7 Best Course Platforms for Consultants (2026 Guide)
The best course platforms for consultants do more than host videos. An independent consultant sells a mix: a fixed-scope package, a monthly retainer, a self-paced course that productizes the method, and a cohort or workshop for a client's team. The deciding question is simple. Can one tool take a prospect from first contact to signed agreement, paid invoice, delivered program and renewed retainer, or will you glue four tools together and pay for each?
Our pick is Coachful, because it runs the whole client journey in one login: booking, agreements, payments, courses, cohorts, community, website, funnels and email. We make Coachful, so weigh that, and read the limits we list for it below. The other six (Kajabi, Thinkific, LearnWorlds, Kartra, Podia and Teachable) are strong course tools, and some will suit you better if courses are your entire business rather than one product beside client work.
This guide follows a consultant's client journey stage by stage, maps each tool to the stages it covers, then prices two ways to build your stack: all-in-one or assembled. If you are still choosing the rest of your tooling, start with our best software for independent consultants roundup.
What does a consultant's client journey need from a course platform?
It needs to support four stages, not one. Course platforms are built around the "deliver" stage, but consultants lose most of their time and money in the stages around it: getting a qualified prospect in, turning a call into a signed scope, and turning a finished engagement into a retainer.
Attract: proof of thinking, not a sales page
Consultants sell judgment. Buyers want to see how you think before they book a call, so the attract stage runs on a website with a clear "work with me" path, a lead magnet such as a diagnostic checklist or a short email course, and an application or booking funnel. What you need from the platform: pages and funnels you control, email sequences that follow up for you, and tracking (pixels, UTM tags) so you know which LinkedIn post or talk brought the lead.
Enroll: scope, sign, pay
This is where most course platforms go quiet. A consultant's enrollment usually means a discovery call, a proposal, an agreement and a payment, often a deposit plus a payment plan or a recurring retainer. You need booking with intake questions, an agreement the client signs before work starts, and checkout that handles one-time fees, installments and subscriptions with invoices your client's finance team will accept.
Deliver: courses, cohorts and the work between calls
Delivery for a consultant is rarely just a course. It is a mix of 1:1 advisory sessions, a self-paced module library that teaches the client's team your framework, a cohort or workshop series, and the action items that have to happen between meetings. A platform that only tracks lesson completion misses the part that actually produces results: whether the client's team did the work.
Retain: retainers, renewals and alumni
The cheapest new revenue for a consultant is the client who already trusts you. Retention needs a view of which clients are active or going quiet, a community or alumni space, and an easy path from a finished project to an advisory retainer or the next cohort.
Which course platforms cover which stage?
Here is the coverage at a glance. Ranking criteria: one login for the whole client journey, delivery between sessions, total stack cost, and setup effort (including Coachful's free white-glove build).
| Platform | Attract | Enroll | Deliver | Retain | Entry price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful | Website, funnels, email sequences, Instagram automations | Booking with intake, e-signed agreements, Stripe or Razorpay checkout, payment plans, subscriptions | Courses, programs with tasks and check-ins, cohorts, 1:1 sessions | Client status (thriving to at risk), community, bundles | Lite: $29/month for up to 5 clients |
| Kajabi | Website, funnels, email | Checkout; no agreements listed | Courses, communities | Community | $179/mo ($143 annual) |
| Thinkific | Site and sales pages | Checkout; external booking | Courses, communities, live events | Communities, memberships | $109/mo ($82 annual) |
| LearnWorlds | Website builder, page funnels, mass email | Checkout; external booking | Courses, SCORM, interactive video, client groups | Learner groups | $29/mo plus $5 per paid enrollment |
| Kartra | Pages, funnels, email and SMS | Checkout, calendars | Memberships and courses | Helpdesk, email | $59/mo ($52 annual) |
| Podia | Storefront, small email allowance | Checkout, coaching session products | Courses, webinars, community | Community | $49/mo plus 5% fee |
| Teachable | Sales pages | Checkout; external booking | Courses, digital products | Limited | $39/mo plus 7.5% fee |
Vendor prices are monthly, as listed in October 2026, with annual-billing prices in brackets where the vendor publishes them.
How did we choose and rank these seven?
We started from the tools consultants actually shortlist when they productize a practice, then scored each against the four stages above using what each vendor documents on its pricing and product pages, plus what public reviewers report. We did not run a hands-on test of every tool, and we say so where a fact comes from an older public profile rather than a current vendor page.
