Teachable Reviews: 4.0/5 — Solid Choice

The integrations and reporting have made this a perfect platform for lead gen.

There is a pretty significant lag for exporting customer records.

Lead gen Customer education Industry thought leadership

Very pretty and simple aesthetic for students, ability to see everything they're signing up for.

Basic functions all in English even if you switch language to something else.

Needed to create courses.

It is a platform where one could earn some cash as well as helpful in finding a tutor for your subject. For someone how is looking to enhance or build a freelance career, it would be a great place to start a business and is a great way to earn some pocket money. However , it has to be noted that money does not come easily, and you need to do some marketing.

The conversion rate is a little slow at times and business is not easy. Need to do self marketing. You will be disappointed at first having less sales and it takes a long time to build a reputation and come among the people.

One could have access to a great many courses. thus, finding a tutor is easy

With Teachable, you can go from idea to execution fairly quickly, and get your course up and running and (potentially) making sales fast.

There are some things which are frustrating and limiting, but you learn to work around them.

I used to host my courses on my own site, but on Wordpress there were always issues with updates and security and plugins, and on Squarespace there really isn't a decent membership solution. Once I moved my courses to Teachable, most of the admin side was no longer an issue or a headache.

I like that Teachable provides plenty of resources for every level of entrepreneur to ensure they have the best opportunity to publish their content and share it with their audience.

I dislike the 30 day hold on payments from purchasers for all but the most expensive pricing level.

I am able to provide free course resources for my audience while building their trust as I prepare to launch a paid course.

Easy to use and input information into the system. I like how user friendly it is.

I am not 100% sure how it will look/feel when complete.

Online leaning - reaching people we cannot normally reach

Courses are easy to build, and I can set the requirements up in a way that works for my community.

I can't automatically send out reminders to students who haven't finished courses. While teachable does integrate with mailchimp, it only syncs the email address - meaning that any marketing has to happen manually.

We offer online courses for small businesses, and Teachable hosts those courses for an unlimited number of users without a transaction fee. Great if you're looking to sell to individuals.

Flexibility. Teachable allows me to change by opening it up to HTML edits. Like any other tool, there are also some limitations to Teachable, but overall, anyone with basic to intermediate HTML coding knowledge can customize it.

Support team. Somehow, the support team appears to be just an end user who knows the product. Most of the time, I resolve the issues that I encounter on my own or I just live with it.

An online teaching platform that doesn't take a long time to learn, and is considerably affordable.

I like that it was easy to get started and set up my online course. It is very intuitive to use for first-time course creators, and they do have a ton of options for course marketing education. I also do love that they have a pricing model that allows you to grow with them so that you don't have to take too big of a risk to start and implement/promote your online course.

I have many things that have left me unsatisfied with Teachable. First off, I pay 120 per month for the pro version; however, I keep getting emails a few times a year promoting an intro rate for $99. I do not know why this wasn't offered to me from the beginning, but the fact that this is what they charge MULTIPLE times per year and yet I am being forced to pay more is ridiculous and adds up quickly. I even asked them and they just do NOT respond. Second, my MacBook is from 2016 and just recently, Teachable no longer lets me upload files. I am trying to revamp my course yet cannot upload any of my updated videos. Whenever I contact customer support they give me the basic "clear your cache, restart, update your browser, etc etc" But I cannot update my browser because my software is the last version I can get on this Mac. It's ridiculous that I am not able to upload any of my new content, and I am pretty much almost being forced to purchase a new computer to update my course. I have tried on Safari, and Firefox, and since it's not the most up to date version, I am no longer able to upload files. Finally, I wanted to add order bumps to the checkout page and they said that is not available, I have to use a third party. So I decided to use ThriveCart which was $600 (one time fee) and literally less than 3 months later, they came out with order bumps. When first starting, the whole "schools" concept is also very confusing. Extremely frustrated with Teachable and now looking into Kajabi.

I am able to host my online course, gate it for a fee, and my students are generally happy with the ease of use.

Teachable is an excellent option for online course creators just getting started because it's super user-friendly, easy to navigate and setup, and has tons of integration options, making it easy for a new user to jump right in and get started. They provide you with a lot of information and data, which is excellent. They also offer some options for personalization. Ultimately, I would say that Teachable has everything you need to start an online course with very little time, money and resources. It's a one stop shop.

Teachable has some setbacks. Although I mentioned that it's a one-stop-shop and has everything you need, I still wish there were more customization options for how the course material is structured. I am all about customer experience (for our students), and I don't think Teachable gives course creators enough options to display and present the material. I think it can often be confusing to navigate as a student, and the course layout can be bulky making information difficult to locate. So while Teachable is easy to navigate and set up from a course creator perspective, I'm not convinced that it's the best for a student.

We use Teachable to organize and communicate our assets to our students. We use it as a platform for teaching our online digital product. When we sell a course, we have automation and triggers set up to enroll the buyer in the correct course. We also use it to bundle courses together so we can provide multiple products with one purchase. It basically hosts all of the information and knowledge for our students.