Podia

RATING:

4.6

(108)

About Podia

Podia is a platform for creators and independent online businesses to grow through their relationships with their audiences. Podia lets you build a free, no-code website, host a community (free or paid), and sell digital products. With Podia, you get the tools you need to start and grow an online business—for free. And because Podia is an all-in-one platform, you’ll have the next tool you need right there for when you grow. With Podia, everything you need is in one place. You don’t need to figure out how to connect a ton of different tools. Make a beautiful online course, host paid webinars or consultations, sell ebooks or other files, set up email marketing, process payments, sign up your own affiliates, and show the world your work. Podia integrates with Google Ana...

Awards and Recognition

FrontRunner 2023
Software Advice's FrontRunners report ranks top products based on user reviews, which helps businesses find the right software.

Podia Pricing

Podia offers a completely free plan with a free website, community, and ability to sell digital products. After that, people can upgrade to one of 3 pricing tiers: Mover, Shaker, and Earthquaker. Pricing starts at $39/month and scales with each tier, outlined below: Mover: $39/monthly and a $78 discount is available for annual commitments. Shaker: $89/monthly and a $178 discount is available for annual commitments. Earthquaker: $199/monthly and a $398 discount is available for annual commitments.

Starting price: 

$4.00 per month

Free trial: 

Not Available

Free version: 

Available

Podia's website builder is so easy that you could have your website in the next 10 minutes. And everything you need — taking payments, delivering digital products, community — is handled for you.
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Podia Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Podia

1 - 5 of 109 Reviews

Becky

1 employee

Used more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

Reviewed April 2023

Highly recommend Podia

User Profile

Frankie

Verified reviewer

E-Learning, 1 employee

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2020

The best tool on the market

It has been a dream product to use

PROS

By far the sleekest design UX experience I have had with any e-learning platform, and I have used others in the past. The team were able to migrate me from Failjabi in less that 24 hours and the support is so personal and caring. It's also great value for money and I could not ask for better updated as the arrive month by month, I have just committed to another 12 months with Podia by paying upfront and I would never have dreamed of doing this with any other service Thank you Podia for such a great product I look forward to what 2020 brings, please accept crytpo payments in the future ;)

CONS

No crypto checkout, I know this might be difficult to implement but would be a great feature.

Reasons for switching to Podia

I won't waste my energy on explaining why I moved, I'm just so happy I did.

Ryan

Venture Capital & Private Equity, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2022

Stress-free course commerce

Podia lets me focus on teaching, and I never have to think about handling payments or tech support. The WYSIWYG website builder has also improved tremendously over the years, which allows us to continue bulking up our marketing site without hiring a designer.

PROS

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.

CONS

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.

Reasons for switching to Podia

Better design (both student- and admin-facing), better whitelabeling of the LMS and student checkout experience.

Misty

Information Services, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed December 2019

Simple, Great Customer Service, Lacking Some Important Features

I really love the other tool I've been using for my membership site & I'm a very techie person, but I'm finding that although it has tons of great bells & whistles, it's also pretty complicated to implement adding a new course or even a new freebie optin. In using Podia for these past few days, I'm seeing how the simplicity can help me take more action faster & get more value to my people without getting hung up in the tech. Customer service has been exceptional, so kudos to you all for that.

PROS

The simplicity. It feels like it will be a lot faster & easier to get a new product/course in there without it being very complicated or having to run through a ton of testing prior to launching.

CONS

There doesn't appear to be a way to add Pinterest tracking tags (super important, possibly a deal breaker). Lack of customization options on pages (even some simple things like changing font size or reducing the huge amount of white space between sections). Inability to direct to a custom thank you page instead of just taking them straight into their product. This makes it impossible to have a true sales funnel with a thank you video & tripwire offer and lead into a bigger upsell. This could mean a huge loss of potential income. The ONLY thing you can virtually guarantee someone will see when they opt into your freebie is the thank you page. It's the biggest opportunity to sell to someone new. There are "upsells" in Podia but they appear to work more like an order bump. Not a true back & forth integration with ConvertKit.

Reasons for switching to Podia

See my previous answer

Maude

Alternative Medicine, 1 employee

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2023

I am the biggest fan

PROS

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.

CONS

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

Reason for choosing Podia

The fact that all functions are available on a single platform and for a single (quite reasonable) payment!