5 Best Website Builders for Course Creators (2026 Guide)
The best website builders for course creators do more than look good: they sell the course, deliver the lessons, hold the students' attention between modules and keep the email list growing, ideally without four extra subscriptions bolted on. So the deciding question is not "which builder has the prettiest templates?" but "where will my students actually learn, and how many tools will I pay for to get them there?" A design-first builder like Squarespace or Wix gives you a beautiful storefront and leaves delivery to add-ons. A course platform like Kajabi gives you delivery and a website, priced for creators with large catalogs. A budget suite like Systeme.io gets you live for nothing and asks you to accept simpler pages.
Our pick for most course creators is Coachful, because it puts the website, the course player, the cohort community, the checkout, email sequences and 1:1 coaching behind one login, so a student who buys your course can later book a call, join a cohort or upgrade to a program without leaving your branded space. We make Coachful, so weigh that, and read the honest "pick it over Coachful if..." line at the end of every other entry. If you are still choosing the course platform itself, start with our guide to the best course creation platforms or the online course platform comparison; this article is about the website that wraps around your courses.
Coachful in brief: Coachful is a coaching platform with a section-based website builder, blog, funnels, courses, community, email, booking, payments through your own Stripe or Razorpay account and an AI assistant, all included in your Coachful membership. It is built for creators who teach and coach: people whose course is the start of a client relationship, not the whole of it. It is not a course marketplace, not a general website builder for non-coaching sites, and it has no third-party plugins. To start, take a free trial, then ask the team to build your site with the free white-glove build service.
What do course creators need from a website builder?
Course creators need a site that turns a visitor into a student and a student into a repeat buyer. That means a sales page that converts, a checkout that handles payment plans, a delivery area students return to, and email that follows up when they stall at module two.
The jobs are more specific than "a nice website":
- A sales page per offer. Your flagship course, your mini course, your cohort and your 1:1 package each need their own page with a clear price, outcomes and a buy button. If your builder treats these as generic pages and your checkout lives somewhere else, every launch means stitching two systems together.
- Lead magnets and launch funnels. Most course sales start with a free thing: a workbook, a five-day challenge, a webinar. You need opt-in pages, a thank-you page and a sequence that runs on its own. Our guide to landing page builders for coaches covers the page side in depth.
- Delivery that matches your format. Evergreen courses need modules, drip release and completion tracking. Cohorts need a start date, a group space and live calls. Memberships need gated content and recurring billing. If you are deciding between formats, read mini course or signature course and our worked plan for cohort-based course design.
- A path beyond the course. The students who finish are the ones most likely to buy coaching, a retainer or the next cohort. A builder that only sells products makes that next step clumsy; one with booking, contracts and per-client programs makes it a button.
- Fees you can predict. Several builders charge a percentage on digital content or memberships on top of card processing. On a course that sells for a few hundred dollars, that difference adds up across a launch.
- Your list, your data. Email belongs close to the site. See our roundup of email marketing platforms for course creators if you plan to keep email separate.
Scope creep is the quiet problem. A creator starts with Squarespace for the site, adds a course tool, a scheduling tool, an email tool and a community app, and a year later pays for five logins while students wander between them. The ranking below rewards tools that keep that list short.
Which website builder fits your situation?
Coachful fits most course creators who also coach; the other four each win a specific situation. Ranking criteria: one login for the whole student journey, delivery between lessons and sessions, total monthly stack cost, and setup effort (including Coachful's free white-glove build).
| Tool | Best for | Starting price as listed | Main trade-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful | Best overall: courses, cohorts and coaching from one branded site | Lite: $29/month for up to 5 clients | Not a general website builder; no third-party plugins |
| Kajabi | Creators with a large product catalog and a big contact list | Basic $179/mo ($143/mo billed annually) | Basic caps you at 5 products and 2,500 contacts |
| Squarespace | A design-led brand site that sells one or two courses | Basic $25/mo ($19/mo billed annually) | 7%, 5% or 1% fee on digital content and memberships below Advanced |
| Wix | Drag-and-drop control plus challenges and step-by-step programs | Core $29/mo billed annually (cheapest tier with Bookings) | Light cannot take payments; no Premium trial |
| Systeme.io | Launching your first course with no budget | Free plan; Startup $17/mo | Simpler pages and community; no 1:1 client records |
How did we choose and rank these tools?
