Flodesk
Beautiful emails or a business you can run on one platform? What if you could have both?
Flodesk put a lot of effort into their premade templates, and it shows. Flodesk emails look amazing, but it’s hard to connect them with the rest of your tools unless you use Zapier (which can bring extra fees and headaches). What if you could have beautiful emails in the same platform as the rest of your business?
Flodesk vs. Podia Email
Flodesk has beautiful emails and templates. Podia can send beautiful emails, plus it’s already in the same platform as your website, community, and digital products. Which option is right for you?
Podia
✓ Free plan with 100 subscribers
✓ Send unlimited emails
✓ Email templates
✓ Segments and automation
✓ Free website
✓ Sell digital products
✓ Online course builder
✓ Online community feature
✓ Built-in affiliate management
Flodesk
x No free plan
✓ Send unlimited emails
✓ Email templates
✓ Segments and automation
x No free website
✓ Sell digital products on the Checkout plan
x No online course builder
x No online community feature
x No affiliate management
Comparing Podia vs. Flodesk
Podia
Flodesk Email
Flodesk Checkout
Free plan
Podia is yes
Flodesk Email is no
Flodesk Checkout is no
Unlimited email sends
Podia is yes
Flodesk Email is yes
Flodesk Checkout is no
Email templates
Podia is yes
Flodesk Email is yes
Flodesk Checkout is no
Segments & tags
Podia is yes
Flodesk Email is yes
Flodesk Checkout is no
Automation
Podia is yes
Flodesk Email is yes
Flodesk Checkout is no
Visual email designer
Podia is yes
Flodesk Email is yes
Flodesk Checkout is no
Website
Podia is yes
Flodesk Email is no
Flodesk Checkout is no
Blogging
Podia is yes
Flodesk Email is no
Sales pages
Podia is yes
Flodesk Email is no
Flodesk Checkout is yes
Checkout pages
Podia is yes
Flodesk Email is no
Flodesk Checkout is yes
Upsells
Podia is yes
Flodesk Email is no
Flodesk Checkout is yes
Accept payments
Podia is yes
Flodesk Email is no
Flodesk Checkout is yes
Sell digital products
Podia is yes
Flodesk Email is no
Flodesk Checkout is yes
Online course platform
Podia is yes
Flodesk Email is no
Flodesk Checkout is no
Online community platform
Podia is yes
Flodesk Email is no
Flodesk Checkout is no
Webinars
Podia is yes
Flodesk Email is no
Flodesk Checkout is no
Affiliate marketing management
Podia is yes
Flodesk Email is no
Flodesk Checkout is no
Video demo
Podia email in action
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’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.
I’m also loving the ability to email folks who have ‘This free product’ AND ‘That free product’ at the same time. My open rates have improved from around 22% to more like 35%."
Krystal Trammell, Rethink Birth
Start making sales on Podia’s free plan.
Podia’s free plan includes checkout and email for up to 100 subscribers, as well as a digital download, coaching product, community, and website. There’s no upfront cost, so you can start earning money off your passions and building your email list without opening your wallet.
Build a full website and unlimited pages.
No need to pay extra for third-party website builders. Podia gives you a free, beginner-friendly website tool with unlimited pages so you can customize your online home however you like. Plus, you can seamlessly add eye-catching email opt-in forms with a click.
Your email automatically connects with your website and digital products.
Streamline your business by keeping your subscribers, leads, customers, and affiliates in one place. Sell online courses, digital products, community, coaching, webinars, and anything else you want using a tool that’s already linked to your email list.
Why creators choose Podia over Flodesk
Here are some reasons entrepreneurs, creators, and small business owners choose Podia to power their businesses.
Launch bigger with built-in product waitlists.
Build hype around your product and gauge audience interest with waitlists. Followers can choose to get emails about a product before it’s available for sale. When you make it available, you can send a special email to those who have already expressed interest.
Track which emails generate the most sales.
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.
Simple and fair pricing.
With Podia, you get 100 email subscribers for free on every plan. After that, you can add on more for an affordable price as you grow. No surprises.
A support team that's here for you.
The number one reason people cite for loving Podia? Our customer service. We’re always here to help, with real people offering email support on all plans, and email + chat support on all paid plans.
What could your emails look like? Here are some of the free email templates available with Podia
Podia vs. Flodesk: Which one is right for me?
