The plans
Kartra has four plans, billed monthly or annually (annual saves up to 22%). Annual rates: Essentials $52/mo (500 contacts, 5 pages, 1 product, 1 course, and a 5% transaction fee on your sales), Starter $99/mo (2,500 contacts, unlimited pages and products, 0% transaction fees, webinars), Growth $189/mo (12,500 contacts, automations, affiliate management, surveys and quizzes), Professional $429/mo (25,000 contacts, real-time funnel analytics, API access). Paid monthly the same plans are $59, $119, $229 and $549. There is a 14-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Is it worth it?
Kartra has been around since 2018, and the vendor reports more than 60,000 businesses use its pages, email, checkout, courses and affiliate program. It is built for selling your own courses and coaching, while its split testing runs page by page without same-URL rotation. Support also draws steady complaints, making it a poor fit for an affiliate buying cold traffic. Buy it if you sell your own offer and want one system instead of a stack, starting at $52 a month on the annual plan. Skip it if you only need a fast landing page and an ad-safe A/B test.
What works
- It really is one system, and reviewers say the consolidation is the point. Pages, email and SMS, native checkouts, courses, memberships, a helpdesk and your own affiliate program run under one login, and users describe cancelling separate CRM, email and cart subscriptions after moving in.
- From the Starter plan up it takes no cut of your sales (0% transaction fees) and includes unlimited pages, products and courses plus webinars. For a creator selling their own offer, that is a lot of platform for $99/mo on the annual plan.
- It is established and low-risk to trust. Kartra has run since 2018, reports more than 60,000 customers, and is a known quantity rather than a product that might disappear next year.
What to watch
- It is built to sell your own courses and coaching, and cold paid traffic is a weak fit. There is no same-URL, server-side split testing, so a page test can reset the ad learning Meta and Google rely on, and there are no affiliate-network postbacks for buying traffic.
- Reviewers who contact support report multi-day waits and generic 'clear your cache' replies, and even satisfied users call the team slow to respond.
- The $52/mo annual Essentials tier is thin and takes a 5% cut of sales for 5 pages and 1 product. Starter costs $99/mo annually, removes that fee and raises the limits. New users also find the editor dated and slow to learn.
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Keep reading
- The full Kartra review
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