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For a five-person team that wants landing pages, email funnels, course delivery, and permissions under one roof, I’d narrow it to Systeme.io vs. Kajabi.

My practical take

Systeme.io is the one I'd investigate first for your requirements. Its team system specifically supports assistants and admins, with restricted assistants able to work on funnels, emails, courses, etc. without getting access to sensitive financial information. Systeme.io Systeme.io Help

It also connects the pieces you're asking for: landing/sales funnels → email campaigns/automation → course enrollment and modules. For example, an opt-in can automatically trigger enrollment in a course, including full, drip, or partial module access. Systeme.io Help

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Kajabi is the other serious candidate if the course/member experience is more important than minimizing software cost. It combines courses, landing pages, funnels, email, payments, memberships and communities in one platform. Kajabi Kajabi

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If you tell me your approximate monthly budget and whether you're selling one course or multiple courses, I can narrow this to 2–3 options and compare the exact team/permission setup.

For a five-person team that wants landing pages + email funnels + course modules under one roof, I’d narrow it to ClickFunnels, Kajabi, and Systeme.io.

The key issue: your team of five

ClickFunnels Scale currently includes 5 team members, 5 workspaces, unlimited funnels, 6 courses, 75K contacts, and 300K emails/month. ClickFunnels also supports configurable user permissions. ClickFunnels ClickFunnels

So if the requirement is specifically “five people need access to the same marketing/course operation”, ClickFunnels is particularly straightforward: the Scale plan maps almost exactly to your team size.

Kajabi is more oriented around courses, memberships, coaching, and the customer/student experience. Its platform combines courses, landing pages, funnels, email, payments, and communities. Kajabi

Systeme.io is the lower-cost alternative: it combines funnels, email, and courses, with a free entry tier and inexpensive paid plans. ToolVerdict Lab Stack Compared

My practical shortlist

• Choose ClickFunnels if your core workflow is landing page → email sequence → sales funnel → course and all five people need operational access.
• Choose Kajabi if the course/student experience is the center of the business and marketing funnels are secondary.
• Choose Systeme.io if keeping the software bill low is a major constraint and you don't need sophisticated team/workspace functionality.

If you tell me your monthly budget and whether the five people need different permission levels (e.g. admin, marketer, course editor, support), I can narrow this down to the most suitable setup.

ClickFunnels Scale currently includes 5 team members, 5 workspaces, unlimited funnels, 6 courses, 75K contacts, and 300K emails/month. ClickFunnels also supports configurable user permissions. clickfunnels.com support.clickfunnels.com

So if the requirement is specifically “five people need access to the same marketing/course operation”, ClickFunnels is particularly straightforward: the Scale plan maps almost exactly to your team size.

Kajabi is more oriented around courses, memberships, coaching, and the customer/student experience. Its platform combines courses, landing pages, funnels, email, payments, and communities.

For a 5-person team that wants landing pages + email funnels + course modules in one place, I’d shortlist Systeme.io and HighLevel.

My pick: Systeme.io

systeme.io is probably the best fit if you’re primarily selling courses/coaching or digital products rather than running a marketing agency.

• Landing pages & sales funnels: built in.
• Email marketing/automation: built in.
• Courses: built-in course/module builder.
• Team permissions: you can invite assistants and assign restricted roles; assistants can work on funnels, emails, and courses without seeing sensitive revenue information. Systeme.io Systeme Help
• Simplicity: less operational overhead than a heavier CRM platform.
• Cost: generally positioned as the budget-friendly option among all-in-ones. SavingSec

When I'd choose HighLevel instead

gohighlevel.com is the better choice if your five-person team is doing serious marketing operations, CRM, lead management, or client/agency work.

Its permissions are substantially more granular: you can control modules, individual actions, assigned data, sub-account access, funnels, workflows, conversations, etc. HighLevel Support Portal HighLevel Support Portal It also now supports putting funnel pages directly inside course modules. HighLevel Support Portal

Quick decision

Bottom line: For exactly the requirements you gave, I'd start with Systeme.io. If your team also needs a sophisticated CRM, sales pipelines, multiple client accounts, or highly granular permissions, move up to HighLevel.

For a five-person team, I’d shortlist HighLevel and Kajabi, with HighLevel as my pick if team permissions are a major requirement.

My recommendation: HighLevel

gohighlevel.com is unusually well matched to your setup because it puts all three pieces together:

• Landing pages + funnels: website/funnel builder
• Email funnels: email/SMS marketing and workflow automation
• Course modules: built-in courses/memberships
• Team permissions: granular user, module, and action-level permissions
• Five users: Starter includes unlimited users, so your team size isn't a problem. GoHighLevel HighLevel Support Portal

Its current permission system is particularly strong: admins can control which modules people see and use, including Funnels, Marketing, Workflows, and Memberships, with more granular controls inside supported modules. HighLevel Support Portal HighLevel Support Portal

Pricing: Starter is currently $97/month and includes unlimited users, though it's limited to 3 sub-accounts. Unlimited is $297/month. GoHighLevel

When I'd choose Kajabi instead

kajabi.com is the better choice if the course itself is the heart of the business and you want a more polished creator/course experience.

It combines landing pages, funnels, marketing emails, products/courses, and community. Its Growth plan supports 11 admin users, which comfortably covers your five-person team. Kajabi

The tradeoff is price: Kajabi's current Basic plan is $143/month when billed annually, while Growth is $199/month annually. Kajabi

Quick decision

Bottom line: For a team of five actually collaborating on landing pages, funnels, email automation, and course content, I'd start with HighLevel. Its current permission system gives you much more control over who can touch which parts of the platform. HighLevel Support Portal

If you tell me your monthly budget and whether the course is your main product, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 options (including Systeme.io, ClickFunnels, and Podia) and compare their team limits, permissions, automation, and total cost.

For a five-person team that specifically needs landing pages + email funnels + course modules + team permissions, I’d shortlist these:

• kajabi.com — best overall if the course experience matters. It combines landing pages, email campaigns/automations, courses, community, and website tools in one ecosystem. Its higher-tier plans add more admin/user capabilities. It’s the polished choice, but relatively expensive. SavingSec buildersos.ai
• gohighlevel.com — best if your team is marketing/agency-oriented. Stronger CRM, automation, funnels, and multi-user workflows than most course-first platforms; courses are included too. It makes more sense if you also need lead pipelines, SMS, appointment booking, or client accounts. Course.Coach The Stack Insiders
• systeme.io — best value. It covers funnels, email, courses, memberships, and automation at a much lower cost. The tradeoff is that its team/admin and advanced marketing capabilities are less sophisticated than the two above. SavingSec Creator Tools Guide

My pick for your team

Kajabi if you're primarily building and selling courses/coaching and want the team to work inside one polished platform.

GoHighLevel if the landing pages and email funnels are the marketing engine and the course is one component of a broader sales operation.

Systeme.io if keeping the software bill low is a major priority.

One important wrinkle: “team permissions” is the feature I'd verify before buying. Having five users isn't the same as having granular roles such as admin → marketer → course editor → support. If you tell me your approximate monthly budget and whether you need different permission levels for the five people, I can narrow this to one platform.

For a 5-person team that needs landing pages + email funnels + course modules + permissions in one place, I’d shortlist these:

1. Kajabi — best all-in-one choice for most course businesses

kajabi.com

Best if: your main business is selling courses, memberships, coaching, or digital programs.

