Teachery Review 2024: Is the Platform Worth the Money?

If you’re considering Teachery for your online courses and want to know whether to use it or not, then this review is for you.

Teachery advertises itself as a simple, straightforward solution to create and sell online courses, but does it deliver on the promise? Are the platform’s features actually worth the money?

To answer these questions, we thoroughly tested it and created this in-depth Teachery review. Below, we’ll discuss all the platform features and what’s good and bad about them and share our experience with the software.

Let’s get into it.

What Is Teachery?

Teachery is a cloud-based platform that lets you build and sell online courses from your own website.

It’s supposed to offer features for hosting and delivering online courses, along with essential selling tools like sales pages, payment processing, and an affiliate program.

Teachery’s founders, Gerlando Piro and Jason Zook, themselves course creators, built it as a simple and beginner-friendly platform.

In our opinion, Teachery delivers on its promise of simplicity, and there are a few other things to like about it. However, it’s too weak in terms of features, lacking many critical ones that even newbies need.

With this in mind, let’s take a more detailed look at the platform and all it offers.

Ease of Use

Teachery’s main selling point is that it simplifies the course creation process. In addition, it promises to get you up and running quickly.

The main interface is clean, straightforward, and with minimal options, and you can create a new course in a couple of clicks.

What’s good about Teachery is that all its tools are tied to individual courses and are available under the same interface.

For example, when you create a course, you’ll see a course builder, landing pages, payment pages, course email, and other settings under the same interface.

As a result, you don’t need to search for the feature you need among dozens of other options. Instead, you can do everything in one place, which is nice.        

Having said that, when it comes to individual tools, the user experience isn’t that great.

For example, the course builder has a cluttered interface. When adding content to a lesson, many unnecessary things are displayed, making it hard to figure out the editor options.

Teachery’s course builder interface is cluttered

Overall, Teachery is easy to learn and use, primarily because it offers limited features. Otherwise, the user experience is average.

Course Creation and Engagement

This section will discuss Teachery’s course creation tools and evaluate what’s good and what’s not. Let’s start with the course builder.

Course Builder

Teachery has a drag-and-drop course builder that you can use to create your curriculum and add content to your lessons.

Instead of the standard sections and lessons format, in Teachery, you have Lessons and Sublessons. While you can add content to both lessons and sublessons, you can add multiple sublessons to a lesson and use it as a section.

To create your curriculum, you’ll need to add lessons and sublessons one at a time, as Teachery doesn’t have a bulk upload functionality.

Once you’ve added your lessons and sublessons, you can add your content.

Teachery lets you add text, images, and embeds to your lessons, and you can add as many blocks as you want.

However, the most important thing you should keep in mind is that Teachery doesn’t offer built-in video hosting, so you’ll have to host your videos outside of it and then embed them in the lessons.

This is a significant downside for multiple reasons. For instance:

• You’ll have to pay for a video hosting platform separately.
• Creating lessons and managing them will be more time-consuming and complex.
• You won’t get any video analytics inside Teachery.

What’s also disappointing about the course builder is that it doesn’t have a dedicated screen, and all the lessons and sublessons appear in a narrow sidebar.

So, if your course has more than a few lessons, you’ll find it challenging to work with the builder and manage your curriculum. For example, look at how cumbersome it is to move a lesson between sections:

Working with Teachery’s course builder is cumbersome

All things considered, Teachery’s course builder is pretty average.

Learning and Engagement

Teachery almost draws a blank when it comes to learning and engagement tools.

The only feature it offers is drip content. There are three options available:

• All the lessons unlock from the start.
• Lessons unlock according to the schedule you set.
• Each lesson unlocks after a student marks the previous lesson as complete.

The last option can be used as a course compliance tool to ensure that your students follow the curriculum.

However, apart from the drip content feature, Teachery doesn’t even support the simplest learning tools like quizzes and certificates.

Additionally, it doesn’t have a native commenting system for course lessons, so you’ll have to rely on their Disqus integration. Not only does this mean that you’ll have to use another system, but also that you’ll incur additional costs.

Overall, Teachery’s learning and engagement tools are rudimentary and won’t meet the requirements of most course creators.

