I did not consent to an annual subscription In 2023, I signed up for a one-time 5-day Creator U "challenge" — it was $49 for access to a series of online courses on how to use AI to create online courses. I didn't much like the courses because they seemed to be a hyped-up advertisement for SamCart. So, I quit using the platform after logging in a few times. A year later, I was charged $144 for an annual subscription to SamCart, which I had no knowledge of signing up for. From what I've read, this has happened to a lot of other people too. Nothing on the Creator U sales page says there will be a recurring charge. The checkout page doesn't mention a recurring subscription. And, the Terms & Conditions cited on the checkout page are just general terms for SamCart products — on this page, recurring subscriptions are mentioned, but just as a general statement. This led me to believe When I reached out to request a refund and account cancellation, Koko from SamCart support offered a partial refund and to "set my account for cancellation" next year. Koko later offered a full refund, but only if I agreed to cancel the PayPal dispute. PayPal advises that you never cancel a dispute until it is resolved, plus I didn't feel right about letting SamCart off the hook and giving them a chance to do this to other people.

My $7 one off purchase is a $239 subscription - i wasn't told. --update-- At the end of this review I explained my alarm bells were ringing about the positive reviews. Upon further inspection, one of these suspect reviews has been posted by one of the founders pretending to be a happy customer but failing to hide his name - Scott Moran. He and his brother are the founders of this business, NOT customers with positive experiences to share. Be very careful everyone. --------------------- After checking the reviews i have seen that many people have been signed up to a subscription without their knowledge. I have just checked my account to see whether these claims are true and I can see they will be taking $239 in April 2025 - this for me verifies the complaints made over any claims from the business. To make it very clear: there was nothing to inform me of this, and if I hadn't checked my account to validate what others are saying I would be in the same boat as other customers. I was offered a $7 deal with no mention of a recurring annual subscription. I have looked at the option to cancel this subscription but this will then apparently deactivate the CreatorU account. You are forced to watch a video before being able to deactivate your account. I have held off while I exploit the available resources over the next day, and take whatever I can from them as this seems to be their strategy employed on all of us. I signed up for a 5-day course creator challenge, the materials appear to have been made without due care and attention - e.g. the pdf on chatGPT prompts has pre-written prompt templates, but if you look carefully the prompts in steps 2,3 and 4 (out of 4) are missing the end of the prompts and are therefore incomplete, which in my mind removes a lot of value and implies they are focussing on making money without focusing on providing high-quality materials. Further to this, the most recent reviews seem false and have set my alarm bells ringing. I am inclined to suggest that these are false claims.

Absolutely terrible and a total waste of time and money Do not waste your time. Their processes are designed to charge you before you even know the price or what you're paying for. Massively overrated and misleading at best, deceitful at worst. Customer services is TERRIBLE and their system is designed to fleece you with unexpected charges, hidden auto renewals etc. I will NEVER use them again and avoid them at all costs

Couldn't run my business without it. Couldn't run my course/coaching business without it. 1-Click upsells are 20-30% of our revenue. No other payment processor could do it, other than Samcart. I recommend it to any coach or creator. Awesome support too.

Some great features and some areas for improvement I really like samcart and how seamlessly I can integrate it to my CRM particularly. Some things that would be great to improve:m - Clarna etc - I was so excited to see this roll out,. however, upon implementing it in my business I soon discovered it is only available in the country that you are based in (the UK in my case). This doesn't really help me as I have an international customer base. It would be amazing to have this roll out internationally - The interface for searching by product and/or taking a look at someones subscription seems unnecessarily complicated. You have to click through several screens to get to where you want to be