Top 5 Community Platforms for Christian Coaches in 2026
The best community platforms for Christian coaches do more than host a discussion feed. They give a faith-based cohort a place to gather between calls, keep prayer requests and personal struggles out of public threads, carry a daily rhythm of scripture, reflection and action steps, and still handle the 1:1 sessions, agreements and payments that a coaching practice runs on. The deciding question is simple: do you want a community tool you bolt onto other software, or one place where the community and the coaching live together?
Our pick is Coachful, because the community feed, cohort groups, direct messages, programs with daily check-ins and habits, booking, contracts and payments all sit behind one login for you and one branded app for your clients. We make Coachful, so weigh that, and read the limits we list for every tool, ours included. Circle, Mighty Networks, Kajabi and Skool follow, each with a clear case for when it is the better fit.
What do Christian coaches need from a community platform?
Christian coaches need a community space that supports small-group formation and accountability without turning private spiritual conversations into public posts. The rest of the list follows from how faith-based coaching is actually delivered.
A Christian coaching practice usually mixes three kinds of offer: 1:1 life or calling coaching, a group program built around a theme (identity in Christ, discerning a vocation, marriage and family rhythms, leadership for ministry staff), and a wider free or low-cost community that acts as a front door. If you are still shaping your offer, our guide on how to become a Christian life coach covers the business side, and the overview of Christian life coach certification covers credentials.
Small groups that form themselves
A cohort of eight to twelve people who start together, study together and pray for one another is the backbone of many faith-based programs. The platform should create that group when someone enrolls, rather than asking you to add each person to a channel by hand every time a new round starts.
Private space for prayer requests and hard conversations
Members share things in a faith community that they would never post on social media: a marriage under strain, doubt, grief, a job loss. You need direct messages and small closed groups alongside the open feed, so a member can choose who sees what. A public-by-default feed is the wrong home for a prayer request about a family crisis.
A daily rhythm, not just a weekly call
Christian coaching often leans on spiritual disciplines: a morning scripture reading, a short prayer or reflection, an evening examen-style review of the day. Those are habits and check-ins, not forum posts. A community tool that only hosts threads leaves the daily rhythm in a separate app, a PDF, or a group text.
Content formats that fit the ministry
Expect to deliver devotional videos, study guides as downloads, recorded teaching sessions, worksheets for spiritual gifts or calling exercises, and live group calls. Some coaches also sell a short course, which is why we compared course platforms for Christian coaches separately.
Clear scope between coaching, pastoral care and counseling
Christian coaching is not pastoral counseling, therapy or treatment. Coaching works forward from goals; Christian counseling is a distinct practice, often licensed, that addresses mental health and past wounds. The ICF Code of Ethics asks coaches to be clear about the nature and limits of coaching and to refer when a client needs a different professional. When a member raises depression, abuse, addiction or thoughts of self-harm, refer them to a licensed counselor or their pastor, and in a crisis in the US point them to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988). Your platform helps here when it lets you put that scope line into a signed agreement before the first call and keep sensitive conversations out of the group feed.
Pricing that allows generosity
Many Christian coaches offer scholarships, sliding-scale seats for church members, or pro bono coaching for pastors. Coupons, payment plans and a low platform fee matter more here than in niches where everyone pays the list price. If you are working toward an ICF credential, pro bono hours count, so tracking them matters too.
How do the top 5 compare at a glance?
Ranking criteria: one login for the whole client journey, support for daily faith rhythms between sessions, total stack cost once booking and payments are included, and setup effort (including Coachful's free white-glove build).
| Platform | Best for | Entry price (as listed, October 2026) | Platform fee on sales | Main gap for Christian coaches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful | Coaches running 1:1 coaching, faith-based cohorts and a community in one place | Lite: $29/month for up to 5 clients | 0% platform fee, Stripe or Razorpay processing only | No PayPal; not for clinical or counseling records |
| Circle | Large, well-organized ministry communities with many spaces | Professional $89/mo billed annually | 2% on Professional, down to 0.5% on Circle Plus | No 1:1 scheduling or client back office |
| Mighty Networks | Community-first networks with courses and livestreams | Launch $95/mo ($79/mo billed annually) | 2% on Launch, down to 0.5% | No 1:1 booking, invoicing or contracts |
| Kajabi | Coaches whose income is mainly courses and digital products | Basic $179/mo ($143/mo billed annually) | None on Kajabi Payments; 0.5% to 2% extra on other processors | No per-client habits or daily check-ins |
| Skool | A simple, low-cost group with a classroom and leaderboard | Hobby $9/mo ($7.5/mo billed annually) | 10% + 30¢ on Hobby; 2.9% + 30¢ and up on Pro | No website, email automation or 1:1 client records |
How did we choose these platforms?
