I’ve taken a couple of roles where the clients have ended up with Kajabi and ThriveCart and wonder why they need both. There are a few reasons to use ThriveCart with Kajabi. It’s great to understand the differences between these services and how you can use them together – and I have the notes to share!
Let’s take a look at ThriveCart first.
What is ThriveCart?
ThriveCart is a service that helps you build sales funnels and order pages for offering your digital and physical products.
It doesn’t connect natively to Kajabi, so we have to use Zapier to grant the offers or submit a form with additional information to my clients’ Kajabi sites.
The Upsides
Currently, the price of ThriveCart is a one-time fee. At either $500 or $700, you pay no more!
With ThriveCart, you have all payment options on the same checkout page, which is something I prefer compared to Kajabi. You don’t have to create a landing page to choose between annual and monthly. Instead, the checkout page will offer all payment options for that product. Overall, ThriveCart offers a nicer checkout experience.
ThriveCart has more suggestive buying. The upsell, downsell, and order bumps are all easy to set up. This makes sense since converting is what ThriveCart is all about!
It also integrates with Google Sheets, so you can easily automate a spreadsheet for easy review of sales for a campaign.
ThriveCart does fixed commissions or percentages as opposed to Kajabi’s percentages only.
You can take it to the next level with Joint Venture management.
The Downsides
One of my biggest peeves is the zaps. There can be a lot of Zaps! With some clients, we must upgrade during an event month, but you can downgrade a couple of weeks later.
There can also be quite a bit of time setting up the zaps depending on how many products and offers you have. It’s not something you want to use when offering unique payment plans to individuals.
Of course, all the zapping comes after you’ve created the products and offers within Kajabi and the products in ThriveCart!
After the purchase, the product and offer will look like it was free when you look at it from within Kajabi. Kajabi should never be your go-to financial system, but it is nice to have it show paid when it is an “all-in-one” platform. Some people do not want to jump around multiple systems.
So do we want to use ThriveCart with Kajabi?
Well, it depends. What are your priorities?
After weighing the points above, how do you feel about it?
If your priority is to have a great sales funnel and convert leads, and you are willing to take the time to set up the ThriveCart products and the zaps to go with them, do it! If you want to create high converting cart pages, upsells & affiliate campaigns with ease check out ThriveCart today.
If you feel that Kajabi does well enough and keeps everything in one place, then that’s where it’s at for you!
We’d love to chat with you about the best for your sales funnel. Let’s hop on a quick call to discuss your next steps. Book a free 15-minute call right here.
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