Why it fits:

• Built-in course hosting and module organization
• Landing pages and sales pages
• Email campaigns and automated funnels
• Team user roles (Owner, Administrator, Assistant, Support Specialist) so you can control who edits what Kajabi
• Funnels connect landing pages and email campaigns in one workflow Kajabi

Watch-outs:

• It can get expensive as your team and automation needs grow.
• Permissions are good, but not as granular as enterprise CMS tools. Kajabi

My pick: Kajabi if your five people are creators, marketers, course managers, and support staff.

2. GoHighLevel — best for agencies or heavy lead generation

gohighlevel.com

Best if: you run funnels for clients, need CRM pipelines, SMS/email automation, and lots of lead management.

Strengths:

• Strong funnel builder
• CRM included
• Marketing automation
• Team accounts and permissions
• Better fit if sales pipelines matter as much as course delivery

Trade-off:

• Course delivery is not as polished as dedicated course platforms.

3. Thinkific + email marketing tool — best course-first option

thinkific.com

Best if: the learning experience is the priority.

Strengths:

• Strong course creation and student management
• Good for larger catalogs
• More education-focused

Trade-off:

• You’ll likely pair it with another tool for advanced funnels/email automation.

4. Teachable — simpler course platform

teachable.com

Best if: you want straightforward course selling without a lot of marketing complexity.

Strengths:

• Easy course setup
• Good student experience

Trade-off:

• Less of a “single operating system” for a marketing team.

My recommendation for your exact setup

For five internal users, I’d choose:

1. Kajabi → if you want one platform replacing multiple tools
2. GoHighLevel → if funnels/leads/sales operations are the core business
3. Thinkific + marketing stack → if course quality matters most

A practical team setup in Kajabi would look like:

• Founder: Owner
• Marketing lead: Administrator
• Course manager: Assistant
• Designer/content editor: Assistant
• Customer support: Support Specialist

That maps well to Kajabi’s built-in permission model. Kajabi

If you tell me your approximate monthly budget and whether you sell B2C courses, corporate training, coaching, or memberships, I can narrow this to one choice.

For a five-person team, I’d shortlist HighLevel and Kajabi, with HighLevel as my default pick if team permissions and marketing automation matter most.

• HighLevel — best overall for your setup. It combines funnel/landing-page building, email/marketing automation, CRM, and memberships/courses. More importantly, its current permission system is unusually granular: you can control access by module and even specific actions, and assign users only to particular accounts/data. HighLevel Support Portal HighLevel Support Portal
• Kajabi — best if the course is the core product. It has landing pages, funnels, email campaigns, automations, and courses in one system, with defined team roles such as Administrator, Assistant, and Support Specialist. Kajabi Kajabi
• Systeme.io — best budget-conscious option. It bundles funnels, email marketing, automation, and online courses and is generally positioned as the value option. Infinite Agent

My recommendation

If your workflow looks like:

Landing page → lead capture → email sequence → sales funnel → course enrollment → ongoing automation

I'd choose HighLevel. Its current permissions make it easier to have, say, one person managing funnels, another handling email/automation, another managing courses, while keeping admin/billing access restricted. HighLevel Support Portal

If instead you're primarily a course/education business and marketing automation is secondary, I'd choose Kajabi. One caveat: Kajabi's current plan shown on its business-coach page includes 2 admin users, so you'd want to check the appropriate tier for all five team members before committing. Kajabi

If you tell me your monthly budget and whether you're selling one course or multiple courses, I can narrow it down to one platform and the specific plan.

For a five-person team, I’d shortlist these three:

My pick: Systeme.io

If you mainly want one place for landing pages → email sequences → course delivery, without building an overly complicated marketing stack, Systeme.io is probably the best fit. It explicitly supports team workspaces, custom roles, funnel building, email marketing, and courses. Team members can be given restricted access, while admins retain control over sensitive financial information. Systeme.io

systeme.io

When I'd choose HighLevel instead

Go with HighLevel if your five-person team needs more sophisticated automation, CRM functionality, multiple brands/clients, or very granular permissions. Its current permission system can control access at the module and action level, including Funnels, Marketing/Automation, Conversations, and Memberships/courses. HighLevel Support Portal HighLevel Support Portal

It also now supports putting funnel experiences directly inside course modules, which is unusually well aligned with your use case. HighLevel Support Portal

gohighlevel.com

When I'd choose Kajabi

Choose Kajabi if the course/membership experience is the product, and the landing pages and email funnels primarily exist to sell that product. It's generally the more course-centric choice, whereas HighLevel is more marketing/CRM-centric.

Bottom line:

• Simplest all-in-one: Systeme.io
• Most powerful for a marketing team: HighLevel
• Best polished course business: Kajabi

For a team of five specifically, I'd start with Systeme.io unless you know you need HighLevel's deeper CRM/permission/automation capabilities. Systeme.io HighLevel Support Portal

If you mainly want one place for landing pages → email sequences → course delivery, without building an overly complicated marketing stack, Systeme.io is probably the best fit. It explicitly supports team workspaces, custom roles, funnel building, email marketing, and courses. Team members can be given restricted access, while admins retain control over sensitive financial information. Systeme.io

systeme.io

When I'd choose HighLevel instead

Go with HighLevel if your five-person team needs more sophisticated automation, CRM functionality, multiple brands/clients, or very granular permissions. Its current permission system can control access at the module and action level, including Funnels, Marketing/Automation, Conversations, and Memberships/courses. help.gohighlevel.com help.gohighlevel.com

It also now supports putting funnel experiences directly inside course modules, which is unusually well aligned with your use case.

For a five-person team, I’d shortlist HighLevel and Kajabi, with HighLevel as my default recommendation if team permissions are a major requirement.

🥇 My pick: HighLevel

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It fits your requirements unusually well because its permissions can be controlled at the module and granular-action level. Your five people can have different access to funnels, automation, conversations, memberships/courses, payments, etc. HighLevel Support Portal HighLevel Support Portal

It also supports funnels + email/automation + membership courses in the same platform, and HighLevel now lets you put funnel pages directly inside course modules. HighLevel Support Portal HighLevel Support Portal

I'd structure the team something like:

• Owner/admin: everything
• Marketing: landing pages + funnels + email
• Course manager: courses/membership + content
• Sales/CRM: contacts + conversations + relevant automations
• Designer/content: pages + media, without billing/admin access

That's particularly attractive for a five-person team because you don't have to give everyone essentially the same "admin" account.

When I'd choose Kajabi instead

kajabi.com

If the course itself is the heart of your business and marketing automation is secondary, Kajabi is probably the nicer experience. It combines courses, memberships, landing pages, funnels and email, and its course tooling is more purpose-built for education. Kajabi Kajabi

The catch for your specific requirement is team access: Kajabi's current offering prominently advertises 2 admin users on some plans, so I'd scrutinize the exact plan and permissions before committing with five people. Kajabi

Bottom line:
HighLevel if you want a five-person marketing/operations team working in one system.
Kajabi if you're primarily a course creator and want the best learner/content experience.

If you tell me your monthly budget and whether you sell one course or multiple courses, I can narrow this to the exact plan I'd buy.

