Kartra — Go Beyond Selling Courses on Thinkific and Gain Everything You Need to Grow Your Business in One Spot

-For One Low Price-

SEE WHY THOUSANDS LEFT THINKIFIC FOR AN ALL-IN-ONE MARKETING PLATFORM THAT MAKES IT EASY TO ATTRACT MORE CUSTOMERS…

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With Kartra, you’ll have everything you need to efficiently scale your course creation business from zero to 6-figures (or more) per month.

Kartra’s advanced automations, landing page builder, helpdesk and more can give every subscriber and buyer a VIP experience – increasing sales, customer satisfaction, and retention.

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You want customers to enjoy your course and complete the whole thing, but only focusing on this aspect of your business can limit your growth.

Thinkific is the best for simple course creation and delivery. Beyond that, it doesn’t include all of the marketing tools that your business will need to grow.

One-Trick Pony vs Swiss Army Knife

If you ask experienced marketers how to host and sell your online courses, you’ll most likely hear these two names:

Kartra and Thinkific.

Both tools help entrepreneurs do the same thing: grow their knowledge-based business.

But one tool only focuses on the creation side – not so much in the marketing and sales side.

The other tool does both. It helps you host the courses and sell them 24/7.

In this page, we'll dive in-depth and see which solution is a better fit for your needs.

Kartra vs. Thinkific

Kartra is an all-in-one marketing platform that helps you sell almost anything you can imagine.

Thinkific is an online course builder that helps you create and sell membership sites.

When it comes to course creation, both have similarities like...

Unlimited courses and membership sites
Unlimited students and members
Affiliate marketing capability

Quizzes and surveys
Checkout payment plans, discounts, and coupon

However, these are the only features they have in common.

And the list you see above is 60% of what you'll get for Thinkific’s most popular plan ( $149/mo billed annually). Thankfully, Kartra includes everything you need to grow your business in one spot.

With Kartra's Silver Package, you can do everything Thinkific does and more!

Build online courses with assignments using Kartra Quizzes and Surveys feature…
Create websites that connect with your audience using Kartra’s easy-to-use, drag and drop Page Builder…
Create stunning, high-converting funnels that sell your courses around the clock using Kartra’s Funnel Mapper…
Boost your sales using email and SMS automations to send personalized messages to your leads

Turn your leads into buyers by leveraging next-level retargeting capabilities…

In other words, with Kartra, you won’t need any other subscriptions to reach more customers and generate income around the clock.

Here’s why:

Kartra Includes Every Marketing Tool You Need to Scale Your Course Creation Business.

Thinkific has great course creation tools, but courses won’t sell themselves.

You need high-converting landing pages, email marketing, campaigns, sales funnels, and automations.

That's where Kartra is superior.

Whether you’re selling multiple courses, bundles, low-ticket offers, high-ticket coaching programs, membership sites, or even subscriptions — you can easily build it inside Kartra.

You can even create payment plans and provide coupons to specific leads.

Since every tool is interconnected inside of one system, you don’t have to integrate anything. Kartra will automatically connect everything for you, making it easier to launch new marketing campaigns than ever before.

To top things off, Kartra boasts a Funnel Mapper, which lets you map out funnels within minutes. When you pair that with Kartra’s Funnel Simulator, you can even forecast the future earnings of each funnel.

You can also increase customer satisfaction and increase brand loyalty by using Kartra’s Helpdesk — where you can create an entire customer service department. You can create FAQ sections, ticketing department, and even live chats.

Unlike other platforms, Kartra helps you succeed at every stage of your business growth – from lead generation to conversions, and even to customer retention.

This is why a lot of course creators chose to grow with Kartra.

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Boost Sales by Building Proven-and-Tested Funnels and Campaigns 2X-3X Faster.

Thinkific provides you with generic landing page designs with limited customization capabilities.

Yes, you can add sections, change its background colors, add images, and replace the text – but that’s it.

That’s why most Thinkific landing pages look similar.

If you want to add your personality, branding, and colors, you’ll need to hire an expert or buy additional tools to customize your landing pages.

