Showit and Kajabi are two of the most powerful platforms in their respective categories. Showit gives you beautiful, conversion-optimized website design. Kajabi gives you a complete online course and digital product delivery system. Together, they can build a business infrastructure that looks polished and functions at a professional level.
This guide covers every method for connecting Kajabi to your Showit website so that you can sell courses, memberships, and coaching programs from your Showit site while delivering them through Kajabi’s platform.
Why Showit Users Choose Kajabi for Courses
Kajabi is an all-in-one platform for course creators and knowledge entrepreneurs. It handles video hosting, lesson delivery, student progress tracking, email marketing, payment processing, affiliate management, and community features in a single subscription.
According to Kajabi’s official platform data, creators on Kajabi have collectively generated over two billion dollars in sales, making it one of the most commercially proven course platforms available.
The reason Showit users pair Kajabi with their existing site rather than using Kajabi’s built-in website builder is simple: Kajabi’s website builder is functional but limited compared to Showit’s design capabilities. Creatives who have invested in a custom Showit brand experience do not want to compromise that experience by moving their main website into Kajabi’s design system.
The solution is to use Showit as the front-end brand and marketing site and Kajabi as the back-end course delivery platform.
Understanding How the Integration Works
There is no native, one-click integration between Showit and Kajabi. The connection is achieved through strategic linking, embedded elements, and design continuity rather than a technical plugin or API sync.
Here is how the pieces fit together:
Your Showit website serves as the marketing front end. Your course sales pages, about page, testimonials page, and homepage all live in Showit where you have full design control.
When a visitor is ready to enroll, they click a button or link that takes them to Kajabi for checkout. The checkout and course delivery experience happens inside Kajabi. After enrollment, students access their course content through Kajabi’s student portal.
The goal is to make this transition between Showit and Kajabi feel as seamless as possible from the visitor’s perspective, through consistent branding, matched typography, and a smooth flow from marketing page to checkout.
Method 1: Linking From Showit to Kajabi Checkout
The simplest integration method is direct linking from your Showit site to your Kajabi course checkout or sales page.
Step 1: Get Your Kajabi Course Checkout URL
In your Kajabi dashboard, navigate to your product (course, coaching program, or membership). Open the pricing settings and copy the direct checkout URL or the offer URL. This is the URL that sends visitors directly to Kajabi’s payment page for that specific product.
Step 2: Create Your Course Sales Page in Showit
Build a dedicated sales page for your course in the Showit editor. This page should include everything a prospective student needs to make an enrollment decision: the course title and promise, a description of the transformation or outcome, a curriculum overview, instructor bio and credentials, student testimonials or success stories, and a clear price presentation.
Design this page with the same visual quality and brand consistency as the rest of your Showit site. This is where your Showit design investment pays off most directly, since high-quality sales page design directly influences conversion rates. For guidance on building high-converting pages, the high-converting sales pages on Showit guide covers the design principles that drive enrollment decisions.
Step 3: Add Enrollment Buttons Linking to Kajabi
On your Showit sales page, add call-to-action buttons at strategic points throughout the page, typically near the top, after the curriculum section, after testimonials, and at the very bottom. Set each button’s link to your Kajabi checkout URL.
When a visitor clicks the button, they go to Kajabi’s checkout page to complete enrollment. After payment, Kajabi automatically creates their student account and grants them access to the course content.
Step 4: Customize Your Kajabi Checkout Page
Log in to Kajabi and customize your checkout page to match your Showit brand as closely as possible. Kajabi’s checkout customization options include your logo, brand colors, and a custom headline. While Kajabi’s checkout template has limited design flexibility compared to Showit, you can minimize the visual jarring of the transition by using consistent colors and including your logo prominently.
Method 2: Embedding Kajabi Checkout on Your Showit Page
For a more integrated experience, Kajabi offers an embeddable checkout form that you can place directly on your Showit sales page. This allows visitors to complete enrollment without leaving your Showit site.
Getting the Embed Code
In your Kajabi product settings, look for the embed or checkout embed option. Kajabi provides an iframe embed code that you can copy.
Adding the Embed to Your Showit Page
In the Showit editor, add a custom code element to your sales page canvas at the location where you want the checkout form to appear. Paste the Kajabi embed code into this custom code element.
Publish your Showit site and test the embedded form by submitting a test enrollment. Confirm that the form submits correctly, payment is processed through Kajabi, and the student receives access to their course.
Embed Limitations to Be Aware Of
Embedded checkout forms render within an iframe, which means their styling is controlled by Kajabi, not Showit. The form may not match your Showit design precisely. Additionally, some payment processors behave differently within iframes, so testing thoroughly before going live is essential.
Method 3: Using a Kajabi Landing Page for Course Sales
If you prefer to keep your course sales experience entirely within Kajabi’s system, you can use a Kajabi landing page as your course sales page and link to it from your Showit site.
In Kajabi’s page builder, design a sales landing page using Kajabi’s templates and editor. Customize it to match your brand as closely as Kajabi’s builder allows. Then, from your Showit homepage or navigation, link visitors to this Kajabi landing page.
