Export GHL Funnels Without Rebuilding Page by Page
The pages come out — layout, copy, assets and structure. What does not come out is everything behind the buttons. Knowing exactly where that line sits is the difference between a quote you can keep and one you cannot.
What a funnel export actually contains
The pages. Layout, copy, images, fonts, the order of the steps and the links between them. That is the expensive part to rebuild by hand and it comes across intact, which is why exporting beats retyping a funnel into a new builder.
What it is not is the funnel as a machine. Everything behind the buttons stays where it was.
| Part of your site | Comes with you? | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| The rendered front end — pages, layout, copy, images, fonts | Yes | Comes out as a clean project you can host anywhere. |
| CRM records and contacts | No | Stay in GoHighLevel. Export them separately from inside the platform. |
| Workflows and automations | No | Do not come with the site. They have to be rebuilt on whatever you move to. |
| Form and survey backends | No | The form markup comes across; the thing that receives a submission does not. It needs repointing at a new service. |
| Calendars, payments and checkout | No | Platform features, not page content. Reconnect them to new providers. |
| Editing inside GHL's builder afterwards | No | An exported site is edited as files, not in the builder it came from. GoHighLevel's own support article says the same. |
What breaks, specifically
- Opt-in forms. The fields render; the submission goes nowhere until you point it at a new handler.
- Checkout and order bumps. Payment steps are platform features. They need rebuilding on a payment provider you connect yourself.
- Automations between steps. The “on submit, tag the contact and send the email” layer is workflow, not page, and does not travel.
- Split tests and funnel analytics. These are reporting features of the platform, not markup.
So the honest way to scope this job is: budget the rewiring, not the rebuild. The design work is done; the plumbing is the project.
Getting the pages live
- Run the Hatch extension on the funnel. It pulls the rendered pages and assets into one project ZIP.
- The wizard pushes that project into a GitHub repository you own and publishes it on your own Cloudflare Pages account.
- Repoint each form at a handler you control, and test one real submission per step.
- Reconnect payments before you send traffic. A checkout that looks fine and takes nothing is the worst possible failure here.
Static funnel, or WordPress?
ExportGHL's guide on this points at WordPress, and for some funnels that is the right call: if you need a plugin ecosystem for membership, courses or complex checkout, a CMS earns its keep. The trade is that you have taken on a WordPress site — hosting, updates, plugins and their security.
A static deployment is the other end of that trade. Nothing to update, nothing to patch, free hosting on Cloudflare's tier, and speed you do not have to work for. It suits a funnel whose job is to present pages and collect submissions, which is most of them. Neither answer is universally right; pick on what the funnel actually has to do.
Get your site out and live on hosting you own.
Hatch pulls the front end out of the builder and publishes it to your own GitHub and Cloudflare Pages. Starter £29, Studio £97, Agency £297.
Start with Starter £29