Content Delivery

Teachery disappoints in content delivery and end-user experience, as not enough thought was put into the end-user experience.

For starters, a significant downside of the platform is that there’s no central hub for your students to access all your courses.

Each course has its domain and login page, so students have to access each course separately, which doesn’t make sense.

Teachery’s team suggests some workarounds for this. However, this is the most essential thing and should be readily available on any course platform.

For this reason alone, we don’t recommend using Teachery.

Regarding the course player, Teachery offers two templates: Minimal and Sidebar.

The main difference between them is that the former has a more traditional look with the course navigation menu on the left sidebar.

However, the course player design looks outdated. As you can see above, there’s too much space between the elements, and the fonts also look off.

Moreover, the mobile design isn’t very user-friendly. In fact, the course navigation menu isn’t available on mobile, making it difficult to move between course lessons.

Site Design and Customization

Site design is an essential part of course creation platforms, and in this section, we’ll discuss Teachery’s capabilities for this.

Since Teachery is a hosted platform, it takes care of website hosting and SSL certificates. Your site also comes with a free subdomain (e.g., mycourses.teachery.co), but you can choose to use a branded domain.

Regarding the website design tools, Teachery lets you create course landing pages.

Landing pages in Teachery have a pre-made layout, and you get the following elements by default:

• Header Section
• Masthead Section
• Main Body Section
• Author Section
• Lessons Section
• Email Capture/Packages
• Footer Section

However, the page builder is too restrictive:

• You can’t move a page section to a different position.
• You can’t modify the design or layout of the sections.
• The number of page sections available is very limited.

However, what we like about Teachery’s page builder is that the landing pages look nice and clean out of the box. Plus, you can create multiple ones for the same course.

Otherwise, Teachery’s page builder is rudimentary. Still, if you’re fine with the standard layout for your landing page, it will be OK. If you want to do any customization instead, it isn’t going to cut it.

Plus, remember that you can’t use Teachery to create other pages (e.g., About Us) or a proper website.

Sales and Marketing

Teachery lets you process payments and sell your courses. In this section, we’ll evaluate how the platform performs in this regard.

Let’s start with product pricing options.

Teachery lets you offer free courses or set a price. You can charge your customers a fixed fee, a subscription fee, or a payment plan.

Moreover, you can price your course in any major currency, including USD, EUR, INR, and AUD.

When it comes to subscriptions, you can create a monthly or yearly subscription, but you can’t create a free trial or charge a custom first payment.

One thing we like about Teachery’s pricing options is that you can create multiple plans for the same course. So, you can have both a one-time price and a payment plan.

Teachery also lets you create coupons, both percentage off and amount off, and you can also limit the number of redemptions and set an expiration date.

To process payments, Teachery lets you use your Stripe account. Just connect your respective account, and you can start accepting payments.

However, currently, Teachery doesn’t have PayPal integration, so your customers will only see the card payment option when trying to buy your course. This is a major limitation, as PayPal is quite popular.

Concerning checkout pages, Teachery has a 1-step checkout process that is well-optimized for conversions.

The checkout page looks awesome out of the box, and you can further customize it. For example, you can add your logo, list your course’s benefits, and display a countdown timer.

You can offer an additional course for purchase on your checkout page, allowing students to buy along with your main offer. While Teachery calls this feature Upsells, the more commonly used term for this strategy is order bumps.

Teachery also supports course gifting, so users can purchase your course as a gift for someone else by entering their email address during checkout.

Having said that, there are a couple of related features missing from Teachery:

• You can’t offer a 1-click upsell after the initial purchase.
• You can’t bundle multiple courses together and sell them as a separate product.

Finally, Teachery offers an affiliates feature through which you can let other people promote your courses in exchange for a commission.

To add someone as an affiliate, you need to enter their PayPal email address, set a commission percentage, and select the course they can promote. All affiliate payouts are handled through PayPal, and they’re done automatically by Teachery on your behalf.

However, the affiliates feature is pretty limited. When you add an affiliate, they’ll just get an email with their link, but they won’t have a private dashboard to track their sales—which is essential for running an affiliate program.