This method sacrifices some design quality compared to building the sales page in Showit, but it simplifies the technical setup and keeps the entire course sales and delivery flow within Kajabi.
This approach works best if you are new to building sales pages and want to use Kajabi’s tested templates rather than building from scratch in Showit.
Creating a Course Preview or Teaser Page in Showit
Regardless of which checkout method you use, consider creating a dedicated course preview or teaser page in Showit that gives prospective students a sense of what is inside the course before they reach the full sales page.
This preview page might include a short welcome video, a sample lesson, the course curriculum list, and the instructor’s philosophy and approach. It functions as a pre-qualification page that warms up visitors before they see the price and enrollment call to action.
Link from your Showit navigation to this preview page, and from the preview page to your full sales page or directly to Kajabi checkout.
Building a Course Hub in Showit
If you offer multiple courses or digital products through Kajabi, build a dedicated courses or education hub page in Showit that presents all your offerings in a clean, navigable layout.
This hub page functions like a storefront for your knowledge products. Each course is represented by a card with its title, a brief description, the primary outcome, and an enrollment or learn more button. Visitors can browse your full offerings from a single Showit page before choosing which course to explore.
Design the hub page with the same visual quality as your portfolio or services pages. A professionally designed course hub signals that your educational content matches the quality of your work as a creative professional.
Consistent Branding Between Showit and Kajabi
The biggest friction point in a Showit and Kajabi combination is the visual gap between the two platforms. Your Showit site might feel highly polished and bespoke while your Kajabi student portal feels generic by comparison.
Reduce this gap through the following:
Colors: Use your exact brand hex codes in Kajabi wherever the platform allows color customization. In your Kajabi product school settings, set the primary and accent colors to match your Showit brand palette.
Logo: Upload your brand logo to Kajabi so it appears in the student portal header and on checkout pages.
Typography: Kajabi has limited font customization, but you can often add custom CSS to adjust fonts in some Kajabi plan tiers. Even matching your primary font family reduces visual discontinuity significantly.
Language and tone: The copy inside your Kajabi course should sound like the same person who wrote your Showit website. Consistent tone and voice across both platforms creates a coherent brand experience even when the design systems differ.
Setting Up Your Kajabi Course for Student Success
The connection between Showit and Kajabi handles the marketing and enrollment flow. Inside Kajabi, the focus shifts to student experience and completion rates.
Structure your course content with a clear logical progression. Lessons should build on each other systematically. Modules should represent meaningful milestones in the student’s learning journey.
Use Kajabi’s completion tracking and assessment features to give students a sense of progress. Completion rates are a meaningful metric for course quality, and Kajabi’s research into course completion consistently shows that structured progress and community engagement drive higher student satisfaction and referrals.
Set up Kajabi’s automated email sequences to welcome new students, remind inactive students to return to their course, and celebrate milestone completions. These automations require no manual effort after setup and significantly improve student engagement.
Tracking Kajabi Enrollments Through Your Showit Analytics
Because enrollment conversions happen through Kajabi rather than on your Showit site, your Showit analytics will not automatically track completed purchases. You will need to set up tracking through one of the following approaches:
Use Kajabi’s built-in analytics to monitor enrollment counts, revenue, and student progress.
Set up Google Analytics event tracking by adding Google Analytics to your Kajabi site or by using Kajabi’s Google Analytics integration in your Kajabi settings.
Use Kajabi’s Facebook Pixel integration to track enrollments as conversion events for your Meta ad campaigns.
For Showit-specific tracking approaches, the server-side tracking setup guide for Showit covers advanced tracking configurations that can complement your Kajabi analytics.
FAQ
Do I need a Kajabi subscription to use it with my Showit site?
Yes. Kajabi is a paid platform with its own subscription pricing. You pay Kajabi separately from your Showit subscription. Kajabi plans start at a point that includes full course creation and delivery functionality. CheckKajabi’s current pricing for the most up-to-date plan details.
Can I make my Kajabi student portal look exactly like my Showit site?
Not exactly. Kajabi’s student portal has its own design system with limited customization. You can match colors, use your logo, and in some plan tiers add custom CSS, but a pixel-perfect match to your Showit design is not achievable within Kajabi’s standard customization options.
Can I run ads driving traffic directly to my Kajabi checkout?
Yes. You can run ads pointing to either your Showit sales page (which then links to Kajabi for checkout) or directly to your Kajabi course sales or checkout URL. Running ads to your Showit sales page is generally preferable because it gives you a higher-quality design environment and more control over the pre-enrollment experience.
What happens to my Showit site if I cancel Kajabi?
Canceling Kajabi removes your ability to deliver courses and process enrollments through that platform. Your Showit site remains completely unaffected. You would need to remove the links from your Showit site that point to Kajabi and either switch to a different course platform or remove your course offering.
Can I use Kajabi’s blog instead of my Showit WordPress blog?
Technically yes, but it is not recommended for users who have invested in the Showit and WordPress blog setup. Kajabi’s blog has very basic functionality compared to WordPress, and splitting your content between two blogging systems dilutes your SEO efforts. Keep all your blog content on your Showit WordPress blog.
