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Landing Platform vs Circle: courses joined to your CRM
Circle hosts communities, courses and events. Landing puts your courses, memberships and email on the same record as your CRM, invoices and support, so every member is a customer you can see, sell to and serve.
Landing suits you if
- Your community feeds a wider business: coaching, services or products
- You want email marketing included, not an add-on by contact
- You want members, deals and invoices on one record
Where the community stops and the business starts.
Circle runs the space. The sales and money around it run elsewhere.
Email is an add-on
Email Hub is listed as an add-on on most plans, priced per block of contacts.
Invoices elsewhere
Invoices, quotes and a helpdesk are not listed on its plans, so the money side runs in other tools.
No view of value
Landing Platform vs Circle, line by line.
Circle is built for community. Landing is built for the business the community serves.
| Feature | Landing Platform |  Circle |
|---|---|---|
| Courses | Schools on your own domain, drip, quizzes, certificates with a verification page | Yes |
| Conversation on the course | Comments on every lesson and reviews on every course | Spaces, feeds and a member directory |
| Memberships and subscriptions | Recurring orders with a portal where members manage them | Paywalls and subscriptions |
| Taking payments | Landing Pay: from 2.0% + 20p, card processing included | 0.5% to 2% by plan |
| Email marketing | Campaigns and flows included in every plan | Email Hub add-on on most plans |
| Automation | Playbooks that run across marketing, sales, service and delivery | Workflows, capped on Professional |
| CRM, deals and quotes | A full CRM, quotes and e-signature | Not listed on its plans |
| Invoices | Invoices and checkout on the member's record | Not listed on its plans |
| Helpdesk and help centre | One inbox for email and chat, plus a searchable help centre | Not listed on its plans |
Circle details reflect its publicly available plans as of 2026; check current details on its own site.
Moving the business side is our job.
We move you over one tool a month, against success criteria we agree with you up front. You don't pay until we prove each one is ready.
We map your stack
We look at your Circle setup and the tools around it: courses, paid tiers, your email list, CRM and invoicing. We agree what moves and what "ready" means.
We move it across
We move your data as part of the switch: courses and lessons, paying members and what they own, and your email list with its consent.
You sign it off
Billing starts only when we have shown it works against the criteria you set. Then we move the next tool, one a month.
But we already use Circle.
Fair. Here are the questions membership businesses ask us most.
Where does our community conversation happen on Landing?
On the courses themselves: comments on every lesson and reviews on every course. Around it you get what Circle leaves to other tools: a CRM, email included in the plan, invoices and a helpdesk, all on the member's record.
Is email really included?
Yes. Campaigns and flows are in every plan.
Can we see which members became paying clients?
Yes. A member is a contact in the CRM, so their courses, orders, deals, invoices and support tickets sit on one record.
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