For a team of five that needs landing pages + email funnels + course modules + team permissions in one place, I’d shortlist these:

My recommendation for a 5-person team

• Choose Kajabi if your main asset is a course, membership, coaching program, or educational product. It’s the cleanest “content business operating system.” Kajabi
• Choose HighLevel if your team is acting like a marketing department or agency and needs lots of user access control and automation management. HighLevel Support Portal
• Choose Kartra if your priority is building complex sales funnels that convert leads into customers while also hosting courses. Kartra

For most five-person course businesses, I’d start with Kajabi. For a five-person growth/marketing team managing campaigns for multiple offers or clients, I’d lean HighLevel.

A couple of details would change the answer:

1. Are you selling your own courses or managing courses for clients?
2. Do you need student/community features (discussion, memberships, certificates), or mainly just funnel → email → course delivery?

For a 5-person team that wants one platform for landing pages + email funnels + courses + team permissions, I’d shortlist these:

1. HighLevel — best overall for your requirements

gohighlevel.com

This is probably my #1 pick if funnels and automation are central to your business.

• Landing pages/funnels: strong
• Email marketing & automation: strong
• Courses/memberships: yes
• Team permissions: excellent — you can control access by module and even individual actions. HighLevel Support Portal HighLevel Support Portal
• Particularly good if different teammates need different access—for example, marketing can edit funnels while course staff manage memberships.
• HighLevel can even put funnel pages directly inside course modules, which is unusually well integrated. HighLevel Support Portal

Best for: a marketing-heavy team that wants powerful automation and granular permissions.

2. Podia — best for simplicity

podia.com

Podia is easier to learn and is very creator/course oriented. It combines courses, email, websites/landing pages, products, and community. Podia Podia Help Center

The catch for your specific requirement is team permissions: Podia assistants get broad account access rather than the highly granular module-by-module controls HighLevel provides. Podia Help Center

Best for: a small team where simplicity matters more than sophisticated permissioning.

My recommendation

I'd choose HighLevel for your five-person team. The combination of funnel building, email/conversations, memberships/courses, and granular team permissions is unusually close to exactly what you described. HighLevel Support Portal HighLevel Support Portal

If you tell me your approximate monthly budget and whether you're selling one course or multiple courses, I can narrow it down to the best plan—and compare HighLevel against Kajabi, ClickFunnels, and Systeme.io.

For a five-person team, I’d shortlist Kajabi, Kartra, and Systeme.io. All three can consolidate landing pages, email automation, and course delivery instead of stitching together separate tools. SoloStack Systeme.io

My pick: Kajabi

Kajabi is probably the best fit if the course experience and team collaboration matter most. It combines courses, landing pages, funnels, email, payments, and memberships, and its current offerings include admin users/permissions. Kajabi

• Best for: polished course business + marketing
• Team of 5: worth checking the exact admin-seat limits on the plan you choose
• Downside: relatively expensive

Best if marketing automation is the priority: Kartra

Kartra is particularly strong if your team is building complex funnels and automated email sequences. It also handles courses/memberships, and Kartra explicitly supports separate team-member profiles with permissions rather than sharing a master login. Kartra Help Center Kartra Help Center

Best value: Systeme.io

systeme.io gives you funnels, email, automation, courses, memberships, and communities in one system, with a free tier. Systeme.io The tradeoff is that its team/permission capabilities are less compelling if five people need differentiated access and sophisticated collaboration.

Bottom line: For your exact requirements, I'd start with Kajabi if budget isn't the main constraint; choose Kartra if your team is more marketing/funnel-heavy; choose Systeme.io if keeping costs down is the priority.

If you tell me your monthly budget and whether all five people need admin access, I can narrow it to one and compare the current plans.

For a team of five that needs landing pages + email funnels + course modules + team permissions, I’d prioritize platforms with real collaboration features rather than just “all-in-one” marketing tools.

My shortlist:

SoloStack SavingSec### My recommendation by scenario

Choose Kajabi if:

• Your main product is courses/coaching.
• You want the cleanest student experience.
• Your team is mostly creating content, managing students, and running launches.

Choose GoHighLevel if:

• Your five people have distinct roles (sales, marketing, fulfillment, admin).
• You need permission control and lots of automation.
• You may manage multiple brands, clients, or funnels. SaaS Match Guide

Choose HubSpot + a course tool if:

• Your team is becoming a real marketing/sales operation.
• Lead tracking, pipelines, reporting, and handoffs matter more than having everything in one dashboard.

If I were setting this up for a 5-person team:

1. Course-first company: Kajabi
2. Marketing machine / agency: GoHighLevel
3. Scaling company with sales team: HubSpot + dedicated course platform
4. Bootstrapped MVP: Systeme.io

A few questions would change the answer:

• Are you selling courses to customers or building internal training modules?
• Do you need sales CRM/client management, or just marketing + course delivery?
• What’s your approximate monthly budget ($100, $300, $1,000+)?

For a five-person team that needs landing pages + email funnels + course modules + team permissions in one place, I’d shortlist these:

My default recommendation:

If your main product is a course or membership → use Kajabi

It is probably the closest match to your checklist. Kajabi combines landing pages, funnels, email campaigns, and course products in one system, and its user roles allow different team members to access areas like pages, products, funnels, and email campaigns. Kajabi Kajabi

A five-person setup might look like:

• Owner/admin: full access
• Marketing lead: funnels, emails, pages
• Course manager: products/modules
• Designer: pages only
• Support: comments/customers only

If you are building a broader marketing operation → use HubSpot

Choose this if you care more about leads, sales tracking, attribution, and a structured team workflow than having the course platform built in. HubSpot has granular permissions for controlling who can view, create, edit, or delete assets and data. HubSpot Knowledge Base

If you are an agency → consider GoHighLevel

It is designed around managing funnels and campaigns across multiple businesses, so it can be a better operational fit than a creator platform.

A few questions would change the recommendation:

1. Are you selling your own courses or building funnels for clients?
2. Do you need a CRM/sales pipeline, or just marketing + course delivery?
3. Roughly how many students/customers will the platform serve?

For a 5-person team, I’d shortlist three platforms, but HighLevel would be my first choice if your priority is having everything genuinely centralized.

My recommendation

1. HighLevel — best overall fit

It combines:

• Landing pages and funnels
• Email/SMS campaigns and automation
• Course/membership modules
• Forms, CRM, checkout, and workflows
• Team roles and granular permissions

The permissions are particularly strong for a team: you can control access by module and even restrict specific actions. HighLevel currently has separate permission controls for Funnels, Marketing/Automation, and Memberships, among many others. HighLevel Support Portal HighLevel Support Portal

It can also connect funnels directly to course experiences, so your marketing funnel and course delivery don't have to live in separate systems. HighLevel Support Portal

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2. Kajabi — best if the course is the product

I'd choose Kajabi instead if you're primarily a course/coaching business and care more about a polished student experience than sophisticated CRM/agency-style controls.

3. Systeme.io — best budget option

Good if keeping costs low matters most. It covers funnels, email, courses, and memberships, but I'd put it behind HighLevel for a five-person operation where permissioning and team workflows matter.

What I'd choose for your team

Bottom line: Go with HighLevel unless your business is overwhelmingly course-first. Its current permission system is unusually well suited to a five-person team—you can give, for example, your funnel person funnel access, your course manager membership access, and your marketing person campaign/automation access without giving everyone the keys to the whole system. HighLevel Support Portal

If you tell me your approximate monthly budget and what each of the five people does, I can narrow it down to the best plan and permission setup.