We picked tools that Christian coaches actually consider for a paid or free faith community, then compared what each vendor documents on its own product and pricing pages as listed in October 2026. We did not run hands-on tests of the other vendors; where we mention public sentiment, it is the Trustpilot score we saw on October 25, 2026.
Each platform was judged on six questions specific to this niche:
- Can a cohort or small group be created and filled automatically when someone joins a program?
- Can members talk privately (direct messages, small closed groups) as well as in an open feed?
- Can the coach set daily habits and morning or evening check-ins for disciplines like scripture reading and reflection?
- Are 1:1 booking, signed agreements and payments in the same tool, or does the coach need extra subscriptions?
- What does the platform take from each sale, which matters when you discount seats for church members?
- How much setup work stands between signing up and inviting the first group?
For the broader category, our group coaching community platform buying guide explains the general trade-offs. This article stays with what changes when the community is a faith community.
1. Coachful: why is it the best fit for Christian coaches?
Coachful is the best fit because it puts the community, the small groups and the coaching itself in one place. A member who joins your eight-week calling cohort gets the group chat, the program, the daily check-ins, the session bookings and the community feed inside one branded app, and you manage all of it from one dashboard.
Coachful is a coaching platform built for coaches who deliver programs, not just sessions. One subscription covers booking, payments, contracts, program delivery with habits and check-ins, courses, a community, a website with funnels and email, and an AI assistant. It suits solo coaches growing into a small team and coaches replacing four to six separate tools. The company is based in Tallinn, Estonia, and holds a Trustpilot rating of 4.5 from 21 reviews.
Community, cohorts and private conversation
The community includes a feed, group chat, direct messages and video events. Cohort groups are created automatically when a client enrolls in a program, so each new round of your "Rooted" small group or ministry leadership cohort gets its own space without manual setup. Group calls and webinars run inside the same account. For a Christian coach this means the open feed can carry encouragement, announcements and weekly reflection prompts, while prayer requests and personal struggles can move into direct messages or the smaller cohort chat.
Here is a short walkthrough of how community channels work inside Coachful:
Daily disciplines between sessions
Programs run for as many weeks as you set, with weekly goals, daily tasks, habits, morning and evening check-ins, goals with progress bars and streaks. That maps directly onto spiritual disciplines: a daily habit for scripture reading, a morning check-in that asks what the member is praying about, an evening check-in that reviews where they saw growth that day. You see each client's check-ins, habits and notes on their record, along with a status of thriving, active, quiet or at risk, which tells you who has gone silent in the group and might need a personal message.
The coaching back office
Booking pages handle availability rules, buffers, minimum notice and time-zone detection, with two-way Google, Apple/iCloud and Outlook calendar sync. You can block Sundays or a weekly Sabbath with availability rules. Sessions use built-in video or auto-created Zoom, Meet or Teams links, with email reminders plus SMS and WhatsApp reminders once messaging is enabled. Coaching agreements with e-signature go out before the first call and are stored on the client record, which is where your coaching-versus-counseling scope statement belongs. See coaching contracts for more on that feature.
Payments run through your own Stripe Connect or Razorpay account: one-time, subscriptions, payment plans, order bumps, coupons, refunds, Apple Pay and Google Pay, with Stripe Tax. Since August 2026 Coachful charges a 0% platform fee, so only Stripe or Razorpay processing comes out of each sale. Scholarship coupons for church members cost you nothing extra on top of processing.
Content, courses and ICF hours
You can deliver courses (modules, lessons, drip, completion tracking), downloads, videos, books, events and bundles into the client's branded home. Templates include more than 40 ready-to-film program templates and 48 course templates with quizzes. If you are pursuing an ICF credential, ICF credential tracking counts coaching hours and distinct clients against ACC, PCC and MCC thresholds and exports a client coaching log with paid and pro bono hours, useful if you coach pastors or church staff at no charge.
Michelle, the built-in AI assistant, works from your live practice data. She can draft a program outline, write a welcome email sequence, summarize recorded sessions and brief you before a call. Questions and planning are included in your Coachful membership; confirmed builds and changes use AI credits. Michelle drafts; your theology and your voice stay yours, so review anything she writes before it goes to members.
