Linktree Alternative With Booking, Tickets and Payments
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If you want your bio link to take paid bookings, Linktree can do it from its Pro plan, and Stan does it on its entry plan for a flat monthly price. Beacons sells digital products from its free plan with a 9% fee, which drops to 0% on its $30 Creator Plus plan, where memberships also start. If you'd rather take bookings, sell tickets, run a store and sell memberships on a website of your own, with a links page as one page of it, that is what a CloserAccess site does.
CloserAccess wrote this post, and we're one of the options in it. Every price below comes from each company's own pricing or help pages, checked November 8, 2026.
| Option | Price to start | Cut of each sale | Your own domain |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linktree | Free; paid bookings need Pro, $14/mo billed annually or $17 monthly | 0% Linktree fee on Pro and Premium, plus card processing | No |
| Beacons | Free; Creator $10/mo | 9% on Free and Creator, 0% from Creator Plus ($30/mo) | From Creator |
| Stan | No free plan; Creator $29/mo or $300/yr | 0% Stan fee, plus card processing | Creator Max only ($299/mo) |
| CloserAccess | Free to start; fixed quote for a done-for-you build | Per-sale fee (rate not published); Square's own card rate | Yes on team-built sites; free sites use yourname.closeraccess.com |
What it costs to get paid from your bio link
Each of these charges you a monthly plan, a cut of each sale, or both. Card processing sits on top of all of them.
Linktree. The Linktree pricing page lists four plans in US dollars: Free, Starter at $7/mo billed annually or $9 monthly, Pro at $14 billed annually or $17 monthly, and Premium at $30 billed annually or $35 monthly. On Free and Starter, digital products, courses, bookings and bundles can only be offered free, so charging for a booking starts at Pro. On Pro and Premium, Linktree advertises 0% Linktree fees on those sales, with a footnote that transaction and processing fees may apply. Its fees help article puts Stripe processing at 2.9% + $0.30 per purchase on every plan.
Beacons. The Beacons pricing page has a free plan, Creator at $10/mo or $100/yr, Creator Plus at $30/mo or $300/yr, and Creator Max at $100/mo or $1,000/yr. Its fees help article says the seller fee is 9% on Free and Creator and 0% on Creator Plus and Creator Max. Processing comes on top: Stripe at 2.9% + $0.30, or PayPal at 3.49% plus a fixed fee.
Stan. Stan has no public pricing page, so these figures come from its help center and its own pricing blog. There's no free plan, just a 14-day free trial. Creator is $29/mo or $300/yr, and Creator Pro is $99/mo or $948/yr. Stan takes 0% of your sales. US Stripe processing is 2.9% + $0.30 per standard card payment, plus 0.25% + $0.25 per payout, with a $1 minimum.
CloserAccess. There are two ways in. You can build the site yourself for free: no monthly fee, no setup cost and no card to start. A platform fee applies only when a customer pays you, at a rate CloserAccess doesn't publish (ask before you start), and it shows as its own line on each transaction. The free site lives at yourname.closeraccess.com. Or you can have the CloserAccess team build it as a Starter Website, Premium Website or Digital Master, for a fixed price quoted before any work starts. Card payments run through your own Square account at Square's own rate, and we don't mark that up. The fees page walks through it.
Here is what that means on a $50 sale. Beacons' Creator plan keeps 9%, or $4.50, before processing. Linktree Pro and Stan take no platform cut, so you pay Stripe's 2.9% + $0.30, which is $1.75. We can't put a CloserAccess number in that sum, because we don't publish our fee rate.
Taking paid bookings from your bio link
Linktree lets you "take bookings for calls and sessions," with paid bookings on Pro and Premium. It also sells courses, which its pricing page describes as Kajabi-powered with no extra account needed.
Stan includes calendar and booking tools on the Creator plan, with a Coaching Call product that works with Google Calendar, Zoom or Meet. If one-to-one calls are your main product, Stan covers them on its entry plan.
CloserAccess treats bookings as part of the site. You list your services, each with its own page, and choose how each one is booked: a time slot on a calendar, or a request that you answer with a quote. You can take a deposit up front, including a deposit followed by a quote for the rest. Booked services can run as video calls, and a feature called Meeting Reports writes an AI recap from the call transcript. Because the links page lives on the same site, a fan who taps your bio link is already on the site that takes the booking.
More than bookings: tickets, a store and memberships
A link page is usually where the money starts. What matters is what sits behind it.
- Linktree sells digital products, courses and bookings directly. Physical products come through link apps that show stores powered by Shopify, Spring and Bonfire inside your page. Its pricing FAQ says paid communities are available in the US only.
- Beacons includes a website builder, unlimited digital products on every plan, and email: 50 sends a month on Free, 500 on Creator and unlimited from Creator Plus. Memberships start at Creator Plus. You get one course without video hosting on Free and Creator, and unlimited courses with video hosting on Plus and Max. For events, it offers a Live Event Embed through Bandsintown and Seated.
- Stan's Creator plan covers courses, digital downloads, coaching calls, memberships and a community, and Stan also offers webinars. Email broadcasts and email flows are on Creator Pro. Its help center says it doesn't currently offer a smooth way to sell physical products, with no shipping or inventory calculation. The workaround is a custom product that collects addresses.