We started from what course creators sell and how students consume it, then checked each vendor's own pricing and feature documentation as listed in October 2026. We did not run hands-on tests; where we mention reception, it comes from public review sites.
Four questions decided the order:
- How many logins does a student need? A student who buys on your site, learns on another domain and joins a community somewhere else drops off faster. One login scored highest.
- What happens between lessons? Drip release, completion tracking, check-ins, cohort groups and email follow-up keep students moving. A static course library scored lowest.
- What does the whole stack cost? We added the add-ons each builder needs for a working course business (booking, delivery, email) and the platform fees on course sales, not just the headline plan.
- How long until you are live? Templates help; someone building it for you helps more.
We left out pure link-in-bio stores and one-page builders. Carrd, for instance, lists no blog, store, member area or course features, so it cannot carry a course business on its own. Showit is a strong design tool but has no native booking, payments, membership area or courses, which puts it outside a course creator's core needs.
1. Coachful: the best website builder for course creators who also coach
Coachful wins when your courses lead somewhere: into a cohort, a membership, a coaching package or a retainer. The website, the course player, the community and the client record all sit in the same account, so a student's purchase, progress and next booking show up in one place.
Where it wins for course creators
Most website builders stop at the sale. Coachful starts there. When someone buys your course from your Coachful site, they land in your branded home and app, where the course, your community feed, group chat and any program they enrol in live together. If that course is part of a program, a cohort group is created automatically on enrolment, so a "spring cohort" does not need a separate community tool or a spreadsheet of who belongs where.
For creators who sell coaching on the back of a course, the same login handles the upgrade. A student can book a paid session from your booking page, sign a coaching agreement with e-signature before the first call, and move into a multi-week program with weekly goals, daily tasks, habits, and morning and evening check-ins. That is the gap most course platforms leave open: they are good at video lessons and weak at per-student follow-through.
What the website builder actually covers
The builder is section-based, with a blog, custom domain, SEO settings and 30 designed homepage templates. There is an Import website option if you are moving from another builder. A typical course creator's site has a homepage, an About page, a page per offer, a results page and a contact page, and you can see that structure in the demo below.
Starting from a template is faster than starting blank. The gallery covers business, wellness, life, creative and performance styles.
Beyond pages, you get booking, application, lead-magnet and checkout funnels with pixels and UTM tracking, a link-in-bio page that sells, and email lists, broadcasts and multi-step sequences with triggers, delays, branching and A/B splits. A course launch (free workbook, email sequence, sales page, checkout) can be built without leaving the account. Here is a short walkthrough of the website builder:
Course delivery and selling
Courses have modules, lessons, drip release and completion tracking. Alongside courses you can sell downloads, videos, books, AI tools, events and bundles, which suits creators who package a course with a workbook and a live Q&A. There are 48 course templates with quizzes if you want a structure to fill in rather than a blank outline.
Payments run through your own Stripe Connect or Razorpay account, with one-time payments, subscriptions, payment plans, order bumps, coupons, refunds, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and Stripe Tax. Coachful has charged a 0% platform fee since August 2026, so only Stripe or Razorpay processing applies. On the student side, an enrolled group program shows its current week and members:
Michelle, the built-in AI assistant, works from your live practice data. It can build program outlines, draft launch emails and content, and summarize recorded sessions. Questions and planning are included in the membership; confirmed builds and changes use AI credits. You can also configure an AI Coach, an AI version of you that selected clients can chat with between sessions.
Why Coachful stands out: a free white-glove service. From Create > We'll build it for you, or the "Want us to build it for you?" card on the Website, Funnels and Programs pages, you describe what you want: a website, a sales page, a course outline and written material, a lead-magnet funnel, an email sequence, a webinar page. You can attach up to 8 reference links and up to 10 files such as your logo, photos and existing copy. The Coachful team builds it inside your own account, usually within about 24 hours. Nothing gets invented: no fake testimonials, credentials or prices, and gaps are left for you to fill. One recent example: a business mentor for beauty professionals got a 12-week mentorship sales page, a free start-up-guide funnel and rewritten follow-up emails. Another, a real-estate and money coach, got a year-long cohort program with an application form, an eight-page site and a free nine-day bootcamp funnel. The service does not record your videos, design a logo or run ads. More detail is in our write-up of the free white-glove service.
Limits worth knowing
- It is not a course marketplace, so it will not send you buyers the way a marketplace listing might.
- It is not a general website builder for non-coaching sites, and there are no third-party plugins.
- No PayPal. If many of your students pay with PayPal, plan for that.
