Teachable Reviews & Product Details
Teachable is a popular platform among educators and teachers who want to utilize the Internet to teach, showcase their hobbies, and monetize the courses they sell. The free version is already generous and offers unlimited hosting, however the platform’s paid tiers lets you access SEO features, and live-group coaching sessions, and give you a custom domain. Teachable has integrations with Facebook, Pixel, Circle.so, and ConvertKit. It also offers a partner scheme that lets users earn up to 30% commission with every Teachable referral.
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
Teachable Pros and Cons
- Create completion certificates or use templates that students can download
- Data monitoring and security with support if an outage occurs
- Podcasts from Teachable creators on Spotify
- Live events, webinars, and group challenges
- Unlimited access to key features–bandwidth, courses, students, and coaching
- Long waits to get paid for course creators on the Free and Basic plans.
- If you’re on a Basic Plan, expect to be charged a 5% transaction fee per transaction.
- Pricier than other platforms with similar features
Ease of setting up a course and getting started. The example courses and content to improve your course were very helpful.
This is a new con for me. Teachable no longer has unlimited video file size! They used to market unlimited, but that changed to under 4GB if I remember correctly and now they have a hard limit of 2GB. They made this change with NO NOTIFICATION to customers. My customers pay a lot for the content and we deliver 30min+ HD lectures, now we have to leave the platform. If you are thinking "Just use Vimeo to host" that is an extra $600/year to Vimeo to do that. My second issue is navigating the payment end is complicated when you have customers that forgot to add a coupon (especially for a subscription) or if a customer misses a payment there is very little you can do. Third, my customer based has grown significantly in EU. Our coaching or live lecture courses aren't required to collect VAT. Teachable collects it anyways and it's up to the customer to get their money back vs not charging them in the first place.
I need a simple but clean UX to deliver on demand courses and live coaching.
