ClickFunnels vs SamCart: Which is the Best e-Commerce Platform?

How ClickFunnels and SamCart Work

Listing Products

The way products are displayed in your store can have a massive impact on the sales outcomes you achieve. You want software that allows you to create attractive landing pages and list products with ease. Here’s a breakdown of how the product listing process works on each platform.

ClickFunnels

Listing products on ClickFunnels is straightforward.  You’ll first have to create a product in the order form, and then add payment method.

Once that’s done, go to “Product Details” to name your product, set a price, and use other features like the bump feature, quantity limitations, and so on.

SamCart

SamCart is an excellent platform for selling and delivering digital goods. To add products, simply login to your account and click “New Products” on your dashboard, and then fill in the blanks with the necessary information, including the product’s name, price, and description.

After that, you can also add images, choose the method of payment you want to use (such as one-off payment, recurring weekly, recurring monthly, etc.) You can also create coupons and discounts.

SamCart provides a wide range of e-commerce tools to help you do more than just list your products. For example, you can integrate a CRM, create monthly subscriptions, offer refunds, etc.

WINNER: ClickFunnels

Although adding products on SamCart is an easy process, ClickFunnels has a better dashboard that allows you to do much more.

Creating Customized Pages

When it comes to creating and customizing pages, the easier the process, the better. The last thing you want to do is waste hours trying to figure out how the page builder’s various elements work.

Let’s examine what each platform has to offer and determine which one makes it easier to create high-quality pages.

ClickFunnels

When compared to SamCart, ClickFunnels offers a lot more customization options. It has no distracting sidebars, and the page builder is equally as user-friendly as SamCart’s.

The features are organized logically to save you time searching for the elements you require. There’s also drag-and-drop capabilities, which makes it easy to build a website even if it’s your first time.

To create a new page, you’ll first have to create a new funnel (or select an existing one from your account).

Once you have your funnel in place, you can then choose a page template and edit it however you like. It’s a really straightforward process.

You can also save the page as a template so you don’t have to create a new page from scratch every time.

ClickFunnels has a short learning curve, and once you’ve gotten that down, you’ll find that building upsell pages, order pages, landing pages, and other type of pages a lot easier and faster than with SamCart. And after you’ve constructed your pages, you can run A/B split tests to see which one performs the best.

SamCart

SamCart’s checkout page templates are a lot more sophisticated than ClickFunnels’. You can also add features such as order bumps and one-click checkouts, just as you can on ClickFunnels.

Given that SamCart is primarily designed for building shopping carts and checkout pages, it is not the best platform for building an entire website or e-commerce pages.

But if you choose to do so, you can either create your pages from scratch or use one of the many built-in templates and simply customize them to your liking.

The image above displays the platform’s easy-to-use page editor. The right side of the page has various tools to can use when building your page.

The “content” tab contains different elements and widgets, including headlines, text, photos, dividers, videos, icons, and buttons. You can easily drag and drop the elements onto the page and arrange them however you want.

The “collections” tab has various block features for the header area, featured area, call to action, and guarantees.

You can change the fonts, page style, and checkout form on the settings tab. It’s also where you’ll see all of your previously saved templates.

SamCart’s massive choice of multistep forms, full-width forms, and pop-up templates help it stand out from ClickFunnels.

You can select a template that requires minimal change based on your requirements. The one-page funnel, for example, directs visitors to a specially designed page that highlights the product’s qualities and benefits to help persuade them to buy it.

It also features a built-in checkout just underneath it, which helps to minimize customer loss (such as when they navigate across to a different checkout page).

This straightforward one-page funnel eliminates the need for lengthy, complicated sales and checkout pages that frequently fail to convert.

WINNER: ClickFunnels

ClickFunnels is definitely the victor here, thanks to its robust page builder, which comes with a slew of tools, including A/B testing, that are included with all paid plans.

A/B tests are also available on SamCart, however only on the most expensive plan, which costs $199 per month. SamCart also lacks many of the marketing automation tools found on ClickFunnels.

ClickFunnels allows you a lot of flexibility when it comes to the design of your pages. You can easily customize your sales funnel’s fonts, colors, photos, and other elements to make it exactly way you want it to.

Creating Sales Funnels

A funnel is the sales process you take your potential customers – starting from the moment they learn about your business, to the point where they decide whether or not to buy your products. Having the right sales funnel software can help you accomplish many things, including:

• Effectively Promote your products
• Create a mailing list
• Obtain membership registrations
• Attract webinar attendees

Businesses that don’t have a sales funnel are missing out on a great opportunity to substantially increase their sales. Both ClickFunnels and SamCart allow you to create high quality sales funnels.

ClickFunnels

The funnel-building software (and process) deployed by ClickFunnels is far more advanced than SamCart’s. It is what the company specializes in, just as SamCart specializes in building checkout carts.

You can create a variety of funnels on ClickFunnels, including:

• Conversion funnels
• Follow-up funnels
• Webinar funnels
• Membership funnels
• Opt-in Funnels
• Launch Funnels
• Tripwire Funnels

Launch funnels are used to promote new products or services and generate a lot of discussion surrounding them. Tripwire funnels are used to grab attention by selling products or services at an unusually low price, often at a loss.

You can choose any funnel you like from ClickFunnels’ huge library of funnel templates. It can be a simple two-page funnel that collects email addresses and then displays a “thank you” page. It can also be as complicated as a full-fledged membership site funnel that entices customers to sign up for your offer so that you can make recurring revenue.

A sales page funnel is the most common type of funnel, where you introduce your product or service and then sell it to customers through a sequence of upsells and downsells.

SamCart

SamCart is fundamentally NOT a sales funnel software, but a platform for building shopping carts and mobile-friendly checkout pages. Although you can build funnels on it, they are not going to be as advanced as they would be on ClickFunnels.

If you’re looking for a powerful sales funnel platform, it would make no sense to choose SamCart over Clickfunnels.

WINNER: ClickFunnels

ClickFunnels is clearly the winner here, as the platform provides dedicated software for creating a variety of effective funnels. It has pre-built funnel templates that you can choose from, making it even easier to get up and going with a tried-and-true funnel template.

You can test out the sales processes on each sales funnel to see which one is more likely to help increase sales and decrease shopping cart abandonment. SamCart only has basic funnel features.