# PayKickstart Reviews **Vendor:** PayKickstart **Category:** [E-Commerce Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/e-commerce-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 16 ## About PayKickstart PayKickstart has reinvented subscription billing and affiliate management for online businesses who want to sell smarter, sell easier, sell faster, and sell more. Boost your sales, retain more customers, and increase recurring revenue with advanced out-of-the-box tools like customizable checkout options, dunning management, cart recovery, conversion tools so much more. Have the full flexibility and power to manage your business, with loads of 3rd party integrations, a robust API, and mobile app. ## PayKickstart Reviews ### 1. Easiest & Most Powerful Shopping Cart **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gnanavel N. | Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2024 **What do you like best about PayKickstart?** Easiest Shopping for all my needs. Most efficient to use. **What do you dislike about PayKickstart?** Selling my product and listing it is somewhat diificult. **What problems is PayKickstart solving and how is that benefiting you?** Accepting Payment. Subscription Management. Checkout Experience. Revenue Retention. ### 2. The most versatile online shopping cart you're going to find. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sue B. | Direct Response Copywriter, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2020 **What do you like best about PayKickstart?** There are many things I like about PayKickstart. Some of those things are the fact that you have built-in affiliate system, can create coupons, discounts, upsells, order bumps, an more. There are certainly a lot of other options out there, but few of them include this many features at this price. **What do you dislike about PayKickstart?** PayKickstart takes a little set-up time. I wouldn't call it confusing. It's actually pretty straightforward. Rather there are so many features available one should expect to invest a little time learning it so that you are familiar with the various features and can figure out the best settings for your needs. **Recommendations to others considering PayKickstart:** You really can't go wrong with PayKickstart. It will be a good choice for the long haul and grow with your business. Definitely try the free trial. **What problems is PayKickstart solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am selling an online digital product with a subscription based order bump. I knew that I wanted to try to attract some affiliates to promote my product. What I didn't realize was how many affiliates would find me simply because my product is now listed in the PayKickstart affiliate market. It's pretty cool! I really like how I can set my price, but then create coupons for my affiliates. There are a ton of other options that I could employ to maximize my sales. My next step is to create more promotional materials for my affiliates to help them be able to make sales. ### 3. Awesome for a quick set up and deployment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sean D. | CEO/Founder, Investment Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2019 **What do you like best about PayKickstart?** Simply put, it's quick and easy to get set up and products, campaigns, and funnels deployed. We're using it for a few different applications and businesses now and it makes our payment processes that much more streamlined and efficient. **What do you dislike about PayKickstart?** Took a wee while to get our head around the different elements for setting up a campaign and products inside that but once we got that out the way the rest was easy. **Recommendations to others considering PayKickstart:** Give it a try and put it into action. It's an awesome platform and allows you to do a LOT more than many platforms. It's ease of use, integrations with top platforms and speed of deployment of funnels and campaigns make it super powerful and the team behind it is truly awesome. **What problems is PayKickstart solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple payment handling for high-ticket products and services and an easy way to pay affiliates. Our affiliates love it for quick payment handling and JV partners love it too. ### 4. PayKickStart offers a multitude of solutions for your checkout and affiliate marketing needs. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karl S. | Affilate Advisor, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2019 **What do you like best about PayKickstart?** The fact that I can provide feedback on the platform which will, in turn, make it more powerful. While other cart and checkout platforms barely listen to your needs. PK not only listens but that take action pretty fast. They are always innovating and pushing updates. It's amazing how much this system a do for you. From merchant options to cart templet options. PK has been my go-to cart option for launching products and maintaining MRR from customers on our software. I have launched info products, software and live events on PK. The Checkout process has many templates and options that will increase your conversions and will pay you way more than the investment of owning your own PK account. **What do you dislike about PayKickstart?