What Are Some Alternatives To Clickfunnels For Small Business Owners?

The full question for this post is actually:

What are some alternatives to Clickfunnels for small business owners who don’t want to spend a lot of money on their website building/marketing tools?

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Here is my answer:

Take a look at Systeme – it blows Clickfunnels out of the water in terms of value.

This article compares the two platforms and includes some videos about using Systeme:

Need A Less Expensive Alternative To Clickfunnels? Systeme Might Be The Answer!

I used to use Clickfunnels myself – I signed up with them in 2019.

They released Clickfunnels 2.0 in 2022 but did not grandfather existing customers into Clickfunnels 2.0.

Clickfunnels also raised the price of a Basic Plan from $97/mth to $147/mth (equivalent to $127/mth if you pay annually):

True, Clickfunnels 2.0’s Basic Plan offers more than Clickfunnels 1.0 (now referred to Clickfunnels Classic) but it’s way overpriced for what it offers, just as Clickfunnels Classic was.

But Clickfunnels was pretty much the only game in town and they charged what they could get way with.

Builderall became a competitor, being less expensive than Clickfunnels but offering a lot more tools:

I had an account with them for a while but eventually dropped them as I found their user interface and how the some of their tools worked to be unintuitive – I just got frustrated with them and looked for another solution.

I briefly went back to Clickfunnels and reactivated my Clickfunnels Classic account (I was still paying them $9.99/mth to “pause” my account).

This was after Clickfunnels 2.0 had launched.

The better features in Clickfunnels 2.0 showcased how poor an offering Clickfunnels 1.0 (Classic) was.

Then I stumbled across Systeme.

The first thing that grabbed my attention was that instead of offering a time-limited 14-day trial (Clickfunnels) or no trial period (Builderall), Systeme offers a free-forever account.

It’s not a barely serviceable account either.

You can…

build up to 3 sales funnels
build 1 blog (not a WordPress blog though)
create 1 course and 1 community
collect up to 2,000 email addresses
send an unlimited number of emails
get an unlimited number of subscribers for your course and community
create an unlimited number of blog posts.

Not only that, Systeme has integrations with payment gateways like Stripe, RazorPay, PayPal and FlutterWave.

You can also host videos for your pages and courses for free and you get unlimited storage space for all your assets.

That’s more than enough to get an online business started with, without having to put your hand in your pocket.

If you decide to upgrade to a paid plan, these are Systeme’s options:

Systeme’s free account offers more features than Builderall’s Starter Plan which costs $17.90 per month.

If you want to go all out on Systeme, their Premium Plan is $97/mth but offers unlimited everything.

Builderall’s Premium Plans are $87.90/mth but if you want access to all their templates, you have to a a one-time $199 fee to access those.

And there are still limits on how many subscribers you can collect and you only get 10Gb of storage space.

Clickfunnels 2.0 has even fewer features than Builderall and charges $157 (discounted price) for a Pro plan that has similar limitations to Builderall’s Premium Plan.

Clickfunnels Problems

I’ve bought a handful of courses lately that have been hosted on Clickfunnels and I’m really not impressed with the long wait time before videos load.

So something’s up with Clickfunnels at the moment – either their servers are under-specified or overloaded with users.

If I was paying their prices, I would be very unhappy with the performance delivered.

The Best All-In-One Marketing Platform

Any way you cut it, at least from my perspective, Systeme is the hand-down winner for small business owners and affiliate marketers.

Using just their free account, I was able to build a complete sales funnel from landing page to thank you page, automatically send out an email sequence to advertise a course I had built on Systeme where I also hosted the videos for that course, collect the email address and do additional email marketing to my subscribers. All for free:

Affiliate Marketing Ideas – How To Get Started With Affiliate Marketing: Days 5-19 – Building The Optin Funnel

For Affiliate Marketers

If you’re an affiliate marketer, then you have to pay Clickfunnels to become an affiliate by becoming a paying customer. Not only that, you can only become an affiliate if you pay for the Pro or Funnel Builder plans. You cannot become an affiliate if you subscribe to a Basic Plan.

Builderall will automatically make you an affiliate when you start paying for any of their plans. You can apply to become a solo affiliate – someone who does not subscribe to Builderall themselves – but in my experience they’re very particular who they let become affiliates this way.

Systeme, on the other hand, has no restrictions on becoming an affiliate. Anyone, whether they’re a customer or not, can become an affiliate. And it’s the best platform to promote as well!