- One login for the whole journey. Every extra tool is another subscription, another place for client data to drift, and another login your client has to remember.
- Delivery between sessions. Consulting outcomes depend on what the client does between meetings, so tasks, check-ins and progress views count more than video hosting.
- Total stack cost. We priced the platform plus whatever you would need to add to cover booking, agreements and invoicing.
- Setup effort. A consultant billing by the day should not spend two weeks building a course site.
Course-first platforms rank lower here not because they are weak at courses (several are excellent) but because they leave the enroll and retain stages to other tools.
1. Coachful: the whole consulting journey in one login
Coachful is a coaching platform that one subscription turns into a complete practice: booking, payments, coaching agreements, program delivery with habits and check-ins, courses, a community, a website with funnels and email, and an AI assistant. The coach (or consultant) has one login, and each client gets one branded app. It is built for people who deliver programs rather than just sessions, solo practitioners growing into a small team, and anyone replacing four to six tools. For consultants, that description fits the "advisor who also teaches" model closely, which is why it tops this list.
How it handles packages, retainers and courses
Every product a consultant sells can live in the same catalog. A fixed-scope engagement can be a one-time payment or a payment plan; an advisory retainer can be a subscription; a self-paced course, a downloadable toolkit and a cohort can sit beside them and be grouped into bundles. Checkout runs through your own Stripe Connect or Razorpay account, with order bumps, coupons, refunds, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Stripe Tax. Each transaction produces an invoice, and you can raise manual invoices for work billed outside a checkout. Since August 2026 Coachful takes a 0% platform fee, so the only deduction is Stripe's or Razorpay's processing.
Before the first call, Coachful sends a coaching agreement for e-signature and stores the signed copy on the client record. Booking pages handle availability rules, buffers, minimum notice and time-zone detection, with two-way Google, Apple/iCloud and Outlook calendar sync and auto-created Zoom, Meet or Teams links. Intake questions on the booking form mean you arrive at a discovery call already knowing the client's revenue band or team size. More on agreements is on our coaching contracts page.
Courses and cohorts that sit inside the client relationship
The course builder covers modules, lessons, drip release and completion tracking, and the library also holds downloads, videos, books, AI tools and events. Courses land in the client's branded home and app next to their sessions and programs, so a client's operations lead does not need a separate course login. There are 48 course templates with quizzes to start from. See the online course platform overview for the full feature list.
Cohorts are where Coachful differs most from course-only tools. When someone enrolls in a program, Coachful creates the cohort group automatically, with a community feed, group chat, direct messages, video events, group calls and webinars. Programs run week by week with weekly goals, daily tasks, habits, morning and evening check-ins, and goals with progress bars. For a consultant running a 10-week implementation cohort, that is the difference between "they watched the lesson" and "they shipped the pricing change". Our group coaching software page goes deeper on cohorts.
This short walkthrough shows how programs are built and delivered:
Attracting and keeping clients
The section-based website builder includes a blog, custom domain, SEO settings, 30 designed homepage templates and an Import website option. Funnels cover booking, application, lead-magnet and checkout flows with pixels and UTM tracking, and email runs on lists, broadcasts and multi-step sequences with triggers, delays, branching and A/B splits. The social planner schedules posts to LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, X, Threads and YouTube from one calendar, which matters for consultants who find work on LinkedIn.
For retention, each client record holds goals, check-ins, habits, notes, intake answers, tags, payments and sessions, with a status of thriving, active, quiet or at risk. Michelle, the built-in AI assistant, works from that live data: she briefs you before sessions, summarizes recorded sessions, drafts emails and builds programs. Questions and planning are included in your Coachful membership; confirmed builds and changes use AI credits. Studio and Agency team plans add coach seats with per-coach availability and staff permissions, for a consultancy that brings on associates.
Why Coachful stands out: a free white-glove service. From Create, the "We'll build it for you · FREE" card lets you describe what you want built (a website, an application funnel, a sales page for your flagship engagement, a course outline with written material, an email sequence, a webinar) and attach up to 8 reference links and up to 10 files such as your logo, brand guide and existing slide decks. The Coachful team builds it inside your own account, usually within about 24 hours. Nothing is invented: no fake credentials, testimonials or prices, and gaps are left for you to fill. One recent build: a business mentor for beauty professionals got a 12-week mentorship sales page, a free start-up-guide funnel and rewritten follow-up emails. It does not cover recording videos, logo design or ad management. Details are in our white-glove service guide.