Podia and Flodesk make it easy to grow an email list and automate your email marketing, but while Flodesk primarily focuses on email, Podia gives you a wide range of tools for running your entire business.
Every creator business has different needs, so to help you make the best choice for you, let’s see how Podia and Flodesk compare.
Pricing and plan limits for Podia and Flodesk
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 online 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.
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 a free plan and three paid plans with additional features, as well as an optional email add-on you can use as your list grows.
Start by choosing the Free, Starter, Mover, or Shaker plan.
- Free (10% transaction fee): Includes a website, community, one digital download, one online coaching product, and customer messaging
- Starter: $9/month or $4/month when paid annually (8% transaction fee), includes everything on the Free plan plus a custom domain, integration with Google Analytics, and live chat support
- Mover: $39/month or $33/month when paid annually (5% transaction fee), includes everything on the Starter plan 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 and embeddable checkout
**All Podia plans come with 100 email subscribers for free. **
You can also use all of Podia’s email features, including unlimited email broadcasts, automations, campaigns, segmentation, tagging, and templates.
As your list grows, you can add on more as you need:
- 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
- See the full pricing scale here
Let’s say you had an email list with 1,000 subscribers. On Podia, you could use the free plan plus the email add-on for a total of $17/month. You’d get a full website, the ability to sell a digital product and coaching, an online community, sales pages, and unlimited email newsletter sends and campaigns.
If you wanted unlimited digital products and online courses, you could upgrade to 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. If you wanted both email and the ability to sell digital products, you’d need the Everything plan for $64/month.
Flodesk’s everything plan doesn’t include an online community, customer 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.
Can I use segments, tags, and automation?
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.
How much control do I have over my email design?
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.
Are websites and landing pages included?
Podia includes a full website with unlimited pages on all plans, including the free plan. 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.
Can I sell digital products?
Yep! You can sell digital products with Podia and Flodesk Checkout.
On Podia, all plans include the ability to sell digital products, including the free plan. You can sell a digital download, coaching session, and online community access on the free plan, or you can upgrade to the Mover and Shaker plans for unlimited digital products and the ability to sell online courses and webinars.
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 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. If you’d like to see what different digital products look like in Podia, check out our demo site.
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 community feature so you’ll need to connect with a different tool to sell community plans. 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.
How can I get support if I get stuck?
Podia users get expert support, help docs, free training courses, guides, video tutorials, and access to our welcoming Creator Community on all plans. Email support is available to everyone and paid users also get quick chat support.
Flodesk has a help center and training resources through Flodesk University. There’s a Facebook group where you can ask questions and email support.
If you’re looking for an email service that automatically connects to your website, digital products, courses, and affiliates, give Podia a try today. You can get started for free and scale up as you grow, and our team will be here cheering you on every step of the way.
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Podia is an all-in-one creator platform with a full website builder, digital products, online course creation, webinars, coaching, community, affiliate marketing, email marketing, embeds, integrations, analytics, and customer messaging.
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Yep! Podia Email is completely free for up to 100 subscribers, so you can start building your email list today. Once you reach 100 subscribers, you will have the option to upgrade to a paid plan.
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Podia Email is completely free for up to 100 subscribers. If you have more than 100 subscribers, Podia Email plans start at $9 per month ($7 per month annually). See the exact price for your number of subscribers on the pricing page.
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Podia Email is a full-featured email platform with everything you need to run your online business. See how Podia Email stacks up against other email service providers in our detailed comparison articles:
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Sure thing! We can migrate your subscribers when you sign up for an annual Podia Email plan. The free migration includes your subscribers’ names, email addresses, tags, and existing automations. Learn more about Podia Email migrations.
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Absolutely! Podia Email has an easy to use visual email designer, so you can create beautiful looking emails in no time. You can use one of the pre-designed templates to get started, or create your own. Customize your colors, fonts, images, sections, backgrounds, buttons, and more. Plus all emails sent from Podia Email are fully mobile responsive so they will look great on any device.
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Absolutely! You can check out our Podia demo site, which we’ve built to show you what the Podia experience will look like for both you and your customers.
There are also dozens of creator example sites on our Examples page, so you can see what other creators just like you have built using Podia.
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We’d love to. Podia’s customer support is here for you, seven days a week. Just reach out to us on chat and a real, friendly person will be delighted to help you out.