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Can I run more than one website from one account?
The free plan carries one custom domain, and a domain can only be assigned to one website at a time. Sub-accounts are the route systeme.io documents for running several projects from one place.
What one account holds on the free plan
2,000 contacts, 3 sales funnels, 1 blog, 1 course, 1 affiliate program and 1 custom domain.
The custom domain is the figure to watch. One address is one address.
One domain, one website
systeme.io is direct about it: a domain can only be assigned to one website at a time. If the one you want is already linked elsewhere, you remove it from that website first.
Open Sites, then Websites, find the one holding the domain, click its three-dot menu, then Settings, and click the X icon beside the domain field.
A warning appears when you do it, and it is worth reading rather than clicking past.
Removing it has a cost. The website you took it from is deactivated and stays unreachable until another domain is assigned to it. So freeing a domain for a second site takes the first one offline, and it stays offline until you give it a replacement.
Sub-accounts are the real answer
A sub-account is a full systeme.io account created from inside yours. They are made under your profile picture, at Sub-accounts, then Create, and each one asks for a name and a subdomain such as project-1.systeme.io.
There is no cap. systeme.io states you can create an unlimited number of sub-accounts, on a free plan as well as a paid one.
What a sub-account gets
- The same resource limits as the main account, set by whichever plan you are on. On a plan allowing 10 funnels, the main account gets 10 and each sub-account gets 10.
- Its own systeme.io subdomain, editable later under that account's Custom Domains.
- Separate statistics, so each project is measured on its own.
- Its own payment gateway, which is what makes several brands or clients workable side by side.
systeme.io uses the term sub-account for two different things. This page describes the built-in Sub-accounts feature above. A separate, unrelated pattern also goes by that name: an agency signs a client up for their own paid plan or free trial under a separate email address, then adds themselves as an administrator to manage it. That second kind is a fully independent account on its own plan, and does not inherit the main account's resource limits the way the Sub-accounts feature above does.
You move between them from the Sub-accounts list, using Log in to sub-account. Sales funnels, newsletters, email campaigns, courses and custom blocks can be shared from one account into another.
The rule that catches people out
Sub-accounts are not a product to resell. Publicly offering them as lifetime deals, or at prices under systeme.io's own subscriptions, is a breach of the terms and conditions and can suspend the account immediately.
How I checked this answer
Nothing on this site is written from memory. These are the sources I checked to write this answer, and the date I checked them.
- How to create a sub-account on systeme.iohelp.systeme.io, article 4243
- How to create a websitehelp.systeme.io, article 4526
- The pricing FAQ below the plan comparison tablesysteme.io/pricing
- How to create and manage sub-accounts for an agency on systeme.iohelp.systeme.io, article 2929
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From my own use
I run more than ten domains from systeme.io, and I keep each course or project separate. It makes everything much simpler to manage.
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