Move from SamCart to Whop: What Transfers and How to Switch

Why SamCart sellers are weighing a move in 2026

SamCart changed its pricing twice in about 15 months. In March 2025 it swapped its Launch, Grow and Scale tiers for a single plan priced by revenue. In June 2026 it replaced that with Core at $79 a month and Pro at $199 a month, and put 1-click upsells, order bumps, A/B testing, the Affiliate Center, API access and third-party processors on Pro only.

Existing customers stay on their legacy plans, but SamCart's help center says the change is one-way: cancel a legacy plan and you lose its pricing for good. Reactivated accounts land on Core (from Launch or Scaler) or Pro (from Grow or Scale).

SamCart takes no platform fee on SamPay, Stripe or PayPal. SamPay, its default processor, charges 2.9% + 30¢ on Core and Pro, and built-in tax calculation adds 0.5% on Core or 0.35% on Pro. Whop charges nothing monthly; each US card sale costs 2.7% + 30¢, and subscription charges add 0.5%. This page covers what moves, what you rebuild and how to bill each subscriber only once.

What moves from SamCart to Whop

Your customer records move from SamCart's exports. Your checkout setup stays behind, and each subscriber's route depends on the processor that bills them. The support table on this page sums it up; the sections below explain each row for a SamCart account.

Customers, orders and subscriptions

SamCart has two exports that matter. The Orders export (Orders, then Export, then pick a time range and Email Report) sends a CSV with products purchased, coupon used, referring affiliate and more. SamCart's help center says the emailed file is only available for 15 minutes, so download it straight away or set up a scheduled export. The Subscriptions export works the same way and lets you choose recurring subscriptions, limited subscriptions (payment plans) or subscriptions set to cancel. Pull all three report types.

Drop the files into our member CSV converter, which builds a clean, Whop-ready list in your browser. If an export has no next rebill date, the converter estimates one from the last charge or start date plus the billing interval, and marks which dates are estimates.

Whop memberships can only be created through checkout, and its API has no way to enroll a customer for you. Instead, every customer gets a private link and claims their own access by signing in to Whop.

Products, prices and payment plans

Every SamCart product turns into a Whop product plus a plan priced the same way: one-time, or recurring on the same billing period. Whop plans support free trials and an initial fee on recurring plans, so SamCart products with a trial or a setup fee carry over too. The wizard prefills each product from your exports, you check the details, and we create the products and plans with Whop's official API.

Payment plans need a decision before you move. SamCart runs them itself, even when the card sits in your Stripe, and they stop the moment you close your SamCart account. Either keep SamCart open until the last installment clears, or end the plan and give those buyers free access on Whop with a claim link.

Courses

If you deliver a course through SamCart's Courses app, we found no course export in SamCart's help center. Paste your outline (modules, lessons, lesson text) into the wizard and we build it in Whop Courses, with YouTube or Loom embeds where you use them. Video files stay where they are, so upload your originals to Whop or host them unlisted and embed them.

SamCart's plans don't list a community feature, so there's nothing to carry over there. If you want one, Whop's Chat and Forums apps attach to the same product as your course.

Payments: which processor bills each subscriber

Your subscribers split into three groups, and each moves differently.

• Your own Stripe account. SamCart's recurring subscriptions here are managed by Stripe, so Whop Migrations can pick up every active or trialing card subscription of at least $1 with an email on file, renewal date included. Once they move, Whop schedules the old Stripe subscriptions to end when their paid period runs out. Anything paid by Stripe Link, ACH or SEPA is skipped.
• SamPay. SamPay creates a separate Stripe account with a "Managed by SamCart" banner, and SamCart says removing its access takes a support request. We treat SamPay subscribers as re-subscribers: they check out once on Whop, on a hidden plan whose free trial ends on their next SamCart rebill.
• PayPal, Braintree, Authorize.net or Easy Pay Direct. Whop Migrations only reads Stripe, so these subscribers re-subscribe the same way.

Our walkthrough of moving Stripe subscriptions to Whop shows each Migrations screen.

What Whop's checkout covers, and what you rebuild

Most SamCart settings stay behind, even where Whop has its own version. Plan each replacement before you announce the move.

Prices and features as of October 2026. Sources at the end of this page.

Two limits matter most for high-ticket sellers. New Whop accounts are capped at $2,500 per checkout link until Whop approves a higher limit, which its docs say takes up to 24 hours, or until you agree to hold part of your funds in reserve for 60 days. And Whop's financing requires $30,000 or more processed across at least 10 customers during the previous 90 days, with disputes below 2%; a new business can show 90 days of statements from its old processor. If you sell a $3,000 program on SamPay with Affirm today, apply for both before you switch your sales pages.

How the switch works, step by step

Set up Whop first, move customers second and close SamCart last, so no buyer loses access and no subscriber is billed twice.

1. Export from SamCart in one sitting: orders for your full history, plus the recurring, limited and set-to-cancel subscription reports. Save each file within 15 minutes of the email.
2. Find out who bills whom. Open the Subscriptions page in your own Stripe Dashboard, then switch to your SamPay account from Stripe's account menu if you use one, and note which subscribers sit where.
3. Clean the files with the member converter, then sign in to the free migration wizard through Whop's own login and upload them; we never need your SamCart password. On Pro, a read-only SamCart API key (beta) can replace the files.
4. Confirm one Whop product per SamCart product, at the same prices and billing periods, then recreate your promo codes, upsells and affiliate settings.
5. Rebuild any course from your outline, and upload or embed the videos lesson by lesson.
6. Run Whop Migrations for subscribers in your own Stripe. Send re-subscribe links to SamPay and PayPal subscribers and claim links to one-time buyers.
7. Swap every SamCart checkout link and embedded checkout on your sales pages, emails, ads and affiliate links for its Whop version.
8. Cancel the remaining SamCart subscriptions at the end of each billing period as members land on Whop, settle your payment plans, then close SamCart.

