AccessAlly vs. Kajabi: a comparison

Our fans tell us AccessAlly allows them to earn more money from their online courses and membership sites. We think you’ll love AccessAlly’s power features, along with its sophisticated interface and the ease of use that is inherent in WordPress.

If you’re curious to see how AccessAlly really stacks up to Kajabi, read on to view a head to head comparison of AccessAlly vs. Kajabi!

Kajabi’s different tiers limit the number of products, courses, and active members you can have, limiting your business’ growth.

Say you want to offer a free course when someone opts into your email list by signing up for a free course (what AccessAlly calls a Login Optin™). With Kajabi, you’d be limited to 1000 sign ups on the $129/month plan, or 10,000 sign ups on the $389/month plan.

The signup limit is not effective for list building, or turning free members into paid participants.

With AccessAlly there are no such limits. You can have as many members as you want, and as many courses or products as you want.

You can even create any number of different membership, course bundles, and special offers, without ever worrying about reaching a limit or paying more for the same functionality.

Kajabi has built-in Stripe and PayPal integration with coupons with a multi-step order form, just like AccessAlly.

Kajabi also offers affiliate tracking functionality in their mid and high-level plans. However, it does not allow you to add swipe copy and advertising banners for your affiliates in your members area.

If you want to use Keap or Ontraport’s affiliate tracking, Kajabi’s opt-in forms and sales pages will not track the affiliate data, so you’ll be better off using other order forms. AccessAlly, on the other hand, is able to track affiliate sales through its’ built-in order forms back to Keap and Ontraport.

With AccessAlly’s multi-currency order forms you can also offer trial offers, order bumps, and toggle between full-pay or payment plans.

Kajabi does not offer the ability to “license courses” to groups of people, which is also called Umbrella or Team accounts.

AccessAlly offers umbrella licensing which gives you the power to sell a “package” of licenses to your courses and content, and to have a team leader assign sub-accounts.

This is great for selling corporate training. It also allows you to design a “member management” dashboard, with custom operations to kick off automations directly by group administrators.

AccessAlly Pro will allow you to build out an even more robust, high-level teaching center…like if you’d like to run your courses through teaching assistants, or have someone monitoring participant progress. In this case, a team leader would be able to see student progress, quiz results, and even view recorded notes or questions asked.

AccessAlly Pro also makes it easy for students to upload homework attachments, like PDFs, Word documents, or other files for the administrator. Kajabi offers no homework submission and replies, and no team feature.

Kajabi automatically creates a member dashboard where existing clients can perform a 1-click purchase.

AccessAlly gives you the same cross-selling dashboards, but with more flexibility in how you set up your pages and 1-click upsells. AccessAlly goes deeper by allowing you to manipulate custom fields inside of your marketing automation platform, apply tags and trigger automations.

You can also show different content inside of a page based on whether someone has a certain tag, or not.

AccessAlly also sports the ability to create gamified credit systems, where members can earn points for completing quizzes, sharing on social media, or being paid members in good standing.

Members can redeem points for bonus content, services, or other goodies. Plus, AccessAlly makes it easy to do all of the automation your heart desires: follow-up with members who haven’t logged in for awhile, drip courses on various schedules, and automatically generate a PDF certificate of completion when they pass a course.

With Kajabi, you’re hosting your website and courses on their closed platform, with no easy way to take your content with you when you cancel or decide to move on.

Because the Kajabi system is closed, you can’t easily extend it by installing add-ons and plugins. That means you can’t add an integrated forum, gamification, or other features that could improve your courses.

AccessAlly took a different approach: it’s a WordPress plugin that’s open source, so anyone can see and read the code, and it’s easy to back-up and export your content.

With AccessAlly, you can take full control of the look and feel, and add the functionality you want.

• • You need a bare-bones course website, with no plans for added functionality down the line
  • You want to have your site up and running quickly, so you can test your ideas without worrying about design
  • You don’t use a CRM like Infusionsoft, Ontraport, ConvertKit, ActiveCampaign, or Drip to do your email marketing automation
  • You don’t mind giving up full control to have a website, email marketing, and course platform that handles everything in one place

• • You know the value of your time, and you want a tool that will handle set up for you based on your instructions
  • You want everything to work seamlessly from one end to the other (recurring payments, online courses, and memberships) with as few plugins as possible
  • You’re looking to create an amazing customer experience, that’s functional, profitable, and helps you stand out in the marketplace
  • You like to geeky or you have advanced marketing needs and need lots of flexibility in your course platform