Kajabi bundles the course, the video, the payments and the email into one product. Leaving it means replacing four things, and only one of them is content.
The course, the video delivery, the payments and the automation were one subscription. Here each is a decision.
There is no clean export of course structure, so modules, lessons and their ordering are reconstructed from what the platform exposes.
Kajabi hosts and streams your video. Moving it means choosing where it lives afterwards, and that decision affects both cost and the experience for students.
Students partway through a course and partway through a payment plan are the part that cannot be re-run. The billing relationship is planned before anything moves.
Email sequences, upsells and drip schedules were platform features. Each needs a WordPress equivalent identified before launch rather than discovered missing.
Course and lesson URLs live in students' bookmarks and in your own email history, so they are redirected rather than allowed to break.
A student who cannot reach the course they paid for on the morning of the switch is the only failure that really matters here. Everything else can be fixed afterwards.
Almost every request on a course site comes from an authenticated student, which is exactly the traffic a page cache refuses to serve. The object cache does the work instead.
Everything here follows from Kajabi being four products sold as one, each of which becomes a separate choice.
| Setting | What we do | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Course structure | Reconstructed from the platform rather than imported from an export | Kajabi offers no clean export of modules, lessons and ordering, so the structure is rebuilt and verified against the original. |
| Video delivery | Rehosted on a platform chosen for cost and student experience | Kajabi hosts and streams video as part of the subscription, so leaving means deciding where it lives and who pays for the bandwidth. |
| Members and subscriptions | Migrated with active payment plans carried deliberately | Students partway through a course and partway through paying for it are the part of the business that cannot simply be re-run. |
| Funnels and email automation | Replaced with chosen equivalents before launch | Sequences, upsells and drip schedules were platform features with no export, so each is a gap until something fills it. |
| Course and lesson URLs | Redirected rather than allowed to break | Those addresses are in students' bookmarks and in every course email you have ever sent, and they are the first thing a confused student reports. |
Every plan includes free migration, daily backups, SSL and 24/7 support.
Free migration, structure rebuilt and verified, and active subscriptions carried deliberately.