For the coach, consultant, or course creator who's done building funnels at 9pm
Here's the honest read on where all-in-one platforms stop — and what changes the day the blank page disappears.
The Platform Comparison Checklist: What Actually Matters Beyond Price — a 15-point diagnostic you run against any platform (Podia, the one you're eyeing next, or what you've already got) so you can see exactly what you're paying for and what will actually give you your evenings back.
Or apply to run KBD in your business nowAn early application, unpaid, honest feedback only, not for everyone
Podia is an all-in-one storefront for digital products — courses, downloads, coaching, communities — with email built in and priced by contacts. People land here because they want their website, store, and email under one roof without stitching four tools together. That's a genuinely good reason to use Podia, and for a lot of creators it's the right call. KBD is pre-launch, so read this as a straight description, not a takedown.
| Podia plan | Published allowances | Monthly | Annual /mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| MoverTheir words: just getting started. | Email subscribers: 100 included · Products: 50 · Videos: 500 · Community spaces: 25 · Transaction fee: 5% | $49 | $42 |
| ShakerTheir words: more room to grow. Adds affiliates, upsells, PayPal and Zapier. | Email subscribers: 500 included · Products: 150 · Videos: 1,000 · Community spaces: 100 · Assistants: 1 · Transaction fee: 0% | $99 | $84 |
| EarthquakerTheir words: going all-in, no limits. | Email subscribers: 1,000 included · Products: Unlimited · Videos: Unlimited · Community spaces: Unlimited · Assistants: Unlimited · Transaction fee: 0% | $179 | $150 |
Prices read from podia.com/pricing on 6 August 2026. A “—” means Podiapublishes no figure — we don’t estimate. Billed on top: The plan price rises with email contacts — each plan card's own selector reprices the tier as your list grows (Mover at 500 contacts is $600 billed annually against $504 at the included 100); Card processing at the standard 2.9% + 30¢, charged by Stripe or PayPal rather than by Podia. Transaction fees: 5% of your sales on Mover. No Podia fees on Shaker or Earthquaker.
If you want a tidy storefront you're happy to run yourself, and you want it today, Podia is a solid, honest choice — stay. If you're tired of being the one who writes, builds, and runs everything around the store, that's the seam KBD is built for. Grab the checklist so you can judge either one on what actually saves you hours.
Podia gives you a clean store — course, email, checkout, all in one place. Then it hands you the blank sales page, the empty email sequence, the unwritten launch. The platform ends exactly where the work begins. You were told you bought a system; you bought a very tidy set of empty rooms.
The next tool doesn't fix what the last three didn't. Every one of them still needs you to be the strategist, the copywriter, and the labor — at night, alone. The problem was never which platform. It's that the work of running the whole business kept landing back on your plate.
The laptop opens and the next move is already there — content written, funnel running, emails queued, the launch built in your voice. You read it, you approve it, it ships. Then the laptop closes at a normal hour and you're at the dinner table, present, not half-checked-out about the thing on fire back at the desk.
Every business runs on fuel, and most experts have been burning their own evenings and weekends as that fuel — hours that are finite and don't come back. The enemy was never the marketing you're bad at; it's generic, empty structure that only runs when you personally grind it. Your passion doesn't run out. Your business should run on that.
Here's what a real business currently stitches together every month just to keep the lights on — and it still ships you a blank page.
| What you’re paying for today | Like | Typical /mo |
|---|---|---|
| All-in-one course & storefront platform | Podia, Kajabi, Teachable | $99 |
| Email marketing & automation | ActiveCampaign, ConvertKit, Mailchimp | $49 |
| Funnel & landing page builder | ClickFunnels, Leadpages, Instapage | $97 |
| CRM & contact tagging | HubSpot Starter, Pipedrive | $45 |
| Checkout & billing / subscriptions | ThriveCart, SamCart | $39 |
| Scheduling & booking | Calendly, Acuity | $16 |
| AI writing & content help | Jasper, Copy.ai | $49 |
| Design & creative | Canva Pro | $15 |
| Tool-to-tool connectors | Zapier, Make | $29 |
| Webinar / live delivery | Zoom, WebinarJam | $20 |
| The tools alone | $458/mo |
Every tool above ships empty. The course still needs writing, the funnel still needs building, the emails still need to sound like you — and that's 15 to 20 hours a week that used to belong to the craft or the people at home. That's the invoice that never shows up on a card statement. It gets paid in Tuesday nights.