After you’ve built your landing page, you’ll need another software for your email marketing.

You won’t face these challenges with Kartra.

Kartra has over 450 page templates. You can drag-and-drop the sections to your liking. You can also include pop-ups to get more leads. Plus A/B split-test pages to see you know exactly which page converts the best.

You’ll also get access to over 60 done-for-you funnels ready to be deployed. Simply choose which funnel you want, click create, and then wait. After a few minutes, a fully-integrated funnel will be imported into your account that’s ready for your customization.

For example, Kartra offers a Membership Campaign. This means you can build your entire membership area with just a few clicks. All you need to do is edit the sales copy, update the pricing, and add your deliverables.

Since all of your marketing tools are in one place, you won’t have to bother with integrating things together.

You can feel confident that your landing page will integrate with your email marketing, for example, or that your checkout pages will connect with your payment gateway.

Using Kartra, everything works as you designed.

Unfortunately, you can't say the same with Thinkific...

With Thinkific, You Need to Buy and Duct-Tape Different Marketing Tools Together.

Since Thinkific is specifically a course creation platform, you have to pay separately for email marketing, landing pages, video marketing, and more…

This is a major disadvantage because there’s a greater chance for your systems to break when you’re connecting many different marketing tools together.

For example, if one of your integrations unexpectedly malfunctions, then your entire funnel can stop producing income – and you might not catch the error until you’ve lost thousands of dollars in sales.

To make things worse, you’d need to contact a separate support team for each of those individual tools.

With Kartra, you don’t have to deal with that hassle.

Kartra’s all-in-one ecosystem simply makes your marketing work.

No more duct-taping.

No more worrying.

Thinkific Encourages Course Creation —
Not Overall Business Growth

Thinkific Grow Plan

This plan costs $149 per month, billed annually and includes:

Unlimited courses
2 admins
3 communities
20 spaces per community
Unlimited students
0% transaction fees
Phone and priority email support
Removal of Thinkific branding
Bulk enrolments
Bulk student emailer
API access
Thinkific advanced academy courses
Everything else in the starter plan

Kartra Silver Plan

This plan costs $149 per month, billed annually and includes:

Up to 12,500 Leads
3 custom domains
Unlimited emails
Unlimited bandwidth
Unlimited pages
Unlimited videos
Unlimited products
Unlimited membership sites
Unlimited team members
Unlimited helpdesks
Funnel Mapper
Funnel Simulator
Kartra Agency
0% transaction fees ⓘ
API access
Katranaut Training Program

The adage "build it and they will come" no longer applies in digital marketing.

If you want to sell your courses, you will need to market them.

At $149 per month, Thinkific only provides you with the tools to build courses. You won't get access to advanced digital marketing tools like email marketing, video marketing, SMS marketing, etc.

At the same price point of $149 per month, you'll get EVERYTHING Thinkific has and more with Kartra.

You can build high-converting landing pages, quickly customize done-for-you funnels, design email marketing automations, check advanced analytics, create funnel maps and so much more.

Plus, you get access to customer retention tools like Kartra Helpdesk --- where you can give customers 24/7 customer support.

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Can Thinkific's Limited Features Turn Your Ideas into Reality?

Thinkific is a fantastic platform to host your courses and membership sites.

But when you start marketing and selling, Thinkific doesn’t have the tools you need to grow your business long term.

You can’t set up email marketing campaigns with advanced features (like tagging, triggers, if-then rules, etc.) to increase your sales...

You can’t create a help desk to efficiently answer inquiries, increase customer satisfaction, and boost retention…

You can't build entire sales funnels that sell your courses and memberships 24/7..

You don't have access to advanced analytics to help you maximize your sales when you start to scale...

Kartra is designed for course creators who want every tool they need to easily grow their business in one spot — whether they’re brand new to marketing, or they’re experts.

