Podia vs. SamCart
Podia is an all-in-one platform for building your online business, complete with your website, blog, landing pages, digital products, courses, email, affiliates, and everything else.
SamCart and Podia both have checkout cart functionality, but Podia also comes with your website, blog, and email marketing. That means fewer platforms to manage and more time to do what you love.
| Podia | SamCart | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $33/mo – $89/mo | $59/mo - $319/mo |
| Free migrations | Included | Included |
| Website | Included | Included |
| Email marketing | Included | Not included |
| Online courses | Included | Included |
| Digital products | Included | Included |
| Webinars | Included | Not included |
| Coaching | Included | Not included |
| Landing pages | Included | Included |
| Blogging | Included | Not included |
| Affiliate marketing | Included | Included |
Video Demo
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It comes down to what the two platforms let you, the entrepreneur, do.
With Podia, you can run your entire business on a single platform with digital downloads, online courses, webinars, and coaching. Podia also includes a site builder, email marketing, and affiliates so you can manage everything in one place.
Build an entire website for your business, complete with a blog and unlimited sales pages, with our easier-than-drag-and-drop page builder. From hosting and custom domains to SEO and content delivery, we’ve got you covered.
Sit back, relax, and let us do the heavy lifting. Our migration service makes switching to Podia easy, and it’s completely free on all annual Mover, Shaker, and Podia Email plans.
I have tried many other platforms and decided to use Podia because of its simplicity. Not only is it user friendly, it provides a great experience for my students as well. Running your online coaching business is tough enough, you need a platform like Podia to help you easily create and sell your online classes. This is why I highly recommend Podia to all of my clients.
Podia and SamCart both make it easy to sell digital products and courses. Both come with checkout features and landing pages so you can market your products, and both have affiliate marketing so you can grow your sales.
But a key difference is that Podia also includes your email marketing and your full website and blog. With SamCart, you’ll need a third-party website builder, email tool, and blogging platform, which could come at an extra cost.
Let’s take a look at the pricing and features of each platform so you can decide which makes the most sense for you.
SamCart is primarily checkout software. You can build sales pages and checkout pages, and set up order bumps, upsells, subscriptions, and an affiliate program. You can enable payment processing through Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Authorize.net, Braintree, and Buy Now Pay Later.
You can sell unlimited digital products, physical products, and services, and there are integrations with Zapier and email marketing platforms so you can connect your list.
Podia, on the other hand, is an all-in-one platform for growing your online business. Podia includes your checkout, email marketing, website, and digital products.
You can set up
Online courses, drip courses, email courses, cohort courses, and courses bundled with other products
Ebooks, printables, PDFs, and other digital files
Upsells, payment plans, access limits, and seat limits
Sales funnels, lead magnets, and automated email campaigns
Email newsletters and templates
Custom website fonts, colors, and design sections
Customer chat messaging
An affiliate program for promoting your products
Because all your customer data is in one place, you can easily see who has what product, which lead magnets are most popular, and how much money you’ve earned off a particular email campaign. For payment options, you can integrate with Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, iDeal, and Stripe Link.
Podia’s user-friendly website builder comes with unlimited landing pages, sales pages, and blog posts. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced entrepreneur, you’ll have everything you need to get your business off the ground fast.
Podia has a 30-day free trial with all features so you can test everything out before you pay. After the trial, you can choose from two pricing plans:
Mover: $39/month and 5% transaction fee ($33/month when paid annually): This plan includes your website, blog, and sales pages as well as unlimited digital products, online course creation, and third-party code. You also get upsells, coupons, pricing plans, and access to Podia’s friendly customer support.
Shaker: $89/month and 0% transaction fee ($75/month when paid annually): Shaker includes all the Mover features plus your own affiliate program.
All Podia plans include all email marketing tools (like automations, newsletters, email templates, segmentation, tagging, and campaigns) for up to 100 subscribers. If you like, you can upgrade your Podia Email plan to add more subscribers as your list grows.
If you sign up for an annual Mover or Shaker plan, Podia includes a free migration service. This means our team will move your products and customers over from another platform (like Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi, etc.) for free so you can get started fast.
SamCart has a 7-day free trial and three paid plans.
Launch: $79/month ($59/month paid annually) Includes checkout and sales pages
Grow: $159/month ($119/month paid annually) Includes checkout automations, upsells, order bumps, and subscriptions
Scale: $319/month ($239/month paid annually) Includes affiliate functionality, A/B testing, and CRM integrations
Here’s how this could play out for your business. Let’s say you’re selling an online course. You have an email list with 1,500 contacts and you want to promote your course with affiliate marketing.
With SamCart, you’d pay $319/month for the Scale plan and you’d need another tool to manage your email marketing. You’d also likely need a website and blog, which is another tool and potential expense.
With Podia, you’d pay a flat rate of $89/month for your products, website, and checkout. You could also add on 1,500 email subscribers for $17/month (or $13/month billed annually) bringing your total to $106/month.
Bottom line: You would save over $200 per month to run the same business with Podia. And you’d get your website and blog included too.
Start your 30-day free trial today. We can’t wait to see what you make.
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, 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 annual Mover and Shaker plans. We also offer free email migrations with any annual Podia Email plan. Learn more about Podia’s free migrations here.