ThriveCart

What do you like best?

When I started using this program in 2017, it was a great tool for selling online programs, app subscriptions, and/or music. It even has a Kunaki integration that will burn a CD and have it shipped if they pay you.

Now, the program really shines in two areas. One is the Cart Editor. This allows you to make a cart with several options, upsells and downsells, a custom countdown timer, videos, and it all stands on its own landing page. While not complex, this does allow you to follow marketing triggers to build a solid cart.

The other area would be its integrations. We currently use Active Campaign to run our learning management software. This allows for purchase to delivery with no issues and no hands-on needed.

Integrations include several payors (such as Stripe, PayPal, and Apple Pay). There are also integrations for your pixels and Google Tags. This gives you some great metrics.

What do you dislike?

The limitations with this program are in lack of multi-purchase options. If you want to sell access to a single program with up to 5 payment options, that is fine. If you want to replace your website cart where they can make several purchases and payout in the end...it simply won't do that.

It's functional to sell single products and bundles. However, it lacks the ability to buy several items with one purchase point.

Additionally, while the reporting is good, getting the right metrics may require you to export a list and manipulate it in an outside excel or spreadsheet program to actually capture the info you want. Great for identifying who bought at what date, but not so good for getting to some of the non-integrated info.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

The hands-off benefit has been huge for us. Knowing that we can build a sales cart landing page and have the system provide access to our product with us just checking occasionally to make sure the product was delivered is fantastic.

Additionally, the use of both landing page carts and embedded carts gives us options to test different methods to drive sales. Testing the two helps us to know if a certain product is better if they click away from a video or if it is better on the same page.