We take 0% of what your members pay you.
On every plan, including the free one. Not as a launch offer, not until you cross a revenue threshold, and not only if you use our payment processor. This page says exactly what that covers, what it does not, and why we are able to mean it.
The commitment
Drry has never taken a percentage of a coach's revenue, and we are not planning to start. Our platform fee is 0% on every plan, on memberships, payment links, product sales and tickets alike, and we make our money from a flat monthly subscription instead.
Stated publicly on . If we ever proposed to change it, we would say so on this page and in writing to every coach on the platform, with notice, rather than by editing a footnote.
What 0% covers, and what it does not.
A promise with an unstated exception is worth less than no promise, so here is the whole of it, both halves.
We take 0% of
- Membership subscriptions
- Monthly or yearly, at one price or across membership levels. The charge is created on your own Stripe account, and no application fee is attached to it.
- Payment links and installments
- A one-time link or a fixed number of monthly installments, with the agreement signed before checkout opens. Same account, same 0%.
- Digital products
- Every file you sell from your bio-link store, on every plan including free.
- Event tickets
- Paid sessions and workshops settle to your account like everything else.
What you still pay, and to whom
- Stripe's own fees
- Whatever Stripe charges, Stripe charges you, not us: your connected account is set up so that Stripe's fees come out of your balance rather than ours, and Stripe publishes and sets that schedule rather than we do. Card processing is the main one, about 2.9% + 30 cents on a card in the US. None of it reaches us and we add nothing on top of it, but we are not going to pretend your sale is free of cost either.
- Your Drry plan
- A flat monthly subscription: $0 on Free, $29 on Creator, $99 on Growth. It does not move when your revenue does. That is the whole business model, and it is why 0% costs us nothing to promise.
- Live video beyond your plan
- If you run native video rooms past what your plan includes, and only if you switch overage on yourself, those minutes are billed as usage against a spend cap you set to the cent. It is a charge on video minutes, never a share of what your members pay you, and you can leave it off.
This is not restraint. It is the business model.
The money never touches us
Your members pay your own Stripe account directly. Drry is not in the flow of funds, does not hold a balance for you, and does not pay you out on a schedule. There is nothing for us to take a percentage of on the way past, which is a different thing from choosing not to.
Your growth costs us almost nothing
A community earning ten times more does not cost us ten times more to run. A platform whose price scales with your revenue is charging you for its own upside, not for its costs, and we would rather charge a flat price we can defend.
It is the one thing that cannot be copied cheaply
A platform that already takes a percentage cannot drop to 0% without cutting revenue on every customer it has today. That is why this is a position and not a promotion: it is expensive for them and free for us, and it always will be.
What the others charge, in their own words.
Quoted from each platform's own pricing, with the date we last checked it and a link to the source. Read the labels: a percentage on one of these rows is a platform cut, and on another it is ordinary card processing that you would pay anywhere, including here. We are not going to blur the two to make our own case.
Skool
July 2026- Hobby plan
- 10% + $0.30 per member payment
- Pro plan
- 2.9% + $0.30 up to $899, 3.9% + $0.30 above
- Our reading (August 2026, third-party pricing breakdowns): All-in: that rate already contains card processing, so Skool's own margin on Pro is close to nothing until a single payment passes $899, where about 1% returns. Hobby's 10% is all-in the same way, leaving roughly 7 points of Skool margin.
Kajabi
July 2026- With Kajabi Payments
- Marketed 0%, but subscriptions carry a 0.7% recurring-payment fee
- With an outside processor
- A platform fee applies, largest on the entry plan
Circle
July 2026- Professional
- 2% of member payments
- Business
- 1% of member payments
- Circle Plus
- 0.5% of member payments
- Add-ons
- Email Hub $99/mo, admin seats $10/mo, branded emails $40/mo, extra spaces $20/mo per 10
Mighty Networks
July 2026- Launch
- 2% of member payments
- Scale
- 1% of member payments
- Growth
- 0.5% of member payments
Patreon
July 2026- Platform fee (new creators)
- 10% of memberships and one-off purchases
- Legacy pages
- 5%, 8%, or 11% for pages published on or before August 4, 2025
- Payment processing
- Roughly 2.9% + $0.30
- Currency conversion
- 2.5%
- Apple in-app purchase
- 30%
Teachable
July 2026- Starter
- 7.5% of every paid sale
- Builder, Growth, Custom
- 0% platform fee
- Payment processing (all plans)
- 2.9% + $0.30 US cards, 3.9% + $0.30 international
Podia
July 2026- Mover
- 5% of every paid sale
- Shaker and Earthquaker
- 0% platform fee
- Payment processing (all plans)
- 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction
Whop
July 2026- Platform fee
- 3% on products using an access app (Discord, Telegram, TradingView)
- Card processing
- 2.7% + $0.30 domestic, +1.5% international
- Buy-now-pay-later
