Podia

Avantages

The simplicity for doing action what ever it is in podia.
Almost no need of help, it is no intuitive that i have needed a little time to stop making simple things become complicate like before using podia.

Inconvénients

Nothing for the moment.
The first days, i was asking question like “why can’t we do this or that with podia? It was things i was able to do before with the other but very complicate system...
But then, i realize that podia helps me simplify my job and that i work well without all the other options i had in the past.

Avantages

It's super easy to use and fairly affordable

Inconvénients

There are some features that aren't available like different size font and button sizes

Avantages

Podia looked like a good potential solution for my business as a platform for the teaching and content work I’ve been doing with small businesses and social impact organizations in learning more quickly and to become more innovative as a matter of everyday practice.

Inconvénients

After paying Podia for 2 years after a one-time sign-up, I got autobilled the $390 for a year when I have not used the software AT ALL for at least a year. It is customary with courteous customer service, *ESPECIALLY* for small business, to do a courtesy refund when the product has not been used.

A $390 small mistake for your small business could cost you everything if you do business with Podia. NOT WORTH THE RISK.

Avantages

Probably the thing that I appreciate most from Podia is their customer support. I trial tested a few different platforms, and even though Podia doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the others, their unbelievably fast and friendly customer service was way ahead of the pack! It's really important to me that my students are able to get the help they need with the software or any issues that I can't handle on my end.
Podia is also just incredibly easy to use, you can get a course up and running in a matter of hours. I've really enjoyed creating on their platform.

Inconvénients

So far, the only thing I dislike is the inability to categorize products. Having everything on your storefront in a big, long list isn't the most user-friendly way to show things.

Avantages

Where do I start? Podia is unlike any other site out there that's made for creators so creators can easily build a community and make money. Email marketing, online courses, digital downloads, even a blog, and website - you can do ALL of that easily on Podia. You keep what you make. AND the price is very affordable too. Great customer support with tons of tutorials.

Inconvénients

It can be a little overwhelming at first but their support is amazing!

Avantages

Ease of use. Number of features for the price. 30 day trial. Quick set up and use. Blog, products, etc.

Inconvénients

Limited features, only one domain or name, set up for single users, instead of multiple users.

Avantages

Definitely the ease of use and very intuitive interface. In addition, there is really nothing missing to create your own infobusiness! All this at a very affordable price compared to other competitors.

Inconvénients

The free plan is very cool, however, it does not allow full access to all the features of Podia in order to use it. It also still lacks a number of customizations on checkout, and the translations into other languages are less than perfect.

Avantages

I love that Podia is simple to use but extremely powerful. If you are looking for a do it all platform for your website, course, email and more, look no further.

Inconvénients

Not much to complain about! My number one wishes were email (which they recently added) and a blog (which is coming soon it seems).

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Podia 

Pourquoi passer à Podia

Avantages

I love Podia! I am grateful to have found this platform. It's user-friendly, allows me to consolidate multiple services in one place (and for one payment), Podia's team is incredible, and customer service is always exceptional.

Inconvénients

After more than two years of use, absolutely nothing has been lacking for me on the platform. I consider it perfect in every way.

Avantages

Podia was easy to set up and get started earning through selling online services. They also dont take a commision from sales which makes selling a little more profitable.
There are simple and easy to follow help guides for every step of the set up and management.

Inconvénients

There is nothing that I dislike, I find Podia simple and straightforward to use

Avantages

Me gustaba el precio cuando incluían el email marketing porque me daba una solución completa. Ya no, hay que pagarlo aparte.

