redirect to URL

  Marktmorgen

  Sell it as a link. Same escape hatch, and we say so on the product itself

• How much your buyers may download

  Stan

  No figure in their help center

  Marktmorgen

  200 GB a month, published, and shown in your account as it is used

• Courses with drip and analytics

  Stan

  Yes

  Marktmorgen

  Yes — modules, videos up to 5 GB that stay upright when filmed upright, text, downloads, free preview lessons, modules that open over time with an email to the student, and each student's progress

• Memberships and subscriptions

  Stan

  Yes — daily, weekly, monthly, annually, and can end after a set number of payments. No free trial in their help center

  Marktmorgen

  Yes — daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, on your own Stripe, with a free trial of 1 to 90 days and an end after 2 to 36 payments if you want them. Members cancel on their own, through Stripe, without writing to you, and files, courses and the community close when a membership ends

• Members switching plans

  Stan

  Not in their help center: existing members stay at the price they bought at (article 132, read September 30, 2026)

  Marktmorgen

  Yes — 2 to 6 memberships as tiers; members move up or down on their own, see Stripe's exact amount first, pay the difference at once or get a credit on their next payments, and what each plan includes opens and closes with it

• An offer when a member cancels

  Stan

  Not in their help center, read September 30, 2026

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $29 plan: a discount you choose, 10% to 50% off one to three payments, offered once per membership on Stripe's own cancellation page and declined in one press. An offer of more than one payment only on memberships charged monthly

• A come-back offer after a member leaves

  Stan

  Not in their help center, read September 30, 2026

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $29 plan: one email 3 to 21 days after a membership ends, with 10% to 50% off one to three payments, only to former members who agreed to hear from you and have not come back, and a link that opens your checkout with the discount applied

• When a member's card fails

  Stan

  Reminders for payment plans, by their help center

  Marktmorgen

  One email per failed renewal, on the $29 plan, with a link that pays it and makes the card that worked the one used next time. It says when the card is tried again, or that it will not be

• Video link for each booking

  Stan

  Yes — Zoom or Google Meet links created automatically

  Marktmorgen

  Google Meet links made automatically once you connect your Google Calendar, or your own meeting link, or a private Jitsi Meet room made for each booking. The first person in a Jitsi room may be asked to sign in to Jitsi to start it. No Zoom link is made for you yet — Stan is ahead on Zoom

• Coaching calls with a calendar

  Stan

  Yes — with Google Calendar and reminder emails

  Marktmorgen

  Yes — your hours in your time zone, times shown to each buyer in theirs, held while they pay, a calendar file emailed to both of you, reminders a day and an hour before, and buyers who move their own booking up to twice. Busy times in up to three Google, Outlook or iCloud calendars hide call times; bookings reach your calendar as a feed you subscribe to, and only calls set to Google Meet are written into your connected Google Calendar as events

• Group calls

  Stan

  Yes — a maximum number of attendees

  Marktmorgen

  Yes — 1 to 50 people per time slot, with the seats left shown to buyers

• Packages of sessions

  Stan

  Not in their help center: a coaching call product books one call per purchase (article 15, read September 30, 2026)

  Marktmorgen

  Yes — 2 to 20 sessions of a weekly call at one price, with a time limit you choose or none, paid once and booked one at a time from the buyer's own link, each with the reminders, meeting link and moves of any booking. Not for live sessions on dates

• Live webinars

  Stan

  Yes

  Marktmorgen

  Yes — live sessions on dates you set, up to 50 dates per product and 1 to 500 seats each, held in a Google Meet made on your connected Google Calendar, on the meeting service whose link you give, or in a Jitsi Meet room made for each session. And free live events for your community's members. No streaming or recording built in

• Lead magnets

  Stan

  Yes

  Marktmorgen

  Yes — anything priced at 0 is given for an email address, each address confirmed by its owner, and the list downloads as a CSV at any time

• Community

  Stan

  Yes, one per account, with webinars inside it

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, one per store, on the $29 plan: up to 20 spaces, each for the whole community or for the buyers of some products, posts with a picture that can be edited, polls, comments, likes, @mentions, pinned posts, a live room, private messages, notifications on a computer or phone, an opt-in member directory, reports and moderation, open only to the buyers you choose. Announcements by email on Pro

• Questions and a welcome for new members

  Stan

  Not among the community features in their help center, read September 30, 2026

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $29 plan: up to three questions every member answers once before their first post or comment, read only by you, and a welcome message sent privately from you on their first visit

• Points, levels and a leaderboard

  Stan

  Not in their help center, read September 30, 2026

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $29 plan: one point for every like a member's post or comment gets, 9 levels shown beside every name, a leaderboard for 7 days, 30 days and all time, spaces that open for posting at a level, and a course of yours handed over free at a level

