Beacons

Beacons is a business platform for creators that brings together a customizable Link in Bio page, a store, email marketing, and media kit tools. Creators can sell digital products, courses, merchandise, and other offerings, and build no-code websites with templates, custom domains, SEO, multi-currency support, and email-list building. Audience Manager stores subscriber information and can send data to Zapier, export CSV files, or support email and SMS outreach. Marketing tools include newsletters and automated DMs; the Free plan lists five email automations and 50 monthly email sends. The platform also offers auto-updating media kits and connects Threads, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Snapchat to bring social statistics into profiles and kits. Beam, its AI teammate, is described as supporting content strategy, growth analysis, outreach, negotiation, and deal tracking. Beacons is available on Android, iOS, and web. The Free plan has 9% seller fees, while Creator Plus lists 0% seller fees. Listed annual plans are Creator at $100 a year and Creator Plus at $300 a year.

Beacons combines creator storefront, audience, and marketing tools across mobile and web. The free option includes selling fees, while Creator Plus lists 0% seller fees.

Beacons suits creators and sellers who want link pages, selling tools, email marketing, and media kits together. Its listed audience also includes creator managers, influencers, coaches, brands, agencies, and teams.

Overview

Beacons brings a creator’s public-facing page, store, email marketing and media kit into one service. It suits creators who want to build an audience and sell from the same hub, but the Free plan’s 9% seller fee is a meaningful trade-off for those making regular sales.

Key features

• Link in Bio and websites: Build a customizable page or a no-code website with templates, custom domains, SEO tools and email-list building. That gives creators room to make a branded destination rather than rely on a basic link list, though page counts vary by plan.
• Store and checkout: Sell merchandise, digital products, courses and other offerings through a branded Link in Bio with mobile-optimized checkout. Free allows unlimited digital products, but its 9% seller fee can erode margins; Creator Plus lists 0% seller fees.
• Email and audience management: Send newsletters and automated DMs, manage subscriber information, and use email or SMS outreach. Audience data can be exported as CSV or sent to Zapier. Free includes five email automations, but its monthly email-send cap is low for a growing list.
• Media kits and social statistics: Auto-updating media kits can incorporate social statistics from Threads, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Snapchat. This is useful for creators presenting their reach to potential partners.
• Beam: Beacons describes its AI teammate as working continuously on content strategy, growth analysis, outreach, negotiation and deal tracking. Free includes 30 daily AI credits, so that plan’s allowance may constrain sustained use.

Pricing

Beacons is freemium, with no free trial. Free is free and remains free forever. It includes 30 daily AI credits, 50 email sends per month, unlimited digital products and 9% seller fees, with no platform fees. It is a sensible starting point for creators building an audience or testing a storefront, but the email cap and transaction fee make it less attractive as sales and mailing volumes grow.

Creator costs $100 a year, billed annually. It includes 500 email sends per month, one website with one page and unlimited links. It raises the email allowance over Free, but still limits sends and site size, so it best fits a creator with modest marketing needs.

Creator Plus costs $300 a year, billed annually. It includes unlimited email sends, one website with three pages and unlimited links, and lists 0% seller fees. It is the stronger fit for creators sending frequent campaigns or seeking to avoid the Free plan’s seller fee; the higher annual cost is harder to justify for someone who rarely sells or emails.

Creator Max has custom pricing. It includes unlimited email sends, five websites with five pages each and unlimited links, making it the plan for a larger web presence rather than a single creator page.

Platforms

Beacons is available on Android, iOS and the web, with a downloadable mobile app. Its support team can be reached at [email protected].

Who it's for

Beacons is best suited to creators, influencers, sellers and coaches who want a branded link-in-bio page alongside sales and audience tools. Managers, brands, agencies and teams may also find its dedicated business offerings relevant. It is less compelling for someone who only needs a simple link page or whose sales and email needs do not warrant paying to move beyond Free’s limits.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Combines a customizable page, store, email marketing, audience management and media kits, reducing the need to assemble those functions separately.
• Pro: Free supports unlimited digital products and has no platform fees, giving new sellers a way to start without a subscription.
• Pro: Creator Plus lists 0% seller fees and unlimited email sends, useful for creators with meaningful sales or frequent campaigns.
• Con: Free charges 9% seller fees and allows only 50 email sends per month, limits that can become costly or restrictive as a business grows.
• Con: Creator provides just 500 email sends monthly and one one-page website, so creators needing more room may have to move to the higher-priced annual plan.
• Con: No branding on Free is not included, so the free option is less suitable for creators who need an unbranded presence.

Alternatives

For a narrower link-page need, compare Link-in-Bio Tools and Social Media Bio Link Tools. Bitly is a freemium option with Android, iOS, web, API and extension support; its Free plan allows five links per month, two QR codes and three custom back-halves, so it suits a reader with small link-management needs better than Beacons’ broader creator-business setup. Linktree offers a free plan with unlimited basic links, product and course sales, and brand offers, making it a reasonable alternative when those link-page and selling functions are the priority.

Milkshake offers free hosting, unlimited links and cards, digital-file sales through Stripe and 30 days of Insights analytics; choose it when those mobile-friendly page and basic sales needs matter more than Beacons’ wider marketing toolkit. Stan Store is paid, with Creator at $29 a month for unlimited products and customers, a fit for a seller who prefers a paid storefront plan to Beacons’ freemium structure.

Hopp by Wix has a free Standard plan with a link-in-bio page and a Sell plan at $25 a month, making it an option when a Wix link page and paid selling tier are the desired combination. Campsite.bio offers Pro at $7 a month for one profile, with additional profiles or collaborators at $1.50/month each; choose it when profile and collaborator pricing is the key consideration. Carrd offers a free Basic plan with up to three sites per account, which suits a reader prioritizing a free multi-site web presence. ContactInBio has a free Starter plan with custom bio URLs, custom links, social buttons, a contact form and analytics, making it an option when those link-page features are enough.

Verdict

Choose Beacons if you want one creator hub for a branded page, selling, audience marketing and media kits, and can match the plan to your sales and email volume. Its strongest case is the breadth of tools in one service; its clearest drawback is that the free tier’s 9% seller fee and 50 monthly email sends can make growth expensive or cramped. Creators who only need a compact link page should look elsewhere.