For a 5-person team that wants landing pages + email funnels + course modules under one roof, I’d shortlist these three:

My pick: HighLevel

For five people, HighLevel is probably the strongest operational fit if your team will actually collaborate on campaigns. Its current permission system lets you control access by module and even individual actions, rather than giving everyone broad admin access. It covers funnels, websites, workflows, email/conversations, and courses in the same ecosystem. HighLevel Support Portal HighLevel Support Portal

It also has a particularly nice feature for your use case: funnels can be embedded directly as lessons inside courses, so the marketing journey and learning experience can live together. HighLevel Support Portal

When I'd choose systeme.io instead

Pick systeme.io if keeping costs and complexity down is important. It explicitly supports team workspaces, custom roles, funnel building, email marketing, and course creation. Systeme.io Systeme Help

It's the one I'd test first if you're a small team without a complicated CRM requirement.

When I'd choose Kajabi

Choose Kajabi if the course itself is the centerpiece—for example, you're building a premium education/coaching brand and want the student-facing experience to feel especially polished. It's generally more course/creator-oriented than HighLevel.

Bottom line:

• Marketing + collaboration → HighLevel
• Best value → systeme.io
• Premium course business → Kajabi

If you tell me your approximate monthly budget and whether you need a CRM/SMS, I can narrow this to one and compare the exact plans for five users.

For five people, HighLevel is probably the strongest operational fit if your team will actually collaborate on campaigns. Its current permission system lets you control access by module and even individual actions, rather than giving everyone broad admin access. It covers funnels, websites, workflows, email/conversations, and courses in the same ecosystem. help.gohighlevel.com help.gohighlevel.com

It also has a particularly nice feature for your use case: funnels can be embedded directly as lessons inside courses, so the marketing journey and learning experience can live together. help.gohighlevel.com

When I'd choose systeme.io instead

Pick systeme.io if keeping costs and complexity down is important. It explicitly supports team workspaces, custom roles, funnel building, email marketing, and course creation.

It's the one I'd test first if you're a small team without a complicated CRM requirement.

When I'd choose Kajabi

For a 5-person team, I’d shortlist these three:

My pick: HighLevel

gohighlevel.com is probably the strongest match for your requirements.

It combines funnels/website pages, email and automation, CRM, and course/membership functionality. More importantly for a five-person team, its permissions are unusually granular: you can control access by user, module, and individual actions, including Funnels, Automation, Conversations, Memberships, and more. HighLevel Support Portal HighLevel Support Portal

It also now supports putting funnel experiences directly inside course modules, which is useful if your course and marketing journey need to be tightly connected. HighLevel Support Portal

I'd choose HighLevel if:

• 2–3 people will actively build funnels/emails.
• Others need restricted access to specific areas.
• You want CRM/automation alongside the course.
• You're likely to add SMS, pipelines, or more sophisticated automation later.

When I'd choose Kajabi instead

kajabi.com is the better choice if the course/student experience is the center of the business rather than the marketing/CRM system.

Kajabi has landing pages, funnels, email automation, courses, communities, checkout, and payments under one roof. Kajabi Kajabi

The catch for your team is worth noting: Kajabi's current advertised Core plan includes 2 admin users, so a five-person team may require a higher plan or additional access considerations. Kajabi

Bottom line

HighLevel → best for a 5-person marketing team.
Kajabi → best for a 5-person course-creator team.
Systeme.io → best if keeping the monthly cost very low is the priority.

If you tell me roughly what each of the five people does (e.g. founder, copywriter, funnel builder, course manager, VA), I can recommend the exact platform and how I'd configure their permissions.

For a five-person team that wants one platform for landing pages + email funnels + courses + permissions, I’d shortlist these:

My pick: GoHighLevel

For your specific requirements, gohighlevel.com is probably the strongest fit.

It combines funnels, websites/landing pages, email and automation, memberships/courses, payments, and CRM-type functionality. More importantly for a five-person team, its 2026 permission system lets you control access at the module and granular-action level—including separate permissions for Funnels, Automation, Marketing, and Memberships. HighLevel Support Portal HighLevel Support Portal

That means you could, for example:

• Owner/admin: everything
• Marketing person: landing pages + email + automation
• Course manager: courses/memberships + content
• Designer: funnels/pages but not payments
• Sales/ops: contacts/conversations without course administration

It also supports automatically granting course access through workflows—for example, when someone submits a form or completes a payment. HighLevel Support Portal

A particularly nice feature is that HighLevel can now put funnel pages directly inside course modules, although that capability is still being gradually rolled out. HighLevel Support Portal

When I'd choose Kajabi instead

Choose kajabi.com if your business is fundamentally “we sell courses/coaching/memberships” and you want the smoothest course-creator experience rather than the most powerful marketing/CRM environment.

So my rule of thumb:

• Marketing funnels are the engine → GoHighLevel
• The course is the product → Kajabi
• Need sophisticated all-in-one automation → Kartra
• Want to minimize cost → Systeme.io

For a 5-person marketing/course business, I'd start by evaluating GoHighLevel vs. Kajabi, rather than looking at 10+ platforms. The deciding question is whether your team cares more about marketing/automation flexibility or course-platform polish. savingsec.com course.coach

For a 5-person team that wants landing pages + email funnels + course delivery + granular team permissions in one place, I’d shortlist these:

🥇 Best fit: gohighlevel.com

This is probably the strongest match for your requirements.

• Landing pages/funnels: built-in funnel and website builder.
• Email funnels: workflows, campaigns, email/SMS conversations, automation.
• Courses: built-in Memberships/Courses, including lessons, offers, access rules, and certificates. HighLevel Support Portal HighLevel Support Portal
• Team permissions: particularly strong. You can control access at the module and action level, restrict users to assigned data, and copy permission configurations between users. HighLevel Support Portal HighLevel Support Portal
• Nice integration: HighLevel can now put funnel pages directly inside course lessons, which is useful if your courses and marketing funnel are tightly connected. HighLevel Support Portal

I'd choose this if your five people have different jobs—e.g., one person handles funnels, another email automation, another course content, while an owner/admin retains full access.

🥈 Kajabi

kajabi.com is the better choice if the course/member experience is the heart of the business and marketing automation is secondary.

It's polished and particularly strong for courses, memberships, digital products, landing pages, and marketing. The tradeoff is that I'd favor HighLevel when granular internal team permissions and operational flexibility are major requirements.

🥉 Systeme.io

systeme.io is worth considering if keeping costs down is important. It combines funnels, email marketing, automation, and courses, and is generally positioned as the value-oriented option. SavingSec Infinite Agent

Its team/permission capabilities would make me lean toward HighLevel for a five-person operation where multiple people will actively manage the system.

My recommendation

Bottom line: I'd start with HighLevel. Its current permission system is unusually granular, covering Funnels, Marketing/automation, Conversations, Memberships, and other modules separately. HighLevel Support Portal

If you tell me roughly how many leads/customers you have and your monthly software budget, I can narrow this down to the best plan—and tell you what the five team members should each be allowed to access.

