Switch off ClickFunnels in 7 days
A Dallas coach paid $297/month for ClickFunnels, couldn't leave. See the 7-day plan to migrate funnels, contacts, and sequences.
Ryan Torres is a real estate coaching business owner in Dallas. In March 2026 he had been paying $297 per month for ClickFunnels for two years. Three lead funnels, a contact list of 4,200 names, six email sequences, and a calendar booking page: all inside ClickFunnels.
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Ryan had tried to leave twice before. Both times he got 20 minutes into the migration and stopped. His contacts were in the ClickFunnels CRM. His email automation ran through ClickFunnels’ email system. His calendar was a ClickFunnels page with a calendar embed. His funnels linked to each other using ClickFunnels’ native share URLs. Moving any one piece meant moving all the pieces, and he could not figure out the right order.
In April 2026 he completed the migration in 7 days. He now pays $497 per month for a platform that does everything ClickFunnels did, plus Voice AI for inbound calls and two-way SMS that ClickFunnels never had. He kept all 4,200 contacts. None of his funnels went dark during the migration.
Here is the exact sequence.
What is the right order to migrate out of ClickFunnels?
The order matters more than the speed. The migration fails when people try to move traffic before the destination is ready, or try to move email sequences before the contacts exist on the new platform.
Follow this sequence:
Day 1: Export contacts and form submissions
Before you touch anything else, get your data out of ClickFunnels.
In ClickFunnels, go to Contacts. Export all contacts as a CSV. Include every field: email, first name, last name, phone, tags, funnel source, and date added. Save this file somewhere outside ClickFunnels immediately.
Also export your form submission history if you want a record of what came in through each funnel. This is useful for auditing later. It is not required for the migration itself.
Import the contact CSV into your new platform. Map each field carefully, especially phone numbers and tags. Tags in ClickFunnels are your segmentation logic. If you lose tags, you lose the ability to target the right segment with the right message after migration.
Do not skip Day 1 for any reason. If ClickFunnels goes down or you accidentally cancel early, your contacts are gone. Get them out first.
Day 2 and 3: Rebuild your landing pages
Rebuild your funnels in priority order: highest traffic first.
For each funnel, rebuild the following pages on the new platform:
- Opt-in page (the page with the form)
- Thank-you page (shown immediately after form submission)
- Any confirmation or delivery page
Do not redirect traffic yet. Leave ClickFunnels active. You are building the new destination, not yet switching the road.
What breaks most often during page rebuilds: images hosted on ClickFunnels’ CDN. When you copy the text from a ClickFunnels page and paste it into a new builder, the image URLs still point to ClickFunnels servers. After you cancel ClickFunnels, those URLs stop working. Download every image from your ClickFunnels pages before rebuilding, then re-upload them to the new platform and use the new URLs.
Also check your form fields. ClickFunnels forms often have hidden fields that pass UTM parameters or funnel source data. If you are tracking which funnel a lead came from, you need to replicate those hidden fields in the new platform’s form builder.
Day 4 and 5: Migrate your email sequences
Open each ClickFunnels email sequence and copy the content into a document. You are going to rebuild these automations in the new platform, not import them.
For each sequence, document:
- Trigger (what action starts the sequence)
- Delay between emails
- Email subject lines and body content
- Any conditional logic (if contact opened email 2, send email 3A; if not, send 3B)
Rebuild each automation in the new platform using the same trigger and logic. Assign the correct contact segment as the audience for each automation. Test the trigger before moving on.
One thing that breaks silently: ClickFunnels email sequences often contain links that point back to ClickFunnels pages (the opt-in page, the sales page, the calendar). After migration, those pages live on the new platform. Update every link in every email sequence to point to the new URLs before you go live.
Day 6: Test every flow end-to-end
Do not skip this day.
For each funnel, run the complete flow as a test contact:
- Go to the opt-in page (still on ClickFunnels during testing)
- Submit the form with a test email address
- Confirm the contact appears in the new platform’s CRM
- Confirm the welcome email fires from the new platform
- Confirm each email in the sequence fires at the correct interval
- Click every link in every email and confirm it points to the correct new URL
For the calendar funnel, book a test appointment and confirm it appears in both the new platform’s calendar and your personal calendar.
