Coachli vs Gumroad

Gumroad sells digital products. Coachli sells digital products, books sessions and hosts live events — with African payment support.

Coachli platform compared to Gumroad showing digital products, sessions and live events

Feature comparison

See how Coachli and Gumroad stack up side by side.

FeatureCoachliGumroad
Digital product sales
1-on-1 session booking
Live class / event hosting
Stripe integration
Paystack / Flutterwave (Africa)
Automatic product delivery
Custom sales pages
Free to start (no monthly fees)
Coaching session bundles
Global tax compliance (MoR)

Why choose Coachli over Gumroad

Gumroad is an excellent platform for selling digital products. It handles payments, automatic delivery and even global tax compliance as a Merchant of Record. For creators who only sell digital downloads, Gumroad is a solid choice.

However, Gumroad does not offer session booking or live event hosting. If you're a coach or creator who offers services alongside digital products, you'd need to use separate tools for scheduling and events. Coachli brings everything together — digital product sales, 1-on-1 session booking, coaching bundles and live class hosting — in one platform.

For African creators, Gumroad presents a significant limitation: it does not support Paystack or Flutterwave. This means your local audience must pay with international cards or PayPal. Coachli integrates natively with Paystack and Flutterwave so your customers can pay in Naira, Cedis and other local currencies.

To be fair, Gumroad's Merchant of Record status is a genuine advantage — it handles global sales tax and VAT on your behalf, which Coachli does not currently offer. But for service-based creators who need booking, events and African payment support alongside digital product sales, Coachli is the more complete platform.

Sell digital products and more

Digital products, session booking and live events — all the tools creators need in one place.

PDF

Sell educational contents, guides, handbooks in pdf to your customers and generate more income

E-books

Monetize your expertise by selling e-books to your customers

Videos

Create and share video tutorials and courses to your community.

Audio

Sell your audio contents, live class recordings

Docx

Share and sell your knowledge inform of docx file

Images

Sell your digital assets, images, illustrations, arts etc.

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