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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    TalentLMS

    Score8.2 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    TalentLMS is an LMS built for training success, presented as fully customizable and easy to manage, so that teams embrace training while feeling right at home. It is used to provide the right training to any team and every use, while giving expert guidance and support every step of the way.

    $149

    per month 1-40 users

    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
    TalentLMSPodia
    Editions & Modules
    Core
    $149
    per month 1-40 users
    Grow
    $299
    per month 1-70 users
    Pro
    $579
    per month 1-100 users
    Enterprise (Custom plan)
    Custom
    annual plan Starts at 1000 users
    Mover
    $39.00
    per month
    Shaker
    $79.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    TalentLMSPodia
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsUsers can stay on the Forever Free plan and upgrade, or downgrade or cancel at any time. Higher volume plans available at additional cost. Discount available for annual billing, and for nonprofits.—
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    Community Pulse
    TalentLMSPodia
    Considered Both Products
    Epignosis
    No answer on this topic
    Podia
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    50 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    49 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    51 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    50 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    47 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    TalentLMSPodia
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of TalentLMS and Podia
    Feature
    TalentLMS
    8.5
    50 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Podia
    -
    Ratings
    Course authoring8.634 Ratings00 Ratings
    Course catalog or library8.334 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning content8.231 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile friendly8.744 Ratings00 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications9.049 Ratings00 Ratings
    Assignments8.546 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance management8.842 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning administration8.949 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics8.847 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social learning7.322 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gamification7.624 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning8.826 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of TalentLMS and Podia
    Feature
    TalentLMS
    -
    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 TalentLMS and Podia
    Feature
    TalentLMS
    -
    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 TalentLMS and Podia
    Feature
    TalentLMS
    -
    Ratings
    Podia
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    4% below category average
    eCommerce security00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of TalentLMS and Podia
    Feature
    TalentLMS
    -
    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 TalentLMS and Podia
    Feature
    TalentLMS
    -
    Ratings
    Podia
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Order processing00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Custom functionality00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    TalentLMSPodia
    Small Businesses
    Tovuti LMS
    Score6.6 out of 10
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    iSpring LMS
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Shopify
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bridge LMS, Skills & Performance Management
    Score7.4 out of 10
    IBM Digital Commerce
    Score9 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    TalentLMSPodia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (51 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (44 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.3
    (28 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    TalentLMSPodia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Epignosis
    TalentLMS is user-friendly enough for someone new to LMS management can get a site up and running in a relatively quick manner. It is rather intuitive to operate. My needs have been a rather small scale of 400 learners and TalentLMS more than meets the need to produce a professional-looking and operational website to send customers and staff. The point here is that although I do not know how well it can be up-scaled, it certainly delivers for small to medium organizations to need to get content online
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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
    Epignosis
    • Report creation and distribution
    • Course creation, launch, and individual assignments
    • End user friendly for people with little computer skills
    • API integration with such platforms as ADP, Microsoft.
    Incentivized
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    Podia
    • Emails
    • Course hosting
    • Website creation
    • Website chat
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Epignosis
    • Email notifications have arbitrary limits on what information can be included. For example, you cannot include the user password in any notification email regarding course enrollment, group enrollment, etc.
    • Notification emails are not sent out in a reasonable time frame. Sometimes, it takes over 20 minutes for a new user to get their registration email.
    • It would be nice to get reports in the base domain containing customer user fields from various branches.
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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
    Epignosis
    The ease of use, the robustness of the offering, and familiarity. It does everything we need and probably more. We likley don't utilize all the functionality it has as it does what we want it to without having to dig that deep into its tools. Their course library also has saved us some time in terms of saving time from creating some basic courses.
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    Podia
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Epignosis
    The system is intuitive. It does not have a lot of features that are hidden behind secret menus or elsewhere. There are often multiple ways to get to the same place through different menus without having to go back to the home or root menu. It makes things pretty easy. Additionally, if there is something I can't figure out, there is documentation available to help with that.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Epignosis
    I have never run into an issue with downtime in 5 plus years.
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    Podia
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Epignosis
    It loads fast. Screen transitions are quick. Nothing seems to ever lag.
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    Podia
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Epignosis
    Quick answer, comprehensive, and customized. I sent an email with multiple questions and feedback about their new UI, and the agent addressed all of them directly and honestly no sugar-coating and no call center lingo. Most questions can also be addressed directly in their UI with a really good help center widget.
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    Podia
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Epignosis
    Implementation was relatively easy. When we set up a second branch, we needed a little help. But the support area is well-detailed. My clients had no experience with an LMS and their digital skills were limited. We had a long way to go. Nevertheless, it was relatively easy. It was rather quick!
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    Podia
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Epignosis
    Both are good, but the pricing and general value proposition of Talent LMS are better than Trainual in my opinion. Trainual is a bit more modern and cleaner looking from a user interface perspective, but it comes at a higher cost. Both platforms provide very similar features in the way of general functionality and user experience, but Talent LMS wins because of its better pricing model.
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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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    Scalability
    Epignosis
    The product can create as similar or unique experiences for different branches as you want for training purposes
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    Podia
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Epignosis
    • Managers have used this internally to get new employees up to speed and trained faster. It's a great onboarding tool.
    • Externally, we help our customers better self-serve when they understand the software they are using. This reduces calls to Customer Support.
    • We've used training as an added incentive for our customers to maintain a higher level of service, resulting in increased ARR.
    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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    ScreenShots

    TalentLMS Screenshots

    Screenshot of TalentLMS' learner view of a courseScreenshot of TalentLMS' training reportsScreenshot of TalentLMS's AI-powered Content CreatorScreenshot of the TalentLMS dashboardScreenshot of where to customize the TalentLMS portal