Top 5 Course Platforms for Life Transition Coaches, Ranked
The best course platforms for life transition coaches do more than host videos. Your clients are mid-crossing: newly divorced, newly retired, newly relocated, newly redundant or newly an empty nester. A library of lessons helps, but what keeps someone moving through the hardest weeks is the structure around it: a check-in on the Tuesday that feels heavy, a cohort of people in the same season, a booked call when the paperwork lands, and one place to find all of it. So the deciding question is not "which tool has the nicest course player?" It is "which tool lets me run the course, the people and the follow-through from one login?"
Our pick is Coachful, because it puts courses, multi-week programs with daily check-ins, cohort groups, 1:1 booking, contracts and payments in one branded client app. We make Coachful, so weigh that. The other four tools below (Kajabi, Podia, Thinkific and Teachable) are strong course businesses, and each wins a specific scenario that some transition coaches genuinely have. Each section opens with that scenario and ends with a plain "Pick it over Coachful if..." line.
If you want the wider view first, our guide to course platforms for life coaches covers the general category, and best software for life transition coaches looks at the whole business stack beyond courses.
What do life transition coaches actually need from a course platform?
They need a platform that can carry a client through a change that unfolds over weeks or months, not just deliver a finished set of lessons. Transitions have a beginning (the shock or decision), a messy middle and a new normal, and the course is only one of the tools you use along the way.
Look at how transition coaching is usually packaged. A typical practice combines three or four of these formats:
- A self-paced entry course. Something like "Your First 90 Days After Retirement" or "Rebuilding Your Week After Divorce": six to ten short modules, worksheets, a values exercise, maybe a Wheel of Life assessment to see which areas took the biggest hit.
- A multi-week program. An eight or twelve week "Next Chapter" container where the course content drips weekly and the client also has daily tasks, habits and check-ins between calls.
- Cohorts by life event. Empty nesters in one group, people relocating for a partner's job in another, recently widowed or divorced clients in a third. The shared season is the point; mixing them dilutes it.
- 1:1 sessions. A free discovery call, then paid sessions or a package of session credits, often weekly at the start and spacing out as the client stabilises.
- A light community. A feed or group chat where cohort members can post a win ("signed the lease") or ask a question at 10pm without waiting for a call.
That mix creates specific platform requirements. You need drip content tied to enrollment dates, because a client who joins the week after their redundancy should not see the "negotiating your first offer" module on day one. You need check-ins, because transition clients go quiet when things get hard, and quiet is the signal you most want to catch. You need groups that form automatically when someone enrolls in a cohort program. And you need booking and payments in the same place, so a client in the middle of a hard month does not have to juggle four logins.
Where scope matters in transition work
Transitions overlap with grief, financial stress and sometimes legal disputes. Coaching is not therapy, financial advice or legal advice. If a client shows signs of depression, thoughts of self-harm, or symptoms that stop them functioning day to day, refer them to a licensed mental health professional and, in an emergency, to local emergency services. Divorce coaches should point clients to a family lawyer for legal questions, and retirement coaches to a qualified financial adviser for money decisions. Whatever platform you choose, keep clinical or legal records out of it. Coachful, for example, is not HIPAA-certified, so clinical notes belong in a clinical system. Our piece on moving from therapist to life coach goes deeper on where that line sits. The International Coaching Federation publishes the profession's ethics and competency standards if you want an outside reference.
Which platform wins each transition coaching scenario?
