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SamCart vs Spike

SamCart vs Spike is a checkout machine versus a door. SamCart sells pages, bumps, order bumps, a sequence. Spike sells a folder. If the leftover job is a pack, the page is extra furniture.

Vegard Holm

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SamCart vs Spike is a checkout page versus a door. SamCart grew because creators needed a pretty till that could bump, upsell, and take a card without building a store. Useful when the product is a sequence you are proud of. Spike grew because a pack is already a folder, and the inbox already did the selling. Putting that folder inside a second checkout theme is extra furniture.

Keep SamCart when buyers should hit an offer, then another, then a thank-you. Use Spike when they should fetch. How to sell digital files online is that unit. You can sell a ZIP on SamCart. You should not put a funnel costume on a couple's photos.

A checkout page, a bump, a folder. Most SamCart stacks are still sequences. The leftover job is often a single door.

What SamCart is for

  • Checkout pages built to convert a stranger.
  • Order bumps, upsells, a sequence after the card.
  • Creators who think of a sale as a page, not a pack.
  • Digital products as one SKU in that machine.

What should not require a checkout theme

A one-off worksheet. A live recording. A brand kit for a client who is not in a pipeline. Gumroad vs Spike if you only needed a product page. Stan Store vs Spike if the leftover aisle was a bio shop. Spike is the third column: no bump, a treated preview, a download.

What you getSamCartSpike
Checkout pagesYes, the jobThe folder is the page
Upsells and bumpsCoreNo
One pack from a DMA funnel stepThe starting point
Treated file previewA sales pageBlur, watermark, samples
Client galleryNot designed for itA private URL

  1. If the product is a sequence, keep the page

    SamCart. A folder will not become a funnel.

  2. If strangers must find a kit, pick a shop

    Gumroad or the shop you already have. A checkout page is not an aisle.

  3. If they already said yes, pick the folder

    Spike. Treat the unpaid view. Skip the bump.

Build a checkout when there is a sequence. Send a folder when there is something to take.

Fees on Spike are 5% / 1% / 0% plus Stripe. Free shares last three days, so a standing offer still belongs on SamCart or on Pro or Business. A client gallery belongs on a folder, not on bump offer number two. Creators can keep SamCart for the programme and still paste a Spike URL for the files that should not require a downsell.

A named client already walked the path in the inbox. Putting them through an upsell to fetch a pack they commissioned makes a named job look like a store SKU. Keep the sequence when you are proud of it. Use Spike when this week's pack is one folder. Treat the unpaid view. Price the share. Skip the bump. Send the URL. Let them look, pay if they still owe you, and download on that same page. Two rooms. The mistake is one checkout doing both until a client is asked to upgrade for a ZIP.

Questions

Good to know

Not for checkout pages, order bumps, and a funnel. Yes for a gallery, a ZIP, or a client delivery that should not require a bump. Keep SamCart when the product is a sequence. Use Spike when the product is a folder.

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