TinyShops

The Gumroad alternativethat lives in Telegram.

Tiny Shops is a true Mini App storefront inside Telegram, not a bot that lists product commands. Sell to the audience you already have in your channel and pay 0% platform fees: pricing scales with your contact list, never with your sales.

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  • 0% platform fees
  • Telegram Stars, no card form
  • Free until 100 contacts
A Tiny Shops storefront selling digital prints for Telegram Stars, open as a Mini App inside Telegram

Why sell in Telegram instead of on a Gumroad page

Gumroad gives you a product page on the web and keeps a share of every sale. A Telegram shop opens where your buyers already read you, and the platform fee is zero.

Your audience is already here

If your readers, subscribers or community live in a Telegram channel, a Gumroad link sends them out of the app to a checkout they have to trust. A Tiny Shops store opens inside Telegram, on your own bot, one tap from the channel post.

Stars: no card form, no KYC for the buyer

Telegram Stars are the in-app currency buyers already top up inside Telegram. Paying with Stars is a confirmation tap: no card number, no billing address, no account to create. Cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay are there too when you want them.

No per-sale commission

Gumroad charges 10% plus $0.50 per sale through your own links, and 30% when the buyer comes through its Discover marketplace. Tiny Shops charges 0% platform fees on every sale; you pay only your payment processor. Plans are priced by contacts, and a store is free until it reaches 100 contacts.

Growth tools are included

Cashback, referral links, promo codes, broadcast campaigns and win-back automations ship with every Tiny Shops store, not as add-ons. Buyers earn on one order and spend on the next, and a referral link rewards both sides.

Who Tiny Shops is for, and who it is not for

An honest fit check. Tiny Shops replaces the Gumroad checkout for sellers whose buyers are in Telegram. It does not replace Gumroad’s file hosting.

Tiny Shops is a fit if

  • You run a Telegram channel, group or bot and want to sell to that audience without sending them to an external page.
  • You sell digital work such as prints, presets, templates, guides or access, and you deliver it in the chat after payment.
  • You also sell physical goods and want one storefront for both, with cards, wallets, Stars, crypto or cash on delivery.
  • You would rather pay a flat monthly price keyed to your contact count than 10% of every sale.

Look elsewhere if

  • You need the platform to host your files and deliver a download link or license key automatically after payment. Tiny Shops does not host files; you send the file or access in the Telegram chat once the order is paid.
  • Your buyers are not on Telegram and you need a public web page anyone can pay on from a browser.
  • You want a marketplace to discover you. Tiny Shops brings no traffic of its own; Gumroad Discover does, at 30% of the sale.

Tiny Shops vs Gumroad, line by line

We only print competitor numbers we read on their pricing page, with the date. Where we did not verify something, the cell says so rather than guessing.

Competitor prices were read from gumroad.com/pricing on 2026-09-09. Tiny Shops prices are from tiny-shops.com/pricing on the same date. A cell marked “not checked” is one we did not verify and do not claim.
CriterionTiny ShopsGumroadSource
Platform fee on each sale0%. No commission and no transaction fee; you pay only your payment processor.10% + $0.50 per sale through your own links. 30% per sale when the buyer comes through Gumroad Discover.gumroad.com/pricing, read 2026-09-09.
Pricing modelSubscription keyed to contacts: free until 100 contacts, then Starter $9.99/mo, Pro from $29/mo, Scale from $79/mo. Unlimited products on every plan.A share of each sale: 10% + $0.50 through your links, 30% through Discover.tiny-shops.com/pricing and gumroad.com/pricing, 2026-09-09.
Marketplace trafficNone. Your Telegram audience is the traffic; the store opens from your channel, bio, posts and DMs.The Discover marketplace can bring buyers, at 30% of each sale it brings.gumroad.com/pricing, read 2026-09-09.
Where the buyer paysInside Telegram, in a Mini App on your own bot. Nothing to install, no account to create.On a Gumroad-hosted product page in the browser.How each product works; not a price claim.
Payment methodsTelegram Stars; cards and wallets via Stripe, Razorpay and Midtrans (GoPay, QRIS); Apple Pay and Google Pay through Telegram’s native checkout; TON, USDC and other crypto; bank transfer, invoice or cash on delivery. 100+ currencies.Not checked for this page.We list only what we verified on 2026-09-09; see gumroad.com for its current methods.
Digital file deliveryYou deliver in the chat after payment. Tiny Shops does not host files or generate download links.Hosted files delivered by Gumroad after purchase.Gumroad’s core feature. Stated here so nobody buys Tiny Shops for it.

How to move from Gumroad to Telegram in three steps

Keep your Gumroad page live while you set up. Nothing here touches it, and your buyers can keep paying wherever they are.

  1. Create the store on your bot

    Open Tiny Shops in Telegram and authorize. Paste a token from @BotFather or let Tiny Shops manage a bot for you. Pick the Telegram Stars template for digital goods, or the Stripe template if you also ship parcels.

  2. Bring your products over

    Paste your product list, drop a spreadsheet or forward photos and confirm what Tiny Shops reads back, or keep the catalog in Google Sheets and let it sync. Products are unlimited on every plan.

  3. Post the link where your buyers are

    Pin the shop to your channel, put it in your bio and drop it into posts. When an order is paid you get an alert in Telegram and deliver the file or access in the chat. Turn on cashback and referral links so the first buyers bring the next ones.

What a Tiny Shops store costs next to Gumroad

Pricing is keyed to the number of contacts in your shop, never to your sales. Products are unlimited on every plan, there are no transaction fees and no commission, and annual billing is about 20% cheaper per month. A seller doing $1,000 a month through Gumroad links pays about $100 plus $0.50 per order in fees; on Tiny Shops the platform fee on those sales is $0.

Starter

Free
then $9.99/mo after 100 contacts
  • Includes 1,000 contacts
  • +$5 per extra 1,000
  • 1 store

Pro

Most popular
$29/mo
  • Includes 5,000 contacts
  • +$13 per extra 5,000
  • Up to 3 stores

Scale

$79/mo
  • Includes 25,000 contacts
  • +$8 per extra 5,000
  • Up to 10 stores

See the full pricing table

Gumroad alternative FAQ

Yes, for sellers whose audience is on Telegram. Tiny Shops turns a Telegram bot into a Mini App storefront where buyers browse, pay with Telegram Stars or a card and stay in the chat. It charges 0% platform fees. Gumroad charges 10% plus $0.50 per sale through your own links and 30% per sale through its Discover marketplace (gumroad.com/pricing, 2026-09-09).

If Gumroad is not the tool you are leaving, one of these is closer.

Tiny Shops vs Shopify for Telegram sellersIf your comparison is with a web store rather than a creator page: subscriptions, card rates and the 2% third-party-provider fee, side by side.
Telegram shop builderThe full tour of what a Tiny Shops store does: storefront, payments, catalog, loyalty, campaigns and the dashboard behind them.
Stripe for parcels, Stars for digitalWhich payment rail to use for physical versus digital goods in a Telegram Mini App shop, and why mixing them matters on iPhone.
Pay-per-view in the Telegram chatOne photo or one video, locked until the buyer pays Stars in the thread. Not a download page and not a Mini App catalog.

Sell to your Telegram audience without the 10%.

Your shop stays free until it reaches 100 contacts, and Tiny Shops takes nothing per sale after that either.