Coachful is the best overall pick; the others each win one narrower situation. Ranking criteria: one login for the whole client journey, delivery between sessions (check-ins, habits, cohorts), total monthly stack cost, and setup effort, including Coachful's free white-glove build.
| Platform | Best for | Starting price | Main trade-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful | Best overall: courses plus programs, check-ins, cohorts, booking and payments in one branded app | Lite: $29/month for up to 5 clients | Not a course marketplace; no PayPal |
| Kajabi | A coach with a large audience selling a signature transition course and membership | $179/mo ($143/mo annual) | No per-client plans, habits or check-ins |
| Podia | A simple storefront mixing a course, a workshop and a few paid sessions | $49/mo ($42/mo annual), 5% fee on Mover | Small email allowances; no native video calls |
| Thinkific | Course-first coaches running large cohorts or selling to employers' outplacement programs | $109/mo ($82/mo annual) | No built-in 1:1 scheduling |
| Teachable | Testing one low-cost retirement or relocation course before building anything bigger | $39/mo ($29/mo annual), 7.5% fee on Starter | No native scheduling or check-ins |
Vendor prices are as listed in October 2026 and can change; check each vendor's site before you buy.
How did we choose and rank these five tools?
We started from what transition clients experience, then worked backwards to features. A client in a hard season should have one app, one password and one place to find the next step. That pushed four criteria to the top.
- One login for the whole journey. Discovery call, agreement, payment, course, check-ins, group and follow-up sessions. Every extra tool is another place a struggling client can get lost.
- Delivery between sessions. Daily or weekly check-ins, habits, and cohort groups. A client working alone through a hard season can stall for weeks without anyone noticing.
- Total stack cost. Not the sticker price of the course tool, but what you pay once you add booking, e-signature, email and community.
- Setup effort. Many transition coaches come to coaching mid-career themselves. Hours spent wiring tools together are hours not spent with clients.
We did not test these platforms hands-on for this article. Vendor details come from each vendor's published pricing and feature pages as listed in October 2026, and from public review data where we cite it. Where our data does not cover a feature, we say so rather than guess.
We also left out a few categories deliberately. Pure link-in-bio stores are good for selling a single guide but carry no client records or programs. Clinical practice systems are built for therapists and dietitians. If you are comparing coaching platforms more broadly, our ranking of 12 platforms for life transition coaches covers those.
1. Coachful: best overall for life transition coaches
The scenario it wins: you sell a course, but what clients really buy is the crossing. You want the course to sit inside a program with check-ins and a cohort, with the discovery call, agreement, payment and follow-up sessions in the same place.
Coachful is a coaching platform, not a course tool with coaching bolted on. One subscription covers booking, payments, contracts, program delivery with habits and check-ins, courses, a community, a website with funnels and email, and an AI assistant. The coach has one login, and the client gets one app carrying the coach's branding. It is built for coaches who deliver programs rather than single sessions, for solo coaches growing into a small team, and for coaches replacing four to six separate tools.
Courses that live inside the client's journey
Courses in Coachful have modules, lessons, drip release and completion tracking. You can also add downloads, videos, books, AI tools and events, and package any of them into bundles. Everything is delivered into the client's branded home and app, so a client who bought "Rebuilding After Divorce" opens the same app where they book calls and message you.
For transition work the useful part is that a course can be one piece of a multi-week program rather than a standalone product. An eight-week retirement program might drip one module a week while also giving the client daily tasks ("call one former colleague for coffee"), habits ("a 20-minute walk before 10am") and weekly goals with progress bars. If you are starting from scratch, there are 48 course templates with quizzes and more than 40 ready-to-film program templates to adapt.
Check-ins that catch the quiet weeks
Transition clients often disappear exactly when they most need contact. Coachful programs include morning and evening check-ins, streaks and goals, and the coaching flow builder lets you branch a check-in: a client who reports a hard day can be routed to a calming step, while one who reports progress moves on.
Each client record pulls goals, check-ins, habits, notes, intake answers, tags, payments and sessions together, and marks the client as thriving, active, quiet or at risk. Michelle, the built-in AI assistant, works from that live data to brief you before a session and summarise recorded sessions. For a coach with 15 clients at different points in different transitions, that status is what tells you who to message today.
Here is a short walkthrough of how programs are built and delivered in Coachful:
Cohorts by life event
When a client enrolls in a cohort program, Coachful creates the cohort group automatically. The community includes a feed, group chat, direct messages and video events, plus group calls and webinars. An "Empty Nest Spring Cohort" gets its own space without you setting it up by hand each time. See our group coaching software page for how groups and programs connect.