Why Coachful stands out: a free white-glove service. On every plan, you can open Create and choose "We'll build it for you · FREE", then describe what you want: a website, a funnel, a program, a course outline and written material, an email sequence, a form or worksheet, an event page and more. You can attach up to 8 reference links and up to 10 files, such as your logo, photos, a statement of faith or existing study guides. The Coachful team builds it inside your own account, usually within about 24 hours. Nothing gets invented: no fake credentials, testimonials or prices, and gaps are left for you to fill. It does not include recording videos, logo design, ad management or ongoing marketing. As one example from recent builds, a leadership coach whose Squarespace renewal was days away got one clean homepage with a repeated "talk with me" button. Read more about the free white-glove service.
What Coachful does not do
Coachful is not HIPAA-certified and does not sign a BAA, so it is not a home for clinical counseling records or insurance billing. There is no PayPal and no permanent free plan. The client app ships under the Coachful listing with your branding, not under your own App Store account. It is not a course marketplace, and it has no third-party plugins. The affiliate program tracks links, clicks, conversions and revenue, but payouts are recorded manually.
Price: flat monthly plans, where lower plans cap the number of clients and Pro is unlimited (current plans: Lite: $29/month for up to 5 clients; Solo: $49/month for up to 20 clients; Pro: $99/month with unlimited clients; Studio: $199/month with unlimited clients). Monthly plans cancel in one click, and there is a free trial. More detail for faith-based practices is on our page for spiritual coaches and the community platform overview.
2. Circle: is it right for a large ministry community?
Circle is a strong choice when the community itself is the main product and you expect hundreds or thousands of members across many topic spaces. It handles courses, events, live streams and paid memberships well, but it has no 1:1 scheduling or client management back office.
Where it fits a faith community
A Christian coach who runs a large network, for example a community for women in ministry or a men's discipleship network with regional groups, can use Circle's spaces to separate topics: a space for weekly devotionals, one for prayer, one for each cohort, one for leaders. Moderator allowances help if you have volunteer moderators from a church team: 10 moderators on Professional, 15 on Business and 100 on Scale, as listed in October 2026.
What Circle does not cover is the coaching itself. There are no per-client habits, check-ins or coaching plans, and no 1:1 booking. A coach who sells calling sessions or leadership coaching alongside the community will need a separate scheduling tool, a contracts tool and probably a separate way to track client progress.
Price as listed in October 2026: Professional $89/mo, Business $199/mo and Scale $419/mo, all billed annually; the monthly rate was not shown on the page we reviewed. Circle Plus is custom-priced. Circle takes 2% of payments on Professional, 1% on Business and Scale, and 0.5% on Circle Plus, plus Stripe processing. There is a 14-day free trial on Professional, Business and Scale with no credit card required.
Limits to know: branded mobile apps are only on custom-priced Circle Plus, so on the standard plans members use Circle's own app. Trustpilot showed 4.1 from 129 reviews on October 25, 2026.
Pick it over Coachful if your offer is mainly a large community with many spaces and volunteer moderators, and you do little or no 1:1 coaching.
3. Mighty Networks: what does it offer faith-based networks?
Mighty Networks suits a coach building a community-first network with courses and regular livestreams. It does not include 1:1 booking, invoicing or contracts, and it has no per-client habits, check-ins or private coaching plans.
The community-and-livestream angle
Livestream allowances are generous for teaching-style ministry: 20 hours a month for up to 100 attendees on Launch, 30 hours for 200 on Scale and 40 hours for 1,000 on Growth, as listed in October 2026. A coach who runs a weekly live Bible study for a few hundred people, then sells a short course alongside it, will find the pieces there. Hosts are capped at 3 on Launch, 5 on Scale and 10 on Growth.
The gap is the same as Circle's, with a different shape. Mighty Networks is built around members and content, not around individual coaching clients. If a member of your network wants 1:1 coaching on a calling decision, the booking, agreement and payment for that session happen somewhere else, and their progress lives in yet another place.
Price as listed in October 2026: Launch $95/mo ($79/mo billed annually), Scale $215/mo ($179/mo annually), Growth $354/mo billed annually, with Mighty Pro custom-priced. The platform fee is 2% on Launch, 1% on Scale and 0.5% on Growth and Mighty Pro, plus Stripe processing. The 14-day trial needs no credit card and includes Growth features.
Watch for: member apps are Mighty-branded unless you move to custom-priced Mighty Pro. Trustpilot showed 3.3 from 219 reviews on October 25, 2026.
