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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Kajabi

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AKajabi is a web hosting platform for online learning or membership websites, featuring landing pages and support for email marketing, video hosting, and codeless web building tools.

    $89

    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
    KajabiPodia
    Editions & Modules
    Kickstarter
    $89
    per month
    Basic
    $149.00
    per month
    Growth
    $199.00
    per month
    Pro
    $399.00
    per month
    Mover
    $39.00
    per month
    Shaker
    $79.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KajabiPodia
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details30% discount for annual pricing.—
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    KajabiPodia
    Considered Both Products
    Kajabi
    Chose Kajabi
    I enjoyed Podia but it lacked the email marketing systems and diverse systems like webinars, abandoned cart, and scheduling that kajabi has.
    Incentivized
    Podia
    Chose Podia
    It has all the same features of Kajabi such as the website builder, email system, affiliate system, and course hosting . I believe they both now do quizzes and certificates too. Kajabi gets points for having a podcasting platform, a more full fledge community platform …
    Incentivized
    Chose 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 …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    22 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    23 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    24 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    16 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    KajabiPodia
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of Kajabi and Podia
    Feature
    Kajabi
    -
    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 Kajabi and Podia
    Feature
    Kajabi
    -
    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 Kajabi and Podia
    Feature
    Kajabi
    -
    Ratings
    Podia
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    4% below category average
    eCommerce security00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Kajabi and Podia
    Feature
    Kajabi
    -
    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 Kajabi and Podia
    Feature
    Kajabi
    -
    Ratings
    Podia
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Order processing00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Custom functionality00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    KajabiPodia
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    Ecwid by Lightspeed
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    No answers on this topic
    Shopify
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    IBM Digital Commerce
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    KajabiPodia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (24 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (9 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    KajabiPodia
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Kajabi
    If you need to create a self-paced course, Kajabi works well, if you want something complicated, and want to check homework and communicate a lot with students, Kajabi must be used in complex with other resources like Slack and YouTube. But anyway it is a good platform to create a digital course.
    Incentivized
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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
    Kajabi
    • Kajabi's community feature is fantastic. Love the ability for people to be able to collaborate.
    • Kajabi's feature that allows us to post and manage our curriculum is very efficient and easy to use.
    • Kajabi also has great features around contact management that have been critical for our use.
    Incentivized
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    Podia
    • Emails
    • Course hosting
    • Website creation
    • Website chat
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Kajabi
    • The page builder is not as intuitive as other competitors. It takes too many click to get around the different elements and settings.
    • Better onboarding mechanism and explanation of where everything is located
    • I'm not sure why I need to create a event to use a simple countdown on a sales page, when I could simply choose the end date I want the countdown to go to for a specific price point offer
    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
    Kajabi
    We are committed to it and once we get "really good" at using it, I think it is a excellent platform and links well to Hubspot. At present, we are still just barely scratching the surface with our use of its features
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Podia
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Kajabi
    The back-end system can be used efficiently and has flexibility. It doesn't have a lot of unnecessary functions or un user-friendly features. We have had no issues using the system and would continue to use it with the current functions and features. I would rate it as user-friendly yet flexible
    Incentivized
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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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    Support Rating
    Kajabi
    The Kajabi Support people are helpful, fast and knowledgeable. I usually call in a panic - because I have lost something, messed something or am on a deadline. Sometimes we speak, or we do a chat. Always my angst is eliminated. I often thank the person for being "so patient" with me. LOL
    Incentivized
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    Podia
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Kajabi
    These platforms are big complex pieces of software. Mor recently - Kajabi provides a done for you example which you can borrow and customise - but those were not available when we started.
    Incentivized
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    Podia
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Kajabi
    ClickFunnels is a great tool for funnel automation, landing pages, and lead generation but when it comes to product delivery for content creators it lacks functionality as it reality it was not meant for that purpose. Originally, we used ClickFunnels for our funnels but we found out that we could do exactly the same with Kajabi, so we migrated all of our funnels to Kajabi
    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
    Kajabi
    • When we used Kajabi to launch new programs we achieved the ROI of our monthly investment each time.
    • With Kajabi, the ability to offer old programs that have been offered in the past is easy to present to one-off customers or when not in a launch series.
    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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