The business side, in the same login
- Booking: availability rules, buffers, minimum notice, time-zone detection (useful when relocating clients cross time zones mid-program), two-way Google, Apple/iCloud and Outlook sync, built-in video or auto-created Zoom, Meet or Teams links, paid sessions and session credits.
- Agreements: coaching agreements with e-signature, sent before the first call and stored on the client record. More on our coaching contracts page.
- Payments: through your own Stripe Connect or Razorpay account, with one-time payments, subscriptions, payment plans, coupons and refunds. Coachful charges a 0% platform fee; you pay only Stripe or Razorpay processing.
- Marketing: a section-based website builder with blog and custom domain, booking, application and lead-magnet funnels, plus email sequences with triggers, delays and branching.
Why Coachful stands out: a free white-glove service. From Create, choose "We'll build it for you" and describe what you need: a website, a funnel, a program, a course outline and written material, an email sequence or a form. You can attach up to 8 reference links and up to 10 files such as your logo, photos and existing copy. The Coachful team builds it inside your account, usually within about 24 hours, and leaves gaps for you rather than inventing credentials, testimonials or prices. It does not include recording videos, logo design or ad management. One recent build: a somatic coach leaving Kajabi had the homepage and About page rebuilt and the contact form connected. Read more about the free white-glove service.
What Coachful does not do
Coachful is not a course marketplace, so it will not send you buyers the way a marketplace might. There is no PayPal and no permanent free plan, though there is a free trial. It is not HIPAA-certified, so it is not the place for clinical records. The client app ships under the Coachful listing with your branding, not under your own App Store account. There are no third-party plugins.
Price: flat monthly plans, with lower plans capping the number of clients and Pro unlimited (current plans: Lite: $29/month for up to 5 clients; Solo: $49/month for up to 20 clients; Pro: $99/month with unlimited clients; Studio: $199/month with unlimited clients). Courses, programs, community, booking and email are included in your Coachful membership. Monthly plans cancel in one click.
2. Kajabi: best for a big-audience signature course
Where it shines: you already have a sizeable email list or podcast audience, and the core of your business is one signature transition course plus a membership community, sold through polished funnels.
Kajabi is a course, community, website, funnel and email platform for selling knowledge products. For a transition coach with an established audience, say someone known for a retirement-readiness podcast, it offers a mature place to sell a flagship course, run launch funnels and host a paid community. The marketing tools are the reason most coaches choose it.
The limit for transition work is the coaching model. In Kajabi, coaching is organised as products and communities, not per-client plans. There is no habit tracking and no daily client check-ins, so the "quiet week" problem has to be solved by watching course progress or community activity yourself. If your clients mostly self-serve through a course and you rarely work 1:1, that matters less.
Kajabi pricing, as listed in October 2026
- Basic: $179/mo ($143/mo annual): 5 products, 2,500 contacts, 1 community, 1 website, 2 admin users, 0 AI credits.
- Growth: $249/mo ($199/mo annual): 50 products, 25,000 contacts, 500 AI credits.
- Pro: $499/mo ($399/mo annual): unlimited products, 100,000 contacts, 3 communities, 3 websites.
Kajabi Payments in the US costs 2.9% + $0.30 on Basic, dropping slightly on higher plans. If you use another processor (other than PayPal), Kajabi adds its own fee of 2% on Basic, 1% on Growth or 0.5% on Pro. The standard trial is 14 days. On Trustpilot, Kajabi showed 3.4 from 2,347 reviews when we checked in October 2026.
Watch the five-product cap on Basic. A transition coach with an entry course, a cohort program, a workbook, a workshop recording and a membership has already hit it.
Pick it over Coachful if you sell mainly one course and a community to a large existing audience, rarely run 1:1 programs, and want Kajabi's launch funnel tooling more than check-ins and client records.
