For the coach or course creator who already built the thing people pay for
Your course sells itself when the writing arrives already done
You bought a place to host the course. You're still the one writing every email, every page, every launch — by hand, at 9pm. That was never the deal.
- ✓The emails, pages and launch already written — in your voice
- ✓One workspace for selling, delivering, getting paid and keeping them
- ✓You approve the work; you don't build it from a blank page
The Course Platform Switching Checklist: What to Move, What to Leave, What Gets Built on KBD — a plain step-by-step list of every asset, contact and integration to move off Teachable, and the exact items that stay behind so you don't touch them twice.
Or apply to run KBD in your business nowAn early application, unpaid, honest feedback only, not for everyone
Teachable vs KBD — for the expert who's tired of being the writer
Teachable is a course platform: you create and sell courses, coaching and digital downloads, with native student apps and checkout handled for you. It's a good place to host what you sell. What it hands back to you, on every plan, is the writing — the launch emails, the funnel pages, the follow-up sequences — as a blank page you fill in yourself.
| Teachable plan | Published allowances | Monthly | Annual /mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| StarterTheir words: basic tools for getting your business started. | Products: 5 · Admin users: 1 · Active students: 100 · Imported students: 5 · Video storage: Up to 1 TB · Transaction fee: 7.5% | $39 | $29 |
| BuilderTheir words: essential features to build your multi-product offering. | Products: 10 · Admin users: 1 · Active students: 1,000 · Imported students: 50 · Video storage: Up to 1 TB · Transaction fee: 0% | $89 | $69 |
| GrowthTheir words: powerful tools for growing your revenue and audience. Marked popular. | Products: 50 · Admin users: 5 · Active students: 5,000 · Imported students: 1,000 · Video storage: Up to 1 TB · Transaction fee: 0% | $189 | $139 |
| CustomTheir words: for high-volume education businesses that need custom tools and premium support. Book a call. | Everything: Everything in Growth, plus dedicated support and custom terms | — | — |
Prices read from teachable.com/pricing on 6 August 2026. A “—” means Teachablepublishes no figure — we don’t estimate. Billed on top: Payment processing on every plan: 2.9% + 30¢ US cards, 3.9% + 30¢ international cards, 3.49% + 49¢ US PayPal, 4.99% + 49¢ international PayPal; A $15 chargeback fee; An optional BackOffice fee of 2–2.8% for handling affiliate and author payouts. Transaction fees: 7.5% of your sales on Starter; 0% on Builder and above. Processing fees still apply on every plan.
What KBD Systems does that Teachable doesn’t
- KBD arrives already written from your own business — its plays, your voice, and finished pages, emails and campaigns — instead of a blank editor waiting for you to be the copywriter.
- It's done FOR you: you approve the next move, you don't build it from scratch every week.
- It runs the whole business between a stranger and a paying customer and everything after — attracting, selling, delivering, billing, keeping them — not just the course-hosting and checkout end.
- The follow-up fires off what people actually do — the person who stalled in module one gets the right message without you writing it that night.
- One workspace holds every contact, page, email and campaign, so you're not moving a lead between tools by hand to tag it.
- Every word is grounded in your business through a knowledge layer, so the copy sounds like you instead of like a template.
What Teachable does
- Teachable is a course platform for creating and selling courses, coaching and digital downloads.
- It includes native iOS and Android student apps and handles checkout, VAT and sales tax for you.
- Its marketing tools are checkout-adjacent — coupons, upsells and abandoned-cart emails; the launch copy, funnels and campaigns are still yours to write.
If you already built a course people pay for and you're sick of being the one who writes every email and funnel page by hand, KBD is the one for you — it brings the finished work, in your voice, so you can get back to the craft.
You didn't buy a platform to become a copywriter
A course platform gives you somewhere to host the modules and take the payment. It does not write the launch email, the sales page, or the follow-up for the person who watched module one and went quiet. That blank page is the actual work — and it's still sitting on your desk every Sunday.
