Podia and SendOwl both have tools for building your online business, and both make it easy to sell digital downloads, files, courses, and products.

Both platforms handle your checkout and file delivery, and you can set up an affiliate program, offer coupons, add upsells, and accept pre-sales. You can also build SEO-friendly product pages with Podia and SendOwl.

But Podia goes a step further by also including your website, blog, and built-in email marketing.

Build a full website and blog with Podia

With Podia, you can make a great-looking website with pre-designed sections that are easy to customize. You can adjust your colors, fonts, layouts, content, and design elements so every page of your website feels like you.

In just a few clicks, you can add hero sections, image grids, FAQs, featured products, testimonials, videos, and embeds from 1900+ sources around the web. Each page has SEO settings so people can find your work, and many online business owners use Podia to make email newsletter landing pages, build full blogs, and set up social media link in bio pages.

SendOwl has an online store feature, but it only lets you showcase up to 10 digital goods and there are limited customizations, so you might need to connect (and pay for) a third-party website builder like WordPress.

Digital products with Podia and SendOwl

You can sell digital products with Podia and SendOwl, but SendOwl lacks an advanced online course builder. SendOwl does, however, support physical products. For payment gateways, you can connect Stripe or PayPal.

With Podia, you can create virtually any type of digital product.

Here’s a look at what you can sell with Podia:

• Self-paced, drip, live, and cohort online courses

• Digital downloads like ebooks, audio files, videos, and printables

• Memberships and subscriptions to products

• 1:1 coaching sessions

• Live webinars and replays

• Product bundles

Everything you make on Podia can be free or paid, and you can set up payment plans, add upsells at checkout, choose a custom start date, limit seats, and create product waitlists before your products are ready. You can also sell online courses and products that are integrated with Discord for online community functionality.

For your payment processor, you can connect Stripe, PayPal, Google Pay, Apple Pay, iDeal, SEPA Debit, and Stripe Link.

And because your products are already connected to your website, Podia automatically generates a beautiful sales page for each offer that you can fully customize. No need for integrations with or extra landing page tools.

Podia has built in email marketing

In addition to your products and website, Podia has your email marketing tools ready to go. Choose from a library of email templates to create beautiful newsletters, build sales funnels and automated campaigns, segment and tag your audience to contact specific members, and send as many emails as you like. All email features are free for your first 100 subscribers so you can get started whether you’re an email beginner or seasoned pro.

SendOwl doesn’t have email marketing built in, but they have integrations with tools like Mailchimp and Convertkit.

Podia vs SendOwl plans and pricing

So how much does all this cost?

Podia has a 30-day free trial with all features so you can test everything out before you pay anything. After the trial, you can choose from two pricing plans:

• Mover: $39/month and 5% transaction fee ($33/month when paid annually): Mover includes your website, blog, and sales pages as well as unlimited digital products, online course creation, and third-party code. You also get 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 features (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 a monthly or 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.

SendOwl has a 7-day free trial and three pricing plans with monthly fees and transaction fees:

• Starter plan: $18/month, this plan has a 5% transaction fee (minimum of $0.89 fee per order) and 10GB of file storage

• Growth plan: $37/month, this plan has a $0.47 fee per order and 100GB of file storage

• Pro plan: $89/month, this plan has a $0.28 fee per order and 200GB of file storage

One thing that’s different between SendOwl and Podia is that SendOwl has extra fees on all plans, and these fees apply to free products as well as paid ones. So you essentially pay to give away free products to your audience.

With Podia, you can upgrade to the Shaker plan to remove transaction fees altogether.

If you’re looking for an all-in-one platform for running your online business that includes a website, blog, digital products, courses, email marketing, and affiliates — without fees on every order — we’d love to have you at Podia.

You can try Podia free for 30 days. We can’t wait to see what you make.