Runner AI vs Selldone: prompt-built store or full commerce suite

You want a store, but you don’t want a monthly platform bill while you find out whether anyone will buy. Both of these lifetime deals are aimed at that worry, and they answer it in opposite ways. Runner AI asks you to describe a store and lets software build it. Selldone hands you a very large toolbox and expects you to learn it.

A quick note on sourcing. We haven’t used either product, and neither listing gave us a demo video to judge. Everything here comes from the AppSumo listings, so read it as a comparison of promises, not results.

Two different bets

Runner AI is a bet that you’d rather talk than click. You write a sentence or two about your store, it builds a storefront, and you keep chatting to add things like upsells and pop-ups. The bigger pitch is a set of AI agents that handle catalog work, support and ads.

Selldone is a bet on breadth. The listing claims 1,500+ native features with no plugins: storefront, blog, payments, affiliates, email campaigns, shipping tools and a point of sale. The idea is one dashboard instead of five subscriptions.

That difference decides most of the purchase. One is a quick start with a lot of unproven automation. The other is a longer setup with a lot of built-in machinery.

Getting a store live

Runner AI’s route is shorter on paper. You can clone an existing website as a design starting point, edit in chat or Design Mode, and preview on desktop, tablet and phone. Stripe handles payments.

Read the FAQ before you get excited, though. A public storefront doesn’t mean checkout is ready, and the tool doesn’t publish pages without your review. The AI drafts. You check prices, variants and promo wording.

Selldone’s route is more conventional. You create a shop, pick your business model in settings, connect a domain, build pages with the drag-and-drop builder and add payment gateways. AppSumo’s own summary of buyer reviews, which is marketing copy, mentions an initial learning curve and some navigation confusion. That fits a platform this wide. If you want a store live this weekend, it matters.

What you can sell, and where

Runner AI is built for low-risk selling. You can pull products from AliExpress and CJ Dropshipping, sell print-on-demand through Printful, import a catalog by CSV and set up localized markets. Suppliers handle shipping, so delivery times and product quality sit with third parties. The listing says nothing about selling in person.

Selldone covers far more ground. Physical goods, digital downloads, services and subscriptions can share one storefront. It accepts 143+ currencies through dozens of gateways, including Stripe, Razorpay, Flutterwave, SSLcommerze and Xendit. The built-in POS syncs inventory, orders and customers with the online store, and a Wi-Fi barcode scanner app is meant to replace dedicated hardware.

It also lists affiliate programs, gift cards, cashback and a marketplace builder. In the parts of the listing we have, there’s no mention of dropshipping supplier connections. If dropshipping is your plan, Runner AI is the more direct match.

Where the AI really matters

Runner AI’s AI is the product. Fly mode lets you direct 10+ specialists, proposes next moves based on what’s working, and carries out each plan once you approve it. Tier 2 and above adds ad images and videos through Seedance, Kling, Nano Banana and ChatGPT, plus workflows, A/B testing and AI SEO.

All of it draws on a monthly credit pool, and the listing never says what an image or a video costs in credits. Video is usually the expensive part, so that gap is a real one. The FAQ also admits experiments may depend on traffic, plan and staged availability. Treat the agents as a claim until you see them work.

Selldone treats AI as an add-on. AI product assistance comes on every tier, and a Genesis AI discount runs from 0% on tiers 1 and 2 up to 50% on tier 7. The listing doesn’t explain what that discount applies to. Its automation is a no-code visual builder aimed at marketing workflows.

Pricing, tiers and fees

Runner AI costs $79, $159, $289 or $549. The listing shows a list price of $0, which tells you nothing about the discount. The feature table is the bigger worry. It gives credits as 4,000 / 2,000 / 1,000 / 300 and Fly mode as false / true / true / true. Read in order, the biggest credit pool and 50 seats would sit on the one tier without Fly mode, while the text says Fly starts at Tier 2. Either the columns run backwards or the table is wrong. Get that answered before you pay.

Fees stack up as well. Every Runner AI tier carries the 2.9% + 30 cents payment provider fee, plus a commission of 0.8% to 1.5%. Dropshipping and print-on-demand caps are 50, 100 or unlimited depending on tier.

Selldone has seven tiers: $109, $189, $409, $549, $899, $1,249 and $2,299, against list prices from $1,520 to $12,000. Every tier includes unlimited products, traffic, admins and custom domains, with a 1% transaction fee. The tiers differ on digital file fees (7% falling to 1%), storage (100 GB up to 1 TB per store) and the marketplace builder, which starts at tier 3. The store counts of 5, 1, 7, 12, 2, 20 and 60 look scrambled, so verify them.

One timing problem: the Selldone deal is listed as ending October 28, 2026, which has already passed. Check that it’s still on sale.

On risk, Selldone’s listing data shows 121 reviews averaging 4.85 and a 60-day money-back guarantee. The Runner AI material we have shows no review figures, and we can’t confirm its refund terms.

Which one to buy

Buy Runner AI at the lowest tier you can justify if you’re a beginner testing a dropshipping or print-on-demand idea, and only after the seller confirms what each tier includes. Buy Selldone if you sell in a shop and online, mix product types or plan a marketplace, and use the refund window to test checkout, shipping and POS with your real setup. If you already have a store earning money on Shopify, neither listing gives us a reason to rush a move.