3. Podia: best simple storefront for a mixed offer
The situation it suits: you are early in your practice and want one tidy storefront selling a short course, a recorded workshop such as "Planning Your First Year After Retirement", a few paid coaching sessions and a small community, without much setup.
Podia keeps things simple. It sells courses, downloads, webinars, coaching sessions and community from one storefront. For a newer transition coach testing which format clients want, that breadth is useful, and the 14-day trial needs no card or plan selection.
The gaps show once you have real clients mid-program. Podia has no client habits, check-ins or per-client plans. Our older profile data also notes no mobile app and no native video calls, so sessions run through a separate video tool. Email subscriber allowances are small for a coach who plans to grow a list: 100, 500 or 1,000 included depending on plan.
Pricing as listed in October 2026:
| Podia plan | Monthly | Annual (per month) | What you get | Podia fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mover | $49 | $42 | 50 products, 25 community spaces, 100 email subscribers | 5% |
| Shaker | $99 | $84 | 150 products, 100 spaces, 500 email subscribers, 1 assistant | 0% |
| Earthquaker | $179 | $150 | Unlimited products and spaces, 1,000 email subscribers | 0% |
Stripe or PayPal processing (2.9% + 30¢ standard) applies on top. The 5% Mover fee matters more than it looks: on an illustrative $1,200 eight-week program, that is $60 per client to Podia before processing. Podia showed 4.1 from 153 reviews on Trustpilot in October 2026.
Pick it over Coachful if you mainly sell small digital products and occasional sessions, do not need check-ins or client records yet, and want the simplest storefront you can set up in an afternoon.
4. Thinkific: best for course-first cohorts at scale
Who should look here: a transition coach whose main product is a structured course delivered to large groups, for example a career-transition curriculum sold to employers as part of an outplacement or redundancy package, where 1:1 work is a small add-on.
Thinkific is a course platform with communities, memberships, and coaching and webinar products. Its strength is volume: the Start plan already allows 10,000 current students. For a coach running a 60-person "Career Change After 50" cohort through an employer contract, that headroom and the course structure fit well.
For classic 1:1 transition coaching, the gaps are real. Thinkific has no built-in 1:1 scheduling (our older profile notes coaching relies on external booking links), and no client habits, daily check-ins or per-client plans. A branded mobile app is a $199/mo add-on.
As listed in October 2026, after a price rise of about 10% on August 13, 2026:
- Start: $109/mo ($82/mo annual): 2 admins, 1 community with 10 spaces, 5 live community events, max group size 50.
- Grow: $219/mo ($164/mo annual): 6 admins, 3 communities, group size 100.
- Expand: $499/mo ($374/mo annual): 15 admins, 10 communities, unlimited group size.
Thinkific charges 0% transaction fees through Thinkific Payments, at a processing rate it describes as in line with other processors at 2.9%. Third-party Stripe or PayPal gateways carry an extra per-plan fee not listed on the page. There is a 30-day free trial. Public reviewers are harsher here: Trustpilot showed 1.8 from 868 reviews in October 2026.
Note the group-size limit of 50 on Start if you plan large live cohort sessions.
Pick it over Coachful if your business is mainly a high-volume course sold to many learners at once, possibly through employers, and 1:1 sessions and daily check-ins are a minor part of what you deliver.
5. Teachable: best for testing one low-cost course
Use case: you want to validate a single inexpensive course, such as a $49 "Relocation Reset" mini-course, before committing to a full coaching platform.
Teachable is a course and digital-product platform with student mobile apps. Its Starter plan is the lowest-priced entry in this list, which makes it a reasonable sandbox for testing whether a transition topic sells.
The constraints are clear in the published pricing. Starter takes a 7.5% platform fee on sales. There is no native scheduling or calendar sync (our older profile notes coaching calls rely on separate booking and video tools), and no client habits, daily check-ins or per-client plans. For a coach who wants to sell a course and then upsell 1:1 work, that means a second and probably third tool almost immediately.
