Are You Using ClickFunnels to Handle Payment
Processing and Affiliate Management?
Let me ask you a question…
Are you using ClickFunnels to build out your sales funnels and pages?
If you said yes, then you are in the right place.
Hey its Mark Thompson from PayKickstart.
As a fellow online Entrepreneur, I fully understand the value of having software, systems and automation built into your business to help it run like a well-oiled machine.
This is actually one of the reasons why we use ClickFunnels for several of our pages.
However, while ClickFunnels is, in my opinion, the best solution currently available for building all different types of landing pages and funnels – without the need for a designer or developer – they still lack in other important areas.
IT'S ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS
Why So Many ClickFunnels Users Combine
PayKickstart to Create The Ultimate Selling Machine!
Unfortunately, when it comes to the actual checkout experience and affiliate management functionality, it is somewhat of an afterthought in ClickFunnels.
It’s not a knock on ClickFunnels. Knowing first hand, we realize that it’s hard to be the very best at everything when it comes to building software.
That’s why at PayKickstart we have put our focus at being the very best shopping cart and affiliate management solution.
So you’re probably asking yourself…
What added value does PayKickstart bring
that ClickFunnels can’t already do?
Let me show you…
How can PayKickstart complement ClickFunnels
to help deliver more sales and revenue
into my business?
Managing Your Products
First off, everything inside ClickFunnels is powered by “funnels” which makes it hard to manage products – having to add/clone the same product that may be used in multiple funnels.
Instead, PayKickstart allows you to create Campaigns, adding products into those Campaigns, then easily selecting the products you want to add inside of an easy visual funnel builder. This approach allows for more flexibility and customizations.
Checkout Templates
While ClickFunnels offers a bunch of great landing page templates, they lack a large library of checkout templates.
PayKickstart provides a massive library of professionally designed one-step and multi-step checkout page templates that are easily customizable to fit your branding and customer experience.
As well as checkout page templates, PayKickstart also offers additional checkout options like Checkout Popup Widgets that can display on any link, graphic or buy button. As well as Checkout Form Embeds, which allow you to create a custom checkout page with literally any page builder (like a ClickFunnels) or HTML, then insert a checkout form directly onto the page.
1-Click Upsells
While both platforms offer 1-click upsells for Credit Card, a major feature that separates PayKickstart is the ability to offer 1-click upsells for PayPal as well.
We have partnered with PayPal to be the first shopping cart to integrate their brand new API, that supports 1-click upsells, instant commission payouts to affiliates, seamless subscription management and much more.
Creating Subscriptions
Since ClickFunnels doesn’t truly manage the subscription themselves, creating a subscription requires you to go to your payment gateway, create the subscription, then map that subscription in ClickFunnels.
Outside of adding extra steps and time, there are a bunch of setbacks here. First, you do not have the flexibility to adjust the subscription if needed, for things like pushing out the next payment due date, seamlessly upgrading or downgrading a customer to a different plan or level, cancelling and restarting a subscription, changing the payment method from PayPal to Credit Card or Credit Card to Paypal, even switching payment processors altogether for future rebills and sales.
PayKickstart gives you the flexibility to do all of these things – straight out of the box.
Also did you realize that around 30% of rebills fail? Unfortunately, ClickFunnels doesn’t have a dunning email sequence to have customers update their billing details and keep the subscription active. PayKickstart provides our subscription saver sequence that has proven to regain around 50-60% of those failed rebills.
Address Auto-Complete
ClickFunnels also lacks things like Address Auto-Complete. So instead of making a customer manually enter their entire billing details, with PayKickstart they can start typing their address and it will auto-complete the rest of the fields.
Translation
If you cater to multiple languages and locations, it can be a tedious task in ClickFunnels – having to manually translate the text on each checkout page.
With PayKickstart, you simply select which language you want, and it will automatically translate it for you on BOTH the checkout page and the email notifications that are sent to your customers.
Real-Time Currency Conversion
With PayKickstart, not only can you charge customers in up to 32 different currencies, you can also enable our Currency Conversion feature, which allows the customer at checkout to see how much they will be charged in their local currency.
Sales & VAT Tax
Many businesses are required to charge a sales or VAT tax. Unfortunately, ClickFunnels doesn’t offer this ability.
With PayKickstart, you can create and apply a Tax Profile to any order. Tax Rates are updated on a regular basis or you can create a custom tax rate of your own.
Dispute/Chargeback Management
As a vendor, it’s a forgone conclusion that you’ll receive chargebacks and disputes. It’s just part of running an online business. However, ClickFunnels does not have a way to update each transaction/affiliate commission. So this can lead to paying affiliates commissions on disputed transactions and throw off your accounting, tracking a dispute or chargeback as revenue.
