Does Beacons have order bumps?
·Founder, Stakk
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26 September 2026
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6 min read
Yes. Beacons has an order bump on its checkout, documented in its own help centre. Two things qualify that yes. It sits on a paid tier, from Creator Plus at $30 a month upward, and I could not confirm the exact plan it starts on. And Beacons has no post-purchase one-click upsell, so the extra offer has to be taken before the buyer pays or not at all. Checked 13 September 2026.
That is the short version, and for most people it is the whole answer. The longer version matters if you are choosing between plans, because the plan that turns the bump on is also the plan that changes what Beacons takes from every sale. Those two things move together, which makes the decision cleaner than it first looks.
Which Beacons plan do you need for an order bump?
A paid one, and the evidence points at Creator Plus. Beacons publishes four plans on its own pricing help article: Free at $0, Creator at $10 a month or $100 a year, Creator Plus at $30 a month or $300 a year, and Creator Max at $90 a month or $900 a year.
Beacons' help doc on order bumps places the feature on the higher tiers. What it does not do is name the exact floor in a sentence I could quote, so I am not going to pick one for it. Budget for $30 a month, and confirm inside your own account before you build a launch around it. If a page tells you the $10 Creator plan includes bumps, ask it where that came from.
This is a normal shape for the category rather than a quirk of Beacons. The checkout add-on is one of the standard reasons a creator platform asks you to move up a tier, and the post-purchase offer is the one that is paywalled hardest of all.
Does Beacons have a post-purchase upsell?
No. There is a checkout add-on and nothing after it. Once the payment succeeds, Beacons has no surface that offers a second product against the card already on file.
That is a real limit, not a technicality. A bump and a post-purchase upsell do different jobs. The bump is a small, obviously related add-on that the buyer accepts while they are already committing. The upsell is the bigger thing you would not dare put on the checkout page, because asking for it there risks the sale you already had. With only the bump, every extra offer you want to make has to fit in the space before payment, or wait for an email.
Beacons is far from alone here. Gumroad has the same shape, a checkout add-on with an email workflow behind it, and Payhip does too. The post-purchase leg is the rarer half by a distance.
What is the difference between an order bump and a one-click upsell?
An order bump is an optional add-on offered on the checkout page before payment, charged in the same transaction. A post-purchase one-click upsell is an offer made after the first payment succeeds, bought without re-entering card details.
Three things get called upsells and are neither. A cross-sell on the product page is not a bump, because the buyer is not at the checkout yet. An email sent after the sale is not a one-click upsell, because the buyer has to start a fresh checkout. Neither is a "related products" strip.
An order bump in the strict sense. The add-on is optional, it is offered before the charge settles, and accepting it edits this order rather than starting a second payment. Beacons has this surface. It does not have the one that appears after the buyer pays.
The distinction is not academic once fees are involved. A bump rides the same charge as the product, so the sale carries one transaction fee. A second offer made after the fact is a second charge, and a second charge carries the fee again, wherever you sell.
What does Beacons take from a sale?
Nine percent on the two cheap plans, nothing on the two expensive ones. Beacons' own pricing help article lists a 9% transaction fee on Free and on Creator, and a 0% transaction fee on Creator Plus and Creator Max.
Card processing is separate from that and is charged by whoever you connect, because you plug in your own Stripe account and your own PayPal. So the plan cut and the processing cut are two different lines, and only the first one changes when you move up a tier.
Put the two facts together and the upgrade decision gets simple. The $30 plan is where the order bump appears and it is also where the 9% disappears. You are not paying $30 for a checkbox on the checkout page, you are paying it to drop the platform cut, and the bump comes along with it.
Who holds the money on a Beacons sale?
You do, as far as the payment rails go. Beacons has you connect your own Stripe account and your own PayPal account, so the money lands where you already have a login rather than in a platform balance waiting for a payout day.
One honest caveat on that. Beacons does not spell out the merchant-of-record question on the pages I checked, so who counts as the legal seller is an inference from how the payments are wired rather than something the vendor states. That difference decides who answers a chargeback and whose name appears on the buyer's statement, and it is worth understanding before you pick anything. The breakdown of who holds your money goes through it platform by platform.
Which platforms ship both a bump and a post-purchase upsell?
Twelve of the platforms I track are worth putting side by side on this. The monthly column is what you have to be paying before both surfaces are available to you.
| Platform | Order bump | Post-purchase upsell | Monthly floor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beacons | Yes | No | $30 Creator Plus for the bump |
| Checkout Page | Yes, free plan | Yes | $99 Scale for the upsell |
| Gumroad | Yes | No | $0 |
| Kajabi | Yes | Yes | $179 |
| Payhip | Yes | No | $0 |
| Podia | Yes | Yes | $99 Shaker |
| Sellfy | No, the offer sits outside the checkout | No | $79 for the upsell feature |
| Stakk | Yes | Yes | $0 |
| Stan Store | Yes | Yes | $99 Creator Pro |
| Systeme.io | Yes | Yes | $0 |
| Teachable | Yes | Yes | $39 floor, upsells higher |
| Whop | Yes | Yes | $0 |
The pattern in that table is the real story. The bump is common and getting more common. The post-purchase upsell is the feature the category has decided is worth a subscription, and three separate platforms have landed on exactly $99 a month for it.
When is Beacons the right choice and Stakk the wrong choice?
When the checkout is the smaller half of what you need. Beacons is a link-in-bio page, an email tool, a media kit and a store in one product, and if your page is already doing four jobs there, moving one checkout across to get one extra offer surface is the wrong choice. Stakk does not replace that page.
On price I lose this comparison twice over, so here it is plainly. Whop takes 2.7% + $0.30 with no monthly plan of any kind, and it ships both a bump and a post-purchase upsell. Systeme.io charges no transaction fee on any tier, free included, and it ships both as well. Stakk is 10% + $0.50 a sale. Both of those are cheaper than us, and if the cheapest possible route to both surfaces is the whole question, go and use them.
What I would say for the way Stakk builds it: the bump rides the same PaymentIntent as the product, so one sale carries one fee rather than two, the upsell afterwards is one tap against the card already on file rather than a second checkout, and both are on every account with nothing behind a higher tier. That layout came out of funnels that ran for agency clients before Stakk existed. It is not a claim about how it performs, because I do not have a comparison that would make that claim honest.
Want both surfaces without moving up a tier?
On Stakk the order bump and the post-purchase upsell are on every account from the first day, because there are no plans to move between. It is 10% + $0.50 a sale with card processing included, no monthly fee, and the money lands in your own Stripe account rather than a balance we hold. The upsell is a second charge and takes the fee again, which is true wherever you sell and is not free here either.