# Gumroad

> Gumroad helps independent creators sell digital downloads, courses, software, and memberships through hosted storefronts and checkout links. It combines payment collection, content delivery, email tools, analytics, and merchant-of-record sales-tax handling, earning transaction fees instead of charging a monthly subscription.

- **Founded:** 2011
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Sahil Lavingia (Founder and chairman; former CEO)
- **Products:** Storefronts and checkout links, Digital delivery and software licensing, Memberships, Discover, Merchant-of-record service
- **Notable:** Launched in 2011., Reached the new $5 million Regulation Crowdfunding limit on Republic in under 12 hours in March 2021, according to Republic., Reported more than $500 million earned by 94,169+ creators by September 2021.

## Products & services

- **Storefronts and checkout links** — Hosted product pages, custom domains, and embeddable checkout for digital products.
- **Digital delivery and software licensing** — Hosted files, immediate buyer access, product versions, and license-key generation.
- **Memberships** — Recurring payments and subscriber content access; expanded membership product launched in November 2020.
- **Discover** — Marketplace discovery with a separate 30% transaction fee including processing.
- **Merchant-of-record service** — Sales-tax collection and remittance where Gumroad has obligations; does not eliminate sellers’ income-tax obligations.
- **Creator marketing and analytics** — Email broadcasts, workflows, affiliates, discounts, sales reporting, and customer exports.
- **Communities and churn dashboard** — Product group chat and membership retention metrics described in the March 2026 update.

## Achievements

- Launched in 2011.
- Reached the new $5 million Regulation Crowdfunding limit on Republic in under 12 hours in March 2021, according to Republic.
- Reported more than $500 million earned by 94,169+ creators by September 2021.
- Became merchant of record from January 1, 2025.
- Publishes the application source code on GitHub.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Ershad introduced himself as the new CEO, with Sahil remaining chairman; the update highlighted installments, verified reviews, discounts, communities, and churn reporting.
- **2026-03** — Design engineer Gianfranco Piana reported an AI-assisted test-repair experiment producing 13 merged pull requests after 206 commits and 94 CI runs.
- **2026-02** — Sahil publicly confirmed that he was no longer CEO and that Ershad had taken over after eight years at Gumroad.

## Links

- Website: https://gumroad.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gumroad/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/gumroad
- GitHub: https://github.com/antiwork/gumroad
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6o7H5wr2Cf4ibntYEs4Mcg
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gumroad/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gumroad

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Last updated: 2026-10-17