Pricing as listed in October 2026:
- Starter: $39/mo ($29/mo annual): 5 products, 1 admin, 7.5% platform fee.
- Builder: $89/mo ($69/mo annual): 10 products, 0% platform fee.
- Growth: $189/mo ($139/mo annual): 50 products, 5 admins.
Teachable Payments processing for US cards is 2.9% + 30¢ (international 3.9% + 30¢), with a $15 chargeback fee. Plan cards show a 7-day free trial plus a 30-day guarantee. Trustpilot showed 3.3 from 1,110 reviews in October 2026.
A worked example of the Starter fee: sell 20 copies of an illustrative $49 course in a month and $73.50 goes to the 7.5% fee, on top of the $39 subscription. At that point Builder is cheaper.
Pick it over Coachful if you only want to test one cheap self-paced course, have no 1:1 or cohort clients yet, and are happy to move platforms once the course proves itself.
How do the five platforms compare feature by feature?
Coachful is the only one of the five that combines courses with per-client programs, check-ins and built-in booking. The others are stronger on pure course and marketing features but leave the coaching side to other tools.
| Feature | Coachful | Kajabi | Podia | Thinkific | Teachable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful (summary) | Courses, programs, check-ins, booking, contracts, community in one app | Course, community and funnel suite | Simple storefront | Course platform at scale | Course and digital products |
| Courses with drip and completion tracking | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Per-client programs with habits and daily check-ins | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Built-in 1:1 booking with calendar sync | Yes | Not covered in our data | Sells sessions; no native video calls | No (external booking links) | No |
| Coaching agreements with e-signature | Yes | Not covered in our data | Not covered in our data | Not covered in our data | Not covered in our data |
| Community and group chat | Yes, with cohort groups created on enrollment | Yes (1 community on Basic) | Yes (community spaces) | Yes (communities and spaces) | Not covered in our data |
| Mobile app for clients | Yes, with your branding in the Coachful app | Not covered in our data | No (older profile) | Branded app as a $199/mo add-on | Student mobile apps |
| Extra platform fee on the entry plan | 0% | None on Kajabi Payments; 2% with other processors | 5% on Mover | 0% on Thinkific Payments | 7.5% on Starter |
| Course marketplace for discovery | No | Not covered in our data | Not covered in our data | Not covered in our data | Not covered in our data |
Rows marked "Not covered in our data" mean the vendor facts we hold for this article do not address that feature; check the vendor's site.
What does each platform cost at 5, 15 and 40 clients?
Course platforms mostly price by products, contacts or admins rather than by client, so their cost barely moves between 5 and 40 transition clients. Coachful prices by client count, and its lower plans are designed for smaller practices.
| Platform (plan used) | 5 clients | 15 clients | 40 clients | What else you still need |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful | Lite: $29/month for up to 5 clients | Solo: $49/month for up to 20 clients | Pro: $99/month with unlimited clients | Nothing for booking, contracts, check-ins or email |
| Kajabi (Basic) | $179/mo | $179/mo | $179/mo | Check-ins and per-client plans; check booking and e-signature |
| Podia (Shaker, to avoid the 5% fee) | $99/mo | $99/mo | $99/mo | Video calls, check-ins, more email capacity |
| Thinkific (Start) | $109/mo | $109/mo | $109/mo | Booking tool, check-ins, e-signature |
| Teachable (Builder, to avoid the 7.5% fee) | $89/mo | $89/mo | $89/mo | Booking tool, video calls, check-ins, e-signature |
Monthly list prices as of October 2026, before payment processing. The last column is the real cost driver: each missing piece is usually a separate subscription, and we have not priced those tools here because they vary by vendor.
What do three realistic transition coaching stacks cost per month?
