Crate vs Selar
Selar is built for selling digital things: courses, ebooks, tickets. Crate sells those too, and also the physical inventory, the stall and the delivery that a digital-first tool was never meant to carry.
What Selar is: A storefront for creators selling digital products, courses and tickets across Africa.
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How does Crate compare to Selar?
Selar is a storefront for digital products, and for a creator selling a course, an ebook or a ticket it is a short, direct path from having the file to being paid for it. Crate sells digital products as well, with secure file delivery and download limits, but it is a full commerce platform: physical stock across locations, a point of sale, delivery, staff permissions, bundles, discounts and a designed storefront on your own domain. The choice is mostly about what the rest of your business looks like. A creator whose catalog is entirely files should weigh the simpler tool seriously. A business that sells files and things, or expects to, will outgrow a digital-only storefront and should not have to migrate twice.
Side by side
Qualitative and stable. No prices and no fee percentages for either side, because both change without notice and a comparison table carrying a stale number is worse than no table.
| What | Crate | Selar |
|---|---|---|
| Digital products | Supported, with secure delivery, download limits and license keys. | The core of the product. |
| Physical products | Stock, variants, locations, transfers and delivery. | Not the focus. |
| Selling in chat | Built in. | Link sharing. |
| Your own domain | Yes, with a designed storefront on it. | A storefront on the platform. |
| Point of sale | Included. | Not applicable. |
| Staff | Roles and per-staff permissions. | Built around the creator. |
Which one you actually want
Both columns are real. If the right-hand one describes you, take it: a product that does not fit you is a refund with extra steps.
Choose Crate if
- You sell physical things, or expect to.
- You want one platform for the files and the inventory.
- You need staff, locations or a till.
- You want the storefront on your own domain and under your own design.
Choose Selar if
- Everything you sell is a file or a ticket, and you expect that to stay true.
- You want the shortest possible path from a finished course to a paid customer.
- You do not need stock, delivery or staff and would rather not see those screens.
Where Crate is behind
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Where Crate is behind: focus. A digital-only storefront has fewer screens, fewer settings and a shorter path from file to first payment, and for a creator whose catalog is entirely files that simplicity is worth something real. Crate carries the machinery for physical stock whether or not you use it. If you will never ship a parcel, some of what you are paying for will sit idle.
About switching to Crate from Selar
Short answers, and none of them hedge. If yours is not here, ask us on the contact page.
Can Crate sell courses and ebooks?
Yes. Digital products are delivered securely with download limits, and a purchase gives the buyer an entitlement rather than a raw link.
Can I sell files and physical goods in the same order?
Yes. One catalog holds both, and one checkout handles a mixed basket.
How this comparison is kept honest
Last checked
Everything said about Selar here is a qualitative property of the product taken from what Selar publishes about itself: what kind of product it is, which channels it sells through natively, and which capabilities it ships rather than leaves to an add-on. We publish no prices, fees, percentages or counts for any competitor, including ourselves, on these pages, because those change without notice and a table carrying a stale number does more damage than no table.
Claims about Crate on this page do not go beyond what our own feature, pricing and security pages already state. Where they would, they are not made.
Product capabilities change. This page states what was accurate on the date above and nothing beyond it. If a row is out of date, we would rather hear it than rank on it.
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Try it before you decide.
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