There’s quite a range of direct integrations available within GoHighLevel. Some are essential, while others are suited to specific business types.
I’ve put together this comprehensive guide to help you select the right GoHighLevel integrations for your business.
Key Takeaways:
- Stripe is an essential integration—without it, platform functionality is limited
- Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Google, and WhatsApp are integrations worth using
- Thanks to native capabilities, there’s no need to integrate Mailgun and Twilio
5 GoHighLevel Integrations You Should Be Using in 2024
1. Stripe
Stripe is the most essential GoHighLevel integration. In fact, if you only choose to use one integration, it has to be this one.
Why? Without it, you’re seriously limiting your ability to make transactions. And if you want to sell GoHighLevel as SaaS, you can only do that if you have integrated Stripe.
Sure, other payment gateway integrations are available, but they don’t give you even half the capabilities that Stripe does.
Here’s what you’ll get access to once you’ve set it up:
- Sell products and services via online order forms, funnels, and landing pages
- Take payments upfront for calendar bookings and appointments
- Use “Text-to-pay”—this is where you can send a payment link via SMS to your customers
- Set up and use the “one-time-charge” action in automated workflows
- Enable Apple Pay and Google Pay
- Make and receive affiliate payments
- Enable rebilling and reselling of third-party apps via GoHighLevel
- Create, configure, and sell GoHighLevel SaaS products
While you might get away with using an alternative payment gateway in the initial stages of your business, when you’re ready to scale and take it to the next level, you’ll need Stripe.
2. Facebook and Instagram
If you’re not using Facebook or Instagram, you’re missing out on a potential audience of billions. These platforms are an incredibly effective way to increase engagement with your brand and for your customers to contact you directly.
GoHighLevel supports a direct integration with both platforms that allows you to access a couple of powerful tools.
First, you can utilize GoHighLevel’s social media management feature. This feature lets you create Facebook posts and Instagram stories and reels and then schedule them to post to your accounts. The feature includes AI text and image generators to make the task even faster.
Second, you can connect to Facebook and Instagram Messenger and converse with people on these platforms directly from GoHighLevel.
Even more impressive is the ability to set up automated responses via the AI-powered chatbot. This excellent feature allows you to connect with and nurture all leads, even if you’re not available.
3. TikTok
If there’s one more social platform you should be using besides Facebook and Instagram, it’s TikTok. It also has an audience of billions and is especially crucial if you’re targeting a younger demographic.
Besides using the social planner to schedule your TikToks, you can also integrate with TikTok Lead Ads. This automatically pulls all the leads generated within TikTok through to GoHighLevel so you can add them to your campaigns.
This integration is super useful because you don’t have to flip from one platform to another to manage everything.
4. Google
I would place the Google integration almost as highly as Stripe because it’s almost impossible to function online without it.
Indeed, there’s a lot you can do within GoHighLevel once you have connected the platform with your Google business account. Here’s just some of the stuff you’ll get access to:
- Streamlined appointment booking: Sync appointments booked in GoHighLevel with your Google calendar and eliminate the need to manage multiple calendars on different platforms.
- Enhance online visibility: Integrating your Google Business Profile allows you to update and manage your online presence and help customers find your business information more easily in Google Search and Maps.
- Improve local service ads: Integrating LSA and Reserve with Google lets you advertise your services and allow potential customers to book appointments directly through Google. These are then pulled into GoHighLevel for easy, streamlined management.
- Increase analytics and insights: You can integrate Google Analytics and feed the data onto GoHighLevel for use with campaign optimization and marketing strategies.
- Manage clients: The integration lets you automatically capture and organize client information from Google-based interactions inside GoHighLevel.
Most of these functions can also be automated. By incorporating Google into your workflows, you can create tasks that run on autopilot and provide a seamless experience for you and your clients.
5. WhatsApp
WhatsApp has proven itself to be an essential communication method for businesses. It boasts over 2.7 billion users and is the preferred text message service among Android phone owners.
In short, if you don’t incorporate WhatsApp into your communication channels, you’re missing out.
Besides allowing you to message and respond to WhatsApp users, the integration also works with the GoHighLevel AI-conversational chatbot. This means you can automate conversations and let AI do the work when you’re not able to respond yourself.
Another neat feature is the ability to sell and rebill WhatsApp services to your clients. Once you activate this option, you pay a flat fee of $10 per sub-account, but you can charge your clients whatever you like for using it. Any amount above $10 is profit in your pocket!
10 Other GoHighLevel Integrations Worth Considering
While I firmly believe the last five integrations are essential for maximizing GoHighLevel’s potential, other integrations are worth considering, too.
However, I wouldn’t expect you to pick and use all of them. Choose the ones that initially work for your business. You can always add more later when they make sense.
1. PayPal: Expand Your Payment Gateways
Although GoHighLevel offers a handful of payment gateways, PayPal is the next best after Stripe.
However, you can’t do nearly as much with it since you can only take payments online. You can’t connect PayPal to anything other than for this purpose.
That said, it’s useful to have a payment option for folks who live in a country that doesn’t utilize Stripe. PayPal is used globally, so it’s worth expanding your options by using it for product or service sales.
2. Shopify: An E-Commerce Must-Have
If you already use Shopify, this could be a match made in heaven for your business! Shopify is undeniably awesome for e-commerce. Not so much for GoHighLevel, but it does excel at customer relationship management and marketing.
