Thinkific vs Podia: Pricing, Free Plan Features, Student Payment Options, Email Marketing

Thinkific is a popular, well-regarded online course platform that's long been one of the top platforms around. But in recent years, a relatively new course platform called Podia has garnered a lot of attention, and many course creators have been selling their courses on this versatile platform. This is Part 1 of my detailed 2-part comparison of these platforms on key features that are important for course creators, such as:

Costs - Pricing of the plan levels and transaction fees

What features do you get - or don't get - on their free plans?

Student payment options - Can your students pay you in multiple installments? Can you offer a membership and charge a recurring payment? And more.

Access to integrations to email marketing services (like ConvertKit, ActiveCampaign, Drip, etc).

00:00 What features I compared in Part 1 of Thinkific vs Podia
02:01 Pricing across the different plan levels
06:41 Transaction fees
10:46 When can you charge subscriptions aka recurring payments (for memberships, communities, etc)?
19:29 When can you allow your students to pay in multiple installments?
21:29 When can you offer bundles?
22:20 When can you offer multiple tiers (prices) for the same core product?
23:49 Access to email marketing services? (Also, a quick look at the Thinkific App Store)

NEXT, WATCH PART 2 of THINKIFIC VS PODIA DETAILED COMPARISON:

After watching this video - and before you decide on which platform to try out first - be sure to also watch Part 2 of my Thinkific vs Podia comparison.

In Part 2, I compare them on:

At which plan level can you start to drip-release your course content, (i.e. set time delays for when your students will get access to different parts of your course)?

At which plan levels can you access Zapier triggers and actions (no worries - I'll explain what these are in the video 😊 )

The answer to a key question: Can you have your blog on Thinkific or Podia?

This is important because I know many of you have a blog where you do content marketing for your courses, typically on WordPress or Squarespace.

Naturally there's an ongoing cost with maintaining this separate blog.

So, if you can set up your blog on Thinkific or Podia, then you can do away with the recurring, fixed expense of having and maintaining a separate blog.

By the end of this video, you'll know whether this can be done. 😊

So be sure to check out Part 2 of my 2-part comparison here:

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