- 15% on Klarna, Afterpay, and similar
- Payouts
- Next-day ACH $2.50, instant bank 4% + $1.00, wire $23.00
ClickFunnels
July 2026- Platform fee on sales
- 0% platform fee
- Payments AI (their processor)
- 2.9% + $0.30, plus 0.5% billing and tax handling
Stan Store
July 2026- Platform fee
- 0% on both plans
- Payment processing
- Stripe 2.9% + $0.30, plus 0.5% on recurring payments
- Payouts
- 0.25% + $0.25 per payout, $1 minimum
- Klarna and Afterpay
- About 6% + $0.30
GoHighLevel
July 2026- Usage: SMS
- $0.00747 per segment, plus carrier surcharges on top
- Usage: email
- $0.675 per 1,000 sends
- Usage: phone calls
- $0.0166/min outbound, $1.15/mo per local number
- Usage: AI Employee
- $50/mo or $97/mo PER sub-account, on top of the plan
- Telecom pass-through
- A 5% markup on carrier fees
Thinkific
September 2026- Using Thinkific Payments
- will not incur a third-party payment gateway fee, at 2.9% to process the card
- Our reading (September 2026, our own reading of thinkific.com/pricing, which states the gateway-fee waiver rather than a 0% rate): This is the strongest fee story of any platform here and it is fair to call it 0%, as long as 0% is understood as THINKIFIC'S OWN MARGIN rather than 0% of the payment: the 2.9% is ordinary card processing, which every platform's processor charges. What it is conditional on is the row below.
- Using Stripe or PayPal instead
- an additional third-party payment gateway fee applies and it varies per plan type
- Our reading (September 2026, our own reading of thinkific.com/pricing, which states the fee varies by plan without naming the rates): The mirror image of the row above, and the one to read first if you want to keep your own payment account: bring your own and Thinkific charges a cut of its own on top of that account's processing, at a rate that falls as the plan gets dearer. Their pricing page states that the fee exists and varies without naming the rates; their help centre publishes the per-plan figures, so look there rather than guessing.
- The TCommerce default payment methods
- the transaction fees vary
- Our reading (September 2026, our own reading of thinkific.com/pricing, which states these fees vary without naming any of them): The quietest of the three, and it applies to methods that are ON by default rather than to something you opt into. Their pricing page offers Apple Pay and Google Pay as its examples here and names no rate for any of them, which is not the same as saying the wallets cost more: the per-method schedule lives in their help centre. So do not assume the single 2.9% above covers every method a buyer is offered at checkout, and do not assume it does not. Read the schedule before you model it.
Substack
September 2026- Paid subscriptions
- 10% of your subscription revenue
- Our reading (September 2026, our own reading of Substack's help center, which states Stripe's card and recurring-billing fees apply in addition): Substack's own cut, and not the whole cost: Stripe charges its card fee on top, plus a further fee on recurring billing, so what reaches you is meaningfully less than 90%. Read 10% as the floor, not the total. The cut also never stops, so it grows with you for as long as you stay.
Discord
September 2026- Server Subscriptions
- a Platform Fee, plus a Payment Processing Fee and a Transaction Fee as applicable
- Our reading (September 2026, Discord's Creator Revenue FAQ, which states the 90/10 split): Discord summarises this elsewhere as a 90/10 split in your favour, and 90% is the ceiling rather than the figure: the platform fee is the 10%, and the processing and transaction fees in the Terms come off on top of it. A subscription bought inside the iOS app pays Apple as well, which Discord handles by charging iOS members a higher price.
Gumroad
September 2026- Sold through your own link
- 10% + $0.50 per sale
- Our reading (September 2026, our own reading of gumroad.com/pricing; its detailed fee article is no longer publicly readable): Quoted from Gumroad's pricing page, and deliberately with no processing line beside it: the detailed fee article that used to say whether card processing sits inside or on top of this now requires a login, so we do not state it either way. Check it in your own account before you model a margin on it.
- Found through Gumroad Discover
- 30% per sale
Memberful
September 2026- Standard
- 4.9% transaction fee
- Our reading (September 2026, our own reading of memberful.com/pricing, which states the fee without addressing processing): Read the monthly price and this together rather than one at a time: both apply, so the bill rises with your revenue on top of the subscription. Memberful's pricing page does not say whether card processing sits inside the 4.9%, so we do not state it either way; payments run through a Stripe account you connect, so confirm it there.
beehiiv
September 2026- Paid subscriptions
- 0% Take Rate on Paid Subscriptions
- Our reading (September 2026, our own reading of beehiiv.com/pricing, where the 0% take rate sits under the paid tiers and the FAQ states monetization starts on a paid plan): The strongest fee story of any platform here, and the condition is which plan it is on: 0% is listed as a Scale and Max feature, not as a Launch one, and beehiiv's own FAQ says monetization unlocks on a paid plan. So the zero cut is bought with a subscription rather than available from a standing start, and what the subscription costs depends on how many subscribers you hold.