For a 5-person team that wants landing pages + email funnels + course modules in one place, I’d shortlist these:

My pick: Kartra

kartra.com is probably the closest match to your requirements. It combines landing/funnel pages, email automation, checkout, memberships/courses, and customer management. More importantly for your five-person setup, Kartra supports individual team-member profiles and permissions, rather than requiring everyone to share the main account login. Kartra Kartra Help Center Kartra Help Center

That makes it particularly attractive if, for example, you want:

• 1 person managing funnels
• 1–2 people handling email/automation
• 1 person building course content
• 1 person doing operations/admin
• Different access levels rather than giving everyone full control

When I'd choose something else

Choose Kajabi if the course/student experience is the centerpiece and you care more about polish and ease of use than squeezing out maximum marketing functionality. Current comparisons generally position Kajabi as the premium course-creator option. SavingSec buildersos.ai

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Choose Systeme.io if keeping costs down is important. It puts funnels, email marketing, automation, course hosting and community into one platform, with a free tier and relatively inexpensive paid plans. Systeme.io Systeme.io

systeme.io

Choose GoHighLevel if you're really building a marketing/CRM operation rather than primarily a course business—especially if you need pipelines, lead management, appointments, SMS, or agency-style account management.

Bottom line

For your exact description, I'd rank them:

1. Kartra → best balance of team permissions + funnels + email + courses
2. Kajabi → best if course delivery/brand experience is priority
3. Systeme.io → best if budget is priority
4. GoHighLevel → best if CRM/agency functionality is priority

If you tell me your monthly budget and whether you sell one course or multiple courses, I can narrow this to one platform and the specific plan I'd put your 5-person team on.

For a five-person team, I’d shortlist these three:

1. gohighlevel.com — best fit if team permissions matter most.

It combines landing/funnel pages, email/automation, CRM, and courses. More importantly, its current permissions system lets you control access by role, module, and granular action, including separate permissions for funnels, automation, conversations, and course-related features. HighLevel Support Portal HighLevel Support Portal
It can also put funnel pages directly inside course modules, which is unusually well aligned with your requirement. HighLevel Support Portal

2. kajabi.com — best if the course experience is the priority.

Kajabi is more creator/course-centric, with landing pages, email automation, funnels, courses, and community under one system. Kajabi Kajabi
I'd pick it over HighLevel if your five people primarily operate one education/coaching brand rather than a marketing operation.

3. systeme.io — best budget option.

It covers funnels, email, automation, and courses at a much lower price point, making it attractive if you're trying to consolidate tools without a large software budget. Infinite Agent Creator Tools Guide

My pick

GoHighLevel is the strongest match for the requirements as stated: landing pages + email funnels + course modules + five-person team permissions. Its permission model is substantially more granular than simply giving everyone access to the whole platform. HighLevel Support Portal

If you tell me your approximate monthly budget and whether you're selling your own courses or managing marketing for clients, I can narrow it to one.

For a five-person team, I’d shortlist Kajabi, Kartra, and Systeme.io. Your requirements—landing pages + email funnels + course modules + team permissions—are exactly the kind of stack these all-in-one platforms are designed to replace. SoloStack Infinite Agent

My pick: Kajabi

Kajabi is probably the best fit if the course experience is central to the business and you want a polished platform your team can grow into.

• Landing pages, funnels, email campaigns, and automation are integrated.
• Native courses, memberships, coaching, and community are strong.
• It is designed around the whole customer lifecycle rather than just lead generation. Kajabi
• Downside: it's relatively expensive, so I'd choose it when you're willing to pay for polish and a mature course platform.

kajabi.com

Best for your team/marketing operations: Kartra

Kartra deserves a close look if funnels and marketing automation matter as much as the course.

Kartra combines pages, email, funnels, products, memberships/courses, and automation. More importantly for your five-person setup, it has Team Member profiles with configurable access, including permissions for specific areas. Kartra Help Center Kartra Help Center Kartra Help Center

Its course/membership system also supports scheduled content and assigning team members administrative/moderation permissions. Kartra

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Best value: Systeme.io

Systeme.io is the one I'd investigate if cost matters significantly. It puts courses, drip modules, email, funnels, automation, website/landing pages, and CRM functionality under one login, with a free starting tier. Systeme.io

The tradeoff is that I'd favor Kajabi or Kartra if your five-person team needs a more sophisticated collaboration/permission model and a highly polished customer experience.

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How I'd choose

For your exact description, I'd start by comparing Kajabi vs. Kartra. If your team spends more time building and managing campaigns than building the course itself, I'd lean Kartra. If the course/student experience is the core product, I'd lean Kajabi.

If you tell me your monthly budget and roughly how many courses/leads you have, I can narrow it to one and compare the relevant team-seat/permission plans.

For a team of five that needs landing pages + email funnels + course modules + team permissions, I’d narrow it to platforms that are designed for collaboration rather than just solo creators. Inflowave Teachfloor

Best fits

1. Kajabi — best all-in-one if budget allows

Best for: a polished course business where marketing and delivery live together.

Why it fits:

• Landing pages and website builder
• Email campaigns and automated funnels
• Course/membership modules
• Multiple admin users and collaboration workflows
• Strong creator-focused ecosystem

Watch-outs:

• More expensive than many alternatives
• Team permissions may feel less enterprise-like than dedicated business platforms

Choose this if your team wants a single “source of truth” and you value ease of use over minimizing cost. Khajabi

2. GoHighLevel — best for a marketing team/agency workflow

Best for: teams running many funnels, leads, campaigns, and client/customer journeys.

Why it fits:

• Landing pages/funnels
• CRM + pipeline management
• Email/SMS automation
• Multiple team accounts and permissions
• Built around marketing operations

Watch-outs:

• Course delivery is not usually its strongest area compared with dedicated learning platforms
• More complex setup

Pick this if your “course” is part of a larger lead-generation and sales machine.

3. Kartra — closest “marketing suite” alternative

Best for: funnel-heavy businesses wanting courses and automation in one place.

Why it fits:

• Landing pages
• Email automation
• Sales funnels
• Membership/course areas
• Checkout and customer management

Watch-outs:

• Can have a learning curve
• Less focused on collaborative course creation than some LMS tools Evendeals

4. Thinkific + email/automation tool — best if course quality matters most

Best for: teams building serious educational products.

Why it fits:

• Strong course authoring
• Instructor/admin roles
• Learner management
• Integrates well with marketing tools

Watch-outs:

• You may need a separate landing page/funnel/email system

This is often better than an all-in-one if your course experience is your main product. Teachfloor

5. Systeme.io — best low-cost all-in-one

Best for: small teams that want everything in one dashboard without a large subscription.

Why it fits:

• Funnels
• Email marketing
• Landing pages
• Basic course hosting
• Automation

Watch-outs:

• Less polished for complex team workflows
• Course/community features are lighter than premium platforms Cevora

My recommendation for a 5-person team

I’d choose based on your operating model:

For a five-person team specifically, I’d probably shortlist Kajabi vs GoHighLevel vs Thinkific + a marketing tool and test:

1. Can all five people get the right permissions?
2. Can your content team build modules without marketing access?
3. Can marketing edit funnels without breaking courses?
4. Can you see customer journeys end-to-end?

If you tell me your approximate monthly budget and whether you sell B2C courses, corporate training, coaching, or memberships, I can narrow it to one.

