How to Turn a $24 Sale Into a $403 Cart With Order Bumps and Upsells
Maria Wendt breaks down the checkout-flow levers that turned one $24 digital product sale into a $403 order — and the conversion math behind her $12M business.
July 4th 2025A creator who has made $6.68M through Samcart rebuilds a low-ticket checkout page from scratch, then wires in the order bumps, upsells, and Kajabi integration behind it.
A five-minute page build -- a $1.97 entry price, an 80/20 image-to-text layout, and Samcart's built-in order bumps and upsells -- is what one creator credits for turning a low-ticket funnel into more than $6 million in revenue.
The creator has made $6.68M through Samcart and credits it to checkout pages engineered for conversion (20% vs. a ~2% average). She rebuilds one live: a new product priced at $1.97 (her low-ticket sweet spot), the two-column template, an editable headline, a five-star image, a hero product mockup, six bullets, and one or two testimonials -- following an 80% images / 20% text rule. She then shows the revenue layer behind the page: order bumps at checkout, upsells after checkout, and connecting Samcart to Kajabi (Integrations -> Grant Offer -> product purchased) so buyers get instant course access. Closing tip: enable billing/shipping fields at checkout or lose sales to declined cards.
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Opens on the live Samcart revenue dashboard ($6.68M lifetime) and states why she trusts Samcart's page builder over Kajabi or Stan Store, then creates a new product named 'Our Amazing Product' priced at $1.97 -- her stated low-ticket sweet spot -- and uploads a product image.

Picks the two-column checkout template (her default; 'Startup' is her second choice), opens the design tab, and adds an editable headline and sub-headline.

Adds a five-star rating image sized down for mobile, a hero product image (device mockups), six bullet points, one or two testimonials, zeroes out default section padding, and publishes -- stating a rule that landing pages should run roughly 80% images to 20% text.

Switches to a real, already-live checkout page ('The Business Coach On Demand Tool') to show how a $97 base order becomes a $400+ order once bumps and upsells are added -- flags that the full method is covered in her paid course.

Opens the Offers tab and shows where order bumps and the upsell/funnel builder live for a product.

Walks through Integrations -> Kajabi -> Grant Offer -> choosing 'product purchased' as the trigger -> selecting the specific course -> submit, so a Samcart buyer gets automatic access to the matching Kajabi course.

Flags a specific gotcha: if the course doesn't show up in the Kajabi picker, hit the refresh button. Switches the product into test mode to verify the checkout works before going live.

Adds billing, shipping, and email confirmation fields to the checkout form -- skipping them raises card decline rates and loses sales -- then closes on why the platform's flat-fee pricing (no per-traffic penalty) makes it worth the cost, pointing to affiliate trial links and her own paid course in the description.
The gap between a page that converts at 2% and one that converts at 20% comes from structure and follow-on offers, not aesthetics -- mockups over paragraphs, a frictionless entry price, and bumps/upsells stacked at checkout.
“Some of our pages convert as high as, like, 20% where the average conversion rate on a landing page is 2%.”
“The majority of your landing page should be images and mock ups, not text. You should have 20% text, 80% images.”
“I just think SamCart's courses just suck ass right now.”
“If I'm gonna send a 100 people to a checkout page, I wanna get those 20 sales, not those two sales.”
“SamCart just charges a flat fee.”
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She opens on the receipts -- a live Samcart dashboard reading $6.68M -- before admitting the platform never paid her to say any of this, then rebuilds one of her own checkout pages from a blank product in real time.
Her rule of thumb for landing page composition -- most of the page should be visual (product mockups, device images), with a light amount of supporting text.
A specific low-ticket price point she calls a 'sweet spot' for impulse buys on a first-touch offer.
“I'm gonna put a link in the description to a couple things. One, the link to my SamCart affiliate... Second thing... Kajabi... third, I'm gonna link to my course.”
Stacks three disclosed affiliate/product links in the description (Samcart trial, Kajabi trial, her own paid course) after explicitly stating commission isn't why she made the video.
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10:39Maria Wendt breaks down the checkout-flow levers that turned one $24 digital product sale into a $403 order — and the conversion math behind her $12M business.
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