Teachable
About Teachable
Teachable is a cloud-based course builder platform for producing rich teaching websites and online multimedia lectures. A tiered subscription solution, Free account users all the way up to Professional, High Volume and Enterprise enjoy unlimited course and student capabilities. All offer access to intuitive web-hosted publishing tools, offering template customization and rebranding options with no coding knowledge required. Content assets encompassing images, audio and video can be imported in from popular cloud storage including Dropbox, while administering high and low level updates. A revised Course Page Editor simplifies editing, although more advanced HTML/CSS development can be performed via the integrated Power Editor.
Advanced publishing features for subsequent plans include custom domains, affiliate programs, webhooks and various white-labelling features. Introduce responsive learning tools such as blogs, quizzes, forums, forms and surveys – all automatically optimized to look and perform consistently across every device. Learning content is then made marketable with eCommerce tools for selling content access, running coupon campaigns, accepting global payments and increasing conversions with custom landing pages. A comprehensive administrator dashboard provides analytics monitoring student signups, revenue totals and lecture completion rates. Contact lists can be managed and exported alongside revenue reporting, while managing the payment of multiple course authors.
With course content securely hosted by Teachable, automated backups and 24/7 monitoring reduces the chance of downtime. Student and payment data is made safe due to SSL certificates and level-1 PCI compliancy, while instant updates keep features current. Creators also retain ownership of course data, ideal for lecturers and authors concerned by relinquishing intellectual property.
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- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
The Grass is Not Always Greener
Reviewed on 06/02/2021
Teachable allows me to run a great online school - and to do so with much of the functionality in...
Teachable allows me to run a great online school - and to do so with much of the functionality in one package. I do opt to substitute my own website and email automation (WordPress and Active Campaign) but I use their eCommerce payment platform and feel very confident. I have often wondered about switching but never have found an alterative that does not offer better than an alternative set of compromises.
Pros
Teachable is easy to use and does everything I need it to - and mostly very well. I also like that the company behaves ethically.
The user experience for my students is excellent and the all-in one package makes it very easy for me.
Cons
There are a few little niggles. Not a great mobile solution (but perfectly adequate) and the text editor in the course builder is low on capabilities for formatting beyond the basics (Tables? Not so much). And the placement of toolbars and save buttons is frustrating.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: Self Employed
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
They care about making a good product - but it'll cost you.
Reviewed on 02/02/2023
I have used Teachable for 5+ years, started on a free tier and have gone up the tiers as my...
I have used Teachable for 5+ years, started on a free tier and have gone up the tiers as my business has grown. Though they have a lot of resources for businesses starting out, the resources for growing business is lacking in my opinion. The platform itself works well, I don't come across any broken functionality or bugs - it's more that the price has become prohibitive for me and though their customer service is helpful (offered me a slight discount on the price increase) I'll still be moving to a lifetime deal with another software. To conclude - it's a great platform but be wary as a new business starting out - once you've taken that free trial and start building your business on there, it's easy to become trapped and have to pay whatever they're asking to avoid moving your whole school to another platform.
Pros
This software is easy to get started - on a Pro account you have everything you need, the free tier these days has very little. It's a great drag and drop course content & sales pages - handles all the sales and taxes if you like. Provide training to help you get started with not just the course creation but the sales side as well - I definitely found this helpful in the beginning.
Cons
There is very little in terms of tracking student progress - the mail capability is lacking - I use separate softwares for emailing, customer management and even certification (zapier & mailerlite). So those features though provided by Teachable don't have much functionality. I can see individual students log ins and progress on individual courses - but overall unable to see for instance, a list of students that havent' logged in for a certain time period - I have to look at each student individually. So it's very difficult to track the students progress overall in the school. Plus they've just put the prices up and it's very expensive now.
Reasons for Switching to Teachable
At the time it was cheaper and with more autonomy over pricing, and less commission. I think things have changed now.- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
Worst customer service I have ever encountered
Reviewed on 30/03/2023
Pros
Easy to use, easy to upload product and host course
Cons
There is no way to reach someone by phone. The only way is email. After submitting an email, a week will go by and no one will answer. You will submit another email requesting an answer and they will reply with an emailing asking for information they had already requested in order to submit the initial help email, or what they refer to as a “support ticket”. You reply with those details a second time, and a week goes by and there is still no answer. You email them again begging for an answer and still no answer a week later. It has been a month, no answer and no way to contact anyone. Most their “help” button lead you to a broken link. Their online chat support is never turned on When trying the ethics link, to report this bad customer service, they put the entire page in another language so you do not know how to report anything. The only way to contact someone is if you want to sign up with teachable and pay an outrageous amount a month to have them host your course, keep a large amount of your sales, and keep a portion of each sale for 60 days. This is possibly the worst company you could ever sign up with to host your course. Never choose them!!!!
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Teachable: Course Creators are Lost Without it!
Reviewed on 30/12/2021
It's a smooth journey and you have everything you need in one place. Excellent UI and overall it's...
It's a smooth journey and you have everything you need in one place. Excellent UI and overall it's all you need.
Pros
The overall coverage of all features a course creator needs. They even provide a payment gateway, which alone saves you plenty in commisions and monthly fees.
Cons
Just need an Android app. Not having an Android app forces most of my students to watch the courses on their browsers.
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The first is that Teachable has an awesome reputation. Easy to use, and above all, affordable.- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: Self Employed
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Teachable - It's not for everyone
Reviewed on 15/07/2022
Overall it is a good platform. It is a bit pricey and you'll need to be patient as it is not...
Overall it is a good platform. It is a bit pricey and you'll need to be patient as it is not beginner friendly. If you already are having success in your online courses, this would be for you. If you are just starting, you might try elsewhere.
Pros
I really liked about teachable is that it allows you to setup and integrate your coaching calendar within Teachable to allow for bundles. I also really liked how easy it was to integrate the quizzes as well. The tracking module was also really good.
Cons
It was really difficult to set up the sales page. There are no marketing tools integrated with this. It is very expensive in comparison to other options as well. I did not typically have the best response with customer service - it wasn't bad though, it just wasn't good.
Reasons for Switching to Teachable
Teachable was highly recommended, so I choose Teachable as it seemed the easiest to implement.Teachable FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Teachable.Q. What type of pricing plans does Teachable offer?
Teachable offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$39.00/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Basic: $39/month (paid monthly) or $29/month (billed annually), plus 5% transaction fee for paid course sales. Professional: $119/month (monthly) or $99/month (billed annually) Business Plan: $299/month or $249/month (billed annually)
Q. Who are the typical users of Teachable?
Teachable has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Teachable support?
Teachable supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Teachable support mobile devices?
Teachable supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Teachable integrate with?
Teachable integrates with the following applications:
CalendarHero, Calendly, Google Analytics 360, Kit, Mailchimp, PayPal, Segment, Stripe, Sumo, Zapier
Q. What level of support does Teachable offer?
Teachable offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Chat
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