Does Payhip have order bumps?
·Founder, Stakk
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12 September 2026
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4 min read
Yes, in the sense that matters: Payhip shows an optional add-on in the cart before the buyer pays, and it joins the same transaction. It works on the free plan. Payhip does not have a post-purchase one-click upsell - its "upgrade discount" is a separate transaction after checkout, and the same offer also goes out in the email receipt. I checked both at Payhip's own help centre on 12 September 2026.
What does Payhip call its order bump?
Cross-selling. Payhip's cross-selling article describes it like this: add a trigger product to the cart, or click Buy Now, and "a notification will appear prompting them to add [the second product] to their cart with the incentive of a 25% discount for the second product."
It shows up in one of two places. The standard version sits at the bottom of the cart. There is also an optional prominent popup, with the promoted product's cover image, that fires when the buyer clicks Add to Cart and moves to checkout.
Payhip's cross-sell. It is not laid out as the classic order-bump checkbox, but the mechanics are identical: offered before payment, added to the existing cart, charged once.
Either way it is offered before payment and it is added to the existing cart, so it is charged once. Under a strict definition - an optional add-on on the checkout page, before payment, in the same transaction - Payhip qualifies. It is not a checkbox in the classic order-bump layout, but the mechanics are the same and so is the effect on the buyer.
Does Payhip have post-purchase one-click upsells?
No, and this is the question the internet currently answers badly. Several pages ranking for it say Payhip has one-click upsells. Payhip's own documentation says otherwise, and its own documentation wins.
The feature people are thinking of is the upgrade discount. Payhip draws the line itself, in the cross-selling article: "Cross sells offer the discount before the customer has purchased the product, while upgrade discounts offer it after checkout has been completed."
The upgrade discount article then describes a fresh purchase, not a one-click accept against a saved card: the buyer is prompted to buy the discounted product as a separate transaction, and "If customers don't want to redeem the upgrade discount then and there, their email receipt will also include this offer so that they can revisit it at a later date."
Payhip does not state anywhere that the card stays on file for a one-tap second purchase, so I am not claiming it does. Treat the upgrade discount as a post-sale offer that needs a new checkout.
Is any of it behind a paid plan?
No. Payhip's pricing article says the free plan "comes with all features, unlimited products, and unlimited revenue." Cross-sells and upgrade discounts both sit inside that.
So on the first half of the pair, Payhip matches almost everyone at zero cost. Gumroad is in the same position: a checkout add-on on a free plan, no post-purchase leg.
What does Payhip charge?
Three plans. Free at a 5% transaction fee, Plus at $29 a month which cuts that to 2%, and Pro at $99 a month with no Payhip fee at all. Stripe and PayPal charge their own processing on top of every one of those.
Which means the honest comparison is not "5% versus 10%" but 5% plus processing against whatever the alternative charges plus processing. On the free plan a typical card sale runs you Payhip's 5% plus roughly 2.9% + $0.30 to the processor.
One wording note, because comparison posts routinely get it wrong: Payhip never uses the phrase "merchant of record" anywhere in its own documentation. Where you see that claimed, it is someone's inference from how Payhip wires payments rather than something Payhip has said.
What are the alternatives if you need both?
If the post-purchase leg is what you are actually shopping for, Payhip is not it, and neither is most of this market. Of the 40-plus platforms I checked, nine ship both, and six of those charge a monthly subscription to reach the upsell. The full table is in the comparison post.
Two of the nine undercut us. Whop takes less per sale than we do. Systeme.io charges 0% on a free plan. If the take rate is the only number you care about, use them - I would rather tell you that than have you find out later.
What you get here instead is the checkout itself. The bump rides the same charge as the product, so a $29 product with a $19 bump is one transaction and one fee rather than two. The upsell afterwards is one tap against the card already on file, not a second checkout to talk somebody into. Both are on every account with nothing held back for a higher tier. And the layout and the order the offers appear in came out of funnels that actually ran for agency clients before Stakk existed, rather than a design exercise.
When is Stakk the wrong choice?
Selling a subscription or a membership - we have no recurring billing at all, so that is Whop, Podia or Patreon. Prices above $999, or any currency other than US dollars. Courses or call bookings, neither of which exist here. Or you want the platform to collect sales tax and absorb chargebacks for you, which Payhip does a fair bit of and we deliberately do not.
And if Payhip is already working and you only ever wanted the bump, you have it on the free plan. There is no reason to move.
Want a real one-click upsell?
Stakk runs the bump at checkout and a real post-purchase upsell against the saved card, so the second offer is one tap rather than a second checkout. No monthly fee, no plan gate. Your buyers pay into your own Stripe account and Stripe pays you out. 10% + $0.50 a sale, card processing included.