** Not much this platform is great and the few times I have run into something I have either received help from support or they listened to my ideas and implemented improvements. Not to say they would always do that but if it makes sound sense it would get done. **Recommendations to others considering PayKickstart:** PK has been my go-to cart option for launching products and maintaining MRR from customers on our software. I have launched info products, software and live events on PK. The Checkout process has many templates and options that will increase your conversions and will pay you way more than the investment of owning your own PK account. **What problems is PayKickstart solving and how is that benefiting you?** Handling all of our SaaS needs for cart checkout, upgrading plans and affiliate management along with reporting. ### 5. PayKickstart fills the gaps you didn’t know have with other processors **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stefan v. | CEO & Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2019 **What do you like best about PayKickstart?** The platform does everything you possibly need in order to process payments. This includes all the bells and whistles you want to increase conversions. Customer management, upgrading and downgrading subscriptions, and a wonderful API that gives you back all the control you want as a Vendor. And everything at a monthly fee. No percentage on your sales. This and more made me a happy customer for the last year and possibly for life. Another remark, is that their support is probably the best I’ve seen cross industries. Fast replies, helpful, understanding, and following up if they don’t got an answer handy. Real customer care we take great inspiration from and in implementing support in our own business. **What do you dislike about PayKickstart?** I love everything about PayKickstart. But, sales reports... need an overhaul. Vendor and affiliate reports do not match up on the click tracking side of things. Different data sets on the vendor side that do not make much sense. Nothing that will make me leave, but could be done better and made easier for both vendor and affiliate. **Recommendations to others considering PayKickstart:** Just do it, you press costs, and gain revenue. It’s the most logical thing to do. **What problems is PayKickstart solving and how is that benefiting you?** I’ve used around 5 payment processors and PayKickstart is hands-down the best. Primarily love 1 Click Upsells on PayPal and Stripe. Proper VAT reporting and handling, editable checkout pages. Plus... You get a lot of control with the API. ### 6. Very Flexible + Relentless Improvements **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Travis K. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2019 **What do you like best about PayKickstart?** PayKickstart is one of the most flexible shopping carts available on the market, and they have relentlessly continued product development with no signs of slowing down. It's great to know they are putting so much into the product on a continuing basis, which gives confidence moving forward for anyone who plans to build their business on top of this car. It's not a "here today, gone tomorrow" product. **What do you dislike about PayKickstart?** While it's almost required in order to be so flexible, I wish a few things were a little more intuitive to figure out. This is a difficult balance to strike, which I totally understand so it's a worthwhile trade-off. **Recommendations to others considering PayKickstart:** If you're looking for one of the most complete checkout systems on the market, PayKickstart is your solution. Others may be easier to use - but they sacrifice options and quality in order to do so. **What problems is PayKickstart solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy affiliate management, flexible payment options and killer 1-click up-sells are among the best features that PayKickstart offers. ### 7. Best shopping cart for business that are serious about growth. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brad C. | President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2019 **What do you like best about PayKickstart?** PKS has all of the major features that we need in a shopping cart. All of the bells and whistles. And they make setting things up super easy. You can tell that it was created by people that have been selling products and services online for a very long time. **What do you dislike about PayKickstart?** This is a tough one, but I would probably say that the loading speed of some of their more in-depth reporting could be improved. I'm sure this isn't the case for the bulk of their customers, but being a nerd when it comes to stats, I could always use faster load times on the reporting. **Recommendations to others considering PayKickstart:** If you sell any sort of digital product, PKS is a great choice. **What problems is PayKickstart solving and how is that benefiting you?** PKS makes thing super simple to set up complex upsell funnels and flows. And their API allows us to do a lot of things that are definitely outside-of-the-box, which is great for us. ### 8. Paykickstart very feature rich platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Keith G. | Product Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2019 **What do you like best about PayKickstart?** The massive amount of features. The product setup allows an incredible amount of options so I can tailor each product as needed. On the affiliate side of things, Paykickstart offers many override options so I can reuse the same product, but tailor each affiliates offer to fit their needs. In addition, Paykickstart makes it simple for me to manage all affiliate payouts. The funnel builder is easy to use and again offers many options such as creating payment widgets. **What do you dislike about PayKickstart?