Commission-Free Link-in-Bio: Keep 100% of Your Sales (2026)

If you sell anything through your link-in-bio page, there's a cost you might not be seeing: commission. Some tools take a percentage of every sale you make through them, on top of payment processing fees, on top of your subscription. Commission-free tools don't, because they never touch your money. This post explains the difference plainly and why it matters more than most creators realise. It's a spoke off our complete link-in-bio guide.

What "commission" means on a bio tool

There are two ways a link-in-bio tool can handle selling:

1. It sells inside the page. The tool has a built-in store or tip jar. Someone buys, the tool processes the payment, and it keeps a percentage before passing the rest to you. That percentage is the commission.
2. It links out to your own checkout. The page is just a styled button that sends people to your Gumroad, your Shopify, your Razorpay page. The tool never processes the sale, so there's nothing for it to take a cut of. That's commission-free.

The first model can be convenient. The second keeps 100% of the sale in your pocket (minus your own payment processor's normal fee, which you'd pay anyway).

Why the commission adds up

A commission sounds small until you do the math. Say a tool takes a few percent per sale. On one ₹500 sale, that's a few rupees, whatever. But you're not making one sale. Over a month of a hundred sales, or a launch of a thousand, that percentage compounds into a real number, money that came straight out of your margin for the privilege of using a page of links.

And it stacks. Commission is on top of your payment processor's fee and on top of whatever you pay for the subscription. You can end up paying three times to sell your own product.

We think that's backwards. A page of links shouldn't be a tollbooth on your revenue.

The commission-free approach

Here's the opinion we built into heyy.to: your bio page should link out to your own checkout, and the tool should never touch your money.

heyy.to's link-in-bio is deliberately commission-free. It's a page of buttons that point to your store, your checkout, your payment page. We don't process the sale, so we can't take a cut of it, by design, not by generosity. You keep 100% of every sale (minus your own processor's fee).

To be clear about what this means: heyy.to's bio page is not a storefront and not a checkout. It doesn't hold your products or process orders. That's on purpose. It links to whatever you already use to get paid. We deliberately don't build products, orders, or an in-page checkout, because the moment a tool processes your sale, it's positioned to take a cut of it. Linking out keeps you free of that.

"But in-page selling is convenient"

It is, and that's the honest trade-off. Selling inside the bio page means one less click for the buyer and one less thing to set up for you. Some creators happily pay a commission for that convenience.

But here's the thing: setting up your own checkout is a one-time job, and modern checkout tools (Gumroad, Razorpay, Shopify, Stripe) are fast and cheap. You do it once, link out to it forever, and never pay a per-sale commission again. For anyone selling with real volume, the one-time setup beats the forever tax. For a business especially, the commission is a cost you'd never accept from another vendor. See Linktree alternatives for business.

How to check if a tool takes a commission

Before you sell through any bio tool:

• Read the pricing page's fine print on native selling and tips, not just the monthly plan price.
• Look for a per-transaction percentage. If selling happens inside the tool, there's usually a cut.
• Ask: does the money pass through them or through me? If the buyer pays the tool and the tool pays you, there's room for a commission. If the buyer pays your checkout directly, there isn't.

If a tool is cagey about this, assume there's a cut. Commission-free tools say so plainly, because it's a selling point.

The related cost: Linktree's fee

Linktree is the most common tool people ask about here, and yes, it can take a cut on native sales and tips. We broke down exactly how that works, and how to avoid it, in Linktree's commission fee explained. The short version: use the page to link out to your own checkout, and the fee never applies.

FAQ

What does commission-free link-in-bio mean? It means the tool never takes a cut of your sales, because it links out to your own checkout instead of processing the payment itself. You keep 100% (minus your own processor's normal fee).

Which link-in-bio tools are commission-free? Tools that link out to your own checkout, heyy.to and Carrd among them. Tools that sell inside the page (Stan, some Beacons and Linktree features) can take a cut.

Does heyy.to take a commission on sales? No. heyy.to's bio page links out to your own checkout and never processes the payment, so there's nothing to take a cut of. It's commission-free by design.

Isn't in-page selling more convenient? Slightly, one less click. But setting up your own checkout is a one-time job, and then you pay no per-sale commission ever again. For real volume, linking out wins.

Can I sell products directly on heyy.to's bio page? No, and that's deliberate. The page links out to your own store or checkout. heyy.to doesn't build products, orders, or an in-page checkout, because processing your sale is what lets a tool take a cut of it.

How do I avoid Linktree's commission? Use the page to link out to your own checkout rather than selling natively through Linktree. See Linktree's commission fee explained.

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Commission-free means the tool never touches your money, so it can't take a cut. That's the whole design of heyy.to's bio page: a menu of buttons pointing at your own checkout, plus comment-to-DM automation, on a flat price with no per-sale fee. Read the complete guide or see the pricing.