It arrives already written — from your business, not a template
KBD captures who you are, who you serve and how you talk, once. From that, it builds the pages, the emails, the offer and the launch in your voice — grounded in your business instead of a generic fill-in-the-blank. You open it and the next move is already drafted. You read it, you approve it, it ships.
The whole business runs, not just the checkout
Selling to them, delivering what they bought, getting paid, following up, bringing them back — all of it in one place, all in your voice. The craft stays yours. The machinery that used to eat your evenings stops needing you at every step.
Get the switching checklist now
One clear list of what to move off Teachable, what to leave, and what gets built for you — plus a single heads-up the day KBD opens.
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Questions people ask about Teachable
How much does Teachable cost?
Read off teachable.com/pricing on 6 August 2026: Starter is $39/month, or $29/month billed annually. Builder is $89/month, or $69/month billed annually. Growth is $189/month, or $139/month billed annually. Custom has no price published on that page. There is no free plan. The free trial is 7 days.
Does Teachable charge fees on top of the subscription?
Yes — on 6 August 2026 their own pages listed: Payment processing on every plan: 2.9% + 30¢ US cards, 3.9% + 30¢ international cards, 3.49% + 49¢ US PayPal, 4.99% + 49¢ international PayPal; A $15 chargeback fee; An optional BackOffice fee of 2–2.8% for handling affiliate and author payouts. On transaction fees specifically: 7.5% of your sales on Starter; 0% on Builder and above. Processing fees still apply on every plan.
What does Teachable do well?
The cheapest tiered entry among the course platforms here — $39/mo, or $29/mo billed annually. Native iOS and Android student apps on every plan, including the entry one. Coaching and digital downloads are first-class products beside courses, not bolt-ons. Global payments and tax are handled for you — checkout, VAT and sales tax are its job, not yours. A 30-day money-back guarantee on top of the 7-day trial, stated plainly on the pricing page. That is from their own pricing and product pages, read on 6 August 2026.
Where does Teachable fall short for a small business owner?
Starter's real price is 7.5% of every sale plus processing, with 100 active students and 5 products. Admin seats are scarce: one on Starter and Builder, five on Growth. Active students are metered per tier — past 5,000 you are in contact-sales territory. Marketing is checkout-adjacent — coupons, upsells, abandoned-cart emails; the funnels, campaigns and copy that fill the course are still your blank page. That is our reading of their published plans and limits as of 6 August 2026 — check teachable.com/pricing before you decide anything on it.
Can I get a refund from Teachable?
Their pricing page publishes a 30-day money-back window, checked on 6 August 2026. Read the terms on teachable.com/pricing before relying on it.
What's a cheaper alternative to Teachable?
Teachable's lowest published tier is $39/month, read off teachable.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. Systeme.io publishes a permanently free plan. Read that carefully before switching on price alone: the entry tier is not the bill. Teachable's own pages list these on top of the plan: Payment processing on every plan: 2.9% + 30¢ US cards, 3.9% + 30¢ international cards, 3.49% + 49¢ US PayPal, 4.99% + 49¢ international PayPal; A $15 chargeback fee; An optional BackOffice fee of 2–2.8% for handling affiliate and author payouts. On transaction fees: 7.5% of your sales on Starter; 0% on Builder and above. Processing fees still apply on every plan. 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.
Is Teachable worth it?
That depends on who is going to run it, and their own pages make it answerable. Teachable is a course platform for creating and selling courses, coaching and digital downloads, with native student apps, sold to creators selling courses, coaching and digital products. What it genuinely does better: The cheapest tiered entry among the course platforms here — $39/mo, or $29/mo billed annually. Native iOS and Android student apps on every plan, including the entry one. Where it is hardest on a small business owner running it alone: Starter's real price is 7.5% of every sale plus processing, with 100 active students and 5 products. Admin seats are scarce: one on Starter and Builder, five on Growth. Its lowest published tier is $39/month. There is a 7-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 teachable.com/pricing yourself before deciding anything on the strength of ours.
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