Podia vs. Flodesk
Flodesk put a lot of effort into their premade templates, and it shows. Flodesk emails look great, but it’s hard to connect them with the rest of your tools unless you use Zapier (for an additional fee). What if you could have beautiful emails in the same platform as the rest of your business?
Flodesk has beautiful emails and templates. Podia also has beautiful emails and templates, plus it’s already connected to your website, blog, courses, and digital products.
| Podia | Flodesk | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $33/mo – $89/mo | $26/mo – $59/mo |
| Free migrations | Included | Not included |
| Website | Included | Not included |
| Email marketing | Included | Included |
| Online courses | Included | Not included |
| Digital products | Included | Included |
| Webinars | Included | Not included |
| Coaching | Included | Included |
| Community | Included | Not included |
| Landing pages | Included | Included |
| Blogging | Included | Not included |
| Affiliate marketing | Included | Not included |
Video Demo
Wondering if Podia is the best email marketing software for you? Go behind the scenes in this video walkthrough, where Ben will show you the ins and outs of Podia’s email features.
It comes down to what the two platforms let you, the entrepreneur, do.
Simplify your online business by keeping your subscribers, leads, customers, and affiliates in one place. Sell online courses, products, and anything else – it’s already linked to your email.
Build hype around your products with presales and waitlists. When your product is available, you can send special emails and campaigns to those who have already expressed interest.
Podia’s email dashboard will show you how many products you sold from a specific email, and your total earnings for each of your email marketing campaigns.
It’s such a massive relief to not have to juggle multiple tabs and set up everything separately. It saves me so much time—and lets me spend my effort and energy on actually creating my courses and products, not on solving back-end tech headaches.
Podia and Flodesk make it easy to grow an email list and automate your email marketing. While Flodesk primarily focuses on email, Podia is an all-in-one platform with a wide range of tools for running your entire business.
Every entrepreneur has different needs for their email marketing platform, so to help you make the best choice for you, let’s see how Podia and Flodesk compare.
The main difference between Podia and Flodesk’s pricing is that Flodesk has different plans for email and checkout, while Podia is an all-in-one option with email and selling features on every plan.
Flodesk has three plans: Email, Checkout, and Everything.
The Email plan costs $38/month and includes email marketing features like:
Automation
Segments
Unlimited subscribers
Landing page forms
The Checkout plan also costs $38/month and includes checkout cart features for selling digital products like:
Sales pages
Checkout pages
Upsells
Online payments
Instant product delivery
If you want both email and checkout features, the Everything plan includes all the tools of Email and Checkout for $64/month.
All Flodesk plans are unlimited. On the Email plan, you can have unlimited email subscribers and send as many emails as you like. On the Checkout plan, you can sell unlimited products to unlimited customers.
The downside is that you don’t get both email and online sales functionality unless you splurge for the $64/month Everything plan, which could be cost-prohibitive for some creators. Also, your website, blog, online course builder, webinar platform, and coaching platform aren't built in, so you might need to pay extra to get these features.
There’s no free plan with Flodesk, but they do offer a 30-day free trial so you can test out their features.
With Podia, your email, checkout tools, digital products, and website are all included in one straightforward platform.
Podia has two paid plans as well as an optional email add-on you can use as your list grows.
Start by choosing the Mover or Shaker plan.
Mover: $39/month or $33/month when paid annually (5% transaction fee), includes your website, blog, landing pages, and customer chat messaging, plus unlimited digital products, unlimited courses, and our simple online course builder
Shaker: $89/month or $75/month when paid annually, includes everything on the Mover plan plus affiliates
You can use all of Podia’s email features — including unlimited email broadcasts, automations, campaigns, segmentation, tagging, and templates — for free for your first 100 subscribers. (This functionality is already built into your Podia account.)
As your list grows, you can add on more as you need them:
Up to 500 subscribers: $9/month
Up to 1,500 subscribers: $17/month
Up to 2,500 subscribers: $25/month
Up to 5,000 subscribers: $42/month
Up to 10,000 subscribers: $63/month
Let’s say you had an email list with 1,000 subscribers. If you wanted to sell unlimited digital products and online courses, you could use the Mover plan for $39/month plus the email add-on for $17/month and you’d pay $56/month in total.
On Flodesk, you could use the Email plan for $38/month to get unlimited email or the Checkout plan for $38/month to get unlimited products and sales pages. For both email and the ability to sell digital products, you’d need the Everything plan for $64/month.
But Flodesk’s Everything plan doesn’t include your website, blog, customer chat messaging, or an online course builder, so if you wanted these features you’d likely have to integrate with more tools for an additional cost.
You can use segments, tags, and automation to organize your list with Podia and Flodesk Email.
