I was fed up with old-school checkouts, so I built an agentic one. Here's what's new

Why I built it

I turned my 1:1 consulting into digital products that made $400k, then built a consultancy past $1M on the same model. Every one of those sales went through a checkout, and I used to sell on ThriveCart. For what it cost, it kept glitching on me, went down on me, and felt stuck in another decade.

I spent hours stitching tools together for jobs an AI agent could do in two minutes. Everything else I looked at was just as pricey, and none of it gave me one checkout that simply works. So I built my own.

The new way of working is agentic. You tell your AI what you sell. It builds the checkout, the bump and the upsell, reads your numbers and tells you what to fix. You approve. Clicking through ten settings screens to launch one product is the old way, and I'm done with it.

Pip, our penguin, put it his own way: "Five tabs open to sell one PDF? Pip has seen enough. Ship it."

Starter, $29 a month: everything you need to sell

Nothing that makes you money is held back for a bigger plan. Starter now has:

• Unlimited checkouts and unlimited order bumps.
• One-click upsells and downsells, as chains of up to 5 offers. Each offer has its own yes path and no path, so a no can lead to a cheaper offer instead of straight to the thank-you page.
• Payment plans and subscriptions.
• Automatic sales tax and EU VAT, with Stripe Tax.
• Courses in your own Hub, with lesson videos played from YouTube, Vimeo or Loom.
• Your email tool: Kit, Mailchimp, MailerLite, ActiveCampaign or beehiiv.
• Importers that bring your products over from ThriveCart or Systeme.io.
• Buy now, pay later: Klarna, Afterpay (Clearpay in the UK) and Affirm on one-time purchases, through your own Stripe, wherever Stripe offers them to the buyer.
• Retention offers: when a subscriber goes to cancel, you can offer a discount on their next payments or a pause.
• All the reporting below, and email support.

Reports that answer the real questions

The Reports page is on every plan, and it now shows:

• Subscription health: churn, revenue churn, average lifetime, lifetime value, and who ended each subscription (the buyer, a failed card or something else).
• A revenue forecast for the next 3, 6 and 12 months, from renewals and payment plan instalments still to come.
• Checkouts side by side: visits, conversion, bump and upsell take rates, average order and refunds.
• Results for each discount code: uses, revenue and the discount given.
• A world map of where your buyers and visitors are. Sales with no country show as Unknown instead of going missing.

One more fix, for anyone who raises prices: renewals always charge the price a subscriber signed up at. A price rise only reaches new buyers.

Pro, $49 a month: everything you need to grow

Pro lines up with what ThriveCart keeps for Pro+ at $87 a month:

• The affiliate centre: a private dashboard for each affiliate, an email whenever they earn commission, commission tiers, recurring commission on renewals and an optional leaderboard.
• One-click affiliate payouts from your own PayPal, and JV partners on a revenue split, with their own statements.
• Subscribers upgrade and downgrade between a checkout's tiers, with proration.
• Stablecoin payments (USDC) on one-time purchases, for US businesses whose Stripe account is approved for them. I've turned them on in my own account.
• QR codes for any checkout, tagged so in-person sales show in Reports.
• Every invoice in a date range, in one export.
• Your own checkout domain, and campaigns with seats, a countdown and auto-close.
• Zapier, Make, webhooks and the API.
• Team members with roles, and client accounts if you run an agency.

The headline: your AI runs the checkout

This is the part I care about most. The Swipefast connector (an MCP server) lets Claude or ChatGPT work inside your account. Ask in plain words and it:

• Builds checkouts, order bumps, upsell chains and the sales page above them.
• Reads your reports and answers questions like "why did churn go up this month?"
• Runs Pip's roast of your sales page and suggests what to change.
• Sets up retention offers and commission tiers, and asks you to approve affiliate payouts.

New checkouts start as drafts. A change to a live checkout waits for your approval in Swipefast, and so does publishing: a yes in the chat doesn't count. It never pays an affiliate without your approval, and it can't refund anyone.

It works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex and Gemini, and in your terminal with the Swipefast CLI. New accounts now start by connecting Claude or ChatGPT, because that's the quickest way in. Want to see it first? The home page walks through it building a checkout (swipefast.io/#ai-demo) and shows a sample dashboard (swipefast.io/#dashboard).

What it costs, next to ThriveCart

ThriveCart prices are from https://thrivecart.com/#pricing, checked 15 October 2026. ThriveCart also offers Standard as a $495 lifetime deal. Card fees are charged by your payment provider either way.

In the standard scenario we use across the site (one $97 product with one order bump and one upsell, $5,000 a month in sales, each tool's cheapest plan with bumps and upsells), Starter costs 38% less than ThriveCart, 85% less than SamCart and 83% less than Kajabi. The workings are on swipefast.io/alternatives.

How to try it

• Start the 7-day free trial from swipefast.io/pricing. A card is needed; cancel before day 7 and you pay nothing.
• Connect Claude or ChatGPT when the dashboard asks. The steps for each app are on swipefast.io/agents.
• Tell it what you sell, the price and where buyers get it. It builds the checkout as a draft for you to check.
• On ThriveCart or Systeme.io now? Run the importer and your products arrive as drafts.

During the trial your checkouts run in practice mode, so you can test every step with practice payments. Real payments start when your plan does. And if it's not for you, ask within 30 days of your first payment and you get it back in full.