Beacons gives you tools. Tapmy gives you a store.
Beacons is a good toolbox for creators who pitch brands and send email. Tapmy is the better pick when the sale comes first: one store, one checkout and one customer list.
Tapmy Free carries a 0% Tapmy fee, against Beacons' 9% on its Free plan. Pro is 3% and Max 1%, plus Stripe processing. Beacons takes a 9% seller fee on Free and Creator ($10/mo) and only drops it at Creator Plus ($30/mo). Tapmy Pro is $29/mo. Pick Tapmy if you sell to your audience and want the store, not a media kit, to be the centre of the page.
More than one course
Beacons allows one course on Free and Creator. Tapmy puts Courses and Webinars in the same store as downloads and calls.
A store people land on
Your link opens a public store built around One-Step Checkout. Beacons gives you a Store Block to place on a page of other tools.
What changes when selling is the point of your page.
Beacons puts a store block next to a media kit, email sends and brand outreach. That works until selling is most of what you do. Tapmy turns the whole page around the sale: your link opens a store, and the Community, Courses, calls and downloads you add all use the same checkout and customer list.
What holds you back on Beacons
- Memberships and unlimited video courses are locked until Creator Plus.
- Recurring products that act like a Community depend on your plan.
- The store is one block among a media kit, email tools and brand outreach.
- Free and Creator allow one course.
| Feature |  |  Beacons |
|---|---|---|
| Memberships and paid Community | Yes | No |
| Courses next to every offer | Yes | No |
| Creator Store, a public storefront | Yes | No |
What the Beacons page does not give you.
The store is the page
Visitors land on offers, not a stack of utilities. Each product, call, Course and Webinar has its own page and the same checkout.
Memberships and Community in the store
A paid Community sits beside your downloads instead of waiting for a higher plan.
A ladder you can extend
Start with a free download. Add a template, then a paid Service, then a Course. Nothing gets rebuilt when you add the next rung.
One customer record
Whatever a buyer picks, the order lands in the same customer list with analytics attached.
Pick Tapmy over Beacons if this is you.
| Feature | | Beacons |
|---|---|---|
| Selling to fans matters more to you than sponsorships. | Yes | No |
| You want memberships or a paid Community without moving to a higher plan. | Yes | No |
| You sell more than one course, or pair Courses with Webinars. | Yes | No |
| You want the store, not a block in a toolkit, to be what visitors see first. | Yes | No |
Using Beacons today? Keep it for sponsors.
Nothing forces a full switch. Keep your Beacons page running while the first Tapmy offer goes live, then point your bio link at the store.
If brand deals still earn, leave the media kit on Beacons and use Tapmy for what fans buy. Other bio tools are covered in Tapmy vs Linktree.
Tapmy vs Beacons. Capability by capability.
Beacons and Tapmy compared feature by feature, checked against Beacons' pricing page and help center on October 16, 2026.
| Feature | | Beacons |
|---|---|---|
| Memberships | Built into your store | From Creator Plus |
| Sell a paid Community | Native Community beside your products | Recurring products, plan-dependent |
| Courses | Courses next to every other offer | 1 course on Free and Creator; unlimited with video on Creator Plus |
| Store as the centre of the page | Public Creator Store behind your bio link | Store Block beside a media kit, email tools and brand outreach |
| Price | Only $29/mo | $10/mo |
Tapmy vs Beacons pricing.
At $2,000 a month in sales, Tapmy Free costs $70 including card processing. Beacons Free costs $250. Beacons Creator costs $260. Beacons Creator Plus costs $100.
| Feature | | Free | Creator | Creator Plus | Creator Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price per month | $0 | $0 | $10 | $30 | $100 |
| Price per year | $0 | Monthly only | $100 | $300 | $900 |
| Platform fee on sales | 0% | 9% | 9% | 0% | 0% |
| Billing notes | Cancel anytime | — | — | — | Beacons' help center lists $90/mo |
What you pay each month
| Feature | | Free | Creator | Creator Plus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $500 | $17.50 | $62.50 | $72.50 | $47.50 |
| $2,000 | $70 | $250 | $260 | $100 |
| $10,000 | $350 | $1,250 | $1,260 | $380 |
Subscription, platform fees and card processing, assuming $50 orders. Where a platform charges processing separately (Tapmy included), it is counted at Stripe's US rate of 2.9% + $0.30. Stripe (2.9% + $0.30) or PayPal processing applies on every Beacons plan.
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Moving your Beacons page, step by step.
Export your audience.
Download customer and subscriber records from Beacons Audience Manager as CSV, with consent status kept.
List everything on the page.
Write down links, products, appointments, files, prices, coupons and reviews, including hidden or seasonal links.
Rebuild your best offer first.
Recreate the offer that already gets clicks, with its price, file and delivery. Follow Move from Beacons to Tapmy and Add a digital product.
Connect Stripe.
Set up payouts before testing. Connect Stripe and get paid covers it.
Test before you send traffic.
Buy your own offer on a phone and check payment, delivery, booking and the confirmation email. See Test before switching traffic.
Switch the link.
Point your bio link at Tapmy once a real purchase works, then update QR codes, email signatures and media kits. Set up your link in bio shows how.
There is no automated Beacons import. Contacts arrive without their purchases or access, and Beacons analytics, email tools and media-kit features do not move. Keep Beacons for sponsor work until you have a replacement.