PayKickstart speaks directly with each of your payment gateways, to keep each transaction up-to-date, throughout the dispute process. Only unlocking the transaction once it’s completed.
Affiliate Management
Now that we’ve covered the differences from a checkout view, let’s dive into some of the differences when it comes to affiliate management.
First off, the biggest difference is that your monthly bill from ClickFunnels will increase a few hundred dollars JUST to be able to have any affiliate management functionality.
With PayKickstart, Affiliate Management is included with our Professional plan and Premium plans.
Also Backpack, ClickFunnel’s affiliate system is extremely basic – handling only basic tracking and payouts.
Here are a bunch of advanced affiliate management features that you won’t find with ClickFunnels…
Instant & Delayed Commissions
Have the ability to pay out your affiliates instantly at the point of sale. Control whether an affiliate should be put on instant or delayed commissions.
Once on delayed, you will have an advanced Payouts wizard that allows you to pay out commissions via PayPal Mass Pay, Bank Wire, Payoneer, or Check.
Lead & Sale Tracking
PayKickstart has the ability to issue commissions for both verified leads and sales that an affiliate refers. This is great for CPA offers, leads contests or pre-launches.
JV Contracts
Let’s say you have partnered with someone to launch a product. Instead of manually having to do accounting every month to see who is owed what, you can create a JV contract, set the revenue sharing for each product and PayKickstart will automatically calculate your partner or partners revenue share – even taking payment gateway fees into consideration.
Built-In Marketing
Vendors can add email swipe copy, banners and even create real-time leaderboards of which affiliates can access directly from inside their PayKickstart account, to easily promote your products.
W9/W8 Tax Management
PayKickstart requests a W9 or W8 tax form to be filled out by each affiliate. This is great for the end of the year when you need to send affiliates the appropriate tax form.
Mobile App
Vendors can take their business on the go. Be notified of sales, affiliate requests, and reports.
"Listen to Other Entrepreneurs Like You
Who Starting Using PayKickstart to sell their products
and Build an Army of Affiliates"
Let PayKickstart Pick Up Where ClickFunnels Lacks…
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| Checkout Templates | 6 |  |
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| 1-Click Upsell (Credit Card) | |
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| Address Auto-Complete | |
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| Auto Translation | |
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| Subscription Management | ||
| Subscription Creation | Payment Gateway | Internal |
| Change "Next Charge Date" | |
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| Seamless Upgrade/Downgrade | |
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| Cancel/Restart Subscription | |
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| Dunning / Subscription Saver | |
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| Failed Transaction Saver | |
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| Update Payment Method | |
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| Switch Payment Gateway | |
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| Instant Commissions | |
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| Delayed Commissions | |
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| Payout Management | |
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| Lead (CPA) Tracking | |
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| Sale Tracking | |
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| W8/W9 Tax Management | |
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| Fraud Protection | |
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Joe Farmer Today, 2:55am
In one of our PK accounts, in the first 2 weeks of using it we have done almost 600 transactions with $37.000 in total revenue, automatically paid JV contracts, with integrations to Kajabi, Infusionsoft, our own 2 SAAS products all seamless so far! Once we move everything over, this will save us mega bucks
Previous Ngwu 11 hours ago
Mark, PayKickstart is crazy powerful I MUST CONFESS I’ve been playing with it for the past few weeks and honestly, I’m over-impressed hats off to you and Matt Callen
Jeremy Gislason 11 hours ago
No more “duct tape” needed!
We’re so happy to find PayKickStart. This is the solution we’ve been looking for and now we can finally rest with confidence.
James Cantoni 11 hours ago
We use the PayKickstart checkout popups and integrate directly into our sales page and have seen outstanding conversions due to how simple you guys have made it.
We were originally using Braintree and another cart but it was causing nightmares
Until we switched this March and we’ve seen sales nearly TRIPLE our revenue based on how easy the checkout and upgrade process has become!
We just started using the affiliate management and we have received so many good reviews from our affiliates on how simple the system is compared to what they are used to!
We love PayKickstart and will be integrating it further into our product line as it has earned our seal of approval.
We’ve even started recommending it to friends and colleagues and they’re blown away at how robust and powerful the platform is, yet simple and user friendly. Great platform and your support is excellent!
Dana M. Peck 11 hours ago
I’m a part of a new management team with our family newspaper.
In my role I was charged with creating a digital subscription program with incentives.
Paykickstart provided just the platform that I needed to automate the transactions and pay affiliates seamlessly.
The customer service team was so patient as we tested the system and the affiliates are really enjoying the fruit of their labor.