Where Coachful falls short for consultants
- No multi-stage sales deal board for large teams, and no Salesforce or HubSpot integration. Zapier is the bridge if your pipeline lives elsewhere.
- No PayPal, and no permanent free plan (there is a free trial).
- Not a course marketplace: buyers come from your own audience, not a browse-and-buy catalog.
- The client app ships under the Coachful listing with your branding, not under your own App Store account.
- No routing forms that choose a host from form answers.
Price: flat monthly plans; lower plans cap the number of clients, Pro is unlimited, and monthly plans cancel in one click (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).
2. Kajabi: polished knowledge products for consultants with an audience
Kajabi is a course, community, website, funnel and email platform built for selling knowledge products. For a consultant who already has a sizeable newsletter or LinkedIn following and wants courses and a paid community to become a real revenue line, Kajabi is the most complete of the course-first tools on this list.
The consulting fit
You can build a site, run funnels into a flagship course, and host a community in one place. The weakness for consultants is the enroll and deliver-between-sessions side: Kajabi treats coaching as products and communities, not per-client plans, and it has no habit tracking or daily client check-ins. Agreements and a scoped engagement with action items will need other tools.
What Kajabi costs
As listed in October 2026: Basic $179/mo ($143/mo annual) with 5 products, 2,500 contacts, 1 community, 1 website and 0 AI credits; Growth $249/mo ($199/mo annual) with 50 products, 25,000 contacts and 500 AI credits; Pro $499/mo ($399/mo annual). Kajabi Payments in the US charges 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic, falling to 2.7% + $0.30 on Pro. Using another processor (other than PayPal) adds a Kajabi fee of 2% on Basic, 1% on Growth and 0.5% on Pro. The standard trial is 14 days, and some features stay locked until a paid plan starts.
Caveats
Five products on Basic disappears fast for a consultant: one engagement, one retainer, one course, one workshop and one toolkit and you are full. Public reviewers on Trustpilot rated Kajabi 3.4 from 2,347 reviews when we checked in October 2026.
Pick it over Coachful if your business is mostly audience-driven course and community sales, you already have thousands of subscribers, and 1:1 advisory work is a small share of revenue.
3. Thinkific: a dedicated course engine with communities
If the self-paced course is the product and everything else is secondary, Thinkific is a serious option. It is a course platform with communities, memberships and coaching or webinar products, and its group-size limits make it practical for running larger training programs for a client's staff.
Strengths a consultancy will notice
Start includes room for 10,000 current students, 2 admins, one community with 10 spaces and 5 live community events. Grow raises admins to 6 and group size to 100; Expand removes the group-size limit. That suits a consultant who licenses a training program to a mid-sized client and needs every employee enrolled.
Gaps
Thinkific has no built-in 1:1 scheduling (an older public profile notes coaching relies on external booking links), and no client habits, daily check-ins or per-client plans. A branded mobile app is a $199/mo add-on. Prices rose about 10% on August 13, 2026.
Pricing as listed
In October 2026: Start $109/mo ($82/mo annual), Grow $219/mo ($164/mo annual), Expand $499/mo ($374/mo annual), and a custom Plus tier. There is a 30-day free trial on every self-serve plan. Thinkific takes 0% when you use Thinkific Payments, whose rate it describes as in line with other processors at 2.9%; third-party Stripe or PayPal gateways carry an extra per-plan fee that the pricing page does not list. Trustpilot showed 1.8 from 868 reviews in October 2026.
Pick it over Coachful if you are building a training business where hundreds of a client's employees take a self-paced course, and your advisory sessions are booked and contracted elsewhere.
4. LearnWorlds: corporate-grade learning for consultants who sell to L&D teams
Consultants who sell into corporate learning and development teams often hit one requirement: the client wants to load your course into their own learning management system. LearnWorlds is the tool on this list built for that conversation, with support for SCORM packages, interactive video, a website builder and funnels.
Where it earns its place
Pro Trainer includes 20 SCORM packages, 15 page funnels and 2,000 mass emails a month, and Learning Center adds up to 10 client groups, which maps neatly to "one group per corporate client". Public reviewers rate it highly: 4.8 on Trustpilot from 423 reviews in October 2026.
