Teachable: business software for experts and educators
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Teachable helps you build pages and funnels by starting with a platform to create and sell online courses, coaching and digital downloads, with checkout. It is best for experts and educators who want a focused platform to sell courses and coaching. People also use it to make documents and slides. A free trial is available.
What it does
- Course builder with video, quizzes and drip content
- Coaching with scheduling and payment management
- Global payments, taxes, upsells and cart recovery
- iOS and Android student apps
- Create with AI, plus certificates and translations on Growth
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- Coursera: learn from university courses
Editorial note
Teachable is a platform for selling online courses, coaching and digital products. You build lessons with video, quizzes and drip content, sell through Teachable checkout with global payments and taxes handled, and students learn on the web or in the iOS and Android apps. Create with AI helps draft course material.
Who it’s for
- Subject experts launching a first online course
- Coaches selling one-on-one or group programs
- Educators selling several courses and digital downloads
- Not ideal for: creators who need a full community platform or built-in email marketing at the entry level.
Key use cases
- Funnels & pages
- Slides & docs
What you can do with it
Teachable hosts your courses and handles the business around them. You create video and text lessons with quizzes and drip schedules, offer one-on-one or group coaching with scheduling and payments, and sell digital downloads. Checkout supports upsells and cart recovery, and Teachable handles global payments and taxes. Students use a mobile-friendly site or the iOS and Android student apps.
How to use Teachable: step-by-step tutorial
Five to eight steps from the account to a first useful result. Where the official guide names a control, the step uses that name. Where it does not, the step stays general.
- Start the 7-day free trial at teachable.com.
- Create your school and your first course or coaching product.
- Upload lessons, add quizzes and set a drip schedule if you want one.
- Set a price and publish your sales page.
- Share the link with your audience and watch sales in your dashboard.
These steps follow the official guide: Teachable pricing.
Frequently asked questions
What is Teachable used for?
Creating and selling online courses, coaching programs and digital downloads, with checkout, payments, taxes and student apps included.
Does Teachable charge transaction fees?
Starter has a 7.5% transaction fee. Builder, Growth and Custom list 0%, with payment processing fees separate.
How many products can I sell on Teachable?
The pricing page lists 5 products on Starter, 10 on Builder and 50 on Growth, with custom limits on the Custom plan.
Is Teachable free?
Teachable shows a 7-day free trial and a 30-day guarantee, not a free plan. Starter is $29 a month billed annually.
Pricing
Prices checked on the official pricing page.
- Starter
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$29/month billed annually ($39 monthly)
5 products, Create with AI, iOS and Android student apps, global payments and taxes, 7.5% transaction fee
- Builder
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$69/month billed annually ($89 monthly)
10 products, 0% transaction fee, affiliate program, real-time support
- Growth
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$139/month billed annually ($189 monthly)
50 products, course certificates, remove Teachable branding, free subtitles and translations
- Custom
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Contact sales
Dedicated success manager, bulk sales, flexible seats, priority support, migration help
- Starter has a 7.5% transaction fee and a 5-product cap, and removing Teachable branding needs Growth.
- Vendors change plans; confirm on the official page before you buy.
Facts
- Access
- Free trial
- Paid plans from
- $29/month billed annually
- Checked
- Category
- Category: Business and productivity tools (153 in the library).
- On the record
- Teachable shows a 7-day free trial and a 30-day guarantee on its Starter, Builder and Growth plans. Its pricing page does not list a free plan.