Inconvénients

La interfaz es poco amigable tanto para el administrador como para los clientes y suele dar muchos errores. Se pierden datos. Mal servicio de atención al cliente. No está en español y resulta difícil crear contenidos.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Podia

Avantages

Everything talks to eachother. For our sleep consulting business, it's very educational, coaching, and B2C focused. This means that we have an email list, sales, general CRM, website, promo codes, that all need to talk to each other. Before we were duct taping Stripe, zapier, Monday, calendly, and it was a mess

Inconvénients

I would just like a few more features built out for the community section so it compares to palyers like Circle and Tribe (customization, different layouts, etc.)Also, a little more customization around segments and reporting. Like if I want to know "Give me all the people that have signed up for the free lead magnet and also purchased Product X within 7 days" so we can be more targetted

Avantages

Podia is very easy to use and like the design featuers. I also love to have my e-Mails on one page.

Inconvénients

I launched a new product and for the users is absolutely easy to use. The payment options are also very variable.

Avantages

I was looking for an easy way to start creating courses and found Podia was the perfect balance of affordable and easy to use.

Inconvénients

There needs to be an automated email platform included. I can’t see why I should pay extra to implement this.

Avantages

Podia is a simple platform wher I can teach online easily. Just have to customise a skin and that's it !

Inconvénients

All the PLAN part. It was difficult to me to set up it correctly .

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

I love the support, ease of use, features & continual improvements

Inconvénients

There isn’t really anything I don’t like.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Podia 

Pourquoi passer à Podia

Avantages

Loved building my website and programs in Podia. I’ve been able to figure out many things on my own, so I appreciate the simplicity and the video tutorials etc. I’ve recently been trialing their new email platform and so far, it’s another user friendly win!!I feel like Podia offers everything in one place (courses, email, website, community)

Inconvénients

Nothing really. I think the only thing that slows me down is “me” haha …and I’m constantly learning.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Podia 

Pourquoi passer à Podia

Avantages

Easy to use, good enough UI and enough features for the price to be really really valuable for our business.

Inconvénients

Some limitations with certain features. An integration with Hubspot would be super helpful as well.

Avantages

Todas las funciones básicas que necesita un sistema de aprendizaje online las tiene para arrancar con tu proyecto y no parar a pensar tanto en la parte técnica.

Inconvénients

La capacidad de personalización es limitada para depende qué necesidades.

Avantages

Podia offers all the tools I need to efficiently run my business.

Inconvénients

At this time I haven't run into any problems. The step by step guides and help section answered all of my questions.

Avantages

Podia is very easy to use. The integration of my content (videos, audios, files...) is simple and fast.

Inconvénients

I would like to able to create some "title" which can include two or more sections.

Avantages

Porquería total. Ni bien te creás la cuenta, re reciben con un banner tamaño casa que dice "su cuenta ha sido bloqueada", contáctese con soporte, y soporte no existe, son solo unos mensajes que supuestamente te dicen qué hacer, solo que no te dan las herramientas a las que te dicen que tenés que recurrir. Una basura de pies a cabeza.

Inconvénients

Su prepotencia, su inutilidad, su forma de bloquearte sin darte razones.

Avantages

As a software guy, I'm used to spending a lot of time fine tuning features, fixing bugs, and troubleshooting issues for customers. Thankfully with Podia all of these tasks are non-issues. Within a few minutes of opening our first of 2 schools in 2019, we had Stripe and Paypal payment gateways configured and were already making money with the simple presale landing page feature. Over the last few years we've done multiple six figure revenue through Podia, and enjoy the "all in one" nature of the product -- email newsletters, community, courses. The referral program has also been a great avenue for us, as we've shared Podia with enough creators to now essentially have a free account for life. This means I can focus more on making good content, and less on weighing the pros and cons of a monthly bill vs our enrollment traction at the time. I've used a couple Podia competitors as well over the years, but overall this is my #1 recommendation for no-code LMS.

Inconvénients

There are several features (both big and small) that would make me rate Podia a 10/10 instead of ~8.5 / 10. For starters, an open API. Currently the Zapier integration is too limited to help us achieve what we want, namely trigger based emails linked to specific lectures in the course. I'd also like better analytics, such as seeing which students are in a given "cohort" (e.g. who finished Module 1 vs Module 3), so we can better nudge them along toward completion. Lastly, there are a few improvement opportunities to the course editor itself. For us this would include more rich text options, as well as embedded code snippets.