With Podia, you can create custom tags and add people to segments based on their interests or actions. You can also filter audience members by how much money they’ve spent with you, how many products they’ve purchased, and their level of engagement with your emails.
Once you have your audience organized the way you like, you can use Podia automations to send messages to specific people. Automatically send a welcome sequence when someone joins your list, a nurture sequence when someone downloads a free lead magnet, a sales funnel to warm leads, or additional resources when someone purchases a product.
With Flodesk, you can also break your audience into segments. Flodesk automatically tags audience actions, like when people click a link or open an email, and you can use the tags to add people to the correct segments. Automations in Flodesk are called Workflows and can be used to automatically deliver content to your followers.
Both Podia and Flodesk Email have beautiful templates that you can use to jumpstart your creativity. You can fully customize your fonts, colors, layouts, and email sections using both tools, so you know the emails you send will match your brand and look professional.
Podia includes a full website with unlimited pages and a blogging feature on all plans. The website builder is beginner-friendly (no coding knowledge required), and a sales page is automatically generated for every product you create.
You can also make unlimited email opt-in pages or embed an email newsletter sign-up form wherever you like throughout your website.
Because your website, email, and checkout pages are all managed through the same tool, you don’t have to worry about integrations or using a third-party tool like Zapier to make everything connect.
Flodesk does not include a full website feature. Flodesk Email lets you make landing page email opt-in forms, and Flodesk Checkout lets you build sales pages and checkout pages. If you want access to email opt-in pages, sales pages, and checkout pages, you’ll need the “Everything” plan for $64/month.
Yep! You can sell digital products with Podia and Flodesk Checkout.
On Podia, all plans include the ability to sell digital products. As you grow, you can upgrade from Mover to Shaker to remove transaction fees.
Podia’s Mover and Shaker plans include a user-friendly online course platform where you can create drip, email, cohort, self-study, and access-limited courses. You can also use Podia to sell memberships, upsells, and subscriptions.
All products can be priced as free or paid and you can create payment plans and coupons if you’d like to offer discounts. When someone makes a purchase, Podia handles product delivery instantly and you can send emails to customers of a particular product, or automatically add them to specific email campaigns.
Podia also includes affiliate management so you can incentivize happy customers to market your products for you. Third-party affiliate marketing tools for small businesses can get pricey fast, and having this built-in means you can easily communicate with your affiliates for one fair price.
You can use Stripe or PayPal as your payment processor and choose from dozens of languages and currencies for running your business.
With Flodesk, you can sell digital products on the Checkout plan or the Everything plan. These plans include your sales pages and checkout pages as well as upsells, online payments, transactions, and instant file delivery.
An important distinction is that Flodesk does not include an online course builder feature. You can sell courses hosted through other platforms like Podia, Teachable, Kajabi, or Thinkific using the Flodesk checkout system, but you can’t build the course modules, lessons, and videos natively within Flodesk.
Likewise, Flodesk does not include a built-in blogging feature so you’ll need to connect with a different tool if you plan to blog. Flodesk does have instant file delivery, so if you’re selling a PDF or other digital download, or want to give customers access to a specific link, you can do that through Flodesk Checkout.
Podia users get expert customer support, live chat support, help docs, guides, video tutorials, and access to our welcoming Podia Community on all plans.
Flodesk has a help center and training resources through Flodesk University. There’s a Facebook group where business owners can ask questions and email support.
If you’re looking for an all-in-one email service provider that automatically connects to your website, digital products, courses, and affiliates, give Podia a try today. You can start with a 30-day free trial and scale up as you grow, and our team will be here cheering you on every step of the way.
Join the 150,000+ creators who use Podia to create websites, sell digital products, send great emails, and build online businesses.
Podia is an all-in-one platform where you can run your website, online store, and email marketing, as well as your blog, landing pages, affiliates, and everything else. You can sell online courses, downloads, coaching, webinars, community, or any other kind of digital product you want, and you can see all your customer and sales information under one roof.
You sure can! Podia has a 30-day free trial so you can make sure Podia is the right fit for you. You can test all the features, so you're free to set up your website, blog, email list, and products without spending a dime. Start your free trial today to see for yourself!
Podia Email is an optional add-on that you can use with any Podia plan. Your first 100 subscribers are free, and all Podia Email users get unlimited email sends, automations, campaigns, newsletters, email templates, segmentation, and audience tagging.
Podia Email is automatically connected to your website, landing pages, and products, and you don’t need to manage any integrations. Plus, you can see your customer data – like products purchased, lead magnet opt-ins, and email engagement – all in one place. Learn more about Podia Email here.
Yes! We offer free product migrations on all Mover and Shaker plans. We also offer free email migrations on all paid Podia Email plans. Learn more about Podia’s free migrations here.