** Not much as the platform is always being updated with new features and the support is fantastic. If I had to pick one issue, it would be the reporting. It can be a bit difficult to get the results I want to see due to the multitude of options. **What problems is PayKickstart solving and how is that benefiting you?** Collecting subscription payments for my software as well as managing affiliates. ### 9. Solid system with great support team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mira D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2020 **What do you like best about PayKickstart?** Support team is awesome, new features added regulary and we get all we need for running our business. **What do you dislike about PayKickstart?** Not sure to be honest... I would be very happy if PK have Xero integration. **What problems is PayKickstart solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are selling software and PK helps us to collect payments, create invoices and all this work around. ### 10. Get your products up and running - and looking great - in no time! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Trish G. | Director Of Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2019 **What do you like best about PayKickstart?** It is really easy for me to setup new products and get affiliates on board for promoting those products in record time. I love how my checkout pages look - fresh and clean. **What do you dislike about PayKickstart?** I experienced a slight learning curve when I first started using PKS, but once I learned the system campaigns +products+funnels it really is a no brainer. One thing I don't like is have to change my sales checkout page settings. I would like it to remember my settings and always use the same ones. (this probably is already a feature I have yet to discover!) **What problems is PayKickstart solving and how is that benefiting you?** Updated Shopping cart, easy integration. Our goal this year is to simplify setup - and PKS helps us do just that. ### 11. Best support experience... ever! Love it. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Wilco d. | Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2019 **What do you like best about PayKickstart?** I've been comparing ALL the alternatives... and feature-wise, PayKickstart was by far the best fit. Little did I know it's not just the feature (and speed of development) that's awesome. Their support is the best I've seen in years! 9/10 times I get an in-depth reply within minutes. **What do you dislike about PayKickstart?** There is a bit of a learning curve - so the UX could be improved. **What problems is PayKickstart solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having a reliable payment platform that also tracks affiliates AND has a very flexible API (for upgrading/downgrading etc - even for PayPal). ### 12. Finally a robust tool that's not half baked! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ian T. | Affiliate Broker, Media Production, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2019 **What do you like best about PayKickstart?** Support and speed of new feature updates and bug fixes. **What do you dislike about PayKickstart?** Nothing really. I've had problems, but nothing yet that hasn't been solved with new feature releases and bug fixes. **Recommendations to others considering PayKickstart:** Use the help docs and support to your advantage. They are by far the best I have dealt with. **What problems is PayKickstart solving and how is that benefiting you?** Membership and subscription management as well as affiliate programs that ACTUALLY work and don't leave me worried about paying commissions that aren't actually legitimate. ### 13. Solid product. Great features **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2019 **What do you like best about PayKickstart?** I really appreciate the fact that it’s a shopping cart that’s very flexible and has a licensing system inbuilt. **What do you dislike about PayKickstart?** I wish I could accept crypto payments. Apple Pay & Google Pay with authorize.net would be a big win. The licensing system isn’t as strong as some 3rd party solutions I looked at but it’s not weak either. It just could be a bit stronger to be a few powerhouse combo for software sellers **Recommendations to others considering PayKickstart:** Solid choice. Good roadmap. Excellent support. **What problems is PayKickstart solving and how is that benefiting you?** As someone who sells software, it’s super easy to plug my stuff into their stuff and have a shopping cart readily available for taking sales ### 14. Super Easy To Use! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2019 **What do you like best about PayKickstart?** Their support is 2nd to none. If you need any help whatsoever, they are very fast to respond and help you with your problem. PayKickstart is easy to navigate and integrates with alot of other products. **What do you dislike about PayKickstart?** Need just a bit more stuff for Ecommerce. I know they primarily deal with Infoproducts, and are slowly working their way towards ecommerce. I like their platform alot so would love to see them go deeper with ecommerce faster! **What problems is PayKickstart solving and how is that benefiting you?** the checkout pages and upsell flows are seamless and are crucial for conversions. ### 15. Fast! