In July 2025, Huntress said:
UPDATE!
Okay, I am going to add more information about what I have experienced overall from System.io since I am done with the blog and funnel.. First, I wonder what their intent is, why it's free? Maybe to gain paid customers, I imagine, but when I asked if I could pay this monthly or annually, I received no answer. My reason for considering a paid subscription is that there are restrictions on the "FREE PLAN," which no one mentions.
Automation rule: You are only allowed one rule, which is stupid. I didn't understand it, and I was deleting and doing it over, because I believed I was doing it wrong and had not activated anything. I couldn't change anything anymore. Plus, you are not allowed to DELETE ANYTHING, not even emails.
CS claims I already did this action, NO I DID NOT, they did on the back end. They control and can see everything on the back end and the accounts.
Also, someone Xed me out on notifications on my profile when I first signed up. When I asked why this happened, I was ignored and provided NO answer, so I know it was done with intent.
When I linked my STRIPE account, I was looking at the instructions on how to do this while going through the motions. On Systems.io, the page skipped and took me to another page, and at that point, I was bewildered about what happened. So I was able to get a hold of Stripe on the phone and we discussed it, everything was good, but he informed me that all monies on accounts go to Systems first, then it's sent to STRIPE, then me.
I am against all of this third-party crap. They are not a bank; a funnel is a marketing tool and should not be handling any money. I am fed up with online companies trying to control everything, and the customer and consumer have less control over what happens. The ONLY people who should see transactions and sales are me and the financial merchant, not Systems.io or any other company that is similar. This company is good, but I have nothing to compare it to. It's my first time using this funnel and blog platform. You know, when I think about it, what is a funnel? A blank web page and adding a template that is designed to market a product, that's it. Anyone can do that from any ordinary website that is already established. The concern here is to build a company that will integrate with a shopping cart from a site I can make myself, which can be done from wordpress.org, as they also have templates. People sell templates everywhere.
The funnels don't sell your product for you, and that is what people are advertising, which is FALSE! To gain sales, it goes back to having a following on social media, which is the co-dependency of thousands of people seeing your product, or it won't sell, and that is the problem I have right now.
I will have to figure out how to MARKET my product in hopes it converts to sales, since I have been against social media for obvious reasons.
There have been some odd occurrences that I couldn't figure out, and frankly, I don't feel CS is all that knowledgeable about these occurrences or is refusing to be transparent with me. I wouldn't call it an ALL IN ONE, because I can't sell physical products, ONLY digital ones are allowed, but it has nice templates and you have one custom domain you can use in your FREE PLAN, which mine won't connect for some odd reason.
It thinks I am linked to AMAZON, which I am not. Nor am I linked to APPLE pay, but the link is embedded in my STRIPE for some odd reason.
YOU ARE NEVER ALLOWED TO DELETE ANYTHING. I SHOULD HAVE PAID FOR HOSTING AGAIN AND BUILT EVERYTHING MYSELF. After losing 300$ from Inmotion, I chose not to, but it looks like I will have to, so I can have more control and direct financial control with STRIPE and sell physical products. It has many good features, but there are things I do not agree with, and the support is not that great; there is a lack of transparency.
The online world is controlled just like the physical world is controlled. To have a business, you want to control yourself, do not depend on anyone, and the marketing is going to be expensive.
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