Pick it over Coachful if you mainly run large livestreamed teaching and a members' network, and 1:1 coaching is a small or absent part of your practice.
4. Kajabi: does a course-first platform work for Christian coaches?
Kajabi works for Christian coaches whose income comes mostly from courses, digital products and email marketing, with a community as one product among several. It has no habit tracking or daily client check-ins, and coaching is sold as products or communities rather than per-client plans.
The knowledge-product path
If your ministry is built around a signature course (say a twelve-lesson study on rest and Sabbath) plus an email list and a sales funnel, Kajabi bundles a course platform, a community, a website, funnels and email. The Basic plan includes 5 products, 2,500 contacts, 1 community and 1 website; Growth raises that to 50 products and 25,000 contacts; Pro offers unlimited products, 100,000 contacts and 3 communities, as listed in October 2026.
For faith-based cohort coaching the limits show up between sessions. There is nowhere native to set a daily scripture habit for a member, log a morning reflection, or see which client in the group has gone quiet. The Basic plan also has 0 AI credits.
Price as listed in October 2026: Basic $179/mo ($143/mo billed annually), Growth $249/mo ($199/mo annually), Pro $499/mo ($399/mo annually). Kajabi Payments in the US runs 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic, 2.8% + $0.30 on Growth and 2.7% + $0.30 on Pro. Using another processor (other than PayPal) adds a Kajabi fee of 2% on Basic, 1% on Growth or 0.5% on Pro. The standard trial is 14 days; a card is optional, and some features stay locked until you activate a paid plan.
Also note: Trustpilot showed 3.4 from 2,347 reviews on October 25, 2026.
Pick it over Coachful if your practice is primarily courses and email marketing to a large list, and you rarely run 1:1 coaching or daily accountability.
5. Skool: is a low-cost group enough?
Skool is enough if all you need is a single group with a classroom, a calendar of live calls and a gamified leaderboard. It has no custom-domain website, no funnels or email automation, no public API, and no 1:1 client records, intake forms, habits or check-ins.
Simplicity and its trade-offs
Skool keeps community, classroom and calendar in one group, which makes it easy to start a small Bible study or accountability circle in an afternoon. Unlimited members, courses, videos and live calls are included on both plans, as listed in October 2026. Some Christian coaches like the leaderboard; others find points and levels an awkward fit for a prayer community, so think about the culture you want before choosing it.
The bigger issue is fees. Payments run only through Skool Payments. On Hobby, Skool takes 10% + 30¢ on every transaction. On a $49 monthly cohort seat (an illustrative figure), that is about $5.20 per member per month before anything else. On Pro the rate is 2.9% + 30¢ up to $899 and 3.9% + 30¢ above $900, and fees are non-refundable.
Price as listed in October 2026: Hobby $9/mo ($7.5/mo billed annually) and Pro $99/mo ($82.5/mo annually). The pricing page shows "Try for free" buttons, but the trial length and card requirement were not stated on the pricing page or help FAQ we checked.
Keep in mind: Trustpilot showed 1.6 from 54 reviews on October 25, 2026.
Pick it over Coachful if you want a single, simple group for an unpaid or very low-priced study circle, and you do not need a website, email sequences or 1:1 coaching tools.
Which features does each platform include?
The matrix below shows which jobs each tool covers natively, based on what each vendor documents as of October 2026. A "No" means you would need a separate tool for that job.
| Feature | Community feed and group chat | Auto-created cohort groups | Direct messages | Daily habits and check-ins | 1:1 booking | E-signed agreements | Website and funnels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful | Yes | Yes, on program enrollment | Yes | Yes, plus streaks and goals | Yes, with calendar sync | Yes | Yes, with custom domain |
| Circle | Yes, with spaces | Not documented | Not covered in our notes | No | No | No | Not covered in our notes |
| Mighty Networks | Yes | Not documented | Not covered in our notes | No | No | No | Not covered in our notes |
| Kajabi | Yes (1 to 3 communities by plan) | Not documented | Not covered in our notes | No | Coaching sold as products | Not covered in our notes | Yes |
| Skool | Yes, one group | No | Not covered in our notes | No | No 1:1 client records | No | No custom-domain website or funnels |
What does each platform cost at 5, 15 and 40 clients?
