WooCommerce is an ecommerce plugin that works with WordPress websites. It’s open-source and free to use, but you’ll need extra extensions to make your system work exactly the way you want. You can sell digital or physical products and add extensions for things like booking services, product bundles, and subscriptions.

You’ll also need to pay for website hosting, domain, and any other WordPress themes or security plugins you’d like to use. Managing all that can be complicated and pricey.

Podia, on the other hand, has everything you need in one easy platform that doesn’t require WordPress.

With Podia, you can sell the following digital products:

• Digital downloads

• Online course content

• Coaching sessions

• Webinars

• Bundles

Your products can be free or paid, and you can add upsells, payment plans, coupons, seat limits, and access duration limits to give your students more learning options. There is an integration with Discord so you can bundle your product with an online community, and your customers can pay with Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, iDeal, and Stripe Link.

Podia comes with a customizable website, full blog, and unlimited landing pages, which all use the same user-friendly website builder. Choose from pre-made website sections like heroes, CTAs, FAQs, image grids, featured products, testimonials, and dozens of other layouts, and adjust your SEO settings to make your pages easier to find in search.

Plus, your email marketing is built in and all Podia plans come with newsletters, email templates, automations, campaigns, lead magnets, tagging, and email analytics — free for your first 100 subscribers.

Here’s a look at Podia’s pricing:

Podia has a 30-day free trial with all features so you can test everything out before you pay. After the trial, you can choose from two pricing plans:

• Mover: $39/month and 5% transaction fee ($33/month when paid annually): This plan includes your website, blog, and sales pages as well as unlimited digital products, online course creation, and third-party code. You also get customer chat messaging and Podia’s friendly customer support.

• Shaker: $89/month and 0% transaction fee ($75/month when paid annually): Shaker includes all the Mover features plus affiliate functionality.

As I mentioned above, all Podia plans include all email marketing features (like automations, newsletters, email templates, segmentation, tagging, and campaigns) for up to 100 subscribers. If you like, you can upgrade your Podia Email plan to add more subscribers as your list grows.

If you sign up for an annual Mover or Shaker plan, Podia includes a free migration service. This means our team will move your products and customers over from another platform (like Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi, etc.) for free so you can get started fast.

One nice thing about Podia’s pricing plans is that you know what you’re paying from day one. WooCommerce may be free to use, but you also have to factor in the price of other features and plugins for your WordPress site, which can balloon quickly as your online business grows. With Podia, everything you need is already connected and ready to go.

If you’re looking for a tool that lets you build products and so much more (without the headaches of WordPress), start your free trial of Podia today.