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Trainual

Overview

What is Trainual?

Trainual is a modern training manual for growing businesses. It provides one simple tool that aims to help users centralize processes and policies, automate onboarding and training, and build a foundation to scale faster. The vendor says Trainual is designed…

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Pricing

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Pro

$119

Cloud
per month

Premium

$179

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Learning Management

Features of LMS and LCMS systems, related to designing, administering, and consuming learning content in an educational, corporate, or on-the-job context.

9.4
Avg 8.2
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Product Details

What is Trainual?

Trainual is a modern training manual for growing businesses. It provides one simple tool that aims to help users centralize processes and policies, automate onboarding and training, and build a foundation to scale faster. The vendor says Trainual is designed for small to medium sized businesses that are growing quickly and eager to document systems and processes, define step-by-step workflows, eliminate grey area between roles, and ensure that training happens consistently, every time.

According to the vendor, customers can actually avoid their best people leaving, retain and nurture great talent, ensure everybody does things the right way every time, and even get themselves out of the day-to-day grind if they simply spend the time to document how they do what they do in simple step-by-step sequences.

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Trainual Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

TalentLMS and Atlassian Confluence are common alternatives for Trainual.

Reviewers rate Player/Portal and Mobile friendly and Compliance management highest, with a score of 9.6.

The most common users of Trainual are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Very quick results after implementing

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 12, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Trainual
1 year of experience
We use Trainual to document our processes. It has been very useful to ensure that we all do everything uniformly and can train employees. Since implementing Trainual we have been able to create a much better sales process and we have also seen an increase in sales. It also helped us with documenting our marketing efforts and training a new marketing assistant.
  • Makes it easy to edit text
  • Easily locate documentation
  • Easy to add pdf's and videos to manuals
  • Easy to create new topics and steps.
Cons
  • Add more webinars for new users
  • Create pdf's of helpful tips
  • Customer success stories
We really liked Trainual at the time when we started developing a sales process. We recognized that we had to make things uniform across our company. We looked around at different options and we found Trainual to be the easiest to use and implement. Now we were able to hire a new sales person and train them quickly.

Best tool for documenting processes

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 02, 2021
We are using Trainual to document all possible processes to audit them and ensure they're as effective as possible. We are also using it to train new employees. We really like the combination of the different media forms available for teaching - from plain text, audio, and video. The tests are also very helpful.
  • Document processes
  • Test Knowledge
  • Really clean UI
Cons
  • Sinking with apps like Gusto or other payroll platforms where you can track the on-boarding and training of an employee.
Documenting/building processes onboarding and training new employees training existing employees Testing employees and creating "certifications" internally

Get your teams trained!!

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 26, 2021
SO
Vetted Review
Verified User
Trainual
3 years of experience
It is currently being used to train new employees and retain the current processes through all seasoned employees. It allows many team members to go back to the basics if they forget something. Bringing on new hires find it so much easier to get things started as if they have been part of the team for years
  • Allows us to break up each session
  • Add videos along with other links to each module
  • Give everyone a secure login
  • Makes use of the time people spend on it.
Cons
  • Implementing type form style surveys.
  • Live feedback when someone enters the portal.
We have offices set around the world, and hiring new team members in certain countries makes it a bit difficult, especially now to fly out or fly in to help get them situated and fully trained. This really helps close the gaps in between the distance and training. Makes onboarding a heck of a lot easier.

SO helpful for onboarding!

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 24, 2020
JO
Vetted Review
Verified User
Trainual
1 year of experience
  • We use Trainual for internal training of new employees and to ensure that unique processes or procedures are rolled out efficiently across the company. Every department uses it for its own processes, and we have a few company-wide subjects as well.
  • For us, Trainaul has fixed any issues regarding information transfer from whoever made a change to everyone that change effects. If anyone ever has a question about a process, there's a Trainual subject for that!
  • It's also been beneficial for new employees in helping make sure that they all get the same level of introduction to their new role and new company.
  • The ability to get very granular with detail.
  • The ability to integrate different types of media for different kinds of learners.
Cons
  • The layout for all subjects is very overwhelming, and I'd love to be able to sort into folders or buckets.
  • I'd also like to be able to see all steps within ALL subjects in one area and be able to reorganize those with a simple drag and drop, instead of having to copy and paste text to move from one subject to another.
I think Trainual perfectly suited for onboarding! Love that it creates a polished product with minimal effort on the back end. I think it's less appropriate for any scenario where changes happen often. For example, if I had an employee process that changed every week (a system change, a new method, etc.), it wouldn't make sense to update the subject for that topic and make all employees re-visit it for just that one week. I think it's best used for processes that mostly stay the same for a significant period of time.

Trainual is a Must for Agency Life

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 12, 2021
MJ
Vetted Review
Verified User
Trainual
4 years of experience
Currently we are using trainual to house a lot of our training videos and documentation. We have a lot of modules that hold plenty of information for our team and provides a terrific resource for our entire agency. Everyone in the agency is introduced early on to Trainual and the benefits it offers. We used to have all of our training in Google Docs and Confluence. Trainual, however keeps things very organized and the flow is also something we can track. Beforehand we couldn't track how much training someone from our team had done and now we can!
  • Tracks progress for training.
  • Easily determines a new hires competency in handling tasks on their own.
  • Houses all of our documents and videos in one location versus several.
Cons
  • Identifying the users and their roles
  • Access to modules or training can be confusing
  • If you aren't careful some tasks and training can be pretty deep within trainual, and hard to find.
Trainual is well suited for new hires. They can be introduced to our processes and products before testing and trying themselves. Trainual provides for a less jarring experience for anyone new to our team. Every time someone new starts it is imperative that they complete all the training modules within Trainual before doing some of the work themselves. It definitely allows for a smoother transition to the team and work life.
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