- Payment processing
- Stripe's standard processing fee of 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction
Squarespace
September 2026- Basic
- 7% transaction fee on digital products
- Our reading (September 2026, our own reading of squarespace.com's transaction-fee article, whose digital-products table is the one that covers memberships and courses): Squarespace files member areas, courses and memberships under digital products, so this is the rate that applies to what your members pay you. It is charged on top of the monthly subscription rather than instead of it, and on top of payment processing, so it is the platform's own cut rather than an all-in rate.
- Core
- 5% transaction fee on digital products
- Plus
- 1% transaction fee on digital products
- Advanced
- 0% transaction fee on digital products
- Our reading (September 2026, our own reading of the plan and fee tables on squarespace.com, read together): The zero is real and it is bought: Advanced is the only one of the four plans that reaches it, and it lists at $139 a month. Every cheaper plan takes a percentage of what your members pay you, so quoting Squarespace as a 0% platform without naming Advanced would describe the most expensive plan and charge the reader for the other three.
- No Digital Products plan
- 9%
- Online store, physical goods
- 2% on Basic, then 0% on Core, Plus and Advanced
Pricing changes, and some of these will have moved by the time you read this, so check the current terms before you commit to anyone, us included. The full comparison goes dimension by dimension, the head-to-heads below take two platforms at a time, and the calculator does the arithmetic on your own numbers, and the membership side shows what 0% looks like once the recurring payments are yours.
The fee questions.
Does the 0% fee apply on the free plan too?
Yes, and that is the point of saying it here rather than in a pricing footnote. There is no plan on Drry where we take a share of what your members pay you. A coach on the free plan keeps exactly the same 100% as a coach on Growth.
Is 0% an introductory rate?
No. It is not a promotion, a launch offer, or a rate that steps up at a revenue threshold. This page is our public statement of it, 31 August 2026, and if we ever proposed to change it we would say so here first and in writing to every coach, not in a pricing-page footnote.
So what do I actually pay?
Stripe's fees, and your Drry plan. Stripe bills you directly on its own published schedule, card processing being the main one at about 2.9% + 30 cents in the US, and none of it passes through us. Your Drry plan is $0, $29 a month, or $99 a month, and the only charge we add beyond it is live-video usage past what your plan includes, which is opt-in and capped by you to the cent. What no part of that includes is a share of your revenue going to us, on any plan.
Who holds the money?
You do. Payments run as direct charges on a Stripe account in your own name, so your customers, their subscriptions, and their payment methods belong to your business rather than to ours. If you left Drry tomorrow, that account and those subscribers would still be yours.
How much does a percentage actually cost?
Multiply it out over a year rather than reading it per payment, because that is how it lands. A cut of a few percent on a community earning a few thousand a month is a four-figure annual bill, and it grows exactly as you do, while a flat subscription does not. Our calculator does the arithmetic on your own numbers.
Start free. Pay only when you have grown.
No trial countdown, no card up front. The free tier carries you from your first member to a real, paying community.
Everything you need to open the doors and welcome your first members.
- 100 members
- Unlimited courses
- Unlimited guides: recipes, workouts, how-tos
- Unlimited audio streaming
- Community
- 1 funnel with view counts
- 1 capture form (waitlist, lead magnet, or contact)
- 5 GB storage
- Accept payments, 0% fee
- Bio link store: sell up to 10 digital products, 0% fee
- 1:1 and package payment links with signed agreements
- 700 marketing emails a month
- New-content emails to members, unmetered
- Automatic captions and transcripts, unmetered
Your own domain, your own brand, and at-risk member detection: see who is quietly drifting away before they go.
- Everything in Free, plus:
- The retention dashboard rivals lock behind their top tier, incl. at-risk members
- White label your site (no Drry branding)
- Custom domain
- 500 members
- 50 GB storage
- Unlimited funnels and forms with conversion analytics
- Unlimited digital products in your store
- 60,000 marketing emails a month
- Email automations (welcome, nurture, win-back)
- 90 days of analytics history
Room to scale: 2,500 members and ten times the storage, with AI moderation and team seats for the admins and editors who help you run it, so it never has to run by hand.
- Everything in Creator, plus:
- Membership tiers: sell up to 3 levels from one community
- 500,000 marketing emails a month
- White label your email (send from your own domain)
- Private podcast feeds
- 2,500 members
- 500 GB storage
- AI community moderation
- Team access
- Full analytics history
- Your own Meta, Google and TikTok ad tracking
We never take a cut of your member payments, you keep 100%. You only pay Stripe's standard card fee (about 2.9% + 30 cents), the same fee any business pays.
Custom Plans
Need more members, custom support, or help migrating off another platform? Tell us what you are running and we will put a plan together around it.
Keep all of it.
Open your community free, set your price, and every payment your members make lands in your own Stripe account with nothing taken out by us.