# Whop

> The future of work

Whop is an e-commerce platform for creators and businesses to sell digital products, courses, memberships, software, and services online.

Whop is an e-commerce platform that enables creators and businesses to build, launch, and monetize digital offerings. Users can sell courses, memberships, software, and community access with integrated tools for storefronts, payment processing, and customer discovery through a marketplace. It supports use cases including coaching, paid communities, agencies, and software distribution.

- Type: Company
- Sector: E-Commerce
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2021-01-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/whop

## Products

- [Whop](https://thegrid.id/profiles/whop): Whop is a social commerce platform enabling creators and entrepreneurs to sell digital products, memberships, communities, courses, and services through customizable storefronts. The platform features modular apps for chat, forums, courses, and analytics, merchant-of-record payment processing with multi-PSP smart routing, marketplace discovery reaching millions of monthly visitors, and flexible payouts across traditional and cryptocurrency rails. (E-Commerce, Live, Main Product)
- [Whop Finance](https://thegrid.id/profiles/whop): Whop Finance is a self-custodial financial suite combining a USDT balance account, variable yield earning via Aave's DeFi lending pools, a spending card, and crypto and stock trading. Treasury positions hold USDT deposits in Aave's overcollateralized lending pools, with yield compounding continuously and no minimum lockup or withdrawal restrictions. Users can also convert USDT to Tether Gold for strategic asset exposure. (Yield Aggregator, Live)
- [Whop Payments](https://thegrid.id/profiles/whop): Whop Payments is a payment infrastructure and orchestration layer for digital businesses. It routes each transaction through multiple payment service providers to maximize authorization rates, and automatically retries declined transactions through an alternative processor. Merchants can accept cards, digital wallets, buy-now-pay-later financing, regional bank transfers, and cryptocurrency. Integration options include shareable checkout links, embeddable checkout components, and a no-code store page builder. Payouts are available across multiple territories via bank transfer, ACH, cryptocurrency, and mobile wallets. (Payments Infrastructure & Orchestration, Live)

## Links

- [Main](https://whop.com)
- [Blog](https://whop.com/blog)
- [Documentation](https://docs.whop.com)
- [Terms of Service](https://whop.com/tos)
- [Privacy policy](https://whop.com/privacy)
- [Media Kit/branding](https://brand.whop.com)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@WhopIO)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/whop)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/whop)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/whop-io)

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- [Data Licensing & Disclaimers](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/data-licensing-and-disclaimers): Licensing models and disclaimers
- [Open Data (ODbL)](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/open-data): Open Database License terms and scope for The Grid's open data service.
- [Attribution Guidelines](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/open-data-attribution-guidelines): How to attribute The Grid's data when using the open data service.
- [Web Services Terms](https://about.thegrid.id/legal/web-services-terms): commercial Terms for using data services.
- [All Legal Documents](https://about.thegrid.id/legal): Full index of terms, policies, and disclosures

## Optional

- [TGS Field Descriptions](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/tgs-field-descriptions.md): Schema field definitions for The Grid's data model
- [TGS JSON Structure](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/tgs-json-structure.md): Data model structure and relationships
- [Product Type Definitions](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/product-type-definitions.md): Definitions for each product type
- [Product Type Classification](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/references/product-type-classification.md): Guide for classifying products into types
- [Grid MCP Guide](https://github.com/The-Grid-Data/workspace-public/blob/main/grid-search/skills/grid-query/references/grid-mcp-guide.md): How to query The Grid programmatically via MCP