If anything in this flow does not work as expected, fix it before Day 7.
Day 7: Redirect traffic and monitor
Today you move the road.
For each funnel, update the traffic source to point to the new platform’s URL. The method depends on how you are driving traffic.
If your funnels are promoted via paid ads (Google, Facebook, YouTube), update the destination URL in each ad campaign. Changes propagate in 24 to 48 hours.
If your funnels are linked from your website, update those links to point to the new pages.
If your funnels are promoted via email or SMS, send an updated version of those messages with the new links.
For any domain you have pointed at ClickFunnels (for example, leads.yourdomain.com pointing to a ClickFunnels page), update the DNS to point to your new platform. DNS changes take 15 minutes to 48 hours to propagate.
Keep ClickFunnels active for 48 hours after Day 7 so that any bookmarked links or in-flight ad clicks still land somewhere. Then cancel.
What actually breaks during migration and how to fix it before going live
Most migration guides describe the process. This section covers the things that go wrong even when you follow the process.
Form embed code changes. If you embedded a ClickFunnels form on a third-party page (your main website, a partner’s page, a blog post), that embed code points to ClickFunnels’ servers. After cancellation, the form stops loading on those pages. Before Day 7, audit every page outside ClickFunnels that has a ClickFunnels form embedded. Replace those embeds with the new platform’s form embed code before you redirect traffic.
Email sequence timing drift. When you rebuild an email sequence in a new platform, the delays and timing are configured manually. If your ClickFunnels sequence had a 3-day delay between email 1 and email 2, that number exists in ClickFunnels’ settings, not in any export. Open each sequence in ClickFunnels before rebuilding it and write down the exact timing for each step. Missing a delay by one day can send emails at the wrong moment in a nurture sequence and change conversion rates.
Payment processor re-authorization. If you collected payments through ClickFunnels’ native checkout using Stripe, those Stripe payment method authorizations are tied to ClickFunnels’ Stripe integration. When you switch to a new platform with its own Stripe integration, you will need to re-authorize Stripe through the new platform. This is a settings-level connection, not a data migration, and it is straightforward. But you cannot charge cards on the new platform until the authorization is complete. Complete the Stripe connection on Day 1 alongside the contact export, not on Day 7 when you are redirecting traffic.
The parallel running period: never cut over cold
This is the rule that prevents most migration disasters. Run both platforms simultaneously for the full 7 days. Do not cancel ClickFunnels at the start of the migration. Do not redirect traffic before Day 7 testing is complete.
During the parallel period, leads that come in through your ClickFunnels funnels are processed by ClickFunnels. At the end of each day, manually review any new contacts that came in and add them to the new platform as well. This is extra work for 7 days, but it ensures no lead is lost to a migration error.
On Day 7, when you redirect traffic to the new platform and confirm leads are flowing correctly, stop the manual dual-entry. Monitor the new platform for 48 hours after the redirect. If leads are appearing correctly and automations are firing, cancel ClickFunnels.
If something breaks after Day 7, you have 48 hours of ClickFunnels buffer to diagnose and fix it before any leads go dark. That buffer is worth the extra month of ClickFunnels subscription cost.
What to do with ClickFunnels data you cannot export
Some data in ClickFunnels does not export, and knowing this in advance prevents unpleasant surprises.
Order history. If you processed payments through ClickFunnels’ native checkout, your order history (what each contact purchased, when, and at what price) lives in ClickFunnels’ reporting and does not export cleanly to a CSV that a new CRM can import. Before cancelling, take screenshots or export PDF reports of your order history from ClickFunnels’ analytics for your records. You will not be able to pull this data after cancellation.
Affiliate data. If you ran an affiliate program through ClickFunnels’ Backpack affiliate system, affiliate commission records, affiliate contact information, and payout history are stored in Backpack and do not export to a standard CRM format. Export a PDF summary of affiliate earnings and contact information before cancelling. If affiliates need to be paid commissions after the migration, handle those payments before you cancel ClickFunnels access.
