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Stop paying for pieces. Buy the operating system.
Most platforms sell you one capability and an app store for the rest. Kinglify ships the whole system on every plan, with one list of the people you serve.
What only Kinglify does
Not a longer feature list — a different shape. These are the things that stop being true the moment you split your organisation across separate tools.
Your money reaches your account
In African split-at-source markets, payments settle to your organisation's own account and Kinglify never holds your funds; elsewhere Kinglify collects, records exactly what you are owed, and settles monthly. Every fee is itemised as its own line before your first sale.
Mobile money across Africa
Members pay by mobile money across roughly twenty African countries, with Nigeria on Paystack and international cards everywhere else — so the people you actually serve can pay the way they actually pay.
One platform, one list of people
Membership, courses, events, giving, a storefront, livestream and your website in a single system. Not five subscriptions and five member lists to reconcile at the end of the month.
Your brand, your domain
Your own domain, logo, colours and fonts, with the Kinglify badge switchable off. Members see your organisation, not the platform you happen to run it on.
Five languages, free on every plan
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Swahili across the whole product, with each member reading in their own language. Never an upgrade, never an add-on.
Your members become your salespeople
Run your own affiliate scheme at a commission you set, so the people who already believe in you get paid for bringing the next paying member. Built in, free on every plan.
What each platform can actually do
| Capability | Shopify | Kajabi | Skool | Nestuge | Kinglify |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your own brand and domain | Built in | Check their current features | Check their current features | Check their current features | Your domain, logo, colours and fonts, with the Kinglify badge switchable off |
| Members, roles, teams and branches | Not available | Not available | Not available | Not available | Full member directory with roles, staff seats, teams and multi-branch structure |
| Courses with quizzes and certificates | Third-party app, extra cost | Built in | Built in | Built in | Question banks, timed assessments, server-side grading and PDF certificates |
| Giving and donations | Third-party app, extra cost | Check their current features | Not available | Not available | Built in, settling to your own account with fees itemised |
| Events | Third-party app, extra cost | Check their current features | Built in | Built in | Registration with capacity limits, waitlists and QR check-in. Paid ticketing is not built. |
| Community and email broadcasts | Third-party app, extra cost | Built in | Built in | Built in | Groups, discussion, announcements and tracked email campaigns under your brand |
| Storefront and marketplace | Built in | Built in | Not available | Built in | Your own storefront plus the Kinglify Marketplace |
| African payment methods, including mobile money | Check their current features | Not available | Check their current features | Check their current features | Mobile money across twenty countries, Nigeria on Paystack, international cards everywhere else |
| An affiliate scheme for your own people | Third-party app, extra cost | Check their current features | Check their current features | Check their current features | Your members earn a commission you set for bringing new paying members |
| Customer and data ownership | Built in | Check their current features | Check their current features | Check their current features | Your member and buyer records are yours and exportable at any time |
Kinglify rows are generated from what the product can do today — a capability that is not built cannot appear here. Competitor rows say “check their current features” wherever we could not confirm a claim from their own material rather than guess.
Kinglify compared
We compare on capability — what each platform can and cannot do. For anyone else’s prices, check their own site; we do not publish their figures here.
Kinglify vs Shopify
Shopify sells you a shop, then an app for every other thing your organisation does. Kinglify ships all of it on every plan, on one member list.
Them / KinglifyKinglify vs Kajabi
Kajabi is built around one creator selling offers. Kinglify is built around an organisation with members, events, giving and a team.
Them / KinglifyKinglify vs Skool
Skool is the simplest possible paid community. Kinglify is what you need when that community has members to renew, events to run and money to account for.
Them / KinglifyKinglify vs Nestuge
Nestuge automates access to tools you do not own. Kinglify gives you the organisation itself, on your own brand.
Them / Kinglify