- The student app runs under the Coachful listing with your branding, not under your own App Store account.
- The affiliate program tracks links, clicks, conversions and revenue, but payouts to affiliates are recorded manually, not sent by Coachful.
- There is no permanent free plan; there is a free trial.
Price: 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. Plans are flat and monthly; lower plans cap the number of clients, Pro is unlimited, and monthly plans cancel in one click. Coachful holds a Trustpilot score of 4.5 from 21 reviews. More on the product side: the coach website builder and the online course platform for coaches.
2. Kajabi: best for a large catalog and a big list
Kajabi suits a creator who already sells several courses to thousands of contacts and wants course, community, website, funnel and email tools from one vendor built around knowledge products.
The case for it
Kajabi is a course, community, website, funnel and email platform for selling knowledge products. For a course creator with a growing catalog, that means sales pages, checkout, the course area and the email sequences that drive launches live in one product. Growth and Pro add room: Growth lists 50 products and 25,000 contacts, Pro unlimited products, 100,000 contacts, three communities and three websites. Pro's three websites can matter if you run separate brands, for example a course brand and a speaking brand.
Price as listed
As listed in October 2026: Basic $179/mo ($143/mo billed annually), Growth $249/mo ($199/mo billed annually) and Pro $499/mo ($399/mo billed annually). The standard trial is 14 days; a card is optional, and if you enter one Kajabi places an authorization hold and charges when the trial ends. Some features, such as bulk contact import, test emails and some automations, stay locked until you activate a paid plan.
Kajabi Payments in the US costs 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic, 2.8% + $0.30 on Growth and 2.7% + $0.30 on Pro. If you use another processor (other than PayPal), Kajabi adds its own fee of 2% on Basic, 1% on Growth or 0.5% on Pro on top of the provider's fees.
Where it falls short
Basic is tight for course creators: 5 products, 2,500 contacts, one community, one website and 0 AI credits. A creator with a flagship course, a mini course, a workbook, a cohort and a membership has already hit the product cap. Kajabi also has no habit tracking or daily client check-ins; coaching is handled as products and communities, not per-client plans. If your courses feed a coaching practice, that follow-through needs another tool. On Trustpilot, Kajabi showed 3.4 from 2,347 reviews when we checked in October 2026.
Pick it over Coachful if you sell many courses and digital products to a large audience, you rarely do 1:1 or small-group coaching, and the budget for a higher Kajabi tier is already justified by your launch revenue.
3. Squarespace: best for a design-led brand site with one or two courses
Squarespace wins when the website itself is the brand asset (a polished portfolio, a blog with years of posts, a press page) and the course is one product among several.
Why creators choose it
Squarespace is a general website builder with selling built in, and its Core plan is pitched at service businesses. It sells services, courses, memberships and subscriptions natively, so a creator can put a course behind a member area without a separate course host. Video hosting grows by plan: 30 minutes on Basic, 5 hours on Core, 50 hours on Plus and unlimited on Advanced. For a course with an hour or two of video, Core can cover it; a full signature course with dozens of lessons pushes you to Plus.
What it costs a course seller
As listed in October 2026: Basic $25/mo ($19/mo billed annually), Core $39/mo ($29/mo billed annually), Plus $65/mo ($49/mo billed annually) and Advanced $139/mo ($99/mo billed annually). There is no free plan; every site starts with a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, and trial sites cannot be exported.
The number course creators need to notice is the fee on digital content and memberships, which covers courses, memberships and paid video or blog content: 7% on Basic, 5% on Core, 1% on Plus and 0% on Advanced. That sits on top of card processing (Squarespace Payments lists 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic and Core). As an illustration, on $10,000 of course sales in a launch month, the Core fee alone would be $500 before card processing.
The gaps you fill yourself
Online booking needs Acuity Scheduling, a separate subscription listed at $16 to $55 per month billed annually, added to your site with the Scheduling block. Acuity brings intake forms, reminders, packages and memberships for sessions. There is no per-student program layer with habits or check-ins, so cohort accountability happens by email or in another tool. On Trustpilot, Squarespace showed 3.5 from 6,313 reviews when we checked in October 2026.
Pick it over Coachful if your site is mainly a brand and editorial presence, your course is a small part of revenue, you want broad design freedom for non-coaching pages, and you accept a fee on course sales unless you pay for Advanced.
