Podia

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 Analytics, HotJar, Drip, Stripe, PayPal, MailChimp, AWeber, ActiveCampaign, Facebook, Pinterest, GetResponse, and more. Podia creators span industries including fitness, classical piano, bladesmithing, plant-based eating, law for small businesses, agency management, sourdough baking, illustration, and hundreds of other topics.
Key benefits of Podia
All-in-one (sell community, online courses and digital downloads in one place), 24/7 customer service for ALL pricing plans, free migration.
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- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
My quickest launch experience ever for digital products
Reviewed on 2021/05/18
Very smooth
Very smooth
Pros
It's simple to build a course. Podia has a lot of resources to help you build, sell and market your product. It is simplicity in all actions, and it is quickly accessible to people who are not very tech.
Cons
No custom embed codes can be added... but let's face it... I can do without it for the first stages of sales.
The trial offer could be more time... more than two weeks... We have to be prepared to build quickly to understand all the possibilities…
Reasons for Switching to Podia
Sell, Analytics, Marketing everything under one roof... :D- Industry: Writing & Editing
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Excellent platform for course creators
Reviewed on 2023/11/27
Great, easy to use and has helped generate income and add a user-friendly course for my audience
Great, easy to use and has helped generate income and add a user-friendly course for my audience
Pros
I was looking for an easy way to start creating courses and found Podia was the perfect balance of affordable and easy to use.
Cons
There needs to be an automated email platform included. I can’t see why I should pay extra to implement this.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
Wish there were better reviews of Podia functionality before I bought
Reviewed on 2022/06/16
Horrible. Customer service is so kind, but that's it. They have advised me to change my domain,...
Horrible. Customer service is so kind, but that's it. They have advised me to change my domain, without telling me it could crash my site. Now the site has crashed, and they're all asleep so can't help fix it.
The functionality is so bare-bones it's crazy. There's no concept of building out to have stronger/better functionality.
I will be moving to Wix/Wordpress ASAP
Pros
Yes, it's easy to use and customer support is fantastic...but that's where the pros end
Cons
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
Reasons for Switching to Podia
Fast and easy. But it was a bad choice. Fast and easy means barebones functionality.- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A Fantastic Platform for Entrepreneurs
Reviewed on 2023/12/19
I have thoroughly enjoyed using Podia and haven’t even scratched the surface of its potential.
I have thoroughly enjoyed using Podia and haven’t even scratched the surface of its potential.
Pros
I love the support, ease of use, features & continual improvements
Cons
There isn’t really anything I don’t like.
Reasons for Choosing Podia
Because Podia offered more features I needed, better support and was more cost effectiveReasons for Switching to Podia
Podia is more cost effective and had more features like product sales pages and a website- Industry: Venture Capital & Private Equity
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Stress-free course commerce
Reviewed on 2022/07/02
Podia lets me focus on teaching, and I never have to think about handling payments or tech support....
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.
Podia FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Podia.Q. What type of pricing plans does Podia offer?
Podia offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$39.00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Podia offers a 30-day free trial which offers a free website, community, and the ability to sell digital products. After that, people can upgrade to the available pricing tiers. 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.
Q. Who are the typical users of Podia?
Podia has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50
Q. What languages does Podia support?
Podia supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Podia support mobile devices?
Podia supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Podia integrate with?
Podia integrates with the following applications:
AWeber, ActiveCampaign, Acuity Scheduling, Calendly, Deadline Funnel, Drip, Facebook Business Suite, Fomo, GetResponse, Google Ads, Google Analytics 360, Hotjar, Kit, Mailchimp, MailerLite, PayPal, Pinterest, SavvyCal, Stripe, Sumo, YouCanBook.me, YouTube, Zapier
Q. What level of support does Podia offer?
Podia offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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