# SamCart > Checkout and sales page builder with courses and an AI assistant SamCart is a checkout and sales page platform for selling digital products, courses, services, subscriptions and physical goods. It adds a courses app with a members area, link-in-bio and opt-in pages, and an AI assistant that drafts sales copy and designs ebooks and pages. Payments run through its own SamPay processing or, on Pro, third-party processors. - **Category:** Selling Digital Products - **Made by:** SamCart Inc. - **Website:** https://www.samcart.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing SamCart is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $79 per month. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 7-day free trial on every plan. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Core | $79 per month | Unlimited pages, products and checkouts, AI assistant with limited use, courses app, cart abandonment, integrations and 1 team seat. | | Pro | $199 per month | Adds one-click upsells, order bumps, A/B testing, Subscription Saver, the Affiliate Center, advanced reports, API, other processors and 10 seats. | | Done For You | Custom | Sold through a call: white glove setup, a dedicated account manager, priority support, multiple marketplaces and the lowest processing rates. | Read from https://www.samcart.com/pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SamCart before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **25% off with yearly billing** (Annual discount): SamCart's pricing page offers yearly billing at 25% off the monthly prices of $79 for Core and $199 for Pro. Source: https://www.samcart.com/pricing ## Key features - **Checkout pages:** Mobile-first checkouts with stored cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, Venmo and buy now pay later through Klarna, Afterpay and Affirm. - **Pages and link-in-bio:** Sales pages, microsites, link-in-bio pages and opt-in pages on your own domain, built with AI help and no code. - **Courses and members area:** A courses app with a built-in members area and video hosting, so courses can be sold and delivered without another platform. - **AI assistant:** Writes sales copy and designs ebooks, courses, lead magnets, social posts and ads. Core has limited AI use; Pro is unlimited. - **Upsells, tests and affiliates on Pro:** One-click upsells, order bumps and upgrades, A/B tests of pages and prices, an affiliate center and failed-payment recovery. - **Subscriptions and customer portal:** Memberships, recurring plans and payment plans, with a portal where customers update cards and manage their own subscriptions. ## Good for - Course and ebook sellers who want checkout, pages and hosting together - Marketers who rely on upsells, order bumps and A/B tests - Creators who want AI to draft sales pages and products ## Worth knowing - No free plan, only a 7-day trial; Core starts at $79 a month, with 25% off for yearly billing. - SamPay charges 2.9% + 30 cents a sale on both plans, and tax collection adds 0.5% on Core or 0.35% on Pro. - Upsells, order bumps, A/B testing, affiliates, the API and third-party processors all need Pro at $199 a month. - Core includes one team seat and Pro ten; more seats and marketplaces need the custom Done For You plan. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. SamCart builds checkouts and sales pages for courses, ebooks and services, with a members area and an AI assistant that drafts copy and designs pages. It's dear, though: Core is $79 a month, and the upsells, order bumps, A/B tests and affiliates it's known for need Pro at $199. The trial is only 7 days. - **Value for money: C.** Core billed yearly is $79 a month less 25%: $59.25. SamCart takes no cut beyond SamPay's 2.9% + 30 cents card rate (not counted), though tax collection adds 0.5%, $5 on $1,000. That's above this category's dearer quarter, short of its dearest tenth. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan. There's a 7-day free trial on every plan, a week and no more, and the listing doesn't say it needs a card. - **Features: B.** Checkout with wallets and buy now pay later, sales and link-in-bio pages, a courses app with a members area, subscriptions with a customer portal and an AI assistant. The whole job is covered; upsells, A/B tests and affiliates wait for Pro. - **Ease of use: C.** No App Store rating on record. The AI assistant drafts copy and pages, which helps, but you're still building pages, checkouts and a members area before you sell. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with PayPal, Stripe Link, Zapier, Klarna, Afterpay, Affirm, Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager. The API needs Pro, and no phone or desktop app is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from SamCart's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among tools for selling digital products - SamCart's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 2 of the 14 other tools for selling digital products we grade, and level with 3. - It stands best on features (B, above 6 of 14) and worst on free plan and trial (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $79 a month, against a middle price of $24.50 for the category: 9 of the 9 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 2 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/digital-products ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of SamCart you could make: digital downloads and online courses. What surrounds it you could not. The 5 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 9 of the 14 other tools for selling digital products grade higher. It costs $948 a year. - You could make: Digital downloads and online courses: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Every click and sale traced back to the right partner. - You could not: Splitting visitors between versions and telling you which won. - You could not: It plugs into other products, PayPal, Stripe Link and Zapier among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with PayPal, Stripe Link, Zapier, Klarna, Afterpay, Affirm, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager **Tags:** Digital downloads, Online courses, Affiliate tracking, A/B testing, AI features, Public API ## Alternatives - [ThriveCart](https://toolgpa.com/tools/thrivecart): Checkout, funnel and course platform with a lifetime licence option. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/samcart-vs-thrivecart) - [SendOwl](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sendowl): Checkout and delivery for downloads, licenses and subscriptions. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/samcart-vs-sendowl) - [Kajabi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kajabi): All-in-one platform for selling courses, coaching and communities. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kajabi-vs-samcart) - [Lemon Squeezy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lemon-squeezy): Merchant of record checkout for software, subscriptions and downloads. 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