Bring in a human to run all of it — an operator, a freelancer, a small agency — and you're looking at $500 to $2,000 a month. Most never quite learn your voice no matter how many onboarding calls you sit through, so you end up rewriting their work anyway. Now you're paying the retainer AND the hours.
KBD replaces all three — the stack, the hours, and the operator — running the whole business in your voice, done for you. The price lives on the pricing page, not here.
Drop your email and I'll send the 15-point checklist now — plus one heads-up the day KBD can actually be bought. Nothing's for sale today.
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Or apply to run KBD in your business nowAn early application, unpaid, honest feedback only, not for everyone
Read off podia.com/pricing on 6 August 2026: Mover is $49/month, or $42/month billed annually. Shaker is $99/month, or $84/month billed annually. Earthquaker is $179/month, or $150/month billed annually. There is no free plan. The free trial is 30 days.
Yes — on 6 August 2026 their own pages listed: The plan price rises with email contacts — each plan card's own selector reprices the tier as your list grows (Mover at 500 contacts is $600 billed annually against $504 at the included 100); Card processing at the standard 2.9% + 30¢, charged by Stripe or PayPal rather than by Podia. On transaction fees specifically: 5% of your sales on Mover. No Podia fees on Shaker or Earthquaker.
Email broadcasts and automations ship inside the same product as the store — Podia Email is part of every plan, which is rare among the course platforms here. The whole storefront in one place: courses, digital downloads, coaching, webinars, communities and a website builder on every plan. A 30-day free trial with every feature open, stated plainly on the pricing page. Unlimited products, videos and community spaces at the top tier. The pricing is unusually plain: three cards, the differences listed, and the FAQ answers the fee question in one sentence. That is from their own pricing and product pages, read on 6 August 2026.
Email contacts are the meter: 100 included on Mover, and the plan price climbs with the list from there. Mover charges 5% of every sale on top of the processor's own fee. Marketing is a broadcast and a coupon — no funnels, no CRM, no launch engine around the store. It arrives as a clean, empty store: the course, the emails and the sales page are still the owner's blank page. That is our reading of their published plans and limits as of 6 August 2026 — check podia.com/pricing before you decide anything on it.
Podia's lowest published tier is $49/month, read off podia.com/pricing on 6 August 2026. Of the 11 platforms priced on this site, these publish a lower entry tier: Systeme.io at $0/month, Skool at $9/month, Teachable at $39/month. Systeme.io publishes a permanently free plan. Read that carefully before switching on price alone: the entry tier is not the bill. Podia's own pages list these on top of the plan: The plan price rises with email contacts — each plan card's own selector reprices the tier as your list grows (Mover at 500 contacts is $600 billed annually against $504 at the included 100); Card processing at the standard 2.9% + 30¢, charged by Stripe or PayPal rather than by Podia. On transaction fees: 5% of your sales on Mover. No Podia fees on Shaker or Earthquaker. Several of the cheaper options above charge a percentage of your sales or per-message usage instead, and every one of those is listed per vendor, in their own words, at /data/platform-pricing — all of it read on 6 August 2026. The alternative this page is about is KBD Systems, which is priced at /pricing; the difference it is arguing is not the monthly figure but what you still have to do yourself after you have paid it.
That depends on who is going to run it, and their own pages make it answerable. Podia is an all-in-one storefront for digital products — courses, downloads, coaching and communities — with email marketing built in and priced by contacts, sold to creators who want their website, store and email under one roof. What it genuinely does better: Email broadcasts and automations ship inside the same product as the store — Podia Email is part of every plan, which is rare among the course platforms here. The whole storefront in one place: courses, digital downloads, coaching, webinars, communities and a website builder on every plan. Where it is hardest on a small business owner running it alone: Email contacts are the meter: 100 included on Mover, and the plan price climbs with the list from there. Mover charges 5% of every sale on top of the processor's own fee. Its lowest published tier is $49/month. There is a 30-day free trial, so this is testable before it is decided. That is our reading of their published plans, limits and product pages as of 6 August 2026, not a rating — we publish no scores, and you should check podia.com/pricing yourself before deciding anything on the strength of ours.