Avantages

I love the ease of creating courses, ebooks, online events, memberships, and my website with Podia software. I'm creating more fun products and courses on a daily basis! Podia makes it so easy to get started, create products, and make them available. Sometimes I can make products within minutes and have them available instantly with the simple straightforward platform. I like the way Podia looks and feels. Also, Podia's customer service is exceptional.

Inconvénients

I honestly don't have anything negative to say about Podia.

Avantages

PODIA hands down is SIMPLE to use. No muss, no fuss, SIMPLE.

I have created WordPress websites for YEARS for myself and customers. Once you get to a certain point, being overwhelmed with tons of WP updates, crashes, plugin failures, and band width issues, it just makes you want to throw in the towel.

I have used OTHER solutions to try get OFF the WP UPDATE HELL Induced Headache Train, you know, you log in to do something that you expect to take 10 mins and 3 hours later, you are still messing with something broken on WordPress.

In my search for solutions I researched most of the well known LMS's out there. Some how I found Podia, I think on YouTube. I compared it to Thinkific in a side by side trial.. and Podia WON.. it didn't help that Thinkific changed their pricing structure to THEIR benefit in the middle of my test, so PODIA won by being totally INTO giving me MY money for MY Students. No Fees.. YAY..

Yes, I have tried other LMS's too. but you don't have all day to read about that.

Inconvénients

I have been on line since 1999, so I have played with a lot of software in my day, from hand coding HTML websites , Dreamweaver and Front Page to the Drag and Drop ease of use we have today.

While Podia is hands down far far easier then WP to use to set up a membership and sales page, it isn't perfect, but the PODIA staff are RESPONSIVE to suggestions.. and they implement them too.

With WP.. good luck..unless you are a coder and want to make your own plugins, it can take years for WP to implement change.

Sure Podia is not as "Flexible" as WordPress, but I also know that if I need to do something that takes 10 mins on Podia, it really will ONLY take me that long, and there are no surprise updates waiting for me, and dozens of Plugins that then also need to be updated along with it.

Time is MONEY in my book and WP was COSTING me Money.. more than it was MAKING me money.

Avantages

The fact that Podia hosts your videos and content for you is a huge win and savings. When I used Wishlist Member, I was stuck with Vimeo Pro and it's a lot of back and forth between softwares. Podia is all-in-one in that regard.

Inconvénients

Say you offer a Coaching Call / Mentorship package for a 30 minute call, 1 hour, or a 3 month bundle of calls. Instead of creating one product, one sales page with 3 simple pay options... you have to create 3 full separate products and then create a separate, custom page as your sales page using columns. You can't have a simple dropdown menu to select the simple option.

Want to create a membership with a startup fee? i.e. $75 join fee, then $29/mo. You can't.

Want to add a countdown timer to your sales page? Great! Go spend another $49/month with Deadline funnel (that's legit their solution or make a video gif of a timer). No custom embed codes can be added to your sales pages.

Have multiple email lists like I do? You can only integrate with one, so be sure to get Zapier at another $20/mo so your people can get on the right list.

Want to put something on sale and have see the higher price crossed out so your customer sees the price difference? You can't cross out pricing and you can't put things on sale - you must create a coupon code.

Avantages

I am new setting up a paid membership community & I have asked tons & tons of questions & I always get a quick, friendly & helpful response! I am blown away & it's probably the best customer service experience I've ever had! Thank you Podia! The product is also fairly simple to setup & it looks great on mobile devices!

Inconvénients

Theres some not so pretty looking aspects on desktop but it's not that big of a deal. The videos I uploaded are extremely zoomed in for some reason... but I was able to fix that by putting my videos on youtube unlisted first then pasting the links in the content section of the posts I create & it looks awesome!