Overall, Teachery’s sales and marketing tools are decent. There are flexible options for pricing your courses and a well-optimized checkout page. However, it misses some essential features like PayPal payments and course bundles.

Reporting and Administration

Teachery doesn’t offer any reporting tools.

You’ll only get a reporting table with the latest data on how your courses are performing. You can get a birds-eye view of things like new customers, revenue, and course progress.

But that’s it. There are no dedicated reports, not even for essential things, such as sales transactions and course progress.

For example, you can’t see your course revenue over the past 30 days or even six months.

And even when it comes to student management, the platform could be much better.

You can find a list of all your students on the Customers page and then click on individual users to see their complete profile and perform specific actions, such as editing their account details, revoking course access, or issuing a refund.

However, there’s no way to filter your users or perform any bulk actions. 

For example, you can’t find specific users and revoke their course access; instead, you’ll have to do it one by one, which isn’t practical.

Teachery also doesn’t let you bulk import your students. For that, you’ll need to get in touch with customer support.

Finally, Teachery doesn’t support user roles, so you can’t give other people (e.g., virtual assistants) access to your platform.

Third-Party Integrations

Teachery has limited third-party integrations.

It allows you to add custom tracking codes to your course pages, so you can easily integrate it with Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, or any analytics and tracking solution that requires you to place a custom script.

The issue is that you can only add your tracking code one course at a time. Unfortunately, there’s no way to add it to all of your courses in a single place.

Regarding email services, Teachery has direct integrations with ConvertKit and MailChimp, but that’s it. For other options, you’ll need to use the Zapier integration.

You can also use the latter to perform specific actions inside Teachery. For example, you can accept payments via SamCart and then automatically add customers to your Teachery course.

Finally, Teachery doesn’t offer single sign-on or public API access at this time.

Customer Support

Teachery has a hybrid chat support. You’ll see a chat icon on the bottom right of your dashboard. Upon clicking it, you’ll see a chat window where you can ask Teachery’s customer support questions.

However, it’s not really a live chat. You can ask a question, and someone will get back to you.

Based on our experience, the support is responsive, and you should expect to get your question answered within a couple of hours if you’re in the US time zone.

If you need more immediate help, you can refer to Teachery’s knowledge base. Here, you can find articles and tutorials on how to use various platform features.

Pricing Plans

Teachery’s pricing is as straightforward as it gets. There’s just one plan, and it includes everything the platform offers.

You can choose to pay a monthly fee of $49 or an annual one of $470. So, by paying yearly, you can save around 20%.

While Teachery doesn’t have a free plan, it does offer a 14-day free trial, and you don’t need a credit card to try the platform.

Teachery vs the Competition

Teachery can’t compete with market leaders like Thinkific.

Thinkific offers powerful learning and engagement tools, such as quizzes, assignments, certificates, live lessons, and communities. Moreover, it has a powerful website builder and selling tools. Overall, it’s a better option than Teachery on all fronts. Read our Thinkific review for more information.

Even if we were to compare Teachery with a platform like Podia, which advertises simplicity as a selling point, the conclusion would be the same.

Podia has much more to offer than Teachery regarding course creation tools, content delivery, website creation, and sales and marketing. Plus, it’s easier to use and more affordable as well. Read our Podia review to explore the platform in more detail.

If you’d like to do a side-by-side comparison of Teachery with other course platforms, you should try out our interactive comparison tool.

Teachery Review: Final Thoughts

Teachery is easy to use, but that’s mainly because it doesn’t have much to offer.

The platform is missing some of the most essential course creation features, such as video hosting, quizzes, and certificates. More importantly, however, the course delivery experience for students is pretty bad.

Additionally, the page builder is basic, there’s no PayPal integration, and the reporting tools are rudimentary.

We can go on and on about what’s not good about Teachery, but we’ll wrap up with this: we don’t recommend using Teachery for your online courses.

There are much better options available on the market. Read our course platforms guide to find out the best alternative to Teachery.

However, if you’d still like to try out the platform, you can start a free trial here.

We hope that this Teachery review helped you make up your mind about the platform.

Do you still have questions? Please leave them in the comments below.

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