The trade-offs
LearnWorlds is not built for 1:1 client management, habits or check-ins, so advisory work and agreements live elsewhere. Self-serve plans cap active learners per month (1,000 on Starter, 2,000 above), and a branded mobile app is a separately priced add-on.
Listed prices
As listed in October 2026: Starter $29/mo ($24/mo annual) with a $5 fee per paid enrollment; Pro Trainer $99/mo ($79/mo annual) with no LearnWorlds fee; Learning Center $299/mo ($249/mo annual); Corporate on request. Stripe or PayPal gateway fees apply. The free trial runs 30 days and LearnWorlds says no credit card is needed, but the school is scheduled for deletion if you do not upgrade.
Pick it over Coachful if your buyers are corporate L&D teams that require SCORM files or interactive video, and the course itself (not the advisory relationship) is what they are buying.
5. Kartra: a marketing suite for consultants who run funnels hard
Kartra is an all-in-one marketing suite: pages, funnels, email and SMS, memberships, calendars and a helpdesk. Consultants who generate leads through webinars and multi-step funnels will find more marketing machinery here than in most course tools.
Why consultants look at it
Calendars and a helpdesk in the same account as your funnels help with the enroll stage, and unlimited email and SMS from the Starter plan up supports aggressive follow-up after a webinar. Starter also allows 5 team members.
Watch-outs
The Essentials plan caps contacts at 500, allows one membership or course, and charges a 5% transaction fee. Kartra has no client habits, check-ins or per-client coaching plans. An older public profile reports no mobile app for students or admins, and funnels and memberships that cannot be moved to other platforms. Trustpilot showed 3.2 from 129 reviews in October 2026.
Prices
As listed in October 2026: Essentials $59/mo ($52/mo annual), Starter $119/mo ($99/mo annual) with 2,500 contacts, Growth $229/mo ($189/mo annual) with 12,500 contacts, Professional $549/mo ($429/mo annual). Starter and Growth carry no Kartra transaction fee; processor fees are separate. There is a 14-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Pick it over Coachful if your growth runs on paid traffic, webinars and SMS follow-up, and you want deep funnel tooling more than program delivery.
6. Podia: the simple storefront for a first productized offer
For the consultant who wants to sell one workshop recording, a template pack and a few paid calls without learning a big system, Podia keeps things simple. It is a storefront for courses, downloads, webinars, coaching sessions and community.
Good for a first step
Mover allows 50 products, 500 videos and 25 community spaces. The 14-day trial gives full access with no credit card or plan selection. Trustpilot showed 4.1 from 153 reviews in October 2026.
What you outgrow
Email subscriber allowances are small: 100 on Mover, 500 on Shaker and 1,000 on Earthquaker. An older public profile reports no mobile app and no native video calls. There are no client habits, check-ins or per-client plans, so a consulting engagement with deliverables between meetings needs a project tool beside it.
Costs
As listed in October 2026: Mover $49/mo ($42/mo annual) with a 5% Podia fee; Shaker $99/mo ($84/mo annual) and Earthquaker $179/mo ($150/mo annual) with no Podia fee. Stripe or PayPal processing (2.9% + 30¢ standard) comes on top.
Pick it over Coachful if you only want to test one or two low-priced digital products and do not yet need agreements, programs or a client app.
7. Teachable: the low-cost entry point for a course on the side
Teachable is a course and digital-product platform with student mobile apps. It suits a consultant who wants a single self-paced course live quickly and cheaply, with the advisory side handled elsewhere.
Fit for consulting work
Students are listed as unlimited, with up to 1TB of video on Starter. The weakness is everything around the course: no native scheduling or calendar sync (an older public profile notes coaching calls rely on Calendly or Zoom), and no client habits, daily check-ins or per-client plans.
Fees to know
Starter takes a 7.5% platform fee, which on a $2,000 course sale is $150 (an illustrative example). Builder and above take 0%. Teachable Payments processing is 2.9% + 30¢ for US cards and 3.9% + 30¢ internationally, with a $15 chargeback fee.
Plans
As listed in October 2026: Starter $39/mo ($29/mo annual, 5 products, 1 admin), Builder $89/mo ($69/mo annual, 10 products), Growth $189/mo ($139/mo annual, 50 products, 5 admins), and Custom. Plan cards show a 7-day free trial plus a 30-day guarantee. Trustpilot showed 3.3 from 1,110 reviews in October 2026.
Pick it over Coachful if you want one low-priced course online this week, already run client work through other tools, and have no plans for cohorts or retainers inside the same system.
