What is Whop? A complete guide

Whop is an end-to-end platform, providing business operators with a gamified GUI and extensive API powering distribution, business creation, and money. Some of the business trends on Whop include ecommerce, services, education, software, and platforms.

Whop is on a mission to deliver everyone a sustainable income. Our vision is to create the largest network of markets in history, redefining the future of work as we build economic infrastructure for the 21st century.

Most businesses on Whop service hyper specific customer needs, rather than broad mass-market products. The internet has made it possible to reach customers in markets that were once too small or fragmented to build a business around.

Businesses on Whop earn money by selling services, products, subscriptions, software, or even running a brick and mortar store via Tap to Pay on iPhone.

Whop also supports enterprise customers that use Whop's API to embed components into their platform or app. Invoicing software for trucking companies, data marketplaces for robotics companies, and private jet booking platforms all run on Whop.

What is Whop?

On Whop the teenage first-time entrepreneur and the seasoned business operator both get the same product. Whop puts the core primitives needed to run a business in the 21st century in one place: payments, ads, money movement, and communication.

Launching your first business and creating your first product become easier than sending an email on Whop. Describe a business idea to an agent or chat-based LLM, and you can create a business through natural language prompting with the CLI.

Operational tasks like licensing, authentication, and KYC can all be easily managed. You can create a website or deploy a business off the shelf. You can even register your LLC with Whop.

Why should I build my business on Whop?

Running a business online usually requires juggling multiple tools, subscriptions, and platforms that never quite talk the same language. One platform to take payments, another to reach customers, and a third to pay your team. Probably a fourth to stay compliant. Those setups are clunky, wasting time, energy, and resources that could be better spent coming up with more ideas for your businesses.

Whop closes the loop and provides a unified hub to run your business. When you build on Whop, you get:

• Business creation. Launch a ready-to-sell business in a few clicks with Business Blueprints. Or connect Whop to any AI agent through the Whop CLI and run your business with prompts.
• Money movement. Accept payments from anywhere, pay out your people everywhere, and hold a balance that earns yield.
• Customer acquisition. Run ad campaigns across major platforms from one dashboard.
• Operations. Pay your team and affiliates, automate your taxes, issue cards, and stay compliant. It’s built in.

How to create a Whop account

To get started, click Create a business in the sidebar of your dashboard. If you already have one or more businesses, you’ll also see a '+ new business' button at the bottom of your dashboard.

You can also click the button below:

Once you’re on the onboarding page, you’ll complete five quick steps: choose your business model, select your industry, share how you plan to use Whop, pick your country, and enter your business name.

After that, you’ll be guided through creating your first product. There are two main things left for you to do: create a website and customize your offerings.

Instead of building from scratch, you can use a Whop Blueprint to launch a ready-to-sell business in a few clicks.

Making money on Whop

Whop is a new internet-native economy. You can build a business and sell both digital and physical products, services, or a subscriptions. Today, roughly 25,000 business operators generate around $550M on Whop every month. Many people on Whop run a number of businesses like a portfolio.

Earning money on Whop as a business operator

However your business makes money, there’s a way to do it on Whop:

• Sell what you made: List physical products, digital downloads, and software, with payments built in and secure delivery for anything digital.
• Sell what you do: Offer services in person or online, from consulting to local trades and home services. Send invoices and get paid on site with Tap to Pay.
• Sell what you know: Package your expertise into vocational training, coaching, or a paid community.

Your whop is free to start, with no monthly fees (you only pay when you get paid).

Earning money on Whop with side hustles

You can work on Whop for payouts across clipping, UGC, and data-labeling. Every month, more than 50,000 people earn an income on Whop by providing value to businesses.

Find an opportunity, complete the task, and get paid for the results you drive. It’s one of the simplest ways to start earning online with no product, no audience, and nothing upfront.

Create your Whop account today

Now it’s your turn. Whop is the end-to-end platform for building a business, with everything you need to create, sell, and scale in one place.

Create an account, launch your business, and start making money today.