Shopping cart & affiliate management for online vendors.
4.6/5 (41 reviews)PayKickstart is an online shopping cart and affiliate management platform with built-in conversion enhancing features like one-click upsells for credit card/paypal, order bumps, custom checkout pages/widgets/embed forms, coupon management, auto-complete shipping fields, subscription saver sequences, and more.
With native mobile apps for iOS and Android, PayKickstart gives users the flexibility to monitor their business and receive alerts on the move.
Pros
- GDPR compliant
- Built in VAT processing (important for EU customers and vendors)
- One-click upsells
- Lot's of checkout templates both hosted and embeddable
- Multilingual checkout and email notifications
- Automated retries for failed payments
- API / IPN
- Excellent support
- Friendly people
- Actual implementation of most feature requests
Cons
It's a work in progress, so there are always things users would wish were already in the software. For me, I would like to see the VAT on the invoices (they're already working on that). I would like to see an option for duplicating funnels and campaigns. And more branding options for the affiliate signup. Now what are supposed to be 'my' affiliates become a PK affiliate and may choose to promote my offers (as well as other companies' offers). I would like to see this more brandable.
But no showstoppers here.
Pros
Price point beats most competitor platforms.
Offers many options to override settings on an affiliate and product basis - This is very important for my business.
Custom affiliate link creation feature - also important to my business.
Easy to use sales funnel builder with a robust array of settings.
Customizable checkout pages - easy to use builder with pro templates.
Constant improvement on existing features, most importantly the Reports feature.
Cons
Some of the user flows on certain features can be a little confusing, but not a show stopper. They offer a decent knowledge base and support is solid.
Support is outstanding. Integration with your custom solution is easy with their API. Ability to use Zapier also very easy. Always adding features.
Pros
The ease of use when integrating with our SAAS was fantastic. We got an all-in-one solution for payment processing, member management, affiliate/vendor relations, and sales funnel structure. The API was very easy. Reporting is exactly what we needed.
Cons
Had some trouble with integration of a different 3rd-party system, but customer support was diligent in fixing it. Prefer a proactive alert system for paying affiliates, but reports show what's outstanding so its not that much of a problem.
10/10 nothing short of pure awesomeness. Some of the best customer support I’ve experienced. A platform designed by people who actually know what they are doing, what the market needs. Can’t wait to see what they have coming!
Pros
It has all the features and advanced features a vendor can possibly wish for. I like checkout forms, the 1clickupsells, and everything is highly customizeable! Ill be running with PK for the next years for sure!
Cons
UX wise it can have a few optimizations. Some actions could probably be done in less clicks. That’s my only concern. Previously it was also the Reporting feature - but they pushed out massive update. VAT feature also needed updating, and that is in development right now. Amazing team and awesome customer support!
We're very demanding with cart software. We've tested everything (clickfunnels, infusionsoft, clickbank, samcart, and several others). We run a high volume of transactions (and pretty high in $$). Plus, we need to be able to customize the cart significantly.
So far, we haven't found anything that works nearly as well as Paykickstart. If you're not as demanding of your cart, it might not be as big of a difference, but outside of enterprise software, Paykickstart does everything we could ask.
Pros
Great support; very easy to implement and customize. We've been able to match or exceed cart conversion rates on every other platform (Shopify, etc.).
Cons
No built-in integration for google analytics enhanced e-commerce (having an automatically populated data layer would be awesome). No IPv6 tracking.
Basic Plan: $29/month, Professional Plan: $99/month, Premium Plan: $149/month
Below are some frequently asked questions for PayKickstart.
PayKickstart offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $29/month
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Basic Plan: $29/month, Professional Plan: $99/month, Premium Plan: $149/month
PayKickstart offers the following features:
PayKickstart has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business
PayKickstart supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese (Traditional), Danish, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
PayKickstart has the following pricing plans:
Subscription
PayKickstart supports the following devices:
Android, iPhone, iPad
PayKickstart integrates with the following applications:
AWeber, ActiveCampaign, Authorize.net, Constant Contact, GetResponse, GoToWebinar, Infusionsoft, Mailchimp, aMember Pro, iContact Email Marketing
PayKickstart offers the following support options:
FAQs, Knowledge Base, Online Support, Video Tutorials
I started out with Kartra (I love those guys), but they couldn't handle VAT properly. I see this a lot with American software developers. They generally don't understand how the EU works. Then switched to PayKickstart and helped them get this VAT thing right. Which they did. And fast.
I love that they listen to their customers and actually implement the suggestions. I know there's always more ideas and requests than the development team can handle, but they make good progress.
So I'm glad I switched and I look forward to all the improvements that are on the roadmap.
If you want to set up elaborate funnels and upsell sequences, it's a lot of work. Also to get it right in PK. But, once you find your way in the UI and understand how things work, you get faster and faster at it.
Did I say the support is excellent? If not, I'll say it again: their support is excellent :-)