• Search in the community

  Stan

  Not in their help center, read September 30, 2026

  Marktmorgen

  Yes — one box across posts and comments, course lessons, events, the member directory, the room and a member's own messages, each result shown only to somebody who may open it. What is said inside a video is not searched

• Webinars inside the community

  Stan

  Yes — a webinar product added to the community, which members sign up for on its landing page, with Zoom or Google Meet links made automatically

  Marktmorgen

  Yes — live events: up to 50 coming up, RSVPs with a cap of 1 to 5,000, the way in on the event's page from 15 minutes before, in a private Jitsi Meet room shown on the page, at your own link or in a Google Meet made on your connected Google Calendar, reminders a day and an hour before, emails when one moves or is canceled, and replays from YouTube, Vimeo or Loom. Free to members, not sold on its own, and no Zoom link made for you yet — Stan is ahead there

• Bundles

  Stan

  Their Digital Downloads help section lists bundles among the files you can sell as one download. No product type that hands over other products in their help center

  Marktmorgen

  Yes — 2 to 20 of your one-off products at one price, each delivered as itself, with “what they cost on their own” shown only when it is true. Not with memberships or calls

• External links on your page

  Stan

  Yes, as one of their product types

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, as their own list — no price on them and nothing to check out

• Physical products

  Stan

  Not built in. Their help center suggests a custom product with address fields at checkout, with shipping and stock handled by hand

  Marktmorgen

  Not available

• Course quizzes and certificates

  Stan

  Not in their help center

  Marktmorgen

  Yes — up to 20 questions after any lesson, a pass mark and a number of tries, and a certificate with a page of its own that anyone can open to check it. The certificate is printed or saved as a PDF from the browser

Checkout and money

• Cut of each sale

  Stan

  0%

  Marktmorgen

  0%

• Whose Stripe account

  Stan

  One managed by the platform

  Marktmorgen

  Yours

• Getting paid

  Stan

  Manual cash-out, $10 minimum

  Marktmorgen

  Your Stripe payout schedule

• PayPal

  Stan

  Yes, for every creator

  Marktmorgen

  No. Stripe does not support PayPal for the direct charges every sale here is made with — Stan is ahead here

• Klarna and Afterpay

  Stan

  Yes, on the $99 plan

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $29 plan, with Affirm, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link, iDEAL, Bancontact and more: the ways to pay you switch on in your own Stripe account, where Stripe offers them

• Currency

  Stan

  One per store, chosen from ten

  Marktmorgen

  Any one of 15 per store: US, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong dollars, euros, pounds, Swiss francs, Swedish kronor, Norwegian and Danish kroner, Polish zloty, yen and Mexican pesos

• Private podcast

  Stan

  Not in their help center: a URL product can link to a podcast elsewhere (searched September 30, 2026)

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $29 plan: sold once or as a membership, with a private feed for each buyer in their own podcast app, emptied when a refund or the membership ends it

• A sale across the store

  Stan

  Discount codes that can expire, on the $99 plan, which buyers have to know and type (article 43, read September 30, 2026). No price crossed out on the store

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $29 plan: a percentage off from a start to an end you pick, shown with the old price crossed out and when it ends, taken off at checkout with no code, and stopped by itself at the end

• Discount codes

  Stan

  Yes, on the $99 plan, a percentage off only

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $29 plan, a percentage or an amount off — kept on your own Stripe account

• Pay what you want

  Stan

  Not in their help center

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $29 plan: a minimum of at least $1 and a suggested price. Not with memberships, price options, payment plans, the box at checkout, calls or discount codes

• Questions at checkout

  Stan

  Yes — including phone number and checkbox

  Marktmorgen

  Up to three: a short answer, a number or a list to choose from. No phone-number or checkbox question

• Order bumps and upsells

  Stan

  Yes, on the $99 plan

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $29 plan: a box the buyer checks at checkout, and one click after paying, charged to the same card

• Limited quantity

  Stan

  Yes, on the $99 plan

  Marktmorgen

  Yes — the count shown is the real one, and a unit someone is paying for is held so the last one is never sold twice

• Payment plans

  Stan

  Yes, on the $99 plan

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $29 plan: 2 to 12 weekly or monthly payments, ending by themselves after the last

• Sales tax collection

  Stan

  Yes

  Marktmorgen

  Yes — Stripe Tax on your own account, once your Stripe tax setup is done

• Logging in

  Stan

  An account with a password, by their own signup page

  Marktmorgen

  A link sent to your email that works once, for 15 minutes, or a passkey if you add one, and no password kept here. Log out of all devices in one click

• What a full refund closes

  Stan

  Not something we can check from outside

  Marktmorgen

  On Marktmorgen: the download at once, the course within 10 minutes, the community within 5, and the license key revoked within about 5. On a payment plan, a full refund of its first payment does the same

Marketing

• Email broadcasts and flows

  Stan

  Yes, on the $99 plan only

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $99 Pro plan: one-off emails, emails scheduled for later and sequences that send themselves, up to 50,000 a month, only to people who agreed