Avantages

Yes, it's easy to use and customer support is fantastic...but that's where the pros end

Inconvénients

Horrible horrible functionality. Some BASIC website features aren't included, period:

1) No website backup functionality
2) No ability to have SKUs/units tracking
3) They sell you "coaching", but there's no way to track when someone books.
4) No way for a customer to book a coaching session twice (really?)
5) No way for a customer to book a "bundle" of coaching sessions (all you can do is "title" it 3 sessions)
6) No way to have dynamic settings for affiliates...all affiliates get the same kick-back
7) 0 ability for bulk updates of ANYTHING
8) No expiry date on courses
9) No ability to size images (what you upload is what you get)
10) No "contact us" form
11) Super rigid text/page design (i.e. don't even have Elementor)
12) No CSS customization
13) No dynamic course creation (as in, you can't create "pieces" and move them around)
14) Editing courses is SO painful. They default an image/thumbnail and to change it you have to manually upload. If you have a long course, then ANY update you make scrolls you all the way back to the top. No quick editing of titles. No ability to set title preference (they insist on defaulting to .mp4).
15) You need to pay $100 EXTRA a month JUST to get conversion tracking installed

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Podia

Avantages

There are a few features I really like about Podia.

Firstly, there's the overall platform design (dashboard, course pages, etc.) and user interface. At first, it may take you a moment to familiarize yourself with the different things Podia does but each section is quite straightforward, making the onboarding process a smooth one.

Additionally, I like the fact that Podia gives its users unlimited hosting of video content through one of the premium video platforms: Wistia. This means that you can upload all kinds of videos, as well as PDF and other types of learning materials, without having to worry about potentially "running out of storage".

Some course platforms limit themselves to enabling users to create and sell courses, while Podia can be leveraged to offer other things such as memberships, challenges, and digital workshops, just to mention a few.

Inconvénients

While I like the overall Podia concept and design, I feel that the landing and sales page customization power is quite limited. That's something I wouldn't mind seeing it change in the future.

Alternatives envisagées 

Logiciel antérieur 

Avantages

- Beautiful design
- Wonderful support
- Incredibly easy to use
- Great for my conversion rates

Inconvénients

I've sat here for 5 minutes and can't actually think of a con, imo. :)

Avantages

So simple to set up. So accommodating of their clients' needs: Think subscribers that are segmented from the get-go, newsletters and email drip campaigns that are as easy to write, beautify and send as an email, a pretty and sleek storefront, fully implemented with your website.
Also think ZERO cut from your earnings, NO restriction on your content. You pay the monthly fee and that's it!
One more thing: Podia takes care of invoicing, VAT - depending on where you are and where your buyers are ... a constant hassle to get that right and Podia just takes that load of your shoulders!

Inconvénients

The only thing that bugged me was that I couldn't personalize the emails, like address them to a person by name - - and Podia has that on their agenda.

When you find a platform where that's the ONLY thing that bugs you? Feels like I finally found my online home.

Avantages

Everything.
The price, super affordable and simple. No complications like others.
No transaction fees on matter what plan you are in.
Super intuitive to use, requires almost no tutorial. Although they have excellent documentation for any possible question.
Support is super helpful and responsive. 10 out of 10 in helpfulness.
It is so easy to use it makes you want to create courses and make good use of it.
I made my monies worth on the investment within the first week.

Inconvénients

The only con is that the software is not feature rich. This is NOT a con for me. To me it is a plus. They made it so dead-simple that literally anyone can use it. I feel that is the right use-case for most people and I am glad Podia chose to accomodate extreme simplification.
Well known competitors (which I won't name), have a ton of features but makes it a lot more complicated, not as intuitive and a bit more difficult to use it. Podia is almost "too simple", but that's a good thing.
I anticipate using Podia for years to come.
I wrote extensive blog on my website about how I use it, how you can use it, and also a full walkthrough video on my youtube channel to show all the insides.

Avantages

As a non-technical, almost all software is a dangerous activity. Producing online courses is not my strength and I've gone the gamut of wanting to chuck it to being grateful that Podia continues to accommodate and meet the needs of its many & varied creators.

