Stop Losing Sales—See Why SamCart Beats Kajabi at Checkout

If you’re serious about scaling your digital product business, this comparison isn’t even close. Kajabi helps you host content. SamCart helps you sell it.

Why SamCart Wins at Checkout

More sales. Bigger orders. Fewer lost customers.

SamCart isn’t just a place to collect payments—it’s a purpose-built selling machine. With features that drive conversions and unlock revenue at every step of the funnel, SamCart gives you the tools Kajabi leaves out.

Features
Samcart
Kajabi
CheckoutOS™
✅ Slide Checkout, Embedded Checkout, or Express Checkout
❌ Not supported
Optimized Checkout
✅ 1-click checkout, Apple Pay, PayPal, BNPL, and more
⚠️ Basic checkout with limited flexibility
Order Bumps, Upsells, & Upgrades
✅ Add 1-click revenue boosters to any product
⚠️ Limited upsell support, no pre-checkout bumps or upgrades
Cart Abandonment Recovery
✅ Included for all customers
❌ Not available
Subscription Saver (Dunning)
✅ Built-in to retain recurring customers
❌ No dunning support
Pages (AI Landing Page Builder)
✅ AI-powered builder for landing pages, link-in-bio, lead generation and more.
⚠️ Basic builder, no AI or dynamic layouts
Integrations
✅ Connects to Kajabi, Circle, email tools, CRMs, Shopify, Zapier & more
⚠️ Limited integrations and APIs
Affiliate Center
✅ Built-in affiliate management tools
❌ Not supported
Advanced Reporting
✅ Deep funnel analytics, LTV, AOV, and customer insights
⚠️ Basic reports, limited checkout visibility
Full Feature Access at $79/mo
✅ Yes, no locked features
❌ Most tools gated behind $199/mo+

Top Sellers Choose SamCart

Join 75,000+ creators and brands who trust SamCart to scale their online business.

75,000+
Businesses Powered
19 Million+
Orders Placed
37 Million+
Products Sold
6 Billion+
Dollars Processed

What Makes SamCart Different?

We’re not just another all-in-one. We’re the revenue platform.

While Kajabi helps you publish content, SamCart is laser-focused on one thing: getting you paid. From high-converting checkouts to automated recovery tools and AI-powered pages, we give you every advantage to scale your sales—starting at just $79/month.
Here's how it works...
digital product

Embed Your Checkout Anywhere

Deploy a lightning-fast checkout wherever you need it – no coding or design skills required.

Embedded Checkout brings eCommerce to any page
35% faster than any other checkout online
"Express Checkout" with one simple link
Pre-designed templates you can set up with one click
Mobile-first design for frictionless checkout on every device

Add-Ons That Get You More Customers

Our checkout isn't just fast & flexible, it's built to get you more customers around the clock...

1-Click Checkout in less than 7 seconds
Mulitple payment options like 'Pay-What-You-Want' and ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ via Klarna, Affirm, and  Afterpay
Dynamic Coupons to incentivize buyers
Full support for subscriptions, payment plans, & trials
Cart Recovery to bring back lost sales
accept payments for digital sales
increase conversion rates on your site

Double Your Average Order Value

Let your customers easily buy everything else you sell with just a a few clicks:

Order Bumps for cross-selling 
1-Click Upsells & downsells 
Product Tiers that incentivize upgrades
A/B Test Support to drive up results
Upgrade purchases to higher priced plans and services

Courses Built to Convert

Thousands of creators use SamCart to deliver digital courses, coaching programs, and gated content—all powered by the same checkout engine that maximizes your sales.
Seamless Course Setup

Set Up for Success

Create an entire online course within minutes that your students will love with elements like content tiers, lessons, worksheets and quizzes, and dripped content they’ll receive over time.

Personalize the experience by adding your own videos, images, text, and audio.

Create online courses quickly & easily
Online course management software
Easy Student Management

Enroll and Encourage Your Students

Easily accept new students and manage your whole course in the Courses App with comprehensive student management and progress tracking so you can monitor their ongoing success throughout the course.

Course Cross-Sells™

Cross Sell to Sell More

Course Cross-Sells™ let you advertise your other courses and products to your students within the courses they’ve already purchased. They can checkout easily using the payment method from their original order in just one click.

Create more sales opportunities, streamline the sales process, and receive payments instantly, putting more revenue in your pocket.

Cross sell online courses
no more 30%: enroll now
Auto-Enroll

Instead of losing 30% of your students, our new Auto-Enroll™ technology drops them right into their course immediately after they buy. No more complicated login processes, lost passwords, or hours answering angry emails.

Online ecourse library
Featured Courses

Select which courses to showcase at the top of your courses library. Featured courses allows you to advertise your highest-performing courses and gives you complete control of what you highlight to your students.

media library for online courses
Hosted Videos

No more paying a secondary service to host your videos or unlisted YouTube links – now, you can do it all in-house with SamCart’s video hosting partnership with Wistia. Enjoy no upload limits and lightning-fast streaming capabilities.

Ready to Sell Smarter?

SamCart dominates Kajabi in every feature comparison. While Kajabi’s plans start at $89, the tools you actually need to grow your business are locked behind their $199 and $399 tiers. With SamCart, you get full access to every feature on every plan—starting at just $79. That means you can launch, grow, and scale without limits, right from day one.

Trusted by the industry's biggest creators

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Set It Up, Free.
(Or Have Us Do It For You)

Try it out totally free, or chat with our team about having us set everything up for you and you can see the results for yourself.
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