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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Duda

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ADuda, the eponymous platform from the company in Palo Alto, is a web design platform for companies that offer web design services to small businesses. The company serves customers from freelance web professionals to digital agencies, all the way up to the large hosting companies, SaaS platforms and online publishers.

    $25

    per month

    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
    DudaPodia
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $25
    per month
    Team
    $39
    per month
    Agency
    $69
    per month
    White Label
    $199
    per month
    Custom
    Contact Sales
    Mover
    $39.00
    per month
    Shaker
    $79.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DudaPodia
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details25% discount available for annual pricing.—
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    Community Pulse
    DudaPodia
    Considered Both Products
    Duda
    No answer on this topic
    Podia
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    DudaPodia
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Duda and Podia
    Feature
    Duda
    8.6
    9 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Podia
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Duda and Podia
    Feature
    Duda
    9.2
    8 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Podia
    -
    Ratings
    API9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language9.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Duda and Podia
    Feature
    Duda
    8.8
    9 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Podia
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness9.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates8.89 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design8.29 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow8.88 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Duda and Podia
    Feature
    Duda
    7.7
    9 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Podia
    -
    Ratings
    Content taxonomy7.49 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support8.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management6.88 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.29 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management8.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of Duda and Podia
    Feature
    Duda
    -
    Ratings
    Podia
    8.1
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Product catalog & listings00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Product management00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Bulk product upload00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Branding00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Mobile storefront00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Product variations00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Website integration00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Visual customization00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    CMS00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Duda and Podia
    Feature
    Duda
    -
    Ratings
    Podia
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Abandoned cart recovery00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Checkout user experience00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Online Payment System
    Comparison of Online Payment System features of Duda and Podia
    Feature
    Duda
    -
    Ratings
    Podia
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    4% below category average
    eCommerce security00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Duda and Podia
    Feature
    Duda
    -
    Ratings
    Podia
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Promotions & discounts00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    SEO00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Duda and Podia
    Feature
    Duda
    -
    Ratings
    Podia
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Order processing00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Custom functionality00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    DudaPodia
    Small Businesses
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Square Online
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Shopify
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Digital Commerce
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DudaPodia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DudaPodia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Duda
    Duda is great for agencies. There is a good client management area. It's even good for small businesses. They can choose a template and build out their own site. It's easy to customizes a website from a barebones template. There are many customizations in the each widget. The pricing is good for all size businesses. There is no tech headache with updates and backups.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Duda
    • Very easy to learn and master
    • Builds beautiful, feature rich and easy to maintain cool websites
    • Provides an efficient management platform for agencies
    • Has a very good and responsive support team
    • Is continually expanding features and new add-on partners
    Incentivized
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    Podia
    • Emails
    • Course hosting
    • Website creation
    • Website chat
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Duda
    • Ecommerce can use some improvement--but this should be taken care of in 2023
    • A more robust app marketplace
    • More custom widgets
    Read full review
    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
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    Usability
    Duda
    Again, this platform has to be one of the easiest web development sites I have ever used in my life. From creating pages to linking buttons, hiding pages, and more, it makes it so much easier to develop websites for clients, including forms and custom membership login portals. It really is the best.
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    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
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    Alternatives Considered
    Duda
    I can't speak to why my agency selected Duda, but I can say from personal experience that building a website in Duda is much easier, and backed by better support than any other website builder I've used. Duda allows me, as a web designer, to still create great looking and unique websites. I find that other platforms, while they may provide nice templates, make it very difficult to deviate from the guardrails they put in place. Through the years, even the most basic site that I've built in Duda is significantly better than those built in other platforms
    Incentivized
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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.
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    Return on Investment
    Duda
    • Much faster project turnaround
    • Easy for non-tech staff to handle some of the work
    • Costs are lower than we were paying for less capabilities before we switched to Duda
    Incentivized
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    Podia
    • It was the 1st system I used to launch my buisness and we did 100k within 2 yrs
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