For a five-person team specifically, I’d probably shortlist Kajabi vs GoHighLevel vs Thinkific + a marketing tool and test:

For a 5-person team that specifically needs landing pages + email funnels + course modules + team permissions in one place, I’d shortlist these:

My recommendation: Kajabi

Kajabi is probably the cleanest match if the course is central to your business. It combines course delivery, landing pages, email sequences, funnels, checkout, and automation rather than making you stitch several systems together. www.kajabi.com

One important catch for your five-person team: Kajabi's current Basic plan lists 2 admin users, so you'd need a higher tier or another arrangement to give all five people appropriate access. www.kajabi.com

If cost matters: Systeme.io

I'd seriously consider Systeme.io. It covers funnels, email marketing, courses, and automation, and its team functionality includes configurable permission levels. systeme.io It can also automatically enroll people into courses based on funnel actions, including full, drip, or partial module access. help.systeme.io

When I'd choose GoHighLevel

Choose GoHighLevel if your team is more like a marketing operation than a course-creator team—especially if you need CRM pipelines, SMS, lead management, sophisticated automations, or multiple client/business workspaces. Current comparisons consistently position it more toward agencies and marketing operations, while Kajabi is more course-centric. www.thestackinsiders.com

Bottom line:

• 🎓 Course is the product → Kajabi
• 💰 Want the most functionality per dollar → Systeme.io
• 📈 Lead generation/CRM/automation is the core → GoHighLevel

If you tell me your rough monthly budget and whether the five people need full admin access or role-based access (e.g. marketing vs. course team), I can narrow it to one.

For a five-person team, I’d shortlist these three:

My pick: HighLevel

Your requirements line up unusually well with HighLevel. It combines funnels/website pages, marketing automation and email, and memberships/courses rather than requiring separate tools. Its current permission system is particularly strong: admins can control access at the module and granular-action level, including separate permissions for Funnels, Automation, Marketing, and Memberships. HighLevel Support Portal HighLevel Support Portal

A nice bonus for your use case: HighLevel can now put funnel pages directly inside course modules, so a learner can move from course content into a funnel/form/action without leaving the course experience. HighLevel Support Portal

For five people, I'd structure permissions roughly like:

• Owner/admin: everything
• Marketing: funnels + email/marketing + automation
• Course manager: memberships/courses + media
• Designer/content: funnels/pages + media, but restricted automation/settings
• Ops: contacts/conversations/reporting, limited editing

HighLevel supports both role-based access and granular permissions, so you don't have to give everyone five-person-admin access. HighLevel Support Portal

Choose Kajabi instead if the course/student experience is the heart of the business and sophisticated marketing automation is secondary.

Choose Systeme.io if keeping the monthly software bill down is the dominant consideration. It's explicitly positioned as an all-in-one alternative covering funnels, email, courses, and memberships. Creator Tools Guide

Bottom line: Given exactly what you described—landing pages + email funnels + course modules + five-person team permissions—I would start with HighLevel. HighLevel Support Portal HighLevel Support Portal

If you tell me your approximate monthly budget and whether you're selling one course or multiple courses, I can narrow this to the best plan/tier rather than just the platform.

For a 5-person team that needs landing pages + email funnels + course modules + permissions, I’d narrow it to a few platforms rather than a generic LMS. Your priorities point toward an all-in-one marketing + learning platform. coursecompared.comwww.kajabi.com

Best overall fit: Kajabi

Use it if you want one system your whole team can operate from. coursecompared.comwww.kajabi.com

Strengths

• Landing pages and sales pages
• Email campaigns and automated funnels
• Course modules, memberships, communities
• Checkout, offers, upsells
• Fewer integrations to maintain coursecompared.comwww.kajabi.com

Potential downside

• Higher cost than course-first tools
• Team permissions may require choosing the right plan and roles for your workflow

Best team setup

• Marketing person → pages + funnels
• Copy/email person → campaigns
• Course manager → modules/content
• Operations/admin → analytics + settings
• Owner → billing + permissions

Best if you need stronger team/course administration: Thinkific

Use it if your priority is structured course delivery and managing multiple contributors. www.thinkific.com

Strengths

• Strong course-building tools
• More education-focused administration
• Roles like Site Admin and Course Admin let you limit access by responsibility support.thinkific.com
• Good fit for organizations with instructors, course managers, and learners

Potential downside

• You may need additional tools for sophisticated email funnels and marketing automation compared with Kajabi. www.thinkific.com

Other options worth considering

My recommendation for your exact use case

• If the team is mainly selling courses/coaching: choose Kajabi.
• If you have multiple instructors/content managers and care about permissions: choose Thinkific.
• If you expect to grow into a full digital education business: shortlist Kajabi vs Thinkific, then test both with your actual workflow.

Before deciding, I’d test these five tasks in a trial:

1. Create a landing page
2. Build a 5-module course
3. Assign a teammate limited access
4. Create a lead → email sequence → purchase flow
5. Review analytics as a non-owner team member

Those tests usually reveal the right fit faster than feature comparisons.

For a five-person team, I’d put HighLevel at the top of the list.

My recommendation: HighLevel

It matches your requirements unusually well because it brings funnels/landing pages, email marketing/automation, and courses/memberships into one platform. HighLevel’s current permissions system also lets you control access by module and individual capability, rather than simply making everyone an admin. help.gohighlevel.com

Why I'd choose HighLevel: your team can give, for example, one person access to funnels, another to marketing/automation, another to courses, while keeping sensitive settings restricted. Its permissions cover Funnels, Marketing, Automation, and Memberships/Courses among other modules. help.gohighlevel.comhelp.gohighlevel.com

It also has a particularly useful integration between the pieces: HighLevel now supports putting funnel pages directly inside course modules, and workflows can automatically grant course access after events such as a form submission or purchase. help.gohighlevel.com

When I'd pick something else

• Kajabi — choose this if the course/student experience is the heart of the business and you care more about a polished creator platform than sophisticated team/marketing operations.
• Systeme.io — choose this if keeping costs low is the priority and your team doesn't need elaborate permissions.
• ClickFunnels — choose this if your operation is overwhelmingly focused on sales funnels and landing-page experimentation.

Bottom line: For five people collaboratively building landing pages → email sequences → offers → course modules, HighLevel is the strongest all-in-one fit. help.gohighlevel.comhelp.gohighlevel.com

HighLevel official site

If you tell me your monthly budget and whether you're selling one course or multiple courses, I can narrow it down to the best plan and compare the actual costs for five users.

For a team of five, I’d shortlist HighLevel, Kajabi, and Systeme.io. Your requirements—landing pages + email funnels + course modules + team permissions—are unusually well suited to an all-in-one platform.

My pick: HighLevel

HighLevel is probably the strongest fit if your team is actively marketing and selling, rather than primarily delivering courses.

• Landing pages/funnels: built in.
• Email automation: built in, including workflows.
• Courses: built-in Memberships/Courses; it can even embed funnel pages directly into course modules. help.gohighlevel.comwww.kajabi.comwww.kajabi.comhelp.systeme.io
• Team permissions: particularly strong. You can control access by module and granular actions, including Funnels, Automation, Marketing, and Memberships. help.gohighlevel.com
• Good for a 5-person team: you can give, for example, your copywriter funnel/email access without giving them payment or account-settings access.

When I'd choose Kajabi instead

Kajabi is the better choice if the course itself is the center of the business and you want a more polished creator/course experience.