4. Wix: best for drag-and-drop control and challenge-style programs
Wix fits creators who want to place every element exactly where they like and who run step-by-step programs or challenges more than long video courses.
Fit for course work
Wix is a general website builder with apps for selling. The Online Programs app runs step-by-step courses, programs and challenges; paid programs need a payment-enabled plan. Wix Bookings handles appointments and classes with online payment and is included from Core. The Pricing Plans app sells memberships, session packages and subscriptions that can include bookings or programs, which lets a creator bundle "course plus two calls" as one plan. A Contacts CRM with segments, plus Wix Email Marketing and automations, rounds it out.
Plans and fees
As listed in October 2026, billed annually: Light $17/mo, Core $29/mo, Business $39/mo and Business Elite $159/mo; monthly prices were not shown on the plans page we reviewed. There is a free plan with no credit card required, but it carries Wix branding and no custom domain, and Light cannot accept payments, so Core is the practical floor for selling a course. Wix does not offer a free trial of Premium plans; there is a 14-day money-back guarantee on the first upgrade. No Wix platform commission on sales is listed on the plans page; Wix Payments in the US lists 2.9% + $0.30 per online card transaction.
Watch-outs
Course delivery depends on how well Online Programs suits your format. Step-by-step challenges fit well; a library of long video modules with drip and quizzes is something to test during the money-back window. Storage also scales by plan (2 GB on Light, 50 GB on Core, 100 GB on Business), which matters if you upload video directly. On Trustpilot, Wix showed 3.4 from 29,316 reviews when we checked in October 2026.
Pick it over Coachful if you want pixel-level control over a large general site, your programs are short challenges rather than coaching relationships, and you value the Wix app ecosystem over having everything in one coaching account.
5. Systeme.io: best for launching a first course with no budget
Systeme.io is the right call when money is the constraint and you want to validate a first course before paying for anything.
Strengths on a tight budget
Systeme.io is a low-cost all-in-one marketing suite with funnels, email, courses, community, a blog and an affiliate program. The free plan never expires and needs no credit card. It includes 2,000 contacts, 3 funnels, 1 course, 500 students, 1 blog, 1 affiliate program, 1 custom domain, 1 automation rule and 1 email campaign. For a creator testing a first mini course with a lead magnet, that is enough to find out whether people will buy.
Pricing and transaction fees
As listed in October 2026: Free $0, Startup $17/mo (5,000 contacts, 10 funnels, 5 courses), Webinar $47/mo (10,000 contacts, 50 funnels, 20 courses) and Unlimited $97/mo (unlimited contacts, funnels, courses and automation rules). Systeme.io lists 0% transaction fees on every plan, including Free; you pay Stripe or PayPal processing only.
What you give up
Our September 2026 profile notes no native 1:1 scheduling with client records, habits or check-ins, basic community and course features, and no branded mobile app. Pages are functional rather than design-led. Systeme.io showed 4.9 on Trustpilot from 8,696 reviews when we checked in October 2026, which suggests users are happy with what they pay for.
Pick it over Coachful if you need to spend nothing while you test a first course, you do not coach students one-to-one yet, and you are comfortable moving later if the course turns into a coaching business.
How do the five compare feature by feature?
Coachful is the only one of the five that pairs a course website with per-student programs, habits and check-ins. The others differ mainly on fees, caps and how much you add on.
| Tool | Website and blog | Course delivery | Community or membership | Per-student habits and check-ins | Platform fee on course sales | Free plan or trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful | Section-based builder, blog, 30 homepage templates, custom domain | Modules, lessons, drip, completion tracking, 48 course templates with quizzes | Community feed, group chat, cohort groups created on enrolment | Yes: habits, daily tasks, morning and evening check-ins | 0% (Stripe or Razorpay processing only) | Free trial |
| Kajabi | 1 website on Basic and Growth, 3 on Pro | Yes, product-based | 1 community on Basic and Growth, 3 on Pro | No | Extra 2% / 1% / 0.5% if not using Kajabi Payments or PayPal | 14-day trial |
| Squarespace | Design-led general builder | Courses sold as digital content | Memberships | No | 7% / 5% / 1% / 0% by plan | 14-day trial, no free plan |
| Wix | Drag-and-drop general builder | Online Programs app (step-by-step courses and challenges) | Pricing Plans for memberships and packages | Not documented | None listed | Free plan (branded); no Premium trial |
| Systeme.io | Funnels and 1 blog on Free | 1 course on Free, up to unlimited | Basic community | No | 0% on all plans | Free plan, no expiry |
Booking is the other dividing line. Coachful has booking pages with availability rules, buffers, two-way calendar sync and paid sessions built in. Squarespace needs Acuity, Wix needs Core or above for Bookings, and Systeme.io has no native 1:1 scheduling with client records in our profile.
