Item: Teachable
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We primarily use Teachable for our online courses around topics like goal setting, productivity, and leadership. We also use it for the initial training, online exam, and ongoing updates to our certification programs. We also use it to give customers access to bonus content when they buy other products from us, such as online tutorials for our physical products.

Pros and Cons

Hosts digital content such as video & PDFs
Allows us to bundle multiple courses together
Has a decent Zapier connection to sync with our other platforms
Really easy to use

The affiliate part of the system isn't great
Needs a lot of work on the reporting side of things
Needs to give more control & insight into upcoming renewals, cancellations, and churn. Not super great at subscriptions.

Return on Investment

Positive: The built-in post-purchase upsells have allowed us to maximize our customer lifetime value
Positive: Switching to Teachable in 2018 was an enormous improvement over our previous in-house system in terms of the time & effort involved in launching new courses. This has saved us a lot of money.
Negative: Not having a clear picture of renewals/cancellations/failed payments for courses we have that use a membership-model has been a constant battle. We're now moving those subscriptions off of Teachable and onto alternative payment platforms, but continuing to use Teachable for the core content.

Alternatives Considered

LearnDash and Circle Community Platform

It's honestly just worked really well for us in terms of serving the actual course content. Plus, our customers can maintain one profile and use that to access all of the courses and bonuses that they've acquired from us. And the cost of Teachable has been very reasonable in terms of our budget.

Key Insights

Do you think Teachable delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Teachable's feature set?

Yes

Did Teachable live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Teachable go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Teachable again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Demio, Shopify Plus, Recharge, Asana, Rebuy Engine

Likelihood to Recommend

Gets the job done and is easy to use. We've definitely made serious revenue with it, and it's worked well enough with our other systems to enable some handy automations. I'd say if you've got a course or courses you're looking to launch and they are fairly straightforward with up-front payments, Teachable can definitely get the job done. However, if you're running more of a membership model for access to your courses, Teachable by itself may not be the ideal solution, or you may want to use a different platform for the payments and just use Teachable for the actual courses.

Excellent platform to serve course content to your customers

Overall Satisfaction with Teachable