TEACHERY: THE BEST ONLINE COURSE PLATFORM YOU’VE (N)EVER HEARD OF
Looking for a reliable, easy-to-use, affordable platform where you can host your online course, digital products, or membership? I’ve got just the tool for you!
I’ve been hearing a lot of people in the course creator and digital product world complain about the course hosting platforms on offer.
If you’re one of those people, I don’t blame you.
I meannnn…
❌ Thirvecart Learn is super cheap. But it also just doesn’t work and continues to have outages and lock all your students out of the courses they’ve paid for. #great
❌ The big platforms punish you for making sales. Like Teachable which, on their lowest pricing plan, takes a 5% transaction fee for every sale you make. And if you don’t want to pay them every time you make a sale, you have to pay $159 a month for that luxury.
When you sell courses, workshops, memberships, or digital products, it seems like there aren’t a lot of great – and also affordable – options.
But there is one great affordable option…
Teachery!
Teachery is owned by husband and wife team, Jason & Caroline Zook
So what is Teachery?
Teachery (not Teachable) is the course hosting platform I’ve been using since 2019 to host all my courses, recorded workshops, masterminds, programmes, and digital products.
I’ve never once had a single complaint. I LOVE it. (And the customer support team is amazing).
You’ve not heard of Teachery because they don’t do any marketing. They rely solely on word of mouth referrals to grow their platform.
So, because they’re not forking out thousands on paid ads every month (and for a few other reasons, like having a super lean team)...
Teachery is able to provide a low-cost, reliable, easy-to-use course hosting platform.
This platform has pretty much all the same functionality and features as other course platforms, but you can get it for a fraction of the price.
Image from Teachery's website
Oh and there are no pricing tiers. Once you join, you get access to everything – ALL the features for one set price.
So you don’t ever have to worry about not having the features you actually need, or having to pay more to access the most useful ones.
Whereas Teachable only lets you publish 5 courses/products on their $59 a-month tier, Teachery lets you publish UNLIMITED courses/products and you can have an UNLIMITED number of students too.
But here’s the best thing –
Teachery has a lifetime deal happening right now.
Unlimited courses
Unlimited students
Unlimited landing pages
Unlimited course hubs
Unlimited custom domains
Seriously, all their features
I’m kind of jealous that I missed out on this offer. So do me (and yourself!) a favour…
Don’t miss out 😅
Whether you’re selling:
✅ Online courses
✅ Memberships
✅ Workshops or masterclasses
✅ Digital products or digital downloads
✅ Coaching programmes
✅ Masterminds
…you’ll pay $550 one time, and you’ll never pay again.
So what are some of Teachery’s best features & benefits?
1. Unlimited Everything.
So I know I mentioned this before, but seriously…
Unlimited courses, unlimited customers, unlimited admin accounts, unlimited landing pages, unlimited course hubs, unlimited custom domains.
They’re not constantly trying to upsell you so you join their next tier. There’s only one tier, which means you join you get access to every single feature. And there are no limits.
2. no ADDED transaction fees
A lot of other course platforms take a cut of every sale you make – that’s on top of the transaction fee taken by your payment processor e.g. Stripe/Paypal.
By the time your money reaches your account, you’ve already lost anything between 7-10% of your sale. You don’t even see that money. And the more money you make, the more money those course platforms take, so you end up feeling like you’re being punished for making sales!
Teachery, on the other hand, doesn’t take an additional transaction fee when you make a sale. This tool was created by small business owners who champion other small business owners, and who want us to keep the money we earn.
The only fee Teachery takes is the initial fee you pay to join the platform. And if you catch the Limited Lifetime Deal, you’ll pay $550 one-time and you’ll never pay again
3. CREATE Sales Pages
You can create landing pages and sales pages inside Teachery. There’s also a drag and drop template to help you get started so you’re not working from a blank page. It’s simple, but it does the job and it’s easy to use.
Note: before I got Teachery, I was already using LeadPages for my sales pages and landing pages. So I don’t use the sales page feature on Teachery, though lots of people do.
4. Flexible payment pages
You can customise your payment pages and create flexible payment plans for your customers. And if you Teachery’s payment pages, you can also create bundles and upsells to maximise sales.
It’s worth noting that I’ve always used Thrivecart as my checkout tool because Thrivecart calculates sales tax (whereas Teachery doesn’t). It’s simple enough. My sales pages direct customers to Thrivecart, and then I use the Zapier integration to give new students access to the course they’ve just bought.
5. autosave
This is a small but MAJOR feature that deserves a special mention. You never have to worry about losing your work because Teachery autosaves EVERYTHING.
6. INTEGRATIONS
Teachery integrates with the big email service providers, like Kit (formerly ConvertKit) and MailChimp. But if you want to integrate Teachery with other platforms, you’ll have to use a tool like Zapier or Make.
7. Real Human support
The best thing about Teachery is that it was created by humans who actually care about your business. If you’re having an issue or you need help, customer support responds in rapid time and they always get to the bottom of it.
For this reason alone, Teachery is well worth the price even outside of the Limited Lifetime Deal.
FAQ: Does Teachery calculate sales tax for you?
If, like me, you need to charge your customers VAT or any other type of sales tax, it’s important to note Teachery does not calculate that for you.
I use Thrivecart as my checkout tool, which does calculate all my sales tax. It’s fairly simple. My sales pages all direct customers to my Thrivecart checkout pages, then when someone buys a course Teachery gives that person access (with a little help from Zapier).
To clarify, my payment process involves –
Zapier
Thrivecart
Sales page tool (LeadPages)
These are all tools I was using anyway, so I didn’t have to add anything new to my tech stack to make Teachery work for me.
I will say that if this is holding you back, Thrivecart’s fee is also a one-time payment right now. For their Simple Sales Tax Functionality feature, you’ll need Thrivecart Pro which is a one-time payment of $690.
So between Teachery’s one-time $550 fee and Thrivecart’s one-time $690 fee, that’s a total of $1240. Which is a heck of a lot less than you’d pay for a course platform that does calculate sales tax for you.
FAQ: Show me around the inside of YOUR Teachery?
Your wish is my command! ⬇️
Hope that helped? :)
Eman
PS. I’m a big fan of Teachery and have been since 2019, so I like to shout about it.
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