Check Kartra's Powerful Features

VISUAL CAMPAIGN BUILDER

VISUAL CAMPAIGN BUILDER	KARTRA	Thinkific
Goal Based Automation		X
Campaign Triggers		X
Custom Wait Steps		X
Conditional Filtering		X
Split Testing		X
Pre-built Campaign Marketplace		X
Custom Domains
Drag & Drop Page Builder		X
Web Page Templates
Add Custom HTML		limited
Responsive Design		X
Page Analytics		X
Done For You Campaigns		X

VIDEO MARKETING

VIDEO MARKETING	KARTRA	Thinkific
Video Hosting		X
Video Playlists		limited
Clickable Video Call To Action		X
Share To Unlock Videos		X
Video Analytics		X

HELPDESK

HELPDESK	KARTRA	Thinkific
Built-In Helpdesk		X
Live Chat		X
Helpdesk Canned Responses		X
Customizable Wikis		X
Embeddable Helpdesks		X
Detailed Helpdesk Analytics		X

PAGE BUILDER

PAGE BUILDER	KARTRA	Thinkific
Built-in Landing Page Creator		X
Landing Page Personalization		X
Landing Page Template Marketplace		X
Custom Thank You Pages		limited
Built-in Web Form Creator		X
Pre-filled Forms		X

CALENDARS

CALENDARS	KARTRA	Thinkific
Appointment Calendars		X
Automated Reminder Notifications		X
Charge For Sessions In Calendar App		X

EMAIL MARKETING

EMAIL MARKETING	KARTRA	Thinkific
Built-in Email Editor
Email Personalization
Native Email Automation		X
Automated Sequences
Email Templates		X
Lead Importation
List Cleaning		X
SMS Sequences		X
Expiring Tags		X
Email Split Testing		X
Automated Reengagement
Broadcasts
Segmentation
Message Open Tracking		X
Click-through Tracking		limited
Emails Per Month	limited	Unlimited
Automated Follow-up
Lead Scoring		X

CRM

CRM	KARTRA	Thinkific
Visual Contact Workflow Management		X
Custom Fields		X
Notes		X
Groups
Tags
Automation Log		X
Activity Log

ECOMMERCE

ECOMMERCE	KARTRA	Thinkific
Order Forms
Multiple Payment Processing
Taxes		X
Free Trials
Payment Plans
Subscriptions
Credit Card Decline Follow-up		X
Abandoned Cart Follow-up
Coupon Creation
One-Click Upsells
Built-In Checkout
Multiple Price Points with Flexibility
Ecommerce for Digital or Physical Products		X
Checkout Page Templates
International Currencies		X
Link Tracking		X
Page Tracking		X
Detailed Sales and Transaction Analytics		limited

AFFILIATES

AFFILIATE	KARTRA	Thinkific
Automated Affiliate Management		limited
Built-In Affiliate Questionnaire		X
Referral Tracking Links
Promo Tools		X
Earnings Reports
Automated Affiliate Payments		X
Affiliate Marketplaces		X
Affiliate Analytics
Analytics for your affiliate sales for other brands		X

MEMBERSHIP SITES

MEMBERSHIP SITES	KARTRA	Thinkific
Multiple Membership Levels
Page-by-page Content Protection
Drip Content
Centralized Membership Portal
Built-in Membership Site
Host Files
Comment Control
Locked Posts
Membership Site Analytics

TRACKING & ANALYTICS

TRACKING & ANALYTICS	KARTRA	Thinkific
Tracked Links		X
Split Testing		X
Page Tracking		X
Visual Performance Reporting		X
Funnel Conversion Reports		X
Lifetime Value Reports		limited
Goal Conversion Rate Reports		X
Goal Conversion Time Reports		X
Custom Date Range Reporting Filters		limited
Video Analytics		X
Detailed Form Analytics		X
Analytics For Affiliate Sales for Other Brands		X
List Analytics		X
Broadcast Analytics
Sequence Analytics
Detailed Sales and Transaction Analytics
Detailed Help Desk Analytics		X
Page Analytics		X
Membership Site Analytics

SERVICES

SERVICES	KARTRA	Thinkific
Annual Contract Required	No Contract required	No
Chat Support
Email Support
Live Training Events
Online Training

Get The Tools to Create Unlimited Membership Sites, Build High-Converting Funnels, and Sell Your Courses 24/7

Why choose to buy platforms that force you to duct-tape multiple tools together?