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alli M. | Freelance Videographer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2019 **What do you like best about PayKickstart?** I can sell my goods easily on paykickstart and customers can easily make payments conveniently **What do you dislike about PayKickstart?** Paykickstart is an expensive app and the app does not have some features seen on the web view. **What problems is PayKickstart solving and how is that benefiting you?** To sell my goods and also do affiliate marketing. ### 16. Incredible payment platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh R. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2019 **What do you like best about PayKickstart?** Ease of use, and it provides users with all the tools you need to collect payments & run your online business. **What do you dislike about PayKickstart?** I would like the ability to create custom checkout pages, maybe if it had a drag & drop type builder that would be the icing on the cake! **What problems is PayKickstart solving and how is that benefiting you?** None currently. ## PayKickstart Discussions - [I'm in! What is the best way to get started?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/i-m-in-what-is-the-best-way-to-get-started) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Is there a live demo of the platform, so we can see PayKickstart in action?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-there-a-live-demo-of-the-platform-so-we-can-see-paykickstart-in-action) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Do you continue to add new features and improve on the platform?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/do-you-continue-to-add-new-features-and-improve-on-the-platform) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What if we need to do a custom integration, do you have an API we can utilize?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-if-we-need-to-do-a-custom-integration-do-you-have-an-api-we-can-utilize) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Is this a replacement for a traditional eCommerce store like Shopify or Magento.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-this-a-replacement-for-a-traditional-ecommerce-store-like-shopify-or-magento) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View PayKickstart pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/paykickstart/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-03+06%3A58%3A47+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=dc3f3fb9-37c4-460b-bdc5-9eb5b76e36de&secure%5Btoken%5D=093133777a93f238c762de26a0a0d66f0f718df406bc3d76e9e1346c1c71a067&format=llm_user) ## PayKickstart Features **Billing and Payments** - Payment Terms - Personalized Billing - Custom Pricing **Billing** - Automation - Consolidation - Adjustments - Blacklisting **Link Options** - Custom Links - Referral Link Generator - Smart Link **Order Management** - Opportunities - Order History - Upsell & Cross-sell - Renewals **Headless Commerce** - Decoupling - REST APIs - Data Orchestration - Customization - Extensibility **Agentic AI - Affiliate Marketing** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Revenue Recognition** - Usage Tracking - Deferred Revenue - Revenue Accrual **Dunning** - Collections - Dispute Management - Escalation **Tracking Options** - Email Updates - Affiliate Tracking - Cookieless Tracking **Products & Plans** - Packages - Multi-part Deals - Plan Changes - Bundles **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Revenue Optimization** - At-Risk Customers - Offer Optimization - Customer Churn - Revenue Forecasting **Performance** - Packages - Discounts - Plan Changes **Pricing** - Standard Price - Discounts - Optimization **Affiliate Management** - Affiliate Network - Commissions and Payouts - Customization **Agentic AI - E-Commerce Platforms** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Reporting** - Dimensions - Deferred Revenue - Revenue Recognition **Revenue Management** - Automation - Consolidation - Adjustments - Billing Types **Integration** - Payments - Accounting - CRM & Sales **Agentic AI - Subscription Billing** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning **Agentic AI - Subscription Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Decision Making **Merchandising/Marketing** - Storefront Design Tools - Product Visualization - Promotions and Discounts - Shopping Cart Abandonment - SEO **Product Catalog** - Content Management - Product Configuration - Product Search and Filtering - Intangible Products **Order Process** - Checkout Process - Shipping Options - Tax Display and Processing - Payment Processing - Order Management - Returns / Refunds - Inventory Management - Multi-Channel Fulfillment **Multi-Channel Support** - Omnichannel - Mobile - Customer Service - 3rd-Party Store Integration - B2B **Platform** - APIs - Customization - Integrations to Add-on Tools - User Management - Reporting / Analytics - Security - Multi-Site Management - Admin Access Rights - Test-to-Product Migration - Internationalization - Cross Browser Support - Performance and Reliability ## Top PayKickstart Alternatives - [Chargebee](https://www.g2.com/products/chargebee/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (954 reviews) - [Shopify](https://www.g2.com/products/shopify/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (4,926 reviews) - [impact.com](https://www.g2.com/products/impact-com/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (2,170 reviews)