Community tools usually price by plan rather than by client, while Coachful's lower plans cap client numbers and Pro is unlimited. The table shows the lowest listed plan that would serve each size of practice, as listed in October 2026, before payment processing.
| Platform | 5 clients | 15 clients | 40 clients | Also needed for 1:1 coaching |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful | Lite: $29/month for up to 5 clients | Solo: $49/month for up to 20 clients | Pro: $99/month with unlimited clients | Nothing extra: booking, agreements and payments included |
| Circle | $89/mo billed annually (Professional) | $89/mo billed annually | $89/mo billed annually | Separate scheduling, contracts and client tracking |
| Mighty Networks | $95/mo, or $79/mo billed annually (Launch) | $95/mo, or $79/mo annually | $95/mo, or $79/mo annually | Separate scheduling, invoicing and contracts |
| Kajabi | $179/mo, or $143/mo billed annually (Basic) | $179/mo, or $143/mo annually | $179/mo, or $143/mo annually | Habits and check-ins in another tool |
| Skool | $9/mo plus 10% + 30¢ per sale (Hobby) | $9/mo plus 10% + 30¢, or $99/mo on Pro | $99/mo plus 2.9% + 30¢ (Pro) | Website, email, booking and client records elsewhere |
The headline plan price is only part of the bill. A Christian coach using Circle, Mighty Networks or Skool for the group and also selling 1:1 coaching will usually add a scheduling tool and a contracts tool, and often an email tool, each with its own subscription. We have not priced those add-ons here because the choice varies, but list them before you compare. Our payment platforms comparison covers processing fees in more depth.
How does a Christian coach set this up in Coachful?
A typical setup takes one program, one community, one booking page and one agreement. Here is a worked example for an eight-week group program called "Called and Rooted" (the name, group size and price are illustrative), aimed at Christians discerning a career or ministry change.
- Ask for the build first. Open Create and choose "We'll build it for you · FREE". Describe the program, attach your existing study guide, your logo and a few photos, and request a sales page plus an application funnel. The team builds it in your account, usually within about 24 hours, and leaves gaps where details such as your testimonials or prices are missing.
- Shape the eight weeks. In Programs, set a weekly goal for each week (for example, week 1: identity before vocation; week 4: gifts and burdens; week 8: a written next-step plan). Add daily tasks such as a short reading and a journaling prompt. Michelle can draft the outline from your notes; edit the theology and language yourself.
- Add the daily rhythm. Create habits like "Morning scripture reading" and "Ten minutes of prayer". Set a morning check-in that asks "What are you bringing to God today?" and an evening check-in that asks "Where did you notice growth or resistance?". Streaks and goal progress bars show members their own consistency.
- Let the cohort form itself. When someone enrolls, Coachful creates the cohort group automatically. Post a welcome message in the group, explain that prayer requests involving other people or sensitive details should go by direct message, and pin the weekly call time.
- Open the wider community. Use the community feed for the people who have not joined a cohort yet: a weekly devotional thought, a short video, an invitation to the next round. This is your front door.
- Set up booking with Sabbath boundaries. Create a booking page for 1:1 discernment sessions with availability rules that block Sundays, a buffer between calls and minimum notice. Add intake questions such as church background and what decision they are facing. Time-zone detection helps when members join from different countries.
- Send the agreement before the first call. Write your coaching agreement with a clear scope line: this is coaching, not counseling, therapy or pastoral care, and you will refer to a licensed counselor or pastor when needed. It goes out for e-signature and is stored on the client record.
- Price with room for generosity. Connect Stripe, set the program price with a payment plan, and create a coupon for church members or scholarship seats. With a 0% platform fee, only Stripe processing comes out of each sale.
- Run weekly group calls. Schedule the cohort call as a video event or group call. Afterward, Michelle can summarize the recording so you can post a short recap to the group.
- Watch the client statuses. Each week, check who is thriving, active, quiet or at risk. A quiet member in a faith cohort often needs a personal note more than a reminder.
- Log your hours. If you coach pastors or ministry staff pro bono, the ICF log records paid and pro bono hours separately for credential applications.
For more on keeping a group active week to week, see our cohort community engagement playbook and how to create an online coaching community that lasts.
What mistakes should Christian coaches avoid when choosing a community platform?
The most common mistake is choosing a tool for the feed and discovering later that the coaching, payments and privacy needs live elsewhere. These are the specific traps for faith-based communities.
- Putting prayer requests in an open feed. A request about someone's spouse or child is not only the member's story to share. Set a norm early: personal or third-party details go to direct messages or the small cohort group.
- Blurring coaching and counseling. If your community starts functioning as a support group for trauma, grief or addiction, it has moved beyond coaching. Put the scope line in your agreement, repeat it in your welcome post, and refer to licensed counselors or pastors.
