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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Digital River

    Score3 out of 10
    N/ADigital River Global Commerce offers cloud commerce tools and services for selling digital and physical products across global online markets, handling taxes, regulations, payments, e-marketing and more.N/A

    Podia

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/APodia in New York offers their ecommerce platform for managing memberships and selling courses online.

    $39

    per month

    Pricing
    Digital RiverPodia
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Mover
    $39.00
    per month
    Shaker
    $79.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Digital RiverPodia
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Digital RiverPodia
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of Digital River and Podia
    Feature
    Digital River
    5.6
    3 Ratings
    33% below category average
    Podia
    8.1
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Product catalog & listings2.03 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Product management2.03 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Bulk product upload10.02 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Branding5.03 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Mobile storefront5.03 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Product variations7.03 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Website integration5.03 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Visual customization5.03 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    CMS9.52 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Digital River and Podia
    Feature
    Digital River
    7.4
    3 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Podia
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Abandoned cart recovery9.82 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Checkout user experience5.03 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of Digital River and Podia
    Feature
    Digital River
    5.0
    3 Ratings
    50% below category average
    Podia
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    4% below category average
    eCommerce security5.03 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Digital River and Podia
    Feature
    Digital River
    6.9
    3 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Podia
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Promotions & discounts9.82 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Personalized recommendations6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO5.02 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Digital River and Podia
    Feature
    Digital River
    8.2
    2 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Podia
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Multi-site management2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Order processing9.82 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Inventory management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Shipping10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom functionality9.32 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    Shopify
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Enterprises
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    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Digital RiverPodia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.0
    (7 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.3
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Digital RiverPodia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Digital River
    Well suited if you are wanting to implement a solution with minimal staff or resources to support a large project such as E-Commerce software delivery.
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    Podia
    In my experience, Podia has been well suited in every way! I am a small company with a couple of independent contractors, and I don't know how to build my own website. I am not very techy. I get lots of compliments on how my website looks! I have had some people support me with setting up my group emails for my email list and setting up automations, and these techy people complained that they needed to do more customization in the email formatting and programming, so I switched to Mailchimp for those needs. Otherwise, I have been very happy with Podia and I am grateful to have a platform that offers so many services/features. It's affordable and user friendly. My clients and students are happy using it, too
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    Pros
    Digital River
    • Digital River's email marketing arm has always been top notch. They are very connected with their customers, quick to alert us to any problems they are experiencing and respond if we bring something to their attention.
    • The Global Commerce platform has grown leaps and bounds in the last few years. Its great having a cloud based ecommerce platform that can be accessed securely from any computer in the world.
    • Worldwide payments continues to be a Digital River strong point. They are continually investigating and and doing the work necessary to new countries and locales to their platform.
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    Podia
    • Emails
    • Course hosting
    • Website creation
    • Website chat
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Digital River
    • Their flexibility and customizability are lacking. Changes to our cart or store require a lot of lead time discussions and development time.
    • They have many strange UI implementations for things. One search bar is a wildcard match, while another is a string match. One setting might break your product, or be editable once, but you cannot change it after that one time.
    Incentivized
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    Podia
    • 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
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Digital River
    N/A I wasn't the person that implemented or recommended Digital River. But from an eCommerce standpoint I liked the organization overall and would recommend it.
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    Podia
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Digital River
    No answers on this topic
    Podia
    It has a great user interface, it's fast to edit and create courses, to edit and create emails, to find chats, to develop the website. Support has been friendly and I haven't found anything that hasn't worked. It also has basically all the tools you need outside if a complete blog platform
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Digital River
    We evaluated our ability to expand internationally with our current e-commerce platform and decided we could get to market faster with Digital River
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    Podia
    Kajabi had lots of features all in one place. I liked their digital course creator program. I liked the ease of their their membership site program/host, too. It had an app for my clients to use. There were some problems with not being able to customize the look of pages, but they allowed coding/programming if you had training, so I sometimes hired someone to do that for me. I couldn't figure out how to use their website builder, so I didn't do much there. When it came down to it, I could use Podia and it was cheaper and easier to use. GoDaddy was my website host for a few years. I did a lot on there. It was my website builder and host and I liked it. It was easy to use. My website looked great. It had more features than Podia with blogging and connecting to social media. I had a storefront but it wasn't great for selling digital products. Back then, it wanted to show my inventory and shipping options, which don't apply for services and digital products. I did a little with my digital courses on there, but in the end, I liked other sites better for this. It didn't work out. Weebly was just a starting point for me when I create my first digital course. I liked how it looked and it was easy to build, but there are better options for this sort of thing now.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Digital River
    • Definitely positive impact in local markets
    • Positive impact in email marketing
    • Some positive experience with tailoring it for our business objectives
    Incentivized
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    Podia
    • It was the 1st system I used to launch my buisness and we did 100k within 2 yrs
    Incentivized
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