Move from Kajabi to GoHighLevel, keep courses, offers, and renewals

You want courses, payments, and automations in one system. Use this 7 day cutover to keep access intact, avoid sending gaps, and protect renewals.

What you keep

• Active subscriptions in Stripe, keep the same Stripe account, renewals continue.
• Customers, purchases, coupons, offers, export from Kajabi, import into GoHighLevel where needed.
• UTM and ad attribution, capture via hidden fields and Workflow actions.

What you rebuild

• Courses inside GoHighLevel Memberships, categories, modules, lessons, drip settings.
• Offers and checkouts, order bumps and one-click upsells, coupons, taxes, receipts.
• Funnels, web pages, blog posts, and 301 redirects.

Before you start

• Use your own Stripe account in Kajabi now, do not move if you are mid-launch.
• If you used Kajabi Payments, plan a phased migration, some subscribers may need to re-authorize.
• Snapshot everything, exports, screenshots, URLs, offer IDs, product names.

The 7-day zero-downtime plan

Day 0, inventory and exports

• Export customers, offers, purchases, coupons, tags.
• List all live URLs that get traffic, product, checkout, course, blog, create a redirect map.
• Screenshot current checkout settings, prices, bump offers, upsell flows.

Day 1, GoHighLevel foundations

• Create sub-account, connect your domain or use a subdomain during build.
• Email settings, set DKIM, SPF, DMARC with your sender domain.
• Connect Stripe in Payments, create Global Products for every offer, one-time and recurring.
• Recreate coupon codes, percent or fixed, limits, expiry.

Day 2, offers and checkout flows

• Build Offers, attach the right Global Product and price point.
• Add order bumps and pre or post-purchase one-click upsells.
• Configure taxes and invoicing, enable branded receipts.
• Add Checkout forms with required fields, name, email, card, plus custom fields you used in Kajabi.

Day 3, courses and access

• Create Membership product, match your Kajabi course structure, categories, modules, lessons.
• Set drip schedules and prerequisites if used before.
• Build Product Access rules, purchase grants access, refund or cancellation removes it.

Day 4, attribution, forms, and pipelines

• Add hidden fields to every form and checkout, utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, utm_term, utm_content, gclid, wbraid, gbraid.
• Turn on Sticky Contact for forms and calendars inside your funnels.
• Map purchases to a simple pipeline, New buyer, Onboarding, Active, At risk.

Day 5, automations for purchases and renewals

• Workflow trigger Payment received, filter by product and status equals success, send access email, grant membership, tag buyer, send receipt if needed.
• Workflow trigger Subscription, status equals failed or past_due, send card update link, pause access after X days if unpaid.
• Refund trigger, remove access and send confirmation.
• Coupon triggers if you run promos, applied, redeemed, expired.

Day 6, tracking, ads, and redirects

• Facebook Conversions API action in Workflows, send Lead or Purchase on form submit or payment.
• Google Ads Add to Google AdWords action, send offline conversions with GCLID or related click IDs.
• GA4 or server events optional, keep your current GA4 tags if you are not changing containers.
• Publish your 301 redirect map. Old Kajabi URLs to your new GoHighLevel pages. Test top 50.

Day 7, cutover

• Point the live domain to GoHighLevel. Keep Kajabi on a temporary subdomain for a week.
• Run end-to-end tests, new purchase, renewal, failed payment, refund, access grant or revoke.
• Watch ad platform event match rates and Stripe webhooks for 48 hours.

Keeping renewals intact

If your Kajabi subscriptions were created in your own Stripe account, keep that Stripe account connected in GoHighLevel and do not cancel existing subscriptions. Renewals continue, receipts still fire. Use Workflows to sync access on renewal events, Payment received success grants or extends access, Subscription status changes handle trials, cancellations, failed or past_due.

If you used Kajabi Payments, plan a parallel period. Move new sales to GoHighLevel, let old subs run out, or migrate subscriptions with Stripe and re-capture payment methods where needed. Communicate clearly, send an in-portal card update prompt and a timed grace window.

QA checklist

• Offers, prices, coupon rules, taxes match Kajabi.
• Order bump and one-click upsell tested with live $1 product.
• Membership access grants on purchase, removes on refund or cancel.
• UTM fields captured on forms and checkouts, values appear on Contact.
• Facebook CAPI events and Google Ads offline conversions are received and attributed.
• Top URLs 301 to the correct new pages, no loops or 404s.
• Renewal on a real subscriber extends access and tags activity.

Common pitfalls and quick fixes

• Purchases do not grant access, fix the Workflow, Payment received, filter exact product, add Product access, Grant.
• Ads show zero conversions, add click IDs to URLs, capture gclid, wbraid, gbraid, then map the Google Ads action to the correct conversion.
• Missed UTMs, add hidden fields with exact parameter names, test with a URL that includes UTMs.
• Students cannot find lessons, re-create the same hierarchy, category, module, lesson, and turn on navigation.

FAQ

Will my existing Kajabi renewals keep billing after the move?
Yes, if those subscriptions live in your Stripe account. Keep the same Stripe connection in GoHighLevel and do not cancel them. Use Payment received and Subscription triggers to sync access.

Can I import Kajabi courses directly?
No, you will rebuild the course structure and upload lessons in GoHighLevel Memberships.

Can I keep order bumps and one-click upsells?
Yes. Recreate the bump on checkout and the upsell step as a post-purchase offer.

Do coupons and discounts transfer?
Export your coupon list from Kajabi, then recreate codes and limits in GoHighLevel.

How do I keep tracking accurate after the switch?
Capture UTMs in hidden fields, send Purchase or Lead via Facebook CAPI and Google Ads actions in Workflows, publish 301 redirects for every high-traffic URL.

What if I used Kajabi Payments?
Plan a phased migration. Move net-new sales to GoHighLevel. For existing subs, either let them run out or migrate with Stripe and re-authorize cards where required.