Inconvénients

Probably what would have helped me from the beginning is a tour of where to find information/definitions/options within the course development without having to spend hours on YouTube videos/with support staff. From what I know right now, the software works well...the onboarding (for me) is wonky.

Avantages

- Gebruiksvriendelijk- Goede prijs/kwaliteit- Goede klantenservice

Inconvénients

- Sommige info kan je niet aanpassen (bv. prijs als je geen betaalmethode koppelt)

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Podia 

Logiciel antérieur 

Pourquoi passer à Podia

Avantages

I've been a user since the early days of this platform. It has grown and changed a lot, and that's what I love most. They are incredibly responsive to their users, frequently adding new features based on what people ask for. It can replace several tools and at a really competitive price. And their customer service is amazing.

Inconvénients

If you are looking for the most robust and highly customizable email platform, this isn't it. It can do basics, but I still pay for an email service.

Avantages

I enjoy Podia for its simplicity and beauty. I appreciate the entrepreneurial smartness in creating such a precise and lean product, ease of use, very fast and thorough support, balanced functionalities outweighs the frustrations. As far as I know I'll keep using it. From many angles, it's obvious that it wasn't just designed to be the next average thing, but it was carefully planned and optimized to solve specific problems and really make a difference. It was precisely what I was looking for for a solopreneur that is looking for lean features that just work. I loved how they were honestly able to compare themselves to other solutions and companies without bragging or other ego dynamics, and how they presented themselves as the solution with clarity. It shows a lot of great signs of a company I'm inclined to work with.

Inconvénients

some bugs in the editor were really annoying. Solved.

Avantages

It was easy to use and easy to set up. Payments were easy to collect

Inconvénients

Many features were added that changed the workflow of our business and there was no way around it. Customer support understood our issue and said there was no way to reconcile the changes as that was the direction the company decided to go. Which is fine. But it felt like an unnecessary change.

Avantages

I highly recommend Podia as an option for an online store due to the price of their product and the ease of use. Podia is really perfect for setting up a personalized online platform that gives you the option of providing digital downloads and online courses to customers. The platform also allows for a website and has the basic email marketing features that are essential for someone like myself looking to keep everything as simple as possible. The customer service goes above and beyond to help you out. And the design is the cherry on top - Podia has a design that is both warm, friendly but also slightly off-the-wall and quirky.

Inconvénients

The problems that I came across all had to do with integrating certain existing technical things - and the Podia staff was helpful in that regard.

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

The simplicity of use, especially since i am over 60 and find other website platforms like Wordpress too complex. I can manage everything on my own and dont have to hire a VA or OBM. IT has everything I need o sell my course and digital products with ease. THE customer service is outstanding, beyond outstanding. Not only is the response within 24 hours, but often accompanied by a detailed LOOM video addressing my question with solutions that I can execute myself. Always cheerful-AWESOME help from [SENSITIVE CONTENT]. She has been instrumental in helping me launch my site successfully, and I am so proud of the website.

Inconvénients

Nothing to mention. Every new software has a learning curve. Whenever I was confused, the customer service pitched in with resounding support. This is a huge benefit.

Avantages

I love how all the tools you need are right inside the platform.
I don’t have to hook up 5 different tools from 5 different platforms to run my business.
One place, all the tools, easy to use.

Inconvénients

I would like analytics to track conversion rates.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Podia

Avantages

Price was the most important factor initially. This is a reasonably priced product with the options to grow as budget and needs allow.

Inconvénients

I often build landing pages on my own website using drag and drop software. I wish there were more options to build podia pages like this to give it that more unique and on brand look

Avantages

I love that Podia is always making their product better by adding more features and making the ease of use for us better. They offer many ways to organize and sell my digital products.

Inconvénients

I love Podia overall, so not much to say on what I like least but if anything it's sometimes hard to figure out the homepage and how it works. But after support, it's easy.

Avantages

everything is in one platform, it is user friendly, I don't have to be tech savvy and customer service is excellent. It was the only product that offered everything I wanted for a good price. I moved to podia as I was over having a lot of different products and there associated memberships.