Our son who is ten loves to receive those congratulation emails.
The reporting options make my job so much easier.
The platform is super easy to set up and is very intuitive.
Seems like Paykickstart thought of everything from recurring billing to split commissions and customer follow up emails.
This platform not only saves us time but provides an opportunity for us to compensate our team as we build our subscription base.
Jeremias De La Luz 39 mins ago
Hey Mark
Just thought I’d share that the activecampaign and DAP integrations are working very well…
launced a campaign, already have 1 sale with a small list of 450,
50% conversion on the car (small sample).
Have people in an abandoned cart sequence
and the upsell sequence.
All because the PK integrations are firing properly.
Wanted to give you some positive feedback since you only heard from me when something wasn’t working.
Have a great week!
Timothy Bryanyan 39 mins ago
Such a badass platform!
We are still kicking ourselves for not starting
Our biz with PayKickstart!
Judith Conroy 39 mins ago
We’re absolutely thrilled we are with PayKickstart! Your support staff bent over backwards to help us and made our software integrations work – was civility personified.
Our business has been online for over 15 years and we have NEVER received such first class customer support in all those years.
Amy Moody 39 mins ago
Paykickstart is a fabulous blessing to my business! From tracking sales to making funnels to connecting me with other people who can bless my business as affiliates. Paykickstart encompasses the necessary tools that a serious business owner needs today and does it in an easy-to-operate platform. The support team is friendly and fast to respond! I highly recommend Paykickstart!!!
Justin Allen 39 mins ago
Before PayKickStart I was piecing together a lot of free tools. Affiliate program, payment proccesser, upsell software. I’m really good at html so I made my own makeshift upsell funnel myself.
Now that I have PayKickStart I can easily manage my education products and upsell them easily. Now I can manage my 5 products without needing “approval” or anything like that. And for the price, it’s an incredible value for money. It’s a true asset, and I love it. PayKickStart ended a long battle of where to host my products and how to sell them!
John Shea 39 mins ago
I have been using Pay Kickstart as an affiliate now for about a month.
My partner Paul James and I were able to
bypass transaction fees and
easily track revenue being generated from course sales.
The platform
worked perfectly for getting folks enrolled in our membership site.
John Shea
http://www.noshameincome.com
Agustina Palacio 39 mins ago
I’m celebrating here because O kist tested and everything is working!!! people who purchases go to Teachable directly! Thank YOU!
I cannot believe I made all this by myself 😛
I’m soooo happy I trust my gut and went with you guys!
Michael Bowes 39 mins ago
Great support is hard to come by! PKS is a rarity in this space.
WorldTravelers.io Feb 12
Hey! I’m almost done with our trial. Love the platfrom. We’ve got about 100 customers and did $4,000 in revenue & just paid our first commissions today.
Thanks Mark Thompson and the entire team. This has been a real blessing for our company.
Andy Phillips Feb 12
I’m just about to launch a program and using PayKickstart for payment and affiliate program and got to say really impressed. Great support and all questions answered..
I have a lot of experience with sales and marketing funnel set up so will be happy to contribute if I can.
John Leonard Feb 12
PayKickstart saved me $20,000 a year!
It blew my mind. I now use it for all of my online and offline businesses.
Martin Barnes 11 hours ago
“PayKickstart has four potentially underrated features…
but MUST-HAVES.
1. Support is amazing. Fast… this is extremely valuable when working inside the feature rich program and need help to keep moving.
2. I really like it that the Founders are coal face involved offering support from their point of view in the Facebook Group community support.
3. Continual improvement. Shows me the business has strength to keep developing.
4. Feature rich. It’s not until deep inside the program that you realize the value of features. It’s BY FAR the most feature rich shopping cart available.”
Gareth Lamb 39 mins ago
REALLY Well done guys! ,
hats off to you all, I’m super happy
I’m moving all of my products to your platform and proud to start promoting this on my crowd…
Though I may be a little jealous someone has built the tool I always wanted to create before me. Nice work!
Garth – The Funnel Consultant
Adam Payne 39 mins ago
I have been using PayKickstart for about 4 months and used it to launch my membership site.
I was deciding between PayKickstart and another very well known platform.
Why did I choose PayKickstart?
I was having issues with the other platforms integrating with my membership platform and it was causing me stress.
But only PayKickstart support went above and beyond to personally help me fix the issue and move forward.
To me, quality support means a lot.
They are also the most innovative of compared to
ANY shopping cart out there. PK has a ton of functionality that makes being a vendor and/or an affiliate a super smooth process.
The results so far in a short time are already $45,000 from using PayKickstart. Love it!