The cheapest-looking course tool is rarely the cheapest stack. Here are three illustrative setups for a transition coach with about 15 active clients, an entry course and one cohort program.
| Stack | Tools | Monthly cost | Logins for the client |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coachful all-in-one | Coachful for course, program, check-ins, cohort group, booking, contracts, payments, website and email | Solo: $49/month for up to 20 clients | One branded app |
| Course-suite stack | Kajabi Basic for course, community and email, plus a separate scheduler and e-signature tool | $179 plus the scheduler and e-signature subscriptions (not priced here) | Two or three |
| Budget stack | Teachable Builder for the course plus Systeme.io Startup ($17/mo, as listed in October 2026) for funnels and email, plus a separate scheduler | $106 plus the scheduler (not priced here) | Three |
Stack 1: the all-in-one. A coach running "The Second Act", an illustrative ten-week program for newly retired professionals, puts the course, weekly goals, daily habits, evening check-ins, the cohort group and fortnightly 1:1 calls in Coachful. The client downloads one app. The coach sees who has gone quiet on one screen.
Stack 2: the course suite. A coach with a popular divorce-recovery newsletter sells a self-paced course and a membership through Kajabi, and books occasional 1:1 sessions through a separate scheduler. This works if most clients never need individual follow-through; it gets messy when they do, because session history and course progress live in different places.
Stack 3: the budget build. A newer coach tests a relocation course on Teachable, captures leads through Systeme.io and books calls through a free scheduler. The headline cost is low, but nothing connects: a lead who books a call is not linked to their course progress, and there is no check-in at all.
How would a transition coach set this up in Coachful, step by step?
Here is an illustrative build for a coach who supports parents adjusting to an empty nest. The aim is a free lead magnet, a $397 self-paced course and a $1,800 eight-week cohort program with 1:1 calls (prices illustrative; set your own based on your hours and market).
- Request the build. Use the free white-glove service: describe the site, the lead magnet funnel and the program outline, and attach your logo, photos and any existing worksheets. The team builds it inside your account, usually within about 24 hours.
- Write the course. Start from one of the 48 course templates and shape six modules: "The quiet house", "Who you are beyond the school run", "Your relationship as a couple again", "Rebuilding your week", "Reconnecting with friends", "A plan for the next five years". Set drip so one module releases each week after purchase.
- Build the program around it. Create an eight-week program that includes the course, plus weekly goals and daily tasks such as "spend 30 minutes on something only for you". Add two habits and morning and evening check-ins.
- Branch the evening check-in. In the coaching flow builder, route clients who report a low day to a short grounding step and a prompt to message you; route clients who report a good day to a reflection question.
- Turn on the cohort. Enrollment in the program creates the cohort group automatically. Schedule two group video events per month.
- Set up booking. Create a free 20-minute discovery call and a 50-minute 1:1 session type, with buffers and time-zone detection. Add intake questions to the discovery call, such as "When did your youngest leave home?" and "What feels hardest right now?"
- Add the agreement. Attach a coaching agreement with e-signature so it is signed before the first call. Include your scope line and referral policy.
- Connect payments. Link your Stripe account, then create the course as a one-time offer and the program with a two-part payment plan.
- Write the welcome sequence. Ask Michelle to draft a five-email sequence for new lead-magnet subscribers that ends with the discovery call link, then edit it in your own voice.
- Watch the client list weekly. Check who is quiet or at risk and reach out before they drift.
What mistakes do transition coaches make when choosing a course platform?
The most common one is choosing for the course and forgetting the client. Here are the patterns to avoid.
- Selling self-paced only, for a topic that needs people. Someone three weeks out of a divorce rarely works through ten modules alone. Pair the course with check-ins or a cohort, even a light one.
- Mixing every transition into one group. A recently widowed client and a client excited about early retirement are in different emotional places. Run separate cohorts by life event.
- Promising outcomes. "New career in 90 days" or "over your divorce in eight weeks" invites disappointment and, in some places, regulatory attention. The FTC's notice on endorsements and testimonials is worth reading before you write a sales page.
- Ignoring transaction fees. A 5% or 7.5% platform fee on a $1,500 program is real money per client. Compare plans at your actual price points.
