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Thinkific
thinkific.comSummary
Thinkific is an online learning platform that enables individuals and businesses to create, market, and sell courses, communities, memberships, and digital products. It provides tools for website building, content creation, analytics, and sales, primarily focused on monetizing expertise through educational content.
Feature Matches11/13
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Must Have
4 of 5
Rich Text Editor
Membership & Monetization
Reader Engagement Metrics
Community Feedback Tools
Distribution & Recommendation Engine
Other
7 of 8
Publication Management
User Profiles & Following
Tags & Topics
Email Newsletter Integration
Mobile App Access
Social Sharing & Embedding
Search & Discovery
Audio Story Playback
PricingTiered
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Basic
$49.00 monthly
- Unlimited Courses
- 1 Community (5 spaces)
- 5 Digital Downloads
- 5 Coaching & Webinar sessions
- Sales tools (TCommerce, Order bumps, Flexible student payment options, Instant access to revenue, Coupons and promotions, Offer free trials)
- Abandoned Cart
- Site Builder
- Landing pages
- Email Automation
- Basic Reporting
- Custom domain
- Manual student enrolment
- Video and content hosting
- 1 Site Administrator Account
- 99.5% uptime and 24/7 monitoring
- SSL
- Email and chat support
- Comprehensive knowledge base
- Access to Thinkific Academy
- Limited communities, digital downloads, coaching/webinar sessions
- No HTML & CSS editing
- No bundles/add-ons
- Thinkific branding cannot be removed
- No advanced analytics
- No group orders, invoicing, gifting, API access
- No CRM integrations, SSO, SCORM, custom reports, student learning paths
- Limited admin accounts
- Limited revenue sharing with partners
- No phone support
Start
$99.00 monthly
Popular- Everything in Basic
- Unlimited Live Lessons
- Unlimited Memberships
- Unlimited Digital Downloads
- Unlimited Coaching & Webinar sessions
- Edit HTML & CSS
- Sell Bundles and Add-ons (Product bundles)
- 2 Course Administrator Accounts
- 1 Revenue sharing with partners
- Zoom Meetings and Webinars
- Multimedia content
- In-course discussions
- User profiles
- Community notifications
- Weekly digests
- Private spaces
- Live events within Communities
- Community moderation
- Trending posts
- Pinned posts and announcements
- Limited communities (1)
- Thinkific branding cannot be removed
- No advanced analytics
- No group orders, invoicing, gifting, API access
- No CRM integrations, SSO, SCORM, custom reports, student learning paths
- Limited admin accounts
- Limited revenue sharing with partners
- No phone support
Grow
$199.00 monthly
- Everything in Start
- 3 Communities (20 spaces)
- Remove Thinkific branding
- Thinkific Analytics (Advanced Reporting and Analytics)
- Group Orders
- Invoicing
- Gifting
- API Access (Standard API and webhooks)
- Payment plans
- Accept Paypal payments
- Additional pricing
- After purchase flows
- Affiliate reporting
- 2 Site Administrator Accounts
- 5 Course Administrator Accounts
- 3 Group Analyst accounts
- 3 Revenue sharing with partners
- Phone and priority email support
- Quizzes
- Limited communities (3)
- No CRM integrations, SSO, SCORM, custom reports, student learning paths
- Limited admin accounts
- Limited revenue sharing with partners
Plus
Custom
- Everything in Grow
- Unlimited Courses
- Unlimited Communities (unlimited spaces)
- Unlimited Digital Downloads
- Unlimited Coaching & Webinar sessions
- Unlimited Live Lessons
- Unlimited Memberships
- CRM Integrations (Hubspot, Salesforce)
- Single Sign On (SSO)
- SCORM Compliant
- Custom Reports
- Student Learning Paths
- Dedicated Onboarding and Customer Support
- Unlimited Live Events within Communities
- Unlimited Course Administrator Accounts
- Unlimited Group Analyst accounts
- Unlimited Revenue sharing with partners
- Standard API and webhooks
- Plus Portal
- Advanced password complexity
- Launch preparedness review
- Dedicated sandbox site
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) 99.5%
- Master Services Agreement (MSA)
- Create private and hidden courses
- Scheduled content
- Completion certificates
- Assignments
- Course compliance tools
- Exams
- Paid memberships
- Members-only website section
- Bulk import and student enrolment
Rationale
Thinkific is a platform for creating and selling online courses, communities, and memberships. It offers tools for content creation (including a course builder that supports various media, which implies a rich text editor), monetization through memberships and various selling tools, and analytics for tracking performance. It also emphasizes community features with profiles, notifications, reactions, and threads, and offers mobile app access. While it doesn't explicitly mention a 'recommendation engine' for content, it does provide tools for content organization and discovery within courses and communities. The platform is more focused on structured learning experiences rather than a free-form publishing platform like Medium, which affects the confidence score for some features like 'distribution-and-recommendation-engine' in the context of a general content feed.
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