Inconvénients

At this stage I have no cons as it serves my purpose and makes it easy.

Avantages

Just Do it! Should be Podia's slogan! These guys get you started on making life happen. Do you dream about making a course? This is the place to do it. The videos and chat help will help you make the course happen. And don't worry! You can go in and change things as you go along. So Just get started already.

Inconvénients

With support, they do everything but come to your house and design the program for you. But that is truly what I wish they did. They have all kinds of great examples and challenges to get you started. I just wish they would send a maid and a nanny so I could clear my calendar to get on with it already.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Podia 

Pourquoi passer à Podia

Avantages

Ease of learning and use. Clean interface and easy to navigate.

I can have my own URL that links to my current website. I love this option available on the smaller plan.

The transfer was made by Podia of my courses in Thinkific to my podia platform by the podia staff which saved me so much time.

I love being able to have all my digital products and courses in the one place. And subscriptions can be included when I have them up and running.

I just love this platform and would recommend it to anyone both as an online course creator starting up or established.

Inconvénients

They don't have quizzes yet but I've been told this is coming.

The support is outstanding but if you live in Australia you have to wait until the next day or communicate during the night local WA time.

I can't think of anything else.

Avantages

I can say so many good things about Podia. It has helped me build my business with so much ease. I love how simple it is to build a course. This business is ever-growing with new updates coming out almost weekly it feels like! I am always so excited to see what's new! The customer service is absolutely amazing! I love this company!

Inconvénients

There really isn't anything I don't like about Podia!

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Podia 

Pourquoi passer à Podia

Avantages

- Design, better design of all the LMS I have tested.
- Very easy to use.
- All in one solution. It includes all you need to make a online course and to SELL your course: monetization, marketing, affiliate program...
- They are adding new features in a non stop way!
- Enjoyable user experience for my customers. Awesome interface in the student side, beatuiful and clear.
Desing.
- They have an exceptional chat customer service. If you have any problem, you can just ask them and they answer really fast. If you use their product you will feel that they work for you.
- Price. Fair price and they do not claim a percent of your sells.
- And the best Pro: I love use it!! I enjoy working and creating my courses. I feel I'm creating something my students will love.

Inconvénients

- At the begining I thougth the missing of some functions were a Con. For example: messages between teacher and students, but actually students prefer use habitual communications tools like email, social networks, WhatsApp... So I don't see this as a misspoint now.
- Nothing else! It has everything you need to sell courses or to set up a virtual classroom. And they are adding new functionality all time!

Avantages

Support, support and support. They rock. The platform is pretty awesome as well. The team made it easy to for me to migrate over. I'm in Podia every day building out new courses or tweaking the existing.

Inconvénients

Obviously a platform like Podia will not have all the bells and whistles of a custom membership or course platform built in Wordpress (like what I previously used). But thats a small price to pay for the weight off my mind of having the tech actually work like its supposed to work.

Avantages

I most like how user friendly & simple Podia is!

Inconvénients

I least like how often they are changing things. But that’s really not a down fall on Podia. It’s a down fall on me to not keep up. I wish I could just pay one of their professionals to change up my stuff once in a while rather then me worrying about trying to learn what’s changed.

Avantages

Podia lets you host online courses, but it gives all power to YOU, the user. You own your data, your content, and your customers. Podia is made by people who care about online creators (like me) and who want creators to succeed. They're not just out to make as much money off of you as they can.

The Podia support is particularly amazing. I've gotten personal help from the CMO, among others. Can't speak highly enough of these folks.

Did I mention that they pay you out daily (via Stripe)? You don't have to wait a month to get paid, like with some other platforms.

Inconvénients

Some points for improvements for Podia would be that I'd like to see some built-in analytics for my course sales page. Also, they support a variety of coupons, but I'd love to see them add a coupon that is both user-specific and time-specific. As in, one of my users can use it in the next 24 hours.

This is advanced stuff. Otherwise I'm super happy with Podia!