What does each stack cost per month?
The headline plan is rarely the full bill. Below are three example course creator stacks, priced with each vendor's own listed numbers (annual billing where that is the only listed price). These are illustrations, not quotes; card processing is excluded throughout.
- Stack A, the first launch: one course, a lead magnet, an email sequence and up to 15 students or clients you also coach.
- Stack B, course plus cohort: a signature course, a quarterly cohort with group calls, booking for paid 1:1 sessions and about 40 active clients.
- Stack C, the catalog: several courses and products, a membership and an open-ended number of students.
| Tool | Stack A: first launch | Stack B: course plus cohort | Stack C: catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful | Solo: $49/month for up to 20 clients; site, course, email, booking included | Pro: $99/month with unlimited clients; cohort groups and booking included | Pro: $99/month with unlimited clients; unlimited clients |
| Kajabi | Basic $143/mo billed annually (5 products, 2,500 contacts) | Growth $199/mo billed annually; booking and per-client follow-up not covered | Pro $399/mo billed annually |
| Squarespace | Core $29/mo billed annually, plus 5% on course sales | Plus $49/mo billed annually plus Acuity from $16/mo billed annually, plus 1% on course sales | Advanced $99/mo billed annually plus Acuity; 0% content fee |
| Wix | Core $29/mo billed annually | Business $39/mo billed annually | Business $39/mo or Business Elite $159/mo billed annually |
| Systeme.io | Free $0 (1 course, 500 students) | Webinar $47/mo; no native 1:1 booking with client records | Unlimited $97/mo |
Two patterns stand out. First, the design-first builders look cheap until you add booking and count the content fee in a launch month. Second, the course platforms look complete until you start coaching the students who finish, at which point a separate scheduling, contract and accountability tool appears. For more on keeping costs down, see our guide to the cheapest course platforms for coaches.
How would a course creator set this up in Coachful?
Here is a worked example: a creator who teaches a six-week "Confident Presenting" course and sells small-group coaching afterwards. The names and numbers are illustrative.
- Ask for the build. From Create > We'll build it for you, request a five-page website and a lead-magnet funnel. Attach your logo, headshots, the course outline and two reference sites you like. The team builds both in your account, usually within about 24 hours, and leaves gaps where testimonials or prices still need your input.
- Pick or adjust the template. If you prefer to build yourself, choose one of the 30 homepage templates and add pages for the course, the cohort, 1:1 coaching, About and Contact. Connect your custom domain and fill in SEO settings for each page.
- Build the course. Create six modules with lessons, upload your videos and worksheets, and set drip release so module two opens a week after purchase. Turn on completion tracking. If you want a head start, adapt one of the 48 course templates with quizzes.
- Set up checkout. Connect your Stripe account, create a one-time price and a three-part payment plan, and add an order bump for a slide-template download. Add a launch coupon.
- Create the funnel. Use a lead-magnet funnel for a free "five-minute talk outline" PDF, with a thank-you page that points to the course sales page. Add your Meta Pixel and UTM tags.
- Write the sequence. Build a multi-step email sequence: deliver the PDF, share a short lesson, invite to a free webinar, open the cart, close the cart. Use a branch to send buyers a welcome sequence instead of the sales emails. Michelle can draft these from your outline.
- Add the cohort. Create a group program for the next cohort. On enrolment, a cohort group is created automatically, so students get a shared feed and group chat. Schedule weekly group calls with built-in video or auto-created Zoom links.
- Open the coaching path. Publish a booking page for a paid 1:1 session with intake questions, buffers and minimum notice. Attach a coaching agreement for e-signature before the first call. Students who finish the course see the offer in the same app they learned in.
- Watch progress. Each client record shows goals, check-ins, habits, notes, payments and sessions, with a status of thriving, active, quiet or at risk. Reach out to quiet students before they stop.
If you run several cohorts a year, our group coaching software page shows how cohort groups and group calls fit together, and community platforms for course creators compares the community side with standalone tools.
What mistakes do course creators make when picking a website builder?
The most common mistake is choosing on templates alone and discovering the fees, caps and missing delivery features after launch day.