- Underestimating per-transaction fees. A 10% fee on a low-cost tier looks small until you multiply it across a year of monthly seats, and scholarship pricing makes it hurt more.
- Splitting the daily rhythm from the community. If the habit tracker is one app, the feed another and the calls a third, members drift. Keep disciplines and conversation in the same place where possible.
- Running every cohort by hand. Adding each member to a channel, a calendar and a payment plan for every new round eats the time you meant for coaching.
- Forgetting the front door. A closed cohort with no public community or website means every new round starts from zero. Keep a visible place where people can meet you first.
- Ignoring time zones. Christian networks often span countries, especially if you serve missionaries or international churches. Booking pages must detect time zones.
If you are leaving a Facebook group or Discord server, our guides on hosting community channels without Discord and switching platforms without disrupting clients walk through the move.
Which community platform should a Christian coach choose?
Choose Coachful if you coach people 1:1 and in small groups and want the community, cohorts, daily disciplines, booking, agreements and payments in one place with a 0% platform fee. It is the only tool on this list where a member's morning check-in, cohort chat and next session all sit in the same branded app.
Choose Circle for a large, many-space ministry community with volunteer moderators and little 1:1 coaching. Choose Mighty Networks if livestreamed teaching to hundreds of members is the center of your work. Choose Kajabi if courses and email marketing drive your income. Choose Skool for a simple, inexpensive single group, knowing the Hobby plan's 10% fee and the missing website and client tools.
Coachful is for coaches who deliver programs, not just sessions. It does not handle clinical records, PayPal or third-party plugins. To start, take the free trial and request the free white-glove build so your program, site or funnel is ready when you invite your first cohort. For other niches, compare our picks for community platforms for life coaches, or see the Coachful page for life coaches and group coaching software.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best community platform for Christian coaches?
Coachful is our pick for Christian coaches who combine 1:1 coaching with faith-based cohorts, because the community, auto-created cohort groups, daily habits and check-ins, booking, agreements and payments share one login. Circle or Mighty Networks can suit a large community with little 1:1 work. We make Coachful, so compare the limits above for your situation.
Can I keep prayer requests private in an online community?
Yes, if the platform offers direct messages and small closed groups alongside the open feed. In Coachful, members can use direct messages and their cohort group chat instead of the community feed. Set the norm in your welcome post so members know where sensitive requests belong.
Is Christian coaching the same as Christian counseling?
No. Coaching focuses on goals and forward action, while Christian counseling is a separate practice, often licensed, that addresses mental health and emotional wounds. Put a scope statement in your coaching agreement and refer clients to a licensed counselor or their pastor when they need care beyond coaching.
Can I track daily scripture reading or prayer habits for clients?
In Coachful you can create habits such as daily scripture reading and add morning and evening check-ins, with streaks and goal progress bars. Circle, Mighty Networks, Kajabi and Skool do not offer per-client habits or daily check-ins natively, based on what they document.
What is Coachful's free white-glove service?
It is a done-for-you build available on every plan. You describe what you need, such as a website, funnel, program or email sequence, attach up to 8 links and 10 files, and the Coachful team builds it inside your account, usually within about 24 hours. It does not include video recording, logo design, ads or ongoing marketing.
Does Skool charge transaction fees?
Yes. As listed in October 2026, the Hobby plan charges 10% + 30¢ on all transactions, and Pro charges 2.9% + 30¢ up to $899 and 3.9% + 30¢ above $900. Payments run only through Skool Payments, and fees are non-refundable.
Can I offer scholarships or discounted seats for church members?
Yes. Coachful supports coupons and payment plans through your own Stripe or Razorpay account, with a 0% platform fee, so a discounted seat only carries processing costs. On platforms with a percentage platform fee, that fee applies to the discounted price as well.
Do pro bono coaching hours for pastors count toward ICF credentials?
The ICF counts both paid and pro bono coaching hours toward its credentials; check the current requirements on the ICF site. Coachful's ICF credential tracking counts hours and distinct clients against ACC, PCC and MCC thresholds and exports a log that separates paid and pro bono hours.
Does Coachful support PayPal?
No. Coachful takes payments through Stripe Connect or Razorpay, including Apple Pay and Google Pay. If your members rely on PayPal, factor that in.
Can I move my existing Facebook group or Skool community to Coachful?
Clients, programs and content are imported for you during onboarding, and the white-glove service can rebuild a site or funnel. Plan the move between cohorts, announce it in the old group, and invite members to the new community with a clear date.
