CartMango

What the product is

CartMango is a checkout for digital product sellers: solo creators, with 1 to 10 teammates, who want to collect payments for templates, guides, preset packs and similar files without handing a percentage to a platform. It is not a website builder, and the company says so plainly. The product is free during its beta, and the company says paid plans start in November 2026 at $10 to $30 per year. It comes from a team that has been building creator software since 2011, and its previous checkout, Zaxaa, is credited on the site with $179M+ in creator sales.

What you build and how

CartMango is built around one job, the checkout. You sign up, add a product and start selling, and the site's pitch is that you can be live in about 1 minute with no credit card. A first product takes about 5 minutes to create, and if you still need to connect Stripe, the site says you can usually accept payments the same day. Payouts go directly to your Stripe or PayPal account.

The selling tools live inside that checkout. Order bumps, upsells and downsells are built in, along with abandoned cart recovery, and the site frames all 4 as ways to get more people to buy and each buyer to spend more. Pricing options include pay what you want, and the site says that option is on all 3 CartMango plans, so the same checkout can take a $3 tip and a $39 product with no platform fee on either. Recurring payments are supported too, which matters for the one promise the company repeats most.

That promise is the "no subscription hostage" idea. The home page explains that some cart platforms cancel every subscription your customers created through them when you move away, and gives the example of 100 subscribers paying $100 a month, a $10,000 monthly loss. CartMango's answer is that recurring payments keep coming to you if you leave. The company also offers free migration from your current platform. Asked how fast, the FAQ says most setups take 5-7 business days and complex ones take longer.

Fees are described directly. You still pay Stripe or PayPal fees, paid straight to them, and the company says it adds nothing on top. The company describes itself as "a small, profitable team" with no VC funding and no investors demanding 10x returns, which is how it answers the question of how it can charge so little.

Because CartMango is a checkout and not a storefront, the pages are candid about what is outside it. The company says CartMango will not grow your audience, with no fan feed and no discovery, and that it is about boosting sales rather than moonlighting as a website builder, logo designer, AI generator or barista. On its SendOwl comparison page it lists where it falls short: native connections are limited, and Make.com, which the page says connects 3,000+ apps, covers the gap. There is no built-in LMS yet, and affiliate management is not live yet.

Support runs through a contact button on every CartMango page, and the FAQ promises clear answers on first contact rather than the runaround. Cancellation has no contracts and no cancellation fees.

One housekeeping rule is worth knowing before you build on it. A comparison page lays out an inactivity policy for pages: reminder emails start after 12 months without a login and repeat weekly for 6 months. At 18 consecutive months the page is unpublished, and your remaining balance is either paid out to your connected method or refunded to your supporters. Logging in at any point resets the clock.

Evidence from the pages

Price: the home page says "Free during beta. $10/year after." and that "Paid plans start in November 2026." It adds: "After beta, plans start at $10/year. Our most feature-packed plan is $30/year. Not per month. Per year." The site calls that the launch price and says it will go up over time, with limited spots at that price and beta users getting first dibs. The comparison page for SendOwl puts it as "zero monthly fees, 0% commission" with every feature included and free until October 2026. The site publishes no plan names and no feature table by plan, so what separates the $10 plan from the $30 plan is not stated.

Track record: the site says "$179M+ in creator sales from our previous checkout, Zaxaa", "15 years building creator tools" and "10,000+ customers across our products". Its timeline starts in 2011 with Profits Theme, a WordPress plugin for building landing pages, then Zaxaa Cart from 2013 onward. Those figures describe the company's earlier products, not CartMango itself, which is in beta.

Payments: "You still pay Stripe / PayPal fees (directly to them, we don't add anything on top)." The page headline promises "Direct Stripe / PayPal payouts" and "Free migration".

Selling features: "Order bumps, upsells & downsells, abandoned cart recovery, all built in." Pay what you want pricing "is on all 3 CartMango plans".

Support: contact through the button on any page, and migration of most setups in 5-7 business days.

Who it suits and who it does not

CartMango suits a solo digital creator who already has an audience and wants a lean checkout with order bumps and upsells, a flat price of $10 to $30 a year once beta ends, and no revenue share. It also fits sellers who run recurring payments and have been burned by platform lock-in, since the migration offer and the keep-your-subscriptions promise are the core of the pitch. A seller moving from another cart gets a free migration, usually done within a week or so.

It does not suit someone who needs the platform to bring buyers, because the company says it will not grow your audience. It is also a poor fit for anyone who needs a storefront, a blog, a built-in course platform or affiliate management today, since the pages say the LMS and affiliate management are not available yet. Teams that need many native integrations should note that connections are limited and that Make.com is the suggested bridge. The company itself says that if you need deep customization or a massive app marketplace, CartMango is not for you. Finally, the beta pricing is a launch price that the company says will rise, so the $10 to $30 a year figure should be treated as the entry point and not a permanent rate.