- Storing sensitive notes in a course tool. Transition stories include health, money and legal details. Keep only coaching notes in your coaching platform, and keep clinical or legal records in the systems built for them.
- Building a four-tool stack before you have ten clients. Every integration is something to maintain. Start with one platform and add only what you truly miss.
- Skipping the scope line. Put your "coaching is not therapy" statement and referral policy in your agreement and onboarding, not just on your website.
Which course platform should a life transition coach choose?
Choose Coachful if your clients need you between sessions, which in transition work is most of them. It is the only platform here that puts the course inside a program with check-ins, habits, cohort groups, booking, agreements and payments, in one branded app, and the free white-glove build means you can start without spending a month on setup.
Choose Kajabi if you sell one signature course to a large audience and coach 1:1 rarely. Choose Podia for the simplest mixed storefront when you are just starting. Choose Thinkific for high-volume, course-first cohorts such as employer-sponsored career transition programs. Choose Teachable to test a single cheap course before committing.
For related reading, see our guides to course platforms for grief coaches, course platforms for career coaches and the best app for life transition coaches. If you specialise in divorce, our page for divorce coaches shows how the same setup applies, and our online course platform for coaches page covers course features in more detail.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best course platform for life transition coaches?
For most life transition coaches, Coachful is the best fit because it combines courses with multi-week programs, daily check-ins, cohort groups, booking and payments in one app. If you sell mainly one course to a big audience, Kajabi is the strongest alternative. Thinkific suits high-volume cohorts sold through employers.
Do I need a course platform or a coaching platform?
If you only sell self-paced courses, a course platform is enough. Most transition coaches also run 1:1 sessions and cohorts, which is where a coaching platform with courses built in saves you from adding a scheduler, an e-signature tool and a check-in app. Count the tools you would need before deciding.
Can I run cohorts for different life events on one platform?
Yes. In Coachful, each cohort program creates its own group automatically on enrollment, so an empty-nest cohort and a relocation cohort stay separate. Kajabi, Podia and Thinkific also offer communities or spaces you can set up per group by hand.
What is Coachful's free white-glove service?
It is a build service included on every plan. You describe what you want (a website, funnel, program, course outline, email sequence or form), attach references and files, and the Coachful team builds it inside your account, usually within about 24 hours. It does not include recording videos, logo design or ad management.
How should I handle clients whose transition brings up grief or depression?
Coaching is not therapy. If a client shows signs of depression, self-harm risk or an inability to function day to day, refer them to a licensed mental health professional, and to emergency services in a crisis. State this in your coaching agreement and onboarding so clients know it from the start.
Is it worth paying transaction fees on an entry plan?
Usually not once you have regular sales. Teachable's Starter takes 7.5% and Podia's Mover takes 5%, so a couple of program sales a month can cost more than upgrading to a plan with no platform fee. Run your own numbers at your actual prices.
Can clients access everything on their phones?
In Coachful, clients get courses, programs, check-ins, habits, community and messages in the Coachful app with your branding. Teachable offers student mobile apps. Thinkific sells a branded app as a $199/mo add-on, and our older profile data shows no mobile app for Podia.
Can I move my existing course into Coachful?
Yes. Clients, programs and content are imported for you during onboarding, and the white-glove team can rebuild pages and funnels. You can also export full client data as a ZIP and export courses if you ever leave.
Can I try Coachful before committing to a plan?
Yes, there is a free trial, though no permanent no-cost plan. Plans are flat monthly, with lower plans capping the number of clients and Pro unlimited, and monthly plans cancel in one click.
Is Coachful suitable if I also work as a therapist?
Use it for your coaching work only. Coachful is not HIPAA-certified and has no BAA, so clinical records and insurance billing belong in a clinical practice system.
Coachful is a coaching platform for coaches who deliver programs as well as sessions: courses, check-ins, cohorts, booking, contracts, payments, website and email in one login. It is not a course marketplace or a clinical records system. To start, take the free trial and request the free white-glove build to get your first program and site set up.