- CloserAccess puts all of it on one site: services and booking, events with tickets you scan at the door from a phone with no extra hardware, an online store with variants and shipping or pickup, memberships with tiers, courses, tips, a blog, a photo gallery with members-only albums, and email campaigns and automations. The links page is one more page on that site.
If memberships matter more to you than bookings, our Patreon alternatives for creators post compares the membership side in more detail. If you sell tickets to your own shows, Eventbrite fees explained covers what the ticketing marketplaces charge.
There are honest limits on our side too. CloserAccess shipping rates are formula estimates, not live carrier rates, and there's no label printing. Sales tax is a single flat-rate estimate, not a tax engine. Checkout is in US dollars, through Square, and there's no PayPal.
Where your page lives, and whose customers they are
- Linktree doesn't support custom domains. Every page sits at linktr.ee/yourusername. Starter and up can redirect visitors to a link you pick, and "Data export" is listed on Premium.
- Beacons gives you a free custom domain from the Creator plan, and its plans help article says it's free for your first year. Its pricing page lists audience imports and exports.
- Stan stores live at stan.store/yourusername on Creator and Pro. A custom domain comes with Creator Max, a $299/mo plan that Stan's help center describes as new and not yet released to all creators. Payments go through a Stripe Custom account managed by Stan, and you can't connect a Stripe account you already have.
- CloserAccess sites start at yourname.closeraccess.com, and team-built sites come with your own domain. Payments settle to your own Square account on Square's payout schedule, and our fee comes off as a line you can see. Our pricing page answers "Do I own my site?" plainly: "Your domain stays yours. Your content stays yours."
Who builds it and who keeps it running
With CloserAccess you choose. On the free route you pick a template, set your colors and launch the same day. On the done-for-you route, the team builds it: Starter sites can launch in a few days, and Premium and Digital Master usually take one to three weeks. After launch you change pages, prices, posts and products from one dashboard.
One thing to know before you pick: there's no drag-and-drop page builder. You edit each page through form fields with a live preview, and bigger design changes are done by the team.
Getting found
A bio link only reaches people who already follow you. A website gives strangers more ways in: a page for each service, an About page and a blog, each one something a person can land on. Every done-for-you CloserAccess package also includes free promotion in the CloserAccess discovery directory.
The link-in-bio tools put their effort into Instagram instead. Linktree includes Instagram auto-replies on every plan, from 1,000 sends a month on Free to unlimited on Premium, plus social scheduling on Premium. Beacons includes Smart Reply Instagram auto-DMs and a media kit for brand deals on its free plan.
When Linktree, Beacons or Stan is the better choice
- Pick Linktree if your page mostly points to other places, like streaming services, YouTube or a shop you already run elsewhere. The free plan covers unlimited basic links and email and phone sign-ups, and it's a link-in-bio page your followers already recognize.
- Pick Stan if you sell coaching calls, courses and downloads, want one flat monthly price with no Stan cut, and don't sell physical goods.
- Pick Beacons if you want a $10/mo plan with email, a media kit for brand deals and Instagram auto-DMs, or if your buyers want to pay with PayPal, which CloserAccess doesn't offer.
- Skip CloserAccess for now if you need to charge in currencies other than US dollars, need real carrier shipping labels, or want a drag-and-drop editor.
If you're not sure you need more than a link page at all, read Linktree vs a real website first.
CloserAccess businesses that take bookings on their own site
- Rayi, a singer-songwriter from Trinidad and Tobago, keeps every release from both of the artist's names, along with videos and press, on Rayi's links page. Six services, from live performances to feature verses and virtual sets, are booked by request on Rayi's booking page, and the quote follows. Read Rayi's story.
- The Star Quality Project sells tarot and astrology readings at set prices, from a $22 recorded reading to an $88 live video call, plus a three-session package for $222, courses from free to $22, and membership plans, all on The Star Quality Project's own website. Read the Star Quality Project story.
- SPARKBOYMOKO, an Instagram Reels creator, calls his CloserAccess site his "first real home base." Brands can use it to request paid shoutouts, brand-deal collabs, his verdict commentary and co-branded merch. Read SPARKBOYMOKO's story.
To set up your own, you can start a free site today or ask for a quote on a team build.
Frequently asked questions
Can Linktree take paid bookings?
Yes, from the Pro plan, which costs $14/mo billed annually or $17 monthly. On Free and Starter, bookings, digital products and courses are free products only.
Does Stan have a free plan?
No. Stan offers a 14-day free trial, then the Creator plan at $29/mo or $300/yr.
Which link-in-bio tools let me use my own domain?
Beacons includes one from its $10/mo Creator plan, and Stan only on Creator Max at $299/mo. Linktree doesn't support custom domains. A team-built CloserAccess site comes with your own domain.
Does a CloserAccess site have a link-in-bio page?
Yes. A links page at /links sits on the same site as your bookings, tickets, store and memberships, so its address can go straight into your bio.
What does CloserAccess charge?
Building it yourself is free, with a platform fee only when a customer pays you, at a rate CloserAccess doesn't publish (ask before you start). A site built by the team is a fixed price quoted before work starts. Card processing is Square's own rate, through your own Square account.
Do I have to choose between Linktree and a website?
No. You can keep Linktree and point its featured link at your site's booking page, or swap your bio link for your site's own links page.
Prices checked November 8, 2026, on each company's own pricing or help pages. Plans and fees change, so check the linked pages before you decide.