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A SamCart alternative for selling digital products and building your online business.

Podia is an affordable alternative to SamCart that lets you create, host, and sell your online courses, digital downloads, webinars, coaching, and community.

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Sell everything under one roof.

With Podia, you can run your entire business on a single platform and sell digital downloads, online courses, webinars, coaching, and communities. Podia also includes a complete site builder, email marketing, and more, helping many creators replace 3-6+ tools, including SamCart.

Get started for free.

Podia’s free plan includes a website, online community, one digital download, and one coaching product. Launch your online business and share your knowledge with no upfront costs. (Free plan users simply pay an 8% transaction fee on sales.)

A custom site you can be proud of.

Build an entire website for your business, complete with unlimited sales pages, with our easier-than-drag-and-drop page builder. From hosting to content delivery, we’ve got you covered. Best of all? It’s free.

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Podia in action

Wondering if Podia is a better platform for you? Go behind the scenes in this video walkthrough, where Ben will show you the ins and outs of Podia’s software and how it can help your business.

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Comparing Podia vs. SamCart

Podia

SamCart

Free plan

Podia is yes

SamCart is no

Price

Podia isFree, or $39/month - $199/month

SamCart is$49/month - $199/month

Free migrations

Podia is yes

SamCart is no

Online courses

Podia is yes

SamCart is yes

Memberships

Podia is yes

SamCart is yes

Downloads

Podia is yes

SamCart is yes

Coaching

Podia is yes

SamCart is yes

Community

Podia is yes

SamCart is no

Webinars

Podia is yes

SamCart is no

Email marketing

Podia is yes

SamCart isRequires third-party integration

Unlimited products

Podia is yes

SamCart is yes

Unlimited customers

Podia is yes

SamCart is yes

Your own website

Podia is yes

SamCart is yes

Teammates

Podia is yes

SamCart is yes

Buy buttons

Podia is yes

SamCart is yes

Messaging

Podia is yes

SamCart is no

Built-in affiliate program

Podia is yes

SamCart is yes

Chat support

Podia is yes

SamCart is no

Creator friendliness score

Podia is90.91

SamCart is76.62

Need help moving your products and customers to Podia?

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The Creator Friendliness Index

Which platforms put creators first?

The Creator Friendliness Index uses 20 ranking factors to determine how friendly a company’s policies are for creators.

See how the top creator tools stack up →

Why creators are making the switch from SamCart to Podia.

Here are some more of the reasons creators have shared for why they’ve chosen Podia to power their business.

The happiest customers on the internet.

Podia’s customer satisfaction (NPS) scores are in the top 0.01% of all companies on the internet. Feel free to Google our reviews and see for yourself!

A support team that's here for you.

The number one reason people cite for loving Podia? Our customer service. We’re here to help with real people offering chat support 7 days a week.

Free migrations.

Sit back, relax, and let us do the heavy lifting. Our migration service makes switching to Podia easy, and is completely free on all annual plans.

Make more sales with friction-free checkout.

Forget complicated checkout experiences that cause frustration and drop off. Our checkout is one of the simplest on the market, and it’s optimized to make you sales.

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.

— Shalena D.I.V.A., CEO of Best Selling Year

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Join the 150,000+ creators who use Podia to create websites, sell digital products, and build online communities.

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FAQS

Quick answers

Don’t see your answer? Reach out to us, we’d love to help!

  • 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.

  • Yes! We offer free (and hassle-free) migrations on any annual plan. Get started here.

  • Yes! Podia has a free forever plan that includes your full website, one digital download, one coaching product, customer chat messaging, and your online community. Sign up for free today to see for yourself!

  • Absolutely! You can see how Podia stacks up to many of our competitors right here.

    We also have some head-to-head comparisons of other leading platforms in case you’re choosing between those, including:

  • 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.