Kartra solves that problem by providing you with an all-in-one marketing platform that includes 24/7 customer support and an online community of loyal users who have grown exponentially using the platform.

No downloads required. No hidden costs or extra charges.

Ask yourself these questions before you sign up for software that can make or break your business goals:

Is it user-friendly?

Kartra - YES ✅

Can I create an online course or membership site?

Kartra - YES ✅

Can it help you sell, deliver, and scale?

Kartra - YES ✅

Is it an all-in-one marketing solution?

Kartra - YES ✅

Can it function without costly integrations?

Kartra - YES ✅

Is there in-depth analytics and reporting?

Kartra - YES ✅

Is it an affordable, robust marketing platform?

Kartra - YES ✅

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Trusted By Marketers Worldwide

Kartra is simply the best

Not only do I set up, host and market my online courses; I use it for my digital appearance and with all the statistics and analytics I know immediately if, how or where to tweak a campaign. Client communication is made easy....

I do not need any other software to host or market my online courses. Everything ties together. So much time and money saved!

Patricia P.

Kartra User

Kartra is Real Online Business Software

Love it. Sometimes I would rather get someone on the phone for support because I think it would be easier to get stuff done but Kartra's support desk is pretty quick.

There are too many features to list but my favorite is the Memberships, the ease of making a Portal with many courses, all the Done for you campaigns, the all in one ability of email, forms, integrations, the ability to interact with Zapier and other workflow products, drag and drop page building, I can go on but I only have so much space. Genisis Digital really understands how an online business should operate when they built this software.

Reasons for Choosing Kartra: The ability to use several payment gateways, ease of use and ability to sell physical products and integration with Zapier.

I needed a more robust platform for what we were creating.

Rocco C.

Kartra User

Constantly impressed

Overall: I find the more that I use Kartra, the more benefits I find and thought I look forward to passing much of the admin side of my business over to someone else soon, I also know it will be easy for them to learn how to use it.

Pros: I have found everything intuitive and easy to use, I recommend others looking for this type of software to come and use it. Whenever I have had technical issues or have been unsure of the functionality I have always had an answer.

Jacqui G.

Kartra User

Kartra allows you to offer customer support with Helpdesk

Helpdesk enables you to set up a ticketing system for multiple departments and grants your agents access to your customer’s entire history with your business.

Two helpdesks are provided with their Starter Plan, while on the higher plans you have access to unlimited helpdesks. Kajabi has no such system.

Al Rose

Kartra User

Marketing Is Finally EASY!

I love that this is an all-in-one marketing system. I can manage my customer database, run promotions, segment my customers, send emails, and set up all of my sales pages and forms ALL from the one program. It also has a whole affiliate management system and so much customization.

Anja C.

Kartra User

It does everything I need, it is a basket of tools.

I love baskets of tools, they make me more effective. Kartra does so much that I had to grow into the app. As time has passed and I have understood my client better Kartra has become more effective for me. I am a hair coach and have spent the last two years learning how to care for my tribe online. I purchased Kartra even before I understood all its functionalities, that is how much I can see the opportunities Kartra provides. Maybe I don't know enough, however, I feel Kartra is the absolute best app basket around. Every time I look at other apps I just keep coming back to Kartra.

Jennifer A.

Kartra User

It really does Everything

That's WHY I said it's the "Full Monty'' of Software Tools...I was spending well over $1K per Month on Dedicated Server Hosting, a Dedicated Email Server, WordPress Membership Websites, GetResponse, SendGrid SMTP Service, and the list goes on and on... I'm saving over $800 Per Month by moving to Karta AND I'm not concerned about Hackers breaking into my WordPress Memberships or Members NOT getting their login credentials... Kartra is TOP Shelf!

Guy S.

Kartra User

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