TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Podia

Score7 out of 10

10 Reviews and Ratings

Get a Demo

What is Podia?

Podia in New York offers their ecommerce platform for managing memberships and selling courses online.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Podia has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 10 ratings of Podia's features
View all features

Top Performing Features

  • Product management

    Product catalog can be easily updated.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Promotions & discounts

    Includes tools for offering and redeeming coupons, promotional codes, and time-based discounts.

    Category average: 7.7

  • Product catalog & listings

    Products are easy to browse; listings include descriptions, photos, 360-degree views, and/or videos.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Order processing

    Includes tools or integrations for order processing.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Custom functionality

    Users are able to customize the functionality of their eCommerce operation with custom code or add-ons.

    Category average: 7.9

  • SEO

    The platform & templates help users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.

    Category average: 7.6

Reviews

What users are saying about Podia.
View all reviews

Detailed Podia review for course creators

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a course creator and I use Podia to host and sell my courses as it's really a buisness in a bic and especially now with its email updates potentially the only tool you would need. It provides the website, the emails, the email capture, the course hosting/video hosting, certificates, the course portal, the sales pages and sales processes, coupons, and affiliate system.

Pros

  • Emails
  • Course hosting
  • Website creation
  • Website chat

Cons

  • More advanced tagging system for emails
  • Improved upsell and downsells
  • Improved affiliate portal
  • Website and email capture further editing
  • It doesn't have a real blog function

Return on Investment

  • It was the 1st system I used to launch my buisness and we did 100k within 2 yrs

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Kajabi

Other Software Used

Berrycast

Podia is the best fit for me!

Incentivized
Meredith BroughView profile
Business Owner and Sleep Coach at Sweet Slumber, LLC (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a sleep coach for parents of young babies and toddlers with clients all over the world. I am also an instructor; I teach professionals how to use my methods/approach. I use Podia as my website host to attract new clients and instruct parents. I need my website to showcase free resources such as my blog, social media, articles on other websites, a Facebook Group and my podcast. I also use it to design and host my digital programs and workshops.

When I signed up with Podia, I needed an affordable platform that offered a website builder, a storefront for selling my digital products and coaching services, email services, and a place to build my digital courses and a membership site. I used to use 4 sites for all of these needs and it was expensive. Switching to Podia cut my costs dramatically. It's very convenient and they are always adding new features and trying to improve what they offer.

Pros

  • Web Builder
  • Storefront
  • Digital course creator
  • Bundling workshops/programs
  • easy to update and add to my website
  • customer service is awesome

Cons

  • I sometimes wish there was more that I could customize on my website and digital programs
  • I wish their email service (for broadcasts/group emails) had more features and customization
  • I would like to use my brand font

Return on Investment

  • Increased sales by $8000 from January to June (Added 2 more programs quickly and easily)
  • Saved almost a thousand dollars in the first year in costs by switching to Podia
  • Improved customer satisfaction by using 1 site instead of 4

Alternatives Considered

Kajabi, GoDaddy and Weebly

Other Software Used

Mailchimp, HoneyBook, Zoom