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Fourthwall

An online shop platform for creators: it makes and ships custom merchandise on demand, hosts the branded shop and runs checkout and sales tax.

What Fourthwall is

Written from its maker's own pages, read on 28 October 2026.

Fourthwall is an e-commerce platform for creators and companies that sell custom products, memberships and digital goods from a branded online shop. The seller has no upfront costs: partners vetted by Fourthwall handle sourcing, samples, production and quality control.

The seller designs products from a catalog of hundreds of items, such as apparel, mugs and jewelry, with no minimum order. Fourthwall's manufacturing and fulfillment partners in the US, UK, EU and Australia make and ship each order, and the listed production cost is deducted from the price the seller sets. A shop builder with templates creates the website, and products can also be shown on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. Fourthwall is the merchant of record, the legal seller in each sale, so it collects and remits sales tax, and it handles customer support. Checkout accepts cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Amazon Pay.

It is a hosted service with a free plan and a paid Pro plan, plus per-sale fees: payment processing on card sales and a percentage on digital products and memberships.

Made by
Fourthwall
Price
Free plan with no monthly fee; each US card sale pays a 2.9% + US$0.30 processing fee, and catalog products cost their listed production cost; Pro plan US$15 a month (read 28 October 2026)
Free plan
yes, free plan

Who uses it, and for what

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StoryWhat it does thereWhenCost statedGradeSource
ChefGPTRuns the ChefGPT merchandise shop and its checkout.BA public page outside the story's source list
ChessigmaRuns the merchandise shop: checkout, payment, printing and shipping of Chessigma shirts and stickers.CA public page outside the story's source list

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