The free Podia alternative for sellers who already have a website
Podia bundles course hosting, a community and an email tool, and prices accordingly: $49/mo plus 5% per sale. If you already own those pieces, you are paying for a suite to get a checkout.
Free up to $3K in monthly sales. No credit card needed.
Is Checkout Page a good Podia alternative?
It depends on what you already own. Podia hosts courses, a community and email for you, from $49/mo plus 5% per sale on its Mover plan, as of October 2026. Stay with Podia if you are starting from scratch and want all of that in one place. If your content, community and email list already live elsewhere, Checkout Page sells your courses, memberships, coaching and event tickets from the website you have, paid into your own Stripe account. It is free up to $3K in monthly sales, then $99/mo up to $10K.
Pricing checked October 2026.
Everything you sell on Podia, from the website you already have
Courses, coaching, memberships and digital products, plus what Podia can't do: event tickets with QR check-in and pay what you want pricing. One platform, on your own Stripe account.
Sell courses, coaching and access
One-time, payment plans or subscriptions, with access granted and files delivered the moment someone pays.
Subscriptions and memberships
Recurring billing with paid trials, setup fees and a self-serve customer portal.
Event tickets and check-in
Sell tickets with QR codes and check-in included. No extra tool.
Lead capture forms
Collect leads and customer details, synced to your email tools and CRM.
Donations and pay what you want
Flexible pricing, one-time or recurring.
Your own Stripe account
Everything runs on Stripe: payments, subscriptions, taxes and payouts, in your account.
Embedded checkouts
Sell inside your own website or funnel builder, not on a redirect.
Why sellers switch from Podia
Podia genuinely hosts your courses, community and list. The question is what that costs when you already have all three somewhere else.
Switching from
Podia
A whole suite, metered by plan, to get one checkout
Before Stripe's fees
- $49/mo and 5% of every sale on Mover
- 100 email subscribers on Mover, more costs extra
- Products capped at 50 on the cheapest plan
- No order bumps until $99/mo
- No pay what you want pricing
- No free plan, only a 14-day trial
Switching to
Checkout Page
The checkout, on the site you already have
Before Stripe's fees
- Free up to $3K in monthly sales, then from $99/mo
- No cut of your sales on any plan
- Order bumps and payment plans on the Free plan
- Your list stays in your own email tool
- Event tickets with QR check-in
- Lead capture forms built in
You might not need the whole suite
While Podia bundles course hosting, a community and email marketing, the cheaper plan meters all three. If your content, community and list already live elsewhere, you are paying suite prices for the checkout.
Pay for the selling, not the bundle
Free up to $3K in monthly sales, then volume-based plans from $99/mo ($83/mo billed yearly), with no percentage of your sales on any plan.
Keep your list in your own email tool
Customers and their custom field answers sync to the email platform and CRM you already use, with no subscriber cap deciding whether you can send.
Checkouts inside the pages you already own
Embed a checkout or open it as a pop-up on your own site, fully branded. Podia embeds on external sites too, so this is where the two are alike.
What Podia's Mover plan allows, at $49/mo plus 5%
Add checkouts to your website or share a payment link
Your checkout works wherever your customers are, with or without a website.
Embedded checkout
Add a checkout to your website with a copy-paste snippet. Works with any site builder.
Payment pop-up
Open a checkout on top of your page, so customers pay without leaving your site.
Hosted payment page
A branded page for your products at its own URL. Start selling without a website.
Payment link
Send a link in a bio, DM, email, or QR code, and customers pay on the spot.
Custom domains
Put your checkout pages and payment links on your own domain.
- $2M+
- in monthly sales processed
- 200K+
- monthly checkout views
- 16K+
- stores running on Checkout Page
Checkout Page vs Podia at a glance
Podia does things we do not, and the first rows say so. Read them together with what its cheapest plan costs and caps.
Payouts
Both pay out to your own Stripe account
- Checkout Page
- Yes
- Podia
- Yes
Pricing
Monthly billing. Podia Mover is $42/mo billed annually
- Checkout Page
- Free up to $3K/mo, then from $99/mo
- Podia
- From $49/mo plus 5% per sale
Free plan for low volume
Not just a time-limited trial
- Checkout Page
- Yes
- Podia
- 14-day trial
Platform fee on the cheapest plan
- Checkout Page
- None
- Podia
- 5% per sale
Hosted course content and community
Podia hosts your videos, lessons and community
- Checkout Page
- No
- Podia
- Yes
Built-in email marketing
Checkout Page connects to your own email tool instead
- Checkout Page
- No
- Podia
- Capped by plan
Embed checkouts on your own site
- Checkout Page
- Yes
- Podia
- Yes
Order bumps
- Checkout Page
- Yes
- Podia
- Shaker plan and up
Event tickets with QR check-in
Podia events take paid registrations, with no QR codes or check-in
- Checkout Page
- Yes
- Podia
- No
Pay what you want pricing
Podia suggests coupons or PayPal as a workaround
- Checkout Page
- Yes
- Podia
- No
Switch in an afternoon
No migration project. Recreate your products, connect Stripe and point your links at the new checkout.
- 1
Create your checkouts
Recreate your Podia products as checkouts: prices, payment plans and subscriptions, with access granted on payment.
- 2
Connect your Stripe account
Connect Stripe for secure payment processing. Every new sale pays out directly to you.
- 3
Redirect your links
Swap the buy links on your website and in your emails. Customers see your brand at every step.
"As a non-technical founder, Checkout Page has been instrumental in helping me charge for Weekend Club subscriptions. It does exactly what I wanted, and actually works. I highly recommend it to early stage founders, plus the support is great."
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know before switching from Podia, including what Podia does that we don't.
Before you decide
Our exact pricing, real checkouts, and how sellers like you made the switch from Podia.
Comparing a few platforms?
See how Checkout Page stacks up against the others sellers weigh us against.
Start selling on your own Stripe account
Create your checkouts, connect Stripe and switch your links in an afternoon. Free up to $3K in monthly sales.
Free plan available. No credit card needed.