5% of the product price, flat. That is the whole fee.

It shares one trait: nothing is made before it's sold. It's your own brand, made domestically by a named supplier, and it ships in days. You keep the customer, the files, and the supplier relationship.

Dough charges $29 a month and takes up to 19% of gross, including your shipping and the sales tax you have to remit, with a rate they label illustrative, and gates production behind pre-order thresholds. Kiln charges the same $29 and takes a flat 5% of the product price only, never shipping or tax, and makes every order when it's sold. Of the 164 storefronts in their public sitemap, zero had ever flipped from pre-order to in-stock.

Kiln takes 5% of the product price only, never shipping or tax, and the rate is the same for everyone. Building is free; the fee only exists once your store is live on the $29 plan and selling. Once your Stripe account is connected, the fee is collected automatically as an application fee on your own charge, so buyers pay you directly and Kiln's cut is netted at the source; until then, checkout stays closed rather than routing your money through us. Cancel any month and the store falls back to build mode. You never lose your store, files, or customers.

Regulated categories ship only as tested, compliant white-label formulas you put your label on. We never manufacture an unreviewed AI-generated recipe.

Buyers pay into your own connected Stripe account, so payouts follow your Stripe schedule, typically about two days after the charge. There is no delivery-confirmation hold, no escrow, and no rolling reserve, because Kiln never holds your money.

Into your own Stripe account, directly. Checkout charges the buyer on your connected account, the flat 5% fee is applied automatically on the charge, and Kiln never holds your money. Until you connect Stripe, checkout on your store stays closed; we never hold funds for you.

When your one-at-a-time demand proves out, you graduate to batch production. We broker the run at cost, keep the same flat 5% of the product price, and add nothing on the manufacturing.

The price, nothing else. $180 up front works out to about $15 a month, roughly 48% off the monthly price. The fee stays the same flat 5%, the tooling is identical, and if you cancel, the store falls back to build mode at the end of the period you paid for. You keep everything you built either way.

Any day. You export your design files, customer list, and supplier's name, never gated on a balance. There is no non-compete with the supplier who makes your product. The subscription cancels self-serve in the Stripe billing portal, behind the Manage billing button on this page; if you would rather email us, a person cancels it for you.

We retired the ladder. It ran 8% down to 5% across four tiers, and one of those tiers was never worth buying at any sales volume, which is exactly the kind of pricing we started Kiln to avoid. Now there is one plan: build free, $29 a month to go live, and a flat 5% of the product price for everyone, never on shipping or tax. Sellers who were on a ladder rate above 5% simply pay less.