Free hosting. A real store. You earn on every sale.
Duda takes 0% of your merchants’ sales and GoHighLevel has no real ecommerce — both sell flat monthly SaaS seats. QuickSites monetizes the sale itself, and pays the reseller a 80% lifetime residual on every order.
“Free hosting + a real store + the agency earns a lifetime cut of every sale — for product/commerce merchants (incl. authors & print-on-demand) that GoHighLevel can’t serve and Duda can’t monetize.”
| Feature | QuickSites | Duda | GoHighLevel |
|---|---|---|---|
Hosting cost What it costs to keep a client site live | ✓Free hosting | ✕$19–$149/mo per plan | ✕$97–$497/mo |
You earn a % of every sale A commerce take-rate that scales with the merchant’s GMV | ✓Platform fee up to 10% via Stripe Connect | ✕0% on store transactions | ✕No real ecommerce to monetize |
Lifetime reseller residual on GMV The reseller keeps a cut of every order — forever, not a one-time markup | ✓Keep 80% of every order fee, ongoing | ✕Flat markup on a fixed seat price | ~Resell SaaS seats — not sales |
Print-on-demand (books + merch) Sell physical goods with zero inventory — printed & shipped on order | ✓Lulu (books) + Gelato (apparel/posters) built in | ✕Not offered | ✕Not offered |
Fee taken on the merchant’s margin The printer’s base cost is excluded — we only take a cut of the profit | ✓POD base cost carved out of the fee basis | ✕N/A — no take-rate | ✕N/A — no take-rate |
Native online store Catalog + checkout without a third-party plugin | ✓Stripe Connect checkout, refunds, ledger | ✓Mature — up to 20k products, tax/shipping | ✕No catalog / inventory / fulfillment |
AI generates a whole site Not just copy — the structure, services, and theme | ✓Industry scaffold seeds a full site + copy/hero | ~Writes copy; can’t build the canvas | ~Copy / voice assistants |
Rebuild an existing site from a URL Paste a client’s live site → an editable draft, for painless migration | ✓AI rebuild: paste a URL, get a draft in seconds | ✕Manual rebuild | ✕Manual rebuild |
White-label & resell under your brand Your logo, domain, login, and emails — not ours | ✓Brand the builder, login, and emails | ✓Excellent, self-serve | ✓Good — $497 SaaS mode |
Customer CRM + email marketing Customer records, segments, campaigns | ~Built-in: CRM + consent-gated email campaigns w/ revenue attribution | ~Light | ✓Deeper — adds SMS, pipelines, unified inbox |
SMS / pipelines / unified inbox Two-way SMS, deal pipelines, automations | ✕Not yet (email campaigns only today) | ✕— | ✓Dominant — their core strength |
Deep catalog & many payment gateways 20k+ products, multiple processors | ~One credible vertical; Stripe-first | ✓Broad and proven | ✕Not a commerce platform |
✓ yes · ~ partial · ✕ no
What it costs you
+ a per-order fee you set (up to 10%). No monthly seat charge. You get paid when your merchants get paid.
per plan, plus a $8–$52/mo eCommerce add-on per site. You mark it up manually; your margin doesn’t move with sales.
plus usage rebilling (SMS/email/AI). Resell seats for a monthly fee — there’s no sale to take a cut of.
Switching from Duda or GoHighLevel?
You don’t rebuild your clients by hand. Paste a client’s current site and our AI regenerates it as an editable QuickSites draft in seconds — a migration and a live sales demo in one.
Where they’re ahead (we’ll be straight with you)
We win on the model, not on everything. Pick the tool that fits the job.
Choose Duda if…
You need the deepest storefront today — thousands of products, automated tax/shipping, and many payment gateways — with the most polished self-serve white-label. Duda’s builder is best-in-class and proven across 18,000+ agencies.
Choose GoHighLevel if…
Your job is heavy marketing automation: sales pipelines, two-way SMS, a unified inbox, and multi-step campaign builders. We ship a customer CRM + email campaigns now, but GHL’s automation stack runs deeper — and we don’t try to match all of it.
Choose QuickSites if…
You (or your merchants) sell things — products, digital goods, books, or merch — and you’d rather earn a slice of every sale than pay a flat monthly bill. Free hosting brings merchants in; the order economics are yours.