With the Shopify integration, you can get the best of both worlds and use GoHighLevel for all your customer communication:
- Automatically create contacts and leads from new Shopify customers, centralizing all customer information in one place
- Leverage GoHighLevel’s automation features to segment and notify Shopify customers
- Send newsletters, offers, and other campaigns from GoHighLevel to your Shopify audience
- Set up abandoned cart emails in GoHighLevel’s workflow tool
- Deploy the GoHighLevel chat widget on your Shopify site to facilitate live or text-based customer care
3. Quickbooks: For Easy Accounting
If you’re using GoHighLevel to run your business, you’ll need a convenient way to transfer all the financial data for tax compliance, reporting, and other accounting purposes.
To support this, the platform integrates directly with the popular accounting platform Quickbooks. This allows the seamless transfer of data, which greatly reduces errors and the headache of manually entering data.
4. Zoom: Enable Live Streams
Unfortunately, GoHighLevel does not have a native live stream tool, but it does support Zoom to enable live meetings and webinars.
The Zoom integration allows you to schedule, start, and manage Zoom meetings from within GoHighLevel, eliminating the need to switch between platforms.
You can link Zoom to your calendar bookings, which dynamically creates a unique link for each new meeting created. Since each participant gets a different link, it makes it harder for uninvited people to jump on the call.
5. Slack: Send Automated Messages
The Slack integration is fairly limited since you cannot use it to facilitate live chat in GoHighLevel. Instead, it forms part of GoHighLevel’s “Premium Triggers and Actions” (which cost extra).
Once integrated, you can set up workflows that include sending automated messages via Slack. These automated messages can be sent to:
- A user
- A public channel
- A private channel
A good example would be sending Slack messages to a marketing team as soon as new lead data comes in. This enables them to act on the information in real time and lessens the likelihood of the lead going cold.
6. Printful: Enable Print on Demand
Printful is the newest integration to be introduced, and it arrived at the same time that GoHighLevel introduced e-commerce features on its platform.
Essentially, Printful is a print-on-demand platform that creates and ships products on your behalf.
By connecting the two platforms, you can:
- Use GoHighLevel to create the e-commerce website, product listings, marketing, and perform CRM
- Import all your Printful products onto your e-commerce site and sync them so that any changes made are reflected on both platforms simultaneously
- Sync all orders and fulfillment between GoHighLevel and Printful, ensuring a seamless process
7. LinkedIn: Expand Your Social Reach
LinkedIn—the social media platform for the professional world—is crucial for some businesses. Use the integration to manage and schedule your posts for this platform via the GoHighLevel social planning tool.
8. WordPress: The World’s Best Website Builder
Yes, GoHighLevel has a website builder, but nothing beats the power of WordPress. If your clients want that, you can offer it.
The integration allows you to offer WordPress hosting to your clients. Better still, you can set your own price for it and make a profit!
Once WordPress has been purchased and set up, users can perform various administrative tasks to their site within GoHighLevel. They can also set up automations and browse and use plugins and themes.
This is just another way to increase the value of your offer to clients or via your SaaS plans.
9. Yext: Essential for Multi-Location Businesses
Like WordPress, you can set your price and offer Yext to your clients. But what is it, exactly?
The platform is an essential tool for multi-location businesses. It helps manage and deliver accurate information across various digital channels, such as search engines, directories (Yelp, etc.), and maps.
Rather than updating your business details on many different platforms, Yext lets you do it all from a single place.
Once integrated with GoHighLevel, you can manage all your online listings via the platform and set up automations to make the job even faster and more convenient. It’s also incredibly useful for reputation management since monitoring online reviews is much easier using Yext.
10. Clio: A Law Firm Must-Have
If your clients are attorneys, you’ll want to use the Clio integration. This law-practice and case management software is widely used among law firms, and connecting it with GoHighLevel increases the capabilities of the platform.
For example, you can use the multiple communication methods to make it easier for clients to connect with law firms. Incoming lead data can be effortlessly transferred from one platform to another, and many tasks can be automated.
Importantly, the automated data transfer greatly lessens the likelihood of mistakes—something that law firms need to be very mindful of.
2 GoHighLevel Integrations You Should Ditch
The final two integrations are no longer necessary. I’m even wondering whether GoHighLevel might drop them soon.
1. MailGun
In GoHighLevel’s early days, using the Mailgun integration was necessary to send and receive emails within the platform. However, since then, GoHighLevel has introduced its own emailing tool—LC–Email—and using a third-party app is no longer necessary.
The native email feature is easier to set up and manage, and there’s less risk of something going wrong because you do not have to connect two platforms.
Regarding pricing, LC–Email costs the same as Mailgun, so there’s really no incentive to use this platform anymore.
2. Twilio
Like Mailgun, in the early days, you previously had to use Twilio to make calls and send SMS texts.
The introduction of LC-Phone has changed all that, so you no longer have to use this integration. GoHighLevel now lets you purchase phone numbers, make calls, and send voicemails and SMS all from within the platform.
Better still, LC-Phone is slightly cheaper than Twilio (for US users) and much easier to set up and use.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I Use Zapier and Similar Tools with GoHighLevel?
Yes, you can use Zapier and similar tools like Zoho Flow and Integrately to connect GoHighLevel with thousands of third-party apps.
Does GoHighLevel Have API Access?
Yes, GoHighLevel offers basic API access on its Starter and Unlimited plans and advanced API access on its Pro plan.
