GPT-6 Astra is good. Really good.
It makes an accurate 3D model with one picture.
Put it on your landing page.
Run it in your ads.
Send it to your manufacturer as a mockup.
What Whop needs to compete with Shopify (@dwilms bring me on and I'll make it happen)
Product variants
Shipping rates and zones
Shipping label purchase
Returns and RMA
Real inventory
Product images in the API
CSV import
Custom domains
Simpler product creation
3PL integration
Abandoned checkout recovery
Apps that can extend storefronts
An opt in marketplace for physical goods
I've been talking with Whop about what ecommerce needs on the platform.
In the meantime, I built this:
Import your Shopify products with a CSV
Track inventory across variants
Create shipping labels
Edit your storefront
Handle fulfillment
Analytics
Natively in the Whop dashboard.
This is spoof data, but it should be live for testing soon.
Whop checkout now takes:
PayPal
Card
Apple Pay
Google Pay
Cash App
Card installments (3, 6 and 12 months)
ACH
Bank wire
Bank transfers (US, UK, EU, AU, CA)
iDEAL
Pix
SPEI
OXXO
M-Pesa
GCash
Mercado Pago
Nequi
Bancolombia
Bancontact
PSE
Bre-B
MODO
Yape
Mobile Pay
Efecty
Rapipago
Sencillito
Servipag
Crypto
Whop is coming for Shopify.
@ads4apps They let you fund you ads with pending revenue. Its also essentially an agency account so you get: No spend limits. Prioritized bidding. Direct Meta support(an actual human)
@kevinkreative_ Yes and there’s one extra step for supplement brands. They need to be approved by Whop first since they are a reviewed category. I can do it for you. DM’d.
Ecom owners: you can run Shopify checkout and Whop checkout at the same time, on the same domain, and test which one converts better before committing to anything.
DNS resolves per hostname, so:
https://t.co/SaVpqJrznn stays Shopify, untouched
https://t.co/RqmkTUqtxJ runs the Whop version
Your store keeps selling the entire time. Your email never moves either. MX, SPF and DKIM live in a zone you never touch, because your nameservers don't change. You add one CNAME record.
Which means you can point the same ad at both, with the same product and same creative, and compare cost per purchase directly. Real money through both checkouts.
If it wins, move more across. If it doesn't, you delete one DNS record and nothing ever happened.
Worth knowing if you've been curious about Whop Ads specifically: it's a Meta agency account, and you can fund campaigns same day out of pending revenue instead of floating spend for 4-5 days waiting on a payout. You don't have to migrate anything to find out if that changes your economics. You can just test it.
One honest limit: your root domain can only point one place, so the parallel version lives on a subdomain. Fine for a paid traffic test. Less fine if your traffic is organic search on the root.
Meta is the only network live on Whop Ads right now. TikTok and Google are listed as coming.
@cultured How do in person payments work? Is it just a QR code in the business owners app on their phone?
Also do you plan to bring inventory management and shipping label creation to Whop for ecom brands? I’m working on a whop app that does just that.
@jforjacob Agree. I’m running a store through Cloudfare hosting with Whop integrated checkout and have Claude create everything exactly how I want it.
I also built my own Whop app that allows me to create shipping labels for each order, manage inventory, see analysis and bundle offers.
@WiFiMoneyGuy They also need to incentivize more legitimate offers to join their platform.
A lot of people get turned away when the first sellers they see are scammers.
Whop just launched Business Blueprints. You deploy someone's whole storefront as your own, for free, and the builder gets a cut of Whop's profit when you sell.
This is the structure @CarlWeische broke down in his article on PDPs, the one he's used to scale brands to 9 figures. I've made these pages for several of my clients (they loved them btw).
Now it's a blueprint on Whop:
- bundle ladder: single / 3-pack / subscribe & save
- AOV booster progress bar
- reviews, objection handling, FAQ in the order that converts
- checkout wires itself to YOUR products. Deploy it, add products, it sells them. No code.
If you're on Shopify: quantity breaks, gift tiers, subscription offers, the stuff you pay $15-30/mo in apps for, are just built in. Whop hosts it.
Live demo, real checkout:
https://t.co/tALVbSinrI
Devs can pull it right now:
whop apps init --template app_6jqts6wjmuCIaP
Everyone else: DM me and I'll set it up on your store. Free, same deal as the migrations.
@whop If any Shopify ecom owners want to switch to Whop(or run whop ads), I’ll set you up for free.
2.7% fees, no monthly subscription, they fight chargebacks for you, and let you use pending revenue to fund your ads.
I dug into Whop Ads. Here are three things that actually stood out.
1. It's a Meta Managed Agency Account.
(A lot of people don't realize this part — your ads still run on Meta. You're just running them through Whop's agency account instead of your own.)
No spend limits. Prioritized bidding. Direct Meta support — an actual human.
2. YOU CAN FUND CAMPAIGNS SAME-DAY OUT OF PENDING REVENUE.
3. The pixel attributes off payment data, not browser cookies.
Post-iOS14 a browser pixel is guessing. Attribution built on the payment record isn't. Different quality of signal.
Still Meta underneath, though. Policy still applies, accounts still get flagged. Better seat at the table, not immunity.
The cash flow piece alone is worth you taking a closer look at Whop Ads.