Which limits bite consultants first?
Product caps and transaction fees matter more to consultants than video storage, because a consulting catalog tends to have many small offers (diagnostic, workshop, retainer, course, toolkit) at high prices.
| Platform | Product or contact cap on the entry plan | Platform fee on sales | Agreements and 1:1 booking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful | Client cap on lower plans; Pro is unlimited | 0% platform fee; processor fees only | E-signed agreements and booking included |
| Kajabi | 5 products, 2,500 contacts (Basic) | 0% with Kajabi Payments; 0.5% to 2% with other processors | Not listed |
| Thinkific | 10,000 current students (Start) | 0% with Thinkific Payments; extra fee on third-party gateways | External booking |
| LearnWorlds | 1,000 active learners a month (Starter) | $5 per paid enrollment on Starter | Not built for 1:1 work |
| Kartra | 500 contacts, 1 course (Essentials) | 5% on Essentials | Calendars; no agreements listed |
| Podia | 50 products, 100 email subscribers (Mover) | 5% on Mover | Session products; no native video calls |
| Teachable | 5 products (Starter) | 7.5% on Starter | External booking |
What does each stack cost: all-in-one or assembled?
An all-in-one stack is usually cheaper once you count everything a consulting practice needs. With a course-first tool, you typically add a scheduler, an e-signature tool and sometimes an email or invoicing tool. We have not priced those add-ons because they vary by vendor and plan, so the table shows the course platform's listed monthly price plus what you would still need to buy.
| Stack recipe | 5 active clients | 15 active clients | 40 active clients | Still to add |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful (all-in-one) | Lite: $29/month for up to 5 clients | Solo: $49/month for up to 20 clients | Pro: $99/month with unlimited clients | Nothing for booking, agreements, invoices, courses, cohorts or email |
| Kajabi Basic | $179/mo | $179/mo | $179/mo | Scheduler, e-signature |
| Thinkific Start | $109/mo | $109/mo | $109/mo | Scheduler, e-signature, email tool |
| LearnWorlds Pro Trainer | $99/mo | $99/mo | $99/mo | Scheduler, e-signature |
| Kartra Starter | $119/mo | $119/mo | $119/mo | E-signature |
| Podia Shaker | $99/mo | $99/mo | $99/mo | Video call tool, e-signature, larger email list |
| Teachable Builder | $89/mo | $89/mo | $89/mo | Scheduler, e-signature, email tool |
Course-first prices do not change with client count because they meter products, contacts or learners instead. Coachful's lower plans cap clients, so the column you land in depends on how many clients you serve at once.
Recipe A: all-in-one
One Coachful account covers the website, application funnel, booking, agreement, checkout, course library, cohort and community. The cost is a single flat subscription plus Stripe or Razorpay processing. The hidden saving is time: no Zapier chains to keep a signed agreement, a payment and a course enrollment in sync.
Recipe B: assembled
A typical assembled stack is a course platform, a scheduler, an e-signature tool and an email platform, sometimes with Zapier connecting them. It makes sense when you need one specialist capability Coachful does not list, such as SCORM export for corporate buyers, or when courses are 80% of revenue. If you go this way, read our guide to email marketing platforms for consultants before choosing the email piece.
How would a consultant set this up in Coachful?
Here is an example: an operations consultant who sells a paid diagnostic, a 10-week implementation cohort for small teams, and a monthly advisory retainer. These numbers and offers are illustrative.
- Request the build. Use the free white-glove card to ask for a website with a "book a diagnostic" button, an application funnel for the cohort, and a three-email follow-up sequence. Attach your logo, an existing slide deck and two reference sites.
- Pick a business template if you prefer to build it yourself. Start from one of the 30 homepage templates and edit sections for your About, Services and Results pages.
- Create the three offers. The diagnostic as a one-time paid session, the cohort as a program with a payment plan, the retainer as a subscription.
- Attach the agreement. Set the coaching agreement to go out for e-signature before the first call, so scope is signed before you start.
- Build the course library. Turn your framework into modules with drip release, then attach it to the cohort program so enrolled clients see lessons beside their weekly goals and tasks.
- Configure check-ins. Add a weekly check-in asking what each client's team shipped, so you walk into every call knowing where they are stuck.
- Connect calendars and payments. Sync Google or Outlook, connect Stripe, and set buffers so advisory calls do not stack back to back.
