Showit makes beautiful sites.
We run beautiful businesses.
Showit gives creatives real design freedom — drag anything anywhere, mobile and desktop independent, custom fonts, layered everything. It's gorgeous. We're not arguing against beauty. We're pointing out that a website is one tool. A business needs about nine. Showit knows this; their own help docs walk you through pairing it with HoneyBook, ConvertKit, Kajabi, and friends.
Showit alone is modest.
Showit plus the four tools you'll need is not.
Showit's pricing looks great until you remember that running a creative business takes more than a website. Here's the typical real-world stack we see.
Showit + 4 friends
That's the stack Showit's own help docs walk you through. Five logins, five renewal dates, five places where something can break the day before launch.
Simplero Starter
One bill. One support team. One platform that knows your customer is also your student is also your member is also your client.
Beautiful pixels.
The rest is on you.
No native commerce or checkout
No products, no order forms at scale, no tax handling, no order bumps, no upsells. To sell anything beyond a button-link to PayPal, you'll embed a HoneyBook payment block, point at a Kajabi checkout, or graft on a Shopify Lite cart.
No LMS
No drip schedules, no quizzes, no completion tracking, no certificates, no member areas, no native video player. Showit pages can describe a course beautifully. They can't deliver one.
No email, CRM, community, or automations
No subscriber list, no segmentation, no behavioral triggers, no contact records, no member spaces, no automation engine. The Showit “business growth” blog itself recommends pairing with ConvertKit, HoneyBook, and a list of other tools.
Showit users on
the rest of the stack.
“9 designer-approved tools that make Showit even better — a list our design partners use daily to create stunning websites, manage clients, and streamline their workflow.”Showit’s own ‘Business Growth’ blog · showit.com
“It is not ideal for e-commerce websites, as integrating a shopping cart can become costly and complicated.”@capriandrome · TikTok review
“Showit handles the design, WordPress handles the blog. You’ll design the look in Showit, then write and publish through WordPress.”Showit FAQ · showit.com/pricing
“When you embed your Convertkit form into Showit, it is a natural way to deliver freebies and gain new email subscribers.”Coffee & Flow · showit + convertkit tutorial
“Your Showit sales page serves as your course’s storefront. The first step is gathering your Kajabi checkout links.”Superhero Design · showit + kajabi guide
“You can embed a HoneyBook contact form into a Showit site! If you are having issues with your HoneyBook contact form, or if it’s not working, check out this article.”Showit Help Center · learn.showit.com
“I got more done with Showit in 1 hour than I got done with Wordpress on its own in a year.”Jessica C. · quoted on showit.com/pricing
Whole platform
vs whole platform.
| Showit | Simplero | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $19/mo (Showit only, annual) | $59/mo (Starter) |
| Most popular plan | $34/mo Showit & Advanced Blog | $149/mo Scale |
| Sites included | 1 (multi-site requires high-traffic plans) | Unlimited landing pages, full site, blog |
| Visual page builder | ✓ mobile-independent | ✓ sections / rows / columns |
| Blog | WordPress (separate admin) | ✓ native |
| Native LMS / courses | — use Kajabi/Teachable | ✓ drip, quizzes, certificates |
| Email marketing | — use ConvertKit/Flodesk | ✓ included |
| Community | — | ✓ spaces, posts, DMs |
| CRM | — use HoneyBook | ✓ included |
| Automations | — | ✓ visual workflow engine |
| Native checkout / payments | — embed third-party | ✓ Stripe + PayPal native |
| Transaction fees | n/a (no native checkout) | 0% |
| Affiliate program | — | ✓ native |
| Custom domain | ✓ | ✓ |
| Founder access | — | Calvin still answers emails |
| Years in business | Since 2008 (Showit, Inc.) | Since 2009 · bootstrapped 17 yrs |
Design freedom and
business completeness.
Design freedom and business completeness
We're not arguing against beauty. Both matter. Showit nails one of them. We give you both — a real page builder with sections, rows, columns, and a whole platform behind it.
0% transaction fees
Every plan, every payment, every processor. We don't take a cut of your sales. Not on Starter, not at $1M/yr. The platform fee is the platform fee.
Founder access
Calvin still answers customer emails. Paid concierge tier ($1,500–$2,500/mo by account size) gets you a direct line to founder + product leadership. Showit is a bigger company than Simplero, and that's not the same thing.
From people who
compared the field.
“I scored 12 platforms on a spreadsheet. Simplero won. The software is intuitive. The support team is amazing. The founder really cares — Simplero is led by a founding team that really cares and they’re always improving.”George Kao
“My income tripled, quadrupled in the last six years.”Kira Sutherland
“I ended up paying my annual plan for Simplero in what I was paying for one month of all my subscriptions.”Bunny Young
“There are no chatbot-gates you have to get through to get support from an actual human.”Trustpilot review · Simplero
One bill,
everything included.
Site, courses, email, community, CRM, payments, automations. Everything Showit doesn't do, and the website builder too.
Choose StarterFor creatives running real launches. Affiliate program, advanced automations, multi-site, full course AI.
Choose ScaleFor established creative businesses. Higher limits, priority concierge, the whole machine humming.
Choose SkyrocketStop assembling
your stack.
Start running your business.
Showit folks make beautiful websites. We make beautiful businesses. Different jobs, both honest. If your work has outgrown the website-and-five-tools setup, you know where to find me.Founded 2009 · Bootstrapped · Proud of it. — Calvin
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