By Dana Rourke, Lead reviewer. Reviewed by Campaign Buyer Editorial. Verified 8 September 2026.
The plans
Paid plans start at $37/mo, after a 30-day trial.
Standard $37/mo billed annually or $47/mo monthly; Pro+ $67/mo annual or $87/mo monthly (30-day trial). Lifetime Standard still sold at checkout.thrivecart.com/thrivecart-standard-account/ (commonly $495). Pro+ annual add-on for affiliates, dunning, multiple bumps, custom domains. 0% platform fees on sales.
Prices as of 12 Oct 2026
Is it worth the money?
ThriveCart is the checkout to pick if you sell courses or digital products and want a capable cart at a flat, buy-once price. It leans on whichever processor you connect for the actual money, so it cannot route payments to a second account, cannot serve high-risk sellers, and only adds its own dunning on the Pro+ tier.
What works
- A lifetime licence has long been the draw, so nothing recurring lands on your bill once you have bought in
- Creator-focused cart features are strong: order bumps, one-click upsells, split-tested checkouts and a built-in affiliate centre
- Connects Stripe, PayPal or Authorize.Net and adds nothing of its own on top of the processor's fee
- Once on Pro+ it adds its own reminder emails, subscription analytics and deeper reporting
What to watch
- The money runs through the one processor you connect, so a declined card has no second account to fall back to
- No high-risk support either. The big gateways all bar those categories, and ThriveCart cannot work around the ban
- How hard a failed payment is retried is the processor's job. Authorize.Net does not retry at all, and ThriveCart's own reminders need the Pro+ tier
- Disputes sit with the processor, not with ThriveCart, so it brings no dedicated chargeback tooling to lean on
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