• Abandoned-checkout email

  Stan

  Yes — a flow with an abandoned-cart trigger, on the $99 plan

  Marktmorgen

  One reminder per checkout, on the $29 plan, only to buyers who agreed on Stripe's page. Off until you switch it on, and only for a Stripe account in the United States. Not for calls or live sessions

• Instagram auto-DM

  Stan

  Yes, on the $29 plan

  Marktmorgen

  Not available

• Funnels up to 20 pages

  Stan

  Yes, on the $99 plan, since June 2026 — landing pages, checkout and upsells

  Marktmorgen

  Mostly, on the $29 plan, as steps you connect: a landing page that gives something free for an email and shows a paid product next, a sales page, a box at checkout, and up to five one-click offers after paying with a path for yes and for no. No builder that chains pages together, and no thank-you page of your own

• Email platforms

  Stan

  Mailchimp and other email tools through Zapier

  Marktmorgen

  Mailchimp, Kit, beehiiv and MailerLite built in, on the $29 plan, one per store, passing on only people who agreed

• Affiliates paid automatically

  Stan

  Yes, on the $99 plan, out of your sale, which Stan holds for 7 business days first (article 340, read September 30, 2026)

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $29 plan, from your own PayPal: everyone owed in one press, or by itself on your payday. Your sale lands in full in your Stripe account at once and is never held. Needs a PayPal Business account with Payouts switched on; PayPal charges you its own fee on each payment

• A share for one affiliate

  Stan

  Yes, on the $99 plan: edit an affiliate's commission (article 378, read September 30, 2026)

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $29 plan: 1% to 90% for one affiliate, on every product except those you set to 0%

• Where affiliates are paid

  Stan

  Affiliates connect their own Stripe or PayPal, and need a Stan account (article 402, read September 30, 2026)

  Marktmorgen

  Affiliates need no account anywhere: each chooses on their own page the PayPal address you pay them at, and the address they joined with is told of every change. Or pay by Wise or bank transfer from the file

• Buyers become affiliates

  Stan

  Yes, on the $99 plan: every customer becomes an affiliate automatically, through Affiliate Share

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $29 plan, when you switch it on: everyone who buys is offered their own link on the thanks page and in the purchase email, approved at once. Paid from your own PayPal, in one press or on your payday

• Inviting other creators

  Stan

  20% of each payment they make, in cash through Stripe or PayPal, for as long as they stay subscribed, 3 to 5 days after each renewal once their 14-day trial ends, and only while you pay Stan too. No bonus for the creator you invite in their help center

  Marktmorgen

  50% of each payment they make, for as long as they pay, as credit on your own plan — not cash — added 21 days after each payment. The creator you invite gets $29 of credit after their first payment

• Waitlist before launch

  Stan

  Not in their help center: its “Product coming soon!” notice only means no way to pay is connected yet (article 367), read September 30, 2026

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $29 plan: a product marked coming soon takes addresses confirmed from the inbox, and the day you put it on sale each gets one email with its link and price

• Advertising pixels

  Stan

  Yes, on the $99 plan

  Marktmorgen

  Yes — Meta, Google, TikTok and Pinterest, on the $29 plan, with each purchase and its amount. Visitors are asked first where the law says so

• Recurring revenue and churn

  Stan

  Not in their help center, read September 30, 2026

  Marktmorgen

  Yes, on the $29 plan: monthly recurring revenue, paying members and trials, churn over 30 days and the share of trials that became paying, overall and by membership, read from your own Stripe account

• Visits, sources and conversion

  Stan

  Yes

  Marktmorgen

  Yes — 7, 30 and 90 days and all time, with UTM tags, counted without cookies, sales read from your own Stripe account, and CSV files of sales, visits and sources

• Public API and webhooks

  Stan

  None published

  Marktmorgen

  Both, on the $29 plan. Webhooks: up to five addresses, seven events, signed, for Zapier's Catch Hook, Make or your own server. An API that reads your list, members, a course's students, your affiliates and your bookings, with up to five keys; it changes nothing

• Importing your list

  Stan

  A CSV, up to 5,000 imported contacts per store in all, each sent an email to opt in again

  Marktmorgen

  A CSV, up to 50,000 rows a file on a list of up to 100,000, only people you confirm agreed, never anyone who unsubscribed here. Nobody is emailed because of it

• Importing products

  Stan

  Not in their help center

  Marktmorgen

  A CSV, up to 500 a file, as drafts: title, price, description and link. Files, pictures and lessons are added afterward

• Past buyers from another platform

  Stan

  Access granted one customer at a time, to downloads, courses and the community, with no bulk undo

  Marktmorgen

  A CSV, up to 20,000 a file: files, links, courses, bundles and the community, and one email to them if you choose. Not memberships or calls, and no undo in one step