Podia
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Podia, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Podia's own pricing page, checked 20 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Mover | $42 a month | 100 email subscribers · 5% fees · unlimited customers · 50 products · 500 videos · 25 spaces · $504 billed annually |
| Shaker | $84 a month | 500 email subscribers · no Podia fees · unlimited customers · 150 products · 1,000 videos · 100 spaces · 1 assistant · affiliate marketing · upsells · PayPal · Zapier · $1,008 billed annually |
| Earthquaker | $150 a month | 1,000 email subscribers · no Podia fees · unlimited customers · unlimited products · unlimited videos · unlimited spaces · unlimited assistants · affiliate marketing · upsells · PayPal · Zapier · $1,800 billed annually |
The facts
Each one read from Podia's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Checkout
- Checkout supports sales pages, carts, coupons, upsells, payment plans, subscriptions, tax handling across 230 jurisdictions and more than 20 currencies.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Coaching
- Coaching products can use dedicated sales pages, upfront payment, bundles and scheduling integrations with Calendly, Squarespace Scheduling, YouCanBookMe and SavvyCal.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Community
- Community tools include paid tiers, spaces, member profiles, activity feeds, notifications, group chat and direct member messaging.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Course formats
- video,audio,text,file downloads,quizzes,embedschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Custom code
- Custom snippets can be added to public pages before the closing body tag, but scripts do not run in logged-in areas and head-tag code is unsupported.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Custom domain
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Documentation
- The help center is organized into collections for getting started, home, products, community, site builder, blog, email, audience, sales, affiliates, settings, analytics, files and integrations.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Email marketing
- Podia includes broadcast email, automated campaigns, email capture and subscriber management integrated with products and the website.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Embeds
- Podia supports embeds from more than 1,900 websites, including YouTube, Spotify, Google Forms, Vimeo, Instagram and GitHub Gists.checked 20 Oct 2026
- GDPR
- Podia says customer data is not sold to third parties and provides GDPR guidance plus a data-processing addendum for EU customers.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Native integrations include Kit, Mailchimp, AWeber, Drip, ActiveCampaign, MailerLite, GetResponse, Flodesk, Stripe, PayPal, Google Analytics, Zoom, Google Meet, YouTube Live, Discord and scheduling tools.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Legal name
- Crunchbase identifies the legal entity as Podia Labs, Inc., founded by Spencer Fry and headquartered in New York.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Licence information
- The public Podia pages reviewed do not identify an open-source licence or provide self-hosting software.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Limit: change complaints
- Trustpilot reviews include complaints that 2026 community and account changes were imposed with little warning and made creators consider migrating away.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Limit: customization
- Reviewers report limited design templates, limited page customization and inability to customize some checkout and transaction experiences.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Limit: missing capabilities
- Reviewers cite missing or weak capabilities such as copying lessons between courses, quizzes between modules, repeat purchases and certain marketing integrations.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Limit: small-seller pricing
- GetApp reviewers say the subscription can feel expensive for low-volume or infrequent sellers, despite the all-in-one feature set.checked 20 Oct 2026
- New community architecture
- In August 2026 Podia introduced a unified home feed, built-in community, separate Admin area, spaces replacing topics, member chats and group chats limited to 10 people.checked 20 Oct 2026
The company
- Company facts
- LinkedIn lists Podia as a privately held e-learning provider founded in 2014, headquartered in New York, with 2–10 employees.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Company scale
- Podia says more than 15,000 creators use it, reaching over 40 million customers and generating more than $900 million for creators.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2014checked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
- Free-plan change
- The August 2026 migration documentation says separate free community plans are no longer supported and existing free plans will be removed.checked 20 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Mobile app
- nonechecked 20 Sep 2026
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