Circle hosts the community. Tapmy sells around it.
Circle is a community platform, and a good one. Tapmy is the storefront, checkout and customer system with a Community built in, so a single link can sell everything you make.
Pick Tapmy if you want your Community to sit inside a business instead of holding the whole business up. One link in your bio opens a public store with Digital Products, paid calls, Courses, Webinars and your Community, and One-Step Checkout takes the payment. Circle is the specialist for deep community spaces, events and a branded member app. On cost, Circle has no free plan: Professional is $89/month billed yearly (about $99 billed monthly) plus a 2% transaction fee. Tapmy takes no fee on Free, 3% on Pro and 1% on Max, with Stripe card processing on top.
More to sell than access
Digital Products, eBooks, Notion Templates, Services, Courses and Webinars share one catalog, with checkout and delivery built in.
Bookings and customer records built in
Schedule Link handles 1:1 calls, and lead capture and CRM come with the store. On Circle, calls run as events and email tools start as the Email Hub add-on below Circle Plus.
What you gain when Circle is not the whole business.
Circle is a great place to host a community. It is not a storefront. Tapmy starts with the store, so someone arriving from Instagram or TikTok lands on something they can buy, and the Community, Courses, calls and downloads all hang off the same link and the same checkout.
What holds you back on Circle
- Commerce lives behind community paywalls, not a public store.
- Email and lead tools start as the Email Hub add-on below Circle Plus.
- 1:1 calls run as events, not as a native scheduling flow.
- It is not positioned as a broad creator-store catalog.
Where Tapmy goes further.
One link, every offer
Downloads, calls, Courses, Webinars and your Community all open from the same bio link and share one checkout.
Every customer in one place
Each buyer lands in a single customer record with the order and analytics attached, whatever they bought.
A Community that sells
Community is an offer like any other, so it sits beside your products instead of being the door to all of them. Public offers stay easy to find and buy through One-Step Checkout.
Quick to set up
Connect your channels, connect Stripe, add your offers and publish. The store, checkout and analytics arrive as one setup instead of four tools.
Pick Tapmy over Circle if this is you.
| Feature |  |  |
|---|---|---|
| You want a public store behind your bio link, not offers sitting behind community paywalls. | Yes | No |
| You sell more than access: downloads, eBooks, Notion Templates, paid calls, Courses and Webinars. | Yes | No |
| You want one checkout and one customer record across every offer. | Yes | No |
| You want lead capture and customer records built in, with no email add-on to buy first. | Yes | No |
| You want to book 1:1 calls natively instead of running them as community events. | Yes | No |
Already on Circle? Move at your own pace.
There is no hard cutover. Leave your members on Circle as they are, and send new buyers through your Tapmy store and One-Step Checkout.
Then add what Circle does not sell from a public store: downloads and paid 1:1 calls beside your Community. Once your first Tapmy members are in, move the rest. If your community is group-first, compare Tapmy vs Skool.
Tapmy vs Circle. Capability by capability.
Tapmy against Circle, feature by feature, checked against Circle's own pages on October 16, 2026.
| Feature | | |
|---|---|---|
| Public store and link in bio | Link in Bio and Creator Store | Commerce sits inside the community and its paywalls |
| Digital Products, eBooks and Notion Templates | Native catalog, checkout and delivery | Not positioned as a broad creator-store catalog |
| Store set-up | Builds the store from a short description | Not a storefront builder |
| Capture leads and manage customers | Lead capture and CRM included, no add-on | Email Hub add-on |
| 1:1 booking | Native scheduling | Events only |
| Price | Only $29/mo | $99/mo |
Tapmy vs Circle pricing.
At $2,000 a month in sales, Tapmy Free costs $70 including card processing. Circle Professional costs $209. Circle Business costs $309. Circle has no free plan (14-day free trial).
| Feature | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price per month | $0 | $99 | $219 | $419 |
| Price per year | $0 | $1,068 | $2,388 | $5,028 |
| Platform fee on sales | 0% | 2% | 1% | 1% |
| Billing notes | Cancel anytime | $89/mo billed yearly | $199/mo billed yearly | Yearly price shown as $419/mo |
What you pay each month
| Feature | | | |
|---|---|---|---|
| $500 | $17.50 | $126.50 | $241.50 |
| $2,000 | $70 | $209 | $309 |
| $10,000 | $350 | $649 | $669 |
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 processing is charged on top of Circle's transaction fee.
Circle publishes yearly prices; the monthly-billed prices ($99, $219) come from an independent review that read them from Circle's pricing page code. Scale's monthly-billed price is not published, so the table uses its yearly monthly rate.
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Switch without disrupting your Community.
Move the revenue core first.
Rebuild the offers new customers should buy through Tapmy. Use Create a membership for recurring access.
Connect payments and customer data.
Test checkout, confirmation, access, delivery, cancellation and support before you share the link.
Run both systems briefly.
Send new traffic to Tapmy while existing Circle members keep uninterrupted access.
Move content and customers deliberately.
Export only what Circle supports, preserve consent and tell members about any change in access or billing.
Retire overlap after reconciliation.
Compare customers, payments, access and open support cases before you close a Circle workflow.
Recurring payments and member access need their own plan. Payment credentials do not move with a member export, and there is no verified one-click Circle migration.