Payhere: online payments and sales tools — $10K a month, self-reported

Payhere helps founders sell, invoice, and collect recurring payments online. Its $10K a month was founder-reported on the Indie Hackers product page (not independently verified), as of April 2025.

What it actually sells

Payhere helps you sell, invoice and collect recurring payments online. Its product covers online payments, payment links, invoicing, storefronts, subscriptions, and digital sales tools.

Users can turn any offer into a checkout URL, build branded online stores with unlimited products, collect one-off payments, subscriptions, and multi-installment plans, and embed checkout with two lines of code or use standalone links.

How it charges

Payhere charges 1.5% only when something sells, with no monthly fee and no transaction minimums. Its pricing page states: “pay 1.5% only when something sells. No monthly fee No transaction minimums.”

Where customers come from

The site provides free signup without a credit card. It lists integrations including Stripe, Zapier, Slack, Notion, and Mailchimp.

Payhere also offers Zapier, Make, webhooks, and a REST API for automating receipts, onboarding, and fulfilment. The site lists GoCardless for direct debit.

What stands out

Payhere supports one-off payments, subscriptions, and multi-installment plans through one link. It supports monthly, annual, 6-payment plan, and single-sale payment formats.

Its site says it has processed more than $35M for merchants, serves more than 3,000 merchants worldwide, and serves merchants in more than 150 countries.

From the official site

Non-technical founders

Unlimited products One-off items, subscriptions, bundles, variants, stock limits. Anything Stripe supports, you can sell.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

Payhere's $10K a month is higher than 66% of the 6,604 projects with founder-reported monthly revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $2K. Snapshot: 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

My view: demand would come from non-technical founders, services businesses, creators, educators, clubs, charities, and online merchants that need to sell online and collect recurring payments. The buyer would need a payment flow, invoicing, subscriptions, storefronts, or digital sales tools.

Distribution would need to reach those buyers through the same kinds of visible surfaces: shareable checkout links, free signup, integrations, and embedded checkout. The hard parts include payment reliability, security, merchant support, integrations, regulatory requirements, and competition.

Verdict: Needs real work.

One thing to take from it

The clearest takeaway is the combination of a transaction-based pricing structure with several payment formats. Payhere shows how one product can cover one-off payments, subscriptions, multi-installment plans, storefronts, checkout links, and embedded checkout.

Sources

Payhere official website, fetched October 1, 2026
Payhere pricing page, fetched October 1, 2026
Indie Hackers product page: revenue founder-reported on the Indie Hackers product page (not independently verified), as of April 2025

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure