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.
What features do I get with Podia and SamCart?
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
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Online courses, drip courses, email courses, cohort courses, and courses bundled with other products
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1:1 coaching and webinars
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Ebooks, printables, PDFs, and other digital files
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Upsells, payment plans, access limits, and seat limits
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Sales funnels, lead magnets, and automated email campaigns
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Email newsletters and templates
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Custom website fonts, colors, and design sections
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Customer chat messaging
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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 and SamCart Pricing
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:
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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.
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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.
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Launch: $79/month ($59/month paid annually) Includes checkout and sales pages
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Grow: $159/month ($119/month paid annually) Includes checkout automations, upsells, order bumps, and subscriptions
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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.