How to Migrate From ClickFunnels to GoHighLevel (Step by Step)

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Short answer: your contacts and order history migrate cleanly. Your funnels do not. There is no ClickFunnels-to-GoHighLevel importer that moves pages intact — you rebuild them. For a typical agency with three or four funnels, budget 15–30 hours over two to three weeks, and keep both subscriptions running during the overlap.

That sounds worse than it is. Most people rebuild faster than they expect because they take the opportunity to drop the pages that were not converting anyway. Here is the process that keeps you from breaking anything live.

What transfers and what does not

Asset	Transfers?	How
Contacts and tags	Yes	CSV export and import, with field mapping
Order and purchase history	Partly	CSV as custom fields; not as native GoHighLevel orders
Email templates	Manually	Copy and paste the HTML, restyle in the builder
Funnel pages	No	Rebuild in the GoHighLevel funnel builder
Automations and follow-up	No	Rebuild as workflows — the logic model differs
Membership courses	Manually	Re-upload content into GoHighLevel Memberships
Custom domains	Yes	Repoint DNS once the new pages are live
Payment integration	Reconnect	Connect Stripe or PayPal directly to GoHighLevel
Existing subscriptions	Careful	See the warning below — this is the risky part

The one genuine danger: active recurring subscriptions. If you have customers billing monthly through ClickFunnels, those subscriptions live in your Stripe account tied to ClickFunnels metadata. Do not cancel ClickFunnels while they are running without a plan. The safe approach is to leave existing subscribers billing where they are and send only new customers through GoHighLevel until the old cohort churns naturally.

Step 1: audit before you touch anything

Open a spreadsheet and list every funnel you have, with its traffic over the last 90 days and its conversion rate. Then be ruthless.

Most accounts have somewhere between four and forty funnels and two or three that actually matter. You are not migrating forty funnels — you are migrating the three that make money and archiving the rest. This single step is usually the difference between a two-week migration and a two-month one.

• Which funnels received traffic in the last 90 days?
• Which produced revenue?
• Which have live ad campaigns pointing at them? (Those need the most careful handover.)
• Which have active recurring subscriptions attached?

Step 2: export your data

1. In ClickFunnels, export contacts to CSV. Include tags, purchase history and any custom fields.
2. Export your order history separately — you will import it as custom fields for reference.
3. Screenshot every funnel page at full length. You are rebuilding from these, and it is much faster than flipping between two browser tabs.
4. Copy the copy. Headlines, bullets and email bodies into a document — retyping is where days disappear.
5. Note every integration: payment processor, webinar tool, fulfilment, anything receiving a webhook.

Step 3: set up GoHighLevel first

Do not import contacts into an empty account. Build the structure first or you will spend hours reorganising afterwards.

1. Create the sub-account (or use your agency account if you are solo).
2. Create your custom fields before importing, matching the columns in your ClickFunnels CSV exactly.
3. Set up your pipeline stages to mirror your actual sales process.
4. Connect Stripe or PayPal and confirm a $1 test transaction works.
5. Configure your sending domain and authenticate email (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) before sending anything.
6. If you will send SMS to US numbers, start A2P 10DLC registration now — it can take several days and it blocks everything. See the hidden costs article for the fees.

That last point catches people out. Registration is not instant, and a migration that is otherwise finished can sit idle waiting for approval.

Step 4: rebuild the funnels

The GoHighLevel funnel builder is section-based like ClickFunnels, so the mental model transfers even though the assets do not. Work in this order:

1. Rebuild your highest-revenue funnel first. If something is going to go wrong, you want it to go wrong while you still have energy and the old version is still live.
2. Build the pages at a temporary GoHighLevel URL. Do not repoint your domain yet.
3. Rebuild the order form and run a real test purchase with a real card. Refund it afterwards.
4. Recreate the follow-up sequence as a workflow. This is where the models genuinely differ — GoHighLevel workflows are visual and branch-based rather than linear step sequences.
5. Test the whole path end to end as if you were a customer: opt in, buy, receive emails, appear in the pipeline.

A note on the workflow model

ClickFunnels follow-up funnels are essentially linear sequences. GoHighLevel workflows are event-driven with branches, waits and conditions. Do not translate step for step — take the chance to add the branching you always wanted, like sending a different sequence to people who watched the video versus those who did not. This is where the platform is genuinely better and where you get paid back for the migration effort.

Step 5: import contacts

1. Import a test batch of 20 contacts first. Confirm every field mapped where you expected.
2. Check for duplicates — GoHighLevel deduplicates on email by default, and if your ClickFunnels list has the same person under two addresses you will get two records.
3. Import the full list, then apply a tag identifying the source and date. You will want this later.
4. Do not trigger workflows on import. This is the classic disaster — a welcome sequence firing at 8,000 people who joined two years ago. Confirm no workflow has a ‘contact created’ trigger active before you import.

That fourth point deserves its own warning box. It is the single most common migration failure in any platform, it is embarrassing, and it is entirely avoidable by pausing every workflow before the import and re-enabling them afterwards.

Step 6: cut over

With everything built and tested, the switch itself is quick.

1. Repoint your custom domain DNS to GoHighLevel and wait for propagation.
2. Update the destination URLs in your ad campaigns. Do this in the same session as the DNS change.
3. Set 301 redirects from old ClickFunnels URLs to the new pages so existing links and any SEO value survive.
4. Watch conversion rates for a week. A drop usually means a tracking pixel did not make the trip.
5. Leave ClickFunnels active for at least 30 days after cutover. The subscription is cheap insurance against discovering something you forgot.

Realistic timeline

Phase	Time	Can it run in parallel?
Audit and export	2 – 3 hours	Yes
GoHighLevel setup and domain auth	3 – 4 hours	Yes
A2P 10DLC approval wait	2 – 7 days	Yes — start it early
Rebuild main funnel	6 – 10 hours	Yes
Rebuild secondary funnels	3 – 5 hours each	Yes
Workflows and email sequences	4 – 8 hours	Yes
Contact import and verification	1 – 2 hours	No — do it once
Cutover and monitoring	2 hours + 1 week watching	No
Total active work	15 – 30 hours	Spread over 2 – 3 weeks

When you should not migrate

Three cases where I would tell you to stay put:

• You have a large book of active recurring subscriptions. The risk of disrupting live billing outweighs the saving. Migrate new customers only and let the old cohort run out.
• You only use ClickFunnels for funnels. If you have no need for CRM, SMS, scheduling or reputation management, you are taking on a broader platform to solve a narrower problem. The comparison is in GoHighLevel vs a custom stack.
• You are mid-launch. Never migrate during an active campaign. Wait for the gap.

Frequently asked questions

Is there any tool that imports ClickFunnels pages automatically?

Various services advertise this. In practice the output needs so much cleanup that you are usually faster rebuilding from a screenshot. Treat any claim of a one-click funnel import with scepticism.

Will my SEO suffer?

Only if you skip the redirects. Set 301s from every old URL to its new equivalent and you keep the accumulated authority. Most funnel pages carry little organic traffic anyway — check before you worry.

Can I keep my ClickFunnels domain?

Yes. The domain is yours; only the DNS record changes. Nothing about your domain is tied to ClickFunnels.

How much do I save by switching?

ClickFunnels runs $97–$297 a month for funnels alone. GoHighLevel Unlimited at $297 includes funnels plus CRM, email, SMS, scheduling and reputation. If you are paying for those separately today, the saving is substantial — the full picture is in the total cost of ownership article.