Great question! Both platforms help you run your online business, but ClickFunnels is primarily used for creating sales and marketing funnels while Podia is an all-in-one home for all of your creative work.

With Podia, you can sell digital downloads, courses, webinars, coaching, and basically any other type of digital product you can imagine. You also get email marketing tools that can be used to build funnels and campaigns, affiliate management, and an entire website to showcase your work.

And because everything you do is already connected in Podia, you have access to your customers, leads, affiliates, and sales data in one place.

ClickFunnels is a tool for driving customers to your online business, primarily through sales funnels, landing pages, and campaigns. You get a website, landing pages, product sales, and email, but the main feature of the tool is building funnels.

How do Podia vs. ClickFunnels compare on pricing?

Podia has two plans to choose from, and a 30-day free trial so you can test out the feature before you join. All plans have checkout features and payment options like payment plans, waitlists, preselling, and monthly subscriptions.

• Mover: $39/month or $33/month paid annually (5% transaction fee): Includes your website, blog, landing pages, and chat messaging, plus unlimited digital downloads, online courses, webinars, product bundles, and coaching sessions. There are also more selling features like coupons, upsells, and access limits.

• Shaker: $89/month or $75/month paid annually (no transaction fees): Includes everything in Mover plus affiliate marketing.

All Podia plans include unlimited emails, funnels, automations, segmentation, and newsletters for up to 100 subscribers. You can add on more subscribers as your list grows (for some of the best prices in the industry).

ClickFunnels has two plans, Startup and Pro. Both plans come with unlimited funnels, courses, contacts, and pages.

• Startup: $97/month or $81/month paid annually: Includes 3 brand workspaces and 3 team members

• Pro: $297/month or $248/month paid annually: Includes 10 brand workspaces and 10 team members

You can get Podia’s highest tier plan with unlimited everything (courses, webinars, products, affiliates) for about the same price as ClickFunnel’s Startup plan. And because you'll only add on email subscribers as you need them, you're never paying for more than what you need.

Sales funnels and email marketing with Podia and ClickFunnels

Both Podia and ClickFunnels have tools for building sales funnels and running your email marketing. A sales funnel is an automated series of emails, products, and pages that move cold customers toward your paid products.

You don’t need to use third-party integrations, and both let you send one-off email broadcasts, schedule future automations and campaigns, and create your own email templates for a cohesive look. Both tools also allow you to segment and filter your audience so you can send messages to people who have bought a certain product or took an action with your business.

Podia, for example, automatically keeps track of what products, waitlists, and courses your audience has signed up for, so you can use this information as entrance and exit conditions in your funnels.

ClickFunnels has a few extra features like pop-ups and A/B testing, but setting these up can be complicated and aren’t necessary to have a successful funnel.

The biggest difference comes down to price. With ClickFunnels, you can unlock these features starting at $97/month (or $81/month when you pay annually).

With Podia, you can start sending emails, building funnels, and running marketing automations for your first 100 subscribers for free on any plan and upgrade your subscriber count as your list grows.

Can I make a website, blog, and landing pages?

Both Podia and ClickFunnels have a full website builder, landing page builder, and blogging feature — and everything connects to the email funnel builder.

This means that you won’t need a ton of connections and integrations to send your customers from your website, to your blog, to your email list, to your landing page, to your checkout cart.

Podia is known for being one of the easiest website builders on the market, and many customers are able to get their site and blog looking great in an afternoon. As Joseph D’Amico from Flex Lessons puts it,

“Podia makes website building so fun. I feel like I could set up a site in an afternoon, and it would look great. And there’s something to be said for how pretty it is. It’s the best-looking one by far.”

Your Podia website, blog, and landing pages all use the same builder so you don’t need to learn different software, and you can set global colors for your site that will also show up in your email builder for a cohesive look.

Can I manage my affiliate program?

Right now, the latest version of ClickFunnels doesn’t have affiliate functionality. With previous versions, you could make a product and allow other people to sell it for you as affiliates, but it’s not available in the current version.

With Podia, affiliates are included on the Shaker plan. You can add as many affiliates as you want and manage them in the same place you connect with the rest of your audience and subscribers. Plus, Podia Email already has a filter for affiliates so you can message them in just a few clicks.

If you’re on the fence between Podia vs. ClickFunnels, start your 30-day free trial of Podia to try out these features for yourself.

We can’t wait to see what you create.