- Plan the retention path. When the cohort ends, email graduates the retainer offer and keep them in the community as alumni.
Consultants coming from leadership or business advisory work may also find our page for business coaches and page for executive coaches useful, since the workflows overlap.
How do you migrate to a new course platform without losing clients?
Move in a planned window, not mid-engagement. Consultants carry live retainers and cohorts, so a rushed switch risks a missed invoice or a client who cannot find their materials.
- Export first. Pull your student list, course content and any community posts you want to keep from the old platform before you cancel.
- Use the onboarding import. In Coachful, clients, programs and content are imported for you during onboarding. Later you can export full client data as a ZIP (roster, notes, check-ins, goals, habits, sessions, form responses) and export courses, so you are never locked in.
- Time it to the billing cycle. Recurring retainers often need to be set up again on the new checkout. Start new subscriptions on each client's next renewal date and tell them in advance.
- Finish running cohorts where they are. Launch the next cohort on the new platform rather than moving one mid-stream.
- Redirect your old links. Update the booking link in your email signature, LinkedIn profile and proposal templates on day one.
If you are comparing platforms side by side before moving, our comparison hub lists head-to-head reviews.
What is the verdict for consultants?
Choose Coachful if you sell a blend of advisory work, programs and courses and want one login for the whole client journey: booking, agreements, payments, courses, cohorts and retention, with the free white-glove build to get it live quickly. Choose Kajabi if you are audience-first and courses plus community are most of your revenue. Choose LearnWorlds if corporate L&D buyers demand SCORM. Thinkific fits large-scale staff training, Kartra fits funnel-heavy marketing, and Podia or Teachable fit a first low-cost test of one productized offer.
For more on the wider tooling question, see our coaching software overview, and for a closely related niche, the course platforms for business coaches guide.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best course platform for consultants?
For most independent consultants who sell advisory work alongside courses and cohorts, Coachful is the strongest fit because it covers booking, agreements, payments, course delivery, cohorts and retention in one login. If courses are nearly all of your revenue and you have a large audience, Kajabi is the strongest course-first alternative.
Can I sell a monthly retainer and a course on the same platform?
Yes, in Coachful a retainer can be a subscription and a course can be a one-time product or part of a bundle, all through your own Stripe or Razorpay account. Most course-first platforms can also sell subscriptions, but you will usually add separate tools for agreements and booking.
What is Coachful's free white-glove service?
It is a build service included on every plan: you describe a website, funnel, sales page, course outline, email sequence or similar, 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 or ad management, and nothing is invented for you.
Do I need SCORM as a consultant?
Only if your corporate clients want to load your course into their own learning management system. Coachful does not list SCORM support; LearnWorlds includes SCORM packages from its Pro Trainer plan.
Does Coachful integrate with HubSpot or Salesforce?
No. Coachful has no HubSpot or Salesforce integration and no multi-stage deal board for large sales teams. It connects to Zapier, Stripe, Razorpay, Google, Apple and Outlook calendars, Zoom, Meet, Teams, Meta Pixel and GA4.
Can I run cohort programs for a client's team?
Yes. When clients enroll in a Coachful program, a cohort group is created automatically with a feed, group chat, video events and group calls, and each participant gets weekly goals, tasks and check-ins. Thinkific and LearnWorlds also handle groups well for larger training rollouts.
Which platform has the lowest fees on high-ticket sales?
Platform fees matter more than monthly price when you sell a $5,000 engagement. Coachful charges a 0% platform fee, as do Kajabi with Kajabi Payments, Thinkific with Thinkific Payments, Teachable Builder and above, Podia Shaker and above, Kartra Starter and Growth, and LearnWorlds Pro Trainer and above. Avoid entry plans with a percentage fee (Teachable Starter 7.5%, Podia Mover 5%, Kartra Essentials 5%) for high-ticket offers.
Does Coachful accept PayPal?
No. Payments run through your own Stripe Connect or Razorpay account, which supports cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay. If a large share of your buyers insist on PayPal, a course-first platform that supports it may suit you better.
Can I bring associates into my consultancy on the same account?
Yes. Coachful's Studio and Agency team plans add coach seats with per-coach availability and staff permissions, and multi-coach session types can assign bookings round-robin or to the least busy consultant.
How do I start with Coachful?
Start a free trial, then request the free white-glove build for your website, funnel or first course so you are not building from a blank page. Monthly plans cancel in one click if it is not the right fit.