Funnel analytics. Your funnel-level analytics in ClickFunnels (opt-in rate by page, conversion rate by step, traffic source breakdown) are not exportable in a format that a new platform can import as historical data. Before cancelling, take screenshots of your key analytics for each funnel. Use those baselines to compare against your new platform’s performance after migration. You are looking to confirm that the rebuilt funnels are performing at or above the ClickFunnels benchmarks within the first 30 days.
For a parallel process, if your email list needs to migrate alongside your funnels, the Mailchimp migration plan covers the specific steps for exporting and re-warming a list without losing subscribers or triggering spam filters. And if you are evaluating what platform to land on after the migration, the best CRM for service businesses breakdown covers the six features that determine whether a platform actually works for the kind of business ClickFunnels typically serves.
What does the platform cost comparison look like?
| ClickFunnels | New platform | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $297 | $497 |
| CRM contacts | Limited, basic | Full CRM |
| Email sequences | Native | Native |
| Two-way SMS | Not included | Native |
| Voice AI (inbound) | Not available | Native |
| Page builder | Native | Native |
| Funnel analytics | Native | Native |
Pricing as of May 2026; verify current pricing with each vendor.
Ryan pays $200 more per month on the subscription. He gains two-way SMS (which he uses for lead follow-up, cutting his response time from 4 hours to under 10 minutes) and Voice AI (which handles his after-hours inquiries without a human). The inbound lead capacity he gained on SMS and Voice AI alone generated an estimated $3,000 to $4,000 per month in additional coaching revenue in the first 90 days (LeadExploder platform account data, 2024-2025).
What should you do if the migration takes longer than 7 days?
It does not need to. But if your funnel complexity is higher than three funnels, budget 10 to 14 days instead. The sequence is the same. You are just adding more build and test time in the middle.
The constraint is not the platform. It is your ability to rebuild and test every email sequence and page before redirecting traffic. Do not redirect traffic before Day 6 testing is complete. The order protects you.
What to do this week
Open ClickFunnels and export your contacts today. You do not need to commit to leaving yet. Just get the data out so you own it regardless of what you decide.
Then pull your last 30 days of ClickFunnels analytics. Look at what your funnels are actually producing: opt-in rate, cost per lead if running paid traffic, and conversion rate from lead to customer. Compare that to what the platform is costing you.
If the math is not there, the migration is worth running. Seven days is a small investment for a platform that does more and costs less in total once you account for the Voice AI and SMS you are currently not running.
Book a demo and see the full platform live.
Alex Rocha is the founder of Mastodon Marketing, a Houston-based growth agency that runs marketing for service businesses across 70+ client sites. He built LeadExploder as the operating system he wished his clients had on day one. Learn more about Alex →
Frequently asked questions
How do I export my contacts out of ClickFunnels?
In ClickFunnels, go to Contacts, click the filter icon, select all contacts, and use the Export option. The export includes email, name, phone, tags, and funnel source. If you are on ClickFunnels 2.0, exports are in the CRM section under Contacts. Export as CSV before you cancel. Once you cancel, you lose access to the CRM and all contacts inside it.
What breaks most often during a ClickFunnels migration?
The three most common failure points are: email sequences that reference ClickFunnels-hosted images or links that stop working after migration, form submissions that still route to the old ClickFunnels page after traffic is redirected, and order bumps or upsell flows that depend on ClickFunnels' native checkout. Test every funnel flow end-to-end on the new platform before you redirect traffic.
Can I run both platforms simultaneously during the migration?
Yes, and you should. Keep ClickFunnels active and paid during the 7-day migration. Do not cancel until Day 7 after your traffic redirects are live and you have confirmed that all leads are flowing into the new platform correctly. The 7-day overlap costs you one extra month at $297, but protects you from losing leads during a failed migration.
How long does it take to rebuild a ClickFunnels landing page on a new platform?
A single-page lead capture funnel with a form and a thank-you page typically takes 2 to 4 hours to rebuild on a modern page builder. A full funnel with an opt-in, a sales page, an order page, and an upsell takes 8 to 12 hours. If you have 3 funnels, plan for a full day of rebuilding. Prioritize your highest-traffic funnel first.
