Does Buy Me a Coffee have order bumps?
·Founder, Stakk
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25 September 2026
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6 min read
No. Buy Me a Coffee has no order bump at checkout and no post-purchase upsell after it, and there is no higher plan to unlock either one on, because it runs a single free plan and nothing else. No funnels, no cart, no checkout builder. It is a support page with a shop and memberships attached, and the checkout is deliberately one screen long. Checked 13 September 2026.
This is a short answer to the question, so most of this page is the useful part instead: what Buy Me a Coffee actually gives you, the nearest thing to a bump you can build on it, what the 5% adds up to once the smaller lines are counted, and why a large number of people reading this should not move.
What is an order bump, and why does Buy Me a Coffee not have one?
An order bump is an optional add-on shown on the checkout page, before the buyer pays, charged in the same transaction. A post-purchase upsell is a second offer made after that payment clears, taken against the card already on file without the buyer entering it again. Buy Me a Coffee has neither, and its help centre has no article about either one.
The reason is in the design of the product. The whole promise is that supporting someone takes three taps and no account, and every extra screen in that flow is friction the company has spent years removing. A bump is an extra decision placed in the middle of a payment, which is exactly the thing the page is built to avoid.
What you get instead is a page with several ways to pay you on it: one-off support, monthly and yearly memberships, a shop for digital products, commissions and services, posts with supporter-only content, direct messages, and the ability to email a post out to your supporters. There are iOS and Android apps, localized pricing in more than fifteen currencies, and payouts in six.
What is the nearest workaround?
Two, and both trade timing for simplicity.
The first is the bundle. Rather than selling the $19 workbook and trying to attach the $29 video course at checkout, list three shop items: each on its own, and the pair at a price that makes the pair obvious. The buyer chooses on the product page instead of the checkout, which is earlier in the decision and therefore weaker, but the economics are identical and it takes ten minutes to set up.
The second is the follow-up. Buy Me a Coffee can email a post to your supporters, so a second offer can go out after a purchase. That is not a post-purchase upsell in the strict sense, because the buyer has to open an email and go through a fresh checkout, and each step loses people. It is still the closest thing available.
The workaround, drawn out. Three steps where a bump is zero and a post-purchase upsell is one, and the buyer has to come back for two of them.
What does Buy Me a Coffee charge?
One plan, no monthly charge, and a 5% platform fee per transaction. That is the headline in its own help centre and it is accurate, but it is not the whole number.
Four smaller lines sit around it, all published by the company: 0.5% payout processing, an extra 1% on international payments, an extra 0.5% on subscriptions, and Stripe's own 2.9% + $0.30 on top of everything. Buy Me a Coffee's help article on fees lists them. There is no pricing page on the main site to check them against, so the help centre is the source.
| Platform | Monthly | Platform cut | Order bump | Post-purchase upsell |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buy Me a Coffee | $0 | 5%, plus 0.5% payout processing | No | No |
| Ko-fi | $0, or $12 Gold | 5%, or 0% on Gold | No | No |
| Stakk | $0 | 10% + $0.50, processing included | Yes | Yes |
| Systeme.io | $0 | 0% | Yes | Yes |
| Whop | $0 | 2.7% + $0.30, processing included | Yes | Yes |
Read that table honestly and Buy Me a Coffee is cheap, and two of the three platforms with both surfaces are cheaper than Stakk as well. The side by side with Ko-fi is the more useful comparison if you are choosing between the two tip jars rather than leaving the category.
Who holds your money on Buy Me a Coffee?
Stripe does, on an account connected to you. The help centre says Buy Me a Coffee uses Stripe Standard Connect to handle some creator payouts, and the word "some" is theirs, so the arrangement is not identical for everybody.
Where it applies, a Stripe Standard account is the good version of this: it is an account you log into, that shows you your own charges, and that stays yours if you leave. It also means there is no platform balance sitting between the sale and your bank, which removes the payout minimum and the release schedule in one go. Which platforms give you a real Stripe account and which give you a payout pipe is the distinction that matters here, and it is not visible on any pricing page.
On tax, the company is direct: its help centre states that Buy Me a Coffee does not handle the collection and remittance of sales tax or VAT on behalf of creators. That is a statement about the platform's mechanics rather than advice, and what it means for you is a question for an accountant in your own country.
Which platforms do have both halves?
Nine of the 42 I checked, and six of the nine charge a monthly fee for the privilege. Podia and Stan Store both put the pair at $99 a month. Checkout Page gives you order bumps on its free plan and charges $99 for the one-click upsell. Kajabi does not gate the feature but its cheapest plan is $179.
Three have no monthly bill. Systeme.io ships bumps and one-click upsells on a permanently free plan and takes no transaction fee on any tier, with the free plan capped at one of each. Whop has no paid plan of any kind and takes 2.7% + $0.30. Stakk is the third, at a higher rate than either.
If the checkout half is all you want, it is cheaper again. Gumroad and Payhip both ship a checkout add-on on their free plans, and the Payhip version is worth a look before you pay anyone a monthly fee for this.
When is Stakk the wrong choice here?
When your income is support rather than sales. Buy Me a Coffee's one-off tips and recurring memberships are the product, and Stakk has none of that: no tips, no subscriptions or recurring billing, no communities, no email to supporters, US dollars only against its fifteen. If your page is mostly people buying you a coffee, adding a funnel is solving a problem you do not have, and you should stay where you are.
On price we are also beaten, and not only by Buy Me a Coffee's 5%. Systeme.io gives you both surfaces for nothing and Whop gives you both for 2.7% + $0.30. If the cheapest route to a bump is what you are after, it is one of those two and not us.
What is different about ours is the arrangement rather than the price. On Stakk the bump rides the same charge as the product, so it carries one fee rather than two. The upsell afterwards is one tap against the card already on file, which is the step the email workaround above cannot recreate. Both are on every account with nothing behind a tier, and that layout came out of funnels that ran for agency clients before Stakk existed.
Want a checkout that can carry a bump?
Stakk ships the order bump and the post-purchase upsell on every account, with no monthly fee and no tier to upgrade to. It is 10% + $0.50 a sale with card processing included, and the charge is created on your own Stripe account, so the money lands in your bank rather than in a platform balance. The upsell is a second charge and takes the fee again, which is the part worth knowing before you build a two-step offer on it.