- Ignoring the content fee. A 5% or 7% fee on digital content and memberships is easy to miss on a pricing page and expensive in a launch month.
- Outgrowing a product cap. Counting only your courses, not the workbook, the mini course, the cohort and the membership, puts you over a five-product limit faster than expected.
- Splitting the student journey. Selling on one domain, teaching on another and hosting community in a third app adds friction at every step. Students forget which login to use.
- Building for the course and forgetting the coaching. If your best students will want calls, plan booking, contracts and per-client follow-up now rather than bolting them on later.
- Treating a free plan as a forever plan. Free tiers are a good test bench. Check the caps (contacts, courses, branding, custom domain) against where you will be in a year.
- Doing the whole build yourself. If a team will build the site and funnel for free, spend that week recording lessons instead. See what a coaching website needs before you brief anyone.
- Forgetting the exit. Check whether you can export students, content and data. Coachful exports full client data as a ZIP and supports course export; Squarespace trial sites cannot be exported.
Which website builder should course creators choose?
Choose Coachful if your courses lead into cohorts, memberships or coaching and you want one login for the whole student journey. Choose one of the others only when its specific scenario is yours.
Kajabi earns its place for creators with a large catalog and list who rarely coach individually and can justify its higher tiers. Squarespace suits a design-led brand site with a small course line, as long as you price in the content fee and Acuity. Wix suits drag-and-drop perfectionists who run challenge-style programs. Systeme.io is the honest answer for a first course on no budget.
For the course creator who teaches, then coaches, then runs cohorts, Coachful does the most with the fewest tools, and the free white-glove build removes most of the setup work. If memberships are your main model, compare with our membership platforms for course creators guide too.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best website builder for course creators?
For course creators who also coach or run cohorts, Coachful is our pick because the website, courses, community, email, booking and per-student programs share one login. Kajabi suits large catalogs, Squarespace suits design-led brand sites, Wix suits drag-and-drop control, and Systeme.io suits a zero-budget first launch.
Can I sell an online course on Squarespace or Wix without another tool?
Squarespace sells courses and memberships natively, with a fee on digital content and memberships of 7%, 5%, 1% or 0% depending on plan. Wix runs courses and challenges through its Online Programs app, and paid programs need a payment-enabled plan. Booking needs Acuity on Squarespace and Core or above on Wix.
Is a course platform or a website builder better for selling courses?
A course platform handles delivery well but often treats the website as secondary; a website builder does the reverse. A platform that does both, such as Coachful or Kajabi, avoids running two systems. Our online course platform comparison covers the delivery side in depth.
Do any of these builders charge a fee on course sales?
Squarespace charges a fee on digital content and memberships below its Advanced plan. Kajabi adds a fee if you use a processor other than Kajabi Payments or PayPal. Coachful has charged a 0% platform fee since August 2026, and Systeme.io lists 0% on all plans; card processing still applies everywhere.
What is Coachful's free white-glove service?
It is a free build service on every plan: you describe the website, funnel, sales page, course outline or email sequence you want, attach references and files, and the Coachful team builds it in your account, usually within about 24 hours. It does not invent testimonials or prices, and it does not include video recording, logo design or ads. Read more about the white-glove service.
Can I move my existing site to Coachful?
Yes. The website builder has an Import website option, and clients, programs and content are imported for you during onboarding. You can also ask the white-glove team to rebuild key pages; one recent somatic coach leaving Kajabi had the homepage and About page rebuilt and the contact form connected.
Does Coachful accept PayPal for course sales?
No. Coachful takes payments through your own Stripe Connect or Razorpay account, including Apple Pay and Google Pay, payment plans and subscriptions. If PayPal matters to your students, note that Systeme.io lists Stripe and PayPal processing, so weigh that before choosing.
Which builder is cheapest for a first course?
Systeme.io's free plan includes one course, 500 students and a custom domain with no expiry, which makes it the lowest-cost way to test a first course. Wix's free plan carries branding and cannot take payments. Coachful offers a free trial rather than a free plan.
Can students use a mobile app?
Coachful students get your branding inside the Coachful app, alongside the web version. Our profile of Systeme.io notes no branded mobile app. Check each vendor's current documentation if a branded app is a deciding factor.
Can I run cohorts and memberships from the same site?
In Coachful, yes: cohort groups are created automatically when students enrol in a program, and subscriptions handle recurring membership billing. Squarespace and Wix handle memberships through their own features, while cohort accountability usually needs another tool.