It combines courses, landing pages, funnels, email campaigns, and automations. www.kajabi.com Its account-user system also has role-based access for Pages, Products, Marketing, Funnels, Email Campaigns, Automations, etc. help.kajabi.com

Caveat for your five-person team: Kajabi's current Core offering advertises 2 admin users, so you'll want to check the plan that accommodates all five people. www.kajabi.com

Budget option: Systeme.io

Systeme.io is worth considering if keeping costs down is important. It covers funnels, email, automation, and courses, and its assistant system lets you control access to things such as funnels, campaigns, workflows, and courses. help.systeme.io

What I'd pick

Bottom line: If you tell me whether you're selling one main course, multiple courses, or using the platform for a broader marketing/business operation, I can narrow this to one and compare the current 2026 plans/pricing for five users.

For a team of five, I’d shortlist these:

🥇 Best overall: HighLevel

This is probably the strongest fit if you want one operational platform rather than just a course platform.

• Landing/funnel builder
• Email campaigns + automated workflows
• Courses/modules and memberships
• Forms, CRM, payments, etc.
• Granular team permissions so your five people can have different access levels. help.gohighlevel.com
• You can even embed funnels directly inside course modules, which is unusually well integrated. help.gohighlevel.comwww.kajabi.comwww.savingsec.com

Best if: your team is actively building funnels, managing leads, and automating marketing—not just delivering courses.

🥈 Best for a polished course business: Kajabi

Kajabi is the one I'd choose if the course/student experience is the center of the business. Its landing pages connect directly with automated marketing, emails, offers, and products. www.kajabi.com

Best if: you care more about a polished creator/course ecosystem than CRM-style operational depth.

🥉 Best budget option: Systeme.io

Systeme.io is worth considering if keeping costs down is important. It combines funnels, email, courses, and memberships and has a particularly generous entry-level offering. www.savingsec.com

My pick for your specific requirement: HighLevel. The combination of landing pages + email funnels + course modules + five-person permissions is unusually well matched to what you're asking for.

If you tell me your monthly budget and whether you're selling courses, coaching, or both, I can narrow it down to the exact plan I'd buy.

For a team of five, I’d put HighLevel at the top of the list.

Why it fits your requirements unusually well:

• Landing pages/funnels: built-in funnel and website builder.
• Email funnels: campaigns and workflows are native, so leads can move from landing page → email sequence → offer automatically.
• Course modules: its Memberships area supports courses, lessons, offers, access levels, and learners. help.gohighlevel.com
• Team permissions: this is a major strength. You can give each person granular permissions by module—including Funnels, Marketing, Automation, and Memberships—and restrict access further. help.gohighlevel.comhelp.gohighlevel.com
• Everything in one account: you avoid stitching together something like Leadpages + Mailchimp + Teachable.

One particularly useful newer feature is that HighLevel can put funnel pages directly inside course modules, so the learner doesn't necessarily have to leave the course environment to interact with a funnel. help.gohighlevel.com

How I'd rank the alternatives

Bottom line: If the five of you will actively collaborate on pages, automations, email, and course content, I'd choose HighLevel. Its current permission system is granular enough that you can avoid giving everyone full admin access. help.gohighlevel.comhelp.gohighlevel.com

If you tell me your approximate monthly budget and whether you're selling courses, coaching, or memberships, I can narrow this to the best 2–3 options and compare their current team/user limits and pricing.

For a five-person team, I’d shortlist HighLevel, Kajabi, and Systeme.io. The best choice depends on whether your priority is marketing operations or course delivery.

My pick: HighLevel

For your exact combination, I'd lean HighLevel. Its current permission system lets you control access by module and even restrict users to assigned data. It covers Funnels, Marketing, Automation, Conversations, and Memberships/courses in the same platform. help.gohighlevel.comhelp.gohighlevel.com

That makes it particularly good if your five people have different jobs—for example:

• 1 admin/owner
• 1 funnel/landing-page builder
• 1 email/automation person
• 1 course-content manager
• 1 sales/support person

You can give each person only the modules they need rather than handing everyone admin access. help.gohighlevel.comhelp.gohighlevel.com

HighLevel official site

When I'd choose Kajabi instead

Choose Kajabi if the course itself is the center of the business and you care more about a polished student experience than CRM/marketing depth. Kajabi combines courses, funnels, landing pages, email campaigns and automations, and its current roles include Owner, Administrator, Assistant, and Support Specialist. help.kajabi.comwww.kajabi.com

The catch for your five-person team is worth noting: Kajabi's current base offering lists 2 admin users, so you'd want to check the plan that accommodates your desired team structure. help.kajabi.comwww.kajabi.com

Kajabi official site

When I'd choose Systeme.io

If keeping costs low is important, Systeme.io is the value play. It combines funnels, email, automation and course delivery, with a free entry tier. help.systeme.io

Systeme.io official site

Bottom line:
HighLevel if you're building a marketing machine with five people → Kajabi if you're primarily a course business → Systeme.io if budget is the deciding factor.

If you tell me roughly how much you're willing to spend per month and what each of the five team members needs access to, I can narrow it down to one.

For a 5-person team that wants landing pages + email funnels + course modules in one place, I’d shortlist HighLevel and Kajabi, with HighLevel as my first choice if team permissions are a major requirement.

My pick: HighLevel

HighLevel

HighLevel now has granular permissions by module, including Funnels, Marketing, Automation/Workflows, and Memberships/Courses. You can give different people different levels of access and even restrict users to assigned data. help.gohighlevel.com

That makes it particularly good if, for example:

• You/admin: everything
• Marketing person: landing pages + email + automation
• Course manager: courses/memberships only
• Designer: funnels/pages
• Sales/support: contacts + conversations, without access to sensitive settings

It also keeps the landing pages, funnels, email campaigns, automations, and course/membership content under the same roof. help.gohighlevel.com

When I'd choose Kajabi instead

Kajabi

If your course is the core product and marketing is secondary, Kajabi is arguably the cleaner choice. Its team roles cover Pages, Products/Courses, Funnels, Email Campaigns, Automations, Marketing, etc. help.kajabi.com

The catch for your team is that Kajabi's current advertised entry plan includes 2 admin users, so you'd want to check the plan that accommodates all five people. www.kajabi.com

Bottom line:

• Marketing/funnels + team collaboration → HighLevel
• Premium courses + simpler creator experience → Kajabi
• Keep costs as low as possible → Systeme.io

If you tell me your approximate monthly budget and whether you're selling one course or multiple courses, I can narrow this to the best plan for your five-person team.

For a five-person team that needs landing pages + email funnels + course modules + team permissions in one place, I’d shortlist these:

www.savingsec.com

My recommendation for a 5-person team

Pick Kajabi if your core business is selling courses/coaching. It is the closest match to your requirements because it combines:

• landing pages
• email sequences
• automated funnels
• course hosting
• offers/checkout
• customer management

Kajabi describes itself as an all-in-one system for courses, coaching, memberships, email marketing, websites, and digital products. help.kajabi.com Its funnel tools specifically connect landing pages and email campaigns into automated customer journeys. help.kajabi.com

Pick HubSpot + a course platform if your team works like a marketing department. For example:

• Marketing manager owns campaigns
• Sales owns leads
• Content team builds courses
• Operations manages reporting

HubSpot’s permissions and CRM structure are usually stronger for multi-role teams, but you’ll likely have more moving parts.

