PageFly alternative: Checkout Links

PageFly is a heavyweight Shopify page editor. Checkout Links is the checkout-first alternative when the goal is to land the customer on a pre-loaded cart, not to design a custom long-form page.

PageFly is one of the most-installed page builders on Shopify for a reason: it’s powerful, well-supported, and lets you build pages that would otherwise need a developer. If your roadmap calls for custom long-form pages, PageFly is a fine choice.

But here’s the question worth asking: are you using PageFly because you need a page builder, or because you needed somewhere to send a campaign to a pre-loaded cart? If it’s the second, you’re carrying a lot of tool for a small job.

The combined-stack play

Most merchants don’t replace PageFly — they pair it. PageFly for evergreen marketing pages. Checkout Links for the high-frequency stuff: paid social, SMS, abandoned cart, influencer links, in-store QR.

If you’ve got a PageFly plan running at $39/mo or more and the majority of pages you ship are campaign landing pages, downgrade to the cheapest PageFly tier and add Checkout Links. Total spend drops, time-to-launch drops more.

At a glance

FeaturePageFlyCheckout Links

PricingPageFly: Free → $129/monthCheckout Links: $25/month, 7-day free trial

Built forPageFly: Visual page design (drag-and-drop sections, CMS)Checkout Links: Checkout-first links + optional pre-checkout pages

Time to launch a campaignPageFly: Hours (build + QA the page)Checkout Links: Minutes (pick products, copy link)

Auto-applied discountPageFly: Manual (page → cart → code field)Checkout Links: Yes — baked into URL via Shopify Functions

Pre-checkout pagePageFly: Full custom designCheckout Links: Lightweight, opinionated, brand-colour-picked

Customer pre-fillPageFly: No nativeCheckout Links: Yes

Expiry, usage limits, passcodePageFly: NoCheckout Links: Yes

Per-link analyticsPageFly: Page-levelCheckout Links: Click + checkout per link

QR codesPageFly: No nativeCheckout Links: Branded, automatic

Best forPageFly: Long-form/custom pagesCheckout Links: High-volume campaign links + light landing pages

Where Checkout Links pulls ahead

The cases that make the switch worth it.

Time to a working campaign

PageFly: pick a template, edit sections, add the product block, set up the cart embed, QA on mobile, publish, copy URL. 30 minutes minimum, often more. Checkout Links: pick products, optional discount, copy URL. Under a minute. For one-off campaign work that's run-and-discard, the time cost dominates.

Discount field that never appears

PageFly pages dump customers into Shopify checkout with the discount-code field visible. Customers have to type, paste, or remember the code. Checkout Links applies discounts via Shopify Functions, so the field never appears — the price is just right.

Per-link, per-source attribution

PageFly shows you page-level metrics. Checkout Links shows you which specific link, ad creative, segment, or recipient drove which order. The difference matters once you're running more than 5 variants of the same offer.

QR codes that go to checkout

Every Checkout Link includes a branded QR code download. PageFly has no native QR output.

When PageFly is the right call

No tool wins everywhere. These are the cases where PageFly is the better answer.

You need pixel-level page design

Long-form launch pages with custom sections, parallax animations, embedded video, A/B-tested headlines — PageFly does this and Checkout Links explicitly does not.

You're building evergreen marketing pages

Product pages, brand stories, ambassador pages — anything that lives on your site for months and earns traffic via SEO needs a real page builder.

Your team includes a designer or front-end developer

PageFly rewards investment. Checkout Links is built for merchants without that resource.

FAQ

Anything else?

More detail lives in the Help Center, or email us and a human answers.

Only if you're using PageFly primarily for campaign landing pages. PageFly is a true visual page editor — drag-and-drop sections, custom layouts, advanced animations. Checkout Links doesn't try to do that. What it does is land the visitor on a pre-loaded Shopify checkout (or a lightweight pre-checkout page) in two clicks instead of a build job.

Checkout Links is $25/month with a 7-day free trial. PageFly has a free plan with limits, then $24, $39, $79, $129/month tiers depending on the number of pages and features.

Yes, plenty of merchants do. PageFly for the evergreen marketing pages, Checkout Links for the campaign volume — ad-to-cart links, SMS blasts, influencer drops, QR campaigns.

Optionally. There's a pre-checkout mode that renders a lightweight product-grid + live-cart page when you don't want to send the customer straight to checkout. It picks up your brand colour and product imagery automatically. It's not pixel-customisable like PageFly — by design.

Yes — Checkout Links doesn't touch your existing pages. A Checkout Link can live as the CTA *inside* a PageFly-built page.

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