The free Podia alternative for sellers who already have a website
Podia bundles course hosting, a community and an email tool, and prices accordingly: $42/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.
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 check-in, lead capture forms and pay what you want. 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
- $42/mo and 5% of every sale on Mover
- Email capped at 100 subscribers, then sending stops
- Products capped at 50 on the cheapest plan
- No order bumps until $84/mo
- No custom CSS or HTML on your pages
- No free plan, only a 30-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 $42/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.
| Capability | Checkout Page | Podia |
|---|---|---|
Payouts Both pay out to your own Stripe account | Yes | Yes |
Pricing What you pay, and when | Free up to $3K/mo, then from $99/mo | From $42/mo plus 5% per sale |
Free plan for low volume Not just a time-limited trial | Yes | 30-day trial |
Platform fee on the cheapest plan | None | 5% per sale |
Hosted course content and community Podia hosts your videos, lessons and community | No | Yes |
Built-in email marketing Checkout Page connects to your own email tool instead | No | Capped by plan |
Embed checkouts on your own site | Yes | Yes |
Order bumps | Yes | Shaker plan and up |
Event tickets with QR check-in Podia tickets are identical downloads, checked in against an email list | Yes | No |
Pay what you want pricing Podia suggests coupons or PayPal as a workaround | Yes | 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.
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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.