Pick GoHighLevel if you’re an agency or manage funnels for multiple brands. Its structure is designed around marketing automation and multiple accounts rather than primarily delivering a polished learning experience. infiniteagent.io

Before committing, I’d verify these five things in a trial:

1. Can each team member have their own login?
2. Can you restrict access by role (editor vs admin)?
3. Can you have multiple funnels/courses without workarounds?
4. Are email automations easy for non-technical teammates?
5. Does the course experience match your brand?

If you tell me (a) whether you sell your own courses or run client funnels, (b) your monthly budget, and (c) whether the five people need separate permissions, I can narrow it to one or two choices.

For a five-person team that wants landing pages + email funnels + course modules in one system, I’d shortlist Kajabi and HighLevel, with Kajabi as my default choice.

Why Kajabi: its team roles can separately control access to Pages, Products, Funnels, Email Campaigns, Automations, Contacts, etc., which maps nicely to a five-person team where not everyone should have admin access. help.kajabi.com

Why HighLevel: if your operation is heavily focused on lead generation, CRM, sophisticated automations, and sales workflows, it is more powerful. Its current permissions system supports granular module-level access and even copying permission sets between team members. ideas.gohighlevel.com It also supports Courses within its broader client-portal ecosystem. help.gohighlevel.com

My recommendation

Choose Kajabi if the course is the center of your business and marketing funnels support it.

Choose HighLevel if the marketing/sales machine is the center and the course is one component of it.

If you tell me roughly how many courses/students you expect and whether you need a CRM, I can narrow it down to one and compare the current 2026 plans/pricing for a 5-person team.

For a team of five, I’d shortlist these three:

My pick: GoHighLevel

For your exact combination—landing pages + email funnels + course modules + multiple team members—GoHighLevel is probably the strongest operational fit.

Its permissions are unusually granular: you can control access to Funnels, Marketing, Automation, Conversations, Memberships/courses, Integrations, etc., and even restrict users to assigned data. help.gohighlevel.com

It also lets you put funnel pages directly inside course modules, so your team can build the marketing journey and learning experience in the same ecosystem. help.gohighlevel.com

GoHighLevel

When I'd choose Kajabi instead

Choose Kajabi if the course itself is the core business and you care more about a polished creator/education experience than CRM-style team operations. Kajabi connects landing pages directly with campaigns, emails, offers, and products. www.kajabi.com

Kajabi

When I'd choose Systeme.io

If keeping costs down is important, Systeme.io is worth serious consideration. It combines courses, drip modules, email marketing, funnels, and communities, and its current offering includes team permission levels. systeme.io

Systeme.io

Bottom line:

• Best for your 5-person marketing team: GoHighLevel
• Best for a course-first business: Kajabi
• Best value: Systeme.io

If you tell me roughly how much you want to spend per month and whether you're selling one course or multiple courses, I can narrow it to one.

For a 5-person team, I’d shortlist Systeme.io, Kajabi, and Podia. Based on your specific requirements, Systeme.io is probably the best fit.

🥇 My pick: Systeme.io

It puts funnels, landing pages, email campaigns/automation, courses, communities, and payments under one login. Its course offering specifically supports modules/dripping, while its funnel system is designed to connect directly to email and course sales. systeme.io

More importantly for your five-person team, Systeme.io has separate assistant/admin roles. Assistants can work on funnels, campaigns, courses, automation, etc., while admins can get additional access to sensitive business data and settings. help.systeme.iowww.kajabi.com

That makes it a better fit than Podia if team access control is a major requirement.

Systeme.io

🥈 Kajabi — if budget isn't a concern

I'd choose Kajabi if you're building a more premium course business and want the most polished experience. It has strong landing pages, email automation, courses, and granular user permissions. Kajabi specifically supports multiple user tiers/roles so you can give different team members access to only the areas they need. www.kajabi.com

Kajabi

🥉 Podia — easiest, but weaker for your team

Podia is appealing because it combines website/landing pages, email, courses, and community in a very approachable interface. Its current email system supports broadcasts and automated campaigns, and courses support videos, downloads, quizzes, and other lesson content. help.podia.com

The catch: its assistant model is relatively broad—assistants can manage products, emails, community, site, etc., rather than giving you the same degree of fine-grained role separation. help.podia.com

Podia

Bottom line:

• Systeme.io → best balance of features + team collaboration + cost
• Kajabi → best premium experience + more mature permissions
• Podia → best if simplicity matters more than sophisticated team controls

If you tell me roughly how many students/leads you have and your monthly software budget, I can narrow this down to one and compare the actual 2026 plans for a 5-person team.

For a 5-person team that specifically wants landing pages + email funnels + course modules + team permissions in one place, I’d put HighLevel at the top of the list.

My shortlist

🥇 I'd choose HighLevel

HighLevel now has unusually granular team controls: you can separately control access to Funnels, Marketing, Automation/Workflows, Memberships, Conversations, Forms, etc., rather than simply making everyone an admin. help.gohighlevel.comhelp.gohighlevel.com

It also puts your actual requested pieces together:

• Landing pages/funnels: funnel and website builder.
• Email: campaigns, conversations, templates, and automation.
• Course modules: its Memberships area supports courses, lessons, offers, bundles and access levels.
• Team of five: custom roles and module-level permissions, including view/edit restrictions. help.gohighlevel.comhelp.gohighlevel.com
• Interesting bonus: HighLevel can now put funnel pages directly inside course lessons, so the learner doesn't necessarily have to leave the course environment. help.gohighlevel.com

HighLevel

When I'd pick Kajabi instead

If selling and delivering the course is the heart of your business, I'd seriously consider Kajabi. Its landing pages are directly connected to automated marketing campaigns, emails, offers and products, and its overall UX is more creator/course-oriented. www.kajabi.com

Kajabi

Bottom line:

• Marketing + funnels + team collaboration: HighLevel
• Premium course business + simpler creator experience: Kajabi
• Lowest-cost all-in-one: Systeme.io
• Funnel-heavy business: ClickFunnels

For your exact wording, I'd start with HighLevel. The team-permission system is the deciding advantage.

For a team of five that needs landing pages + email funnels + course modules + team permissions, I’d focus less on the “best course platform” and more on the best business operating system. Your priorities suggest you want one place where marketers, course builders, and admins can collaborate.

My shortlist:

www.teachfloor.com

My recommendation by scenario

If you want one login and minimal integrations:
→ Kajabi. It is probably the cleanest match for “landing pages + funnels + courses” in one platform. www.teachfloor.com

If your team is primarily running marketing campaigns and lead generation:
→ GoHighLevel. It is designed more like a marketing operations hub.

If you have multiple people building funnels, managing leads, and handling client/customer journeys:
→ Kartra or GoHighLevel.

If the course experience is the product (academy, certification, training portal):
→ Thinkific + a dedicated email/CRM stack may outperform an all-in-one.

For a five-person team, I’d also check these before committing:

• Can you assign different roles (admin, content editor, email marketer, analyst)?
• Can you have separate workspaces or brands?
• Does it support approval workflows?
• Can you see change history/versioning?
• Can you export customer data and course content?

A practical setup I’d test first:

1. Kajabi trial — see if it handles your whole workflow.
2. GoHighLevel demo — see if your marketing operations need more power.
3. Thinkific + CRM combo — if course quality matters more than having everything bundled.

If you tell me your approximate size (number of students/leads), whether you sell B2B or B2C, and whether the team needs one brand or multiple brands, I can narrow it to one or two choices.