How to keep subscribers and avoid double billing

Match every re-subscribe trial to the date SamCart would next bill that person, and stop the SamCart subscription so its last paid period runs out naturally. A single SamPay customer shows how the dates fit together.

Take a customer billed $97 through SamPay on the 22nd of every month. On the 9th you email them a private Whop link, and the hidden plan behind it carries a free trial through the 22nd. They add a card the same day. In SamCart, open the subscription's Quick Actions menu and cancel it. SamCart's help center describes timing options for ending at the close of the billing period or on a custom date, and a Silent Cancel switch that stops billing without revoking product access or firing your cancellation integrations. On the 22nd Whop takes the $97, and SamCart has nothing left to charge.

SamCart sends the customer an automatic email when a cancellation happens, so warn people about it in your announcement. Set the switch deadline three or four days ahead of each person's rebill date, and send reminders seven days before and again the evening before. More versions are in our migration announcement templates. Here is a short one for SamCart customers:

Subject: [Product name] has a new home on Whop from [date]

Hi [first name], from [date] you'll get [product name] through Whop instead of our old checkout. Your access moves with you: use this link and sign in to Whop with the same email you bought with: [link].

If you pay monthly, nothing changes on your bill: $[price], charged on [next rebill date]. Save your card on Whop now and it won't be charged until then. SamCart will send you an automatic cancellation notice when we turn off the old billing, which is how we make sure you only pay once. If you bought it outright, your access stays free.

If something looks off, just reply and we'll sort it out.

Subscribers moved by Whop Migrations skip the card step; their billing date stays and only the receipt changes. For a side-by-side look at both routes, read our walkthrough of migrating paid subscriptions to Whop.

SamCart vs Whop fees at your revenue

Whop comes out cheaper at the $1,000 and $10,000 levels, and SamCart Core at $50,000. Our example uses a $49 monthly membership paid with US cards, SamCart on monthly billing through SamPay, and leaves out add-ons, tax tools, payouts and currency conversion.

Prices as of October 2026. Sources at the end of this page.

We priced Whop at revenue × 3.2% plus $0.30 per charge (2.7% card processing and 0.5% billing on each renewal), and SamCart at its plan price plus revenue × 2.9% plus $0.30 per charge. Over a year, Whop saves $912 against Core at $1,000 and $588 at $10,000, and costs $852 more at $50,000. Against Pro it saves $2,352, $2,028 and $588. The crossover sits near $26,000 a month for Core and $66,000 for Pro. Billing SamCart yearly ($59 or $149 a month) cuts $240 or $600 off its side.

One-time products change the picture. On a one-time sale, Whop's 2.7% + 30¢ is lower than SamPay's 2.9% + 30¢, so with no plan fee Whop costs less than both SamCart plans at all three levels. Not in the table: Whop's Radar fraud check, listed at $0.07 a transaction, which comes to about $14 a month at $10,000 in $49 sales. Run your own price, volume and mix of one-time and recurring sales through the SamCart vs Whop fee calculator, or check Whop's full fee schedule.

Should you switch from SamCart to Whop?

Switch if most of what you pay SamCart for is checkout and delivery and your subscribers can move without friction. Stay if your revenue depends on payment options or volumes where SamCart is cheaper or more flexible.

Switching makes sense when:

• you sell courses, memberships or downloads, and want checkout, course hosting and a community or Discord access in one place;
• most of your subscribers are in your own Stripe, so Whop Migrations moves them without anyone re-entering a card;
• your revenue is mostly one-time sales, or under about $26,000 a month in subscriptions, where Whop's fees come out lower.

Stay on SamCart when:

• most subscribers pay through SamPay or PayPal, and asking them to check out again would lose more members than the fee savings are worth;
• you sell above $2,500 per checkout or lean on Klarna, Affirm or Afterpay, which SamCart offers at about 6% + 30¢ per order against Whop's approval rules and 15% fee;
• you route payments across Stripe, Braintree, Authorize.net or Easy Pay Direct on Pro, or want card data held by a processor you choose;
• your subscription revenue sits well above $26,000 a month on Core, where SamPay's 2.9% beats Whop's 3.2%;
• you're on a legacy plan whose price you'd lose permanently by cancelling.

If you're still comparing destinations, see our SamCart alternatives ranked by cost or the Whop vs Stripe comparison if you'd rather run checkout on your own Stripe. If you run SamCart alongside a funnel or marketing suite, the ClickFunnels to Whop and Kartra to Whop plans cover those exports.

After the move: launch checklist

Run every buyer path yourself before the announcement goes out, and finish the list before SamCart is closed.

• Pay for one of your products on Whop with a live card, then refund yourself.
• Run one full upsell flow, from checkout to the after-checkout offer, and check what the buyer is charged.
• Use a claim link from a second account and confirm the course and apps it opens.
• Pick three re-subscribers and confirm each trial ends on their SamCart rebill date.
• Finish Whop's payout setup and identity check, and request higher checkout limits for any offer above $2,500.
• Budget for a reserve on a young Whop account, since Whop can hold back part of each sale for a period.
• Replace SamCart links and embedded checkouts in your bio, email footers, video descriptions, ads and affiliate materials.
• Before you close SamCart, confirm in Stripe that no subscription you meant to move is still set to renew.