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Farmigo gives you a number you can model before any call: 2% of delivery revenue, $150 monthly minimum, nothing in the off-season. CSAware gives you depth instead, including online EBT and SNAP, and r

Past roughly eight orders a month, Big Cartel is cheaper than Etsy by $684 a year on the same sales. The fee math is not close. The traffic math is, and it is the one that should actually decide it. H

Both are free today and the two offers are not the same kind of thing. One is a permanent free tier with pre-orders included; the other is a launch period ending on a published date. Here is what each

Google Forms does a third of the job for free. Cheddar Up does the whole job for a group collection, with a 95-cent-per-transaction floor that is invisible on a $200 registration and painful on a $12

These two hide different things. Barn2Door publishes all three tiers and its processing rate, then charges a one-time setup fee. GrazeCart publishes one number and no rate at all. Here is the first-ye

Bakesy's $9.99 subscription looks like the budget option until you count the 3.9% processing. On card payments, Cottage CMS's free tier is $300 a year cheaper and even its $200 Pro tier comes in ahead

Bakesy's subscription is $29 a year cheaper. Its processing is a full point higher, which is $180 a year on $18,000 in sales. Here is exactly where the comparison flips, whether routing payments aroun

If Cottage CMS's free tier covers you, nothing beats free. The moment you need delivery or your own domain, the comparison inverts and Bake.Shop is $51 a year cheaper with inventory tracking included.

Bakebug is free through the end of 2026 and then becomes the cheapest published price in the category. Bake.Shop is $149 a year with inventory tracking and a stated processing rate. Here is the full m