Why Knorish
Creators like you have big ambitions. Why use a platform that limits your growth? Knorish is the deepest stack for monetization of content through sales funnels and the features mentioned here are unique offerings.
Sales Funnels
Grow your business faster with funnels that drive exponential sales for courses, webinars & memberships
Mobile Apps
Offer the complete learning experience with native mobile apps (Web, Android & iOS)
Zoom Webinars
The only platform in the world that lets you run large webinars / live sessions & drive sales using our Zoom Enterprise license free with all our plans
Indian & International Payment Gateways
Automate payment collection in Indian Rupees and more than 90 different currencies
Content Piracy Prevention
Piracy protected content via DRM to prevent content theft form your website or apps
Knorish Vs Thinkific.
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Mobile Apps |
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Live sessions with Zoom |
Free Zoom Enterprise Account |
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Zoom Webinars |
Upto 500 Participants Per Webinars |
Purchase your own Zoom Webinar License |
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Landing Pages |
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Indian & International Payment Gateways |
International payment gateways only |
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DRM Encrypted Piracy Prevention |
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Expert Customer Support |
Phone, Email, Chat |
Email & Chat Only. Phone support available on top plans only. |
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Extensive Website Theme Library |
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Coaching Business Acceleration Program |
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Free Website Design Service |
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Unlimited Students, Courses, Hosting, Videos, Assessments |
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Ease Of Use
No-code easy to use platform to create and sell courses from your branded website & app
Excellent Support
World class support just when you need it and how you prefer - phone, chat, or email
Complete Learning Experience
Offer an amazing learning experience from your website or app with Videos, live sessions, PDFs, documents, slides, embeds, assessments & certificates
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More than 42,000 coaches, trainers, experts, businesses & professionals use Knorish today coaching 1 Million+ learners in 47 countries
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When you are thinking about packaging your knowledge and expertise into an online course, obviously you want the best.
If you’re wondering how Knorish is different from Thinkific, and between the two which course platform will work for you, let us help you better understand the unique features of the two. Though Knorish is often compared to Thinkific, the two platforms are different.
Let’s begin with the summarised version of the differences:
Knorish vs. Thinkific: A Summary
First things first, Knorish has quite a few functionalities that Thinkific does not offer.
Moreover, Knorish lets you sign up for a free trial for 14 days plan that includes unlimited courses, and no transaction charges on free courses but the Thinkific free option lets you create only 1 course.
Additionally, even on the trial plan, you get to create an amazing website for your business in Knorish. Building your website is super simple with a wide range of amazing mobile responsive website themes and an easy-to-use drag and drop site builder.
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Key Features Why Creator Choose Knorish.
Here’s a quick reference of other select features that course creators find super useful to run their online course business.
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Pricing (Annual pricing. Save 20% on per month pricing) The most preferred plan of most creators, the professional plan is more affordable with Knorish |
3 Plans
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4 Plans
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Payment Gateways |
International & Indian payment gateways such as Razorpay, PayPal, Stripe, Paytm, Instamojo & CCAvenue. Take payments via digital Wallets, Netbanking, UPI, Credit/Debit Cards and more. |
Integration needed for separate payment gateways |
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Mobile responsive website |
Yes. Choose from a wide variety of mobile-first themes. |
Yes. With Limited Options For Website Themes |
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Website Design Service |
Don’t want the hassle of building your website. Using our website theme library, our team of website designers will create the website for you. |
Not Available |
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Android & iOS App |
Your own custom branded whitelabeled app |
Developers needed |
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Grow your business exponentially with Sales Funnels |
Go from 0 to thousands of learners in just a matter of months with automated sales funnels that drive sales and help you grow your business exponentially. Create amazing landing pages, build funnels, automate sales, payment collection, course access, and more. Get Advanced Training! |
Not Available |
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Free Zoom enterprise account (Worth $690/year/license) |
Conduct UNLIMITED live sessions, webinars, and online coaching , be it single, multiple or ongoing for up to 500+ participants at any given time. Go live from your website in just a few clicks. |
Not Available |
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Automation Automate your coaching business. Manage learners Better |
Provide instant access to courses automatically after the payment, no more multiple steps or pages or solutions needed. Plus send automated student email notifications, new content unlocked reminders, live session reminders, issue course certificates, provide tax-compliant invoices, and more. |
Yes |
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Bundles, Live Events, Live Sessions |
Teach courses in the format your learners wish to learn in. Offer custom course packages or bundles, conduct live large scale events, webinars, or sessions and much more. |
Limited offering. Or need to buy other solutions and connect. |
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Super easy to use course builder |
By far the easiest course builder tools for launching online courses. Add Videos, PDFs, Prezi Presentations, assessments, and even conduct Live Online Training Sessions! Set course expiry dates to ensure students finish the courses in the stipulated time, and share discount coupons for faster sales. |
Yes |
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SSO & Social Sign Ins |
Get maximum number of site visitors to convert to sign ups with 1 click sign up feature. Social logins make the signup process super simple. Plus with (Single-Sign on) SSO feature enabled, your tech team can develop their very own SSO connection as well. |
Yes |
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Content Piracy Protection |
DRM enabled course content protection on laptops and apps to prevent content piracy |
Feature not available |
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Express Checkout |
Single click checkout for faster signups and payment collection. |
Available on higher plans. Not so easy to setup |
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Full access to Html/CSS editing environment |
Want something custom on your site? Add custom codes to get more out of your website. Customize websites, import page themes and more. |
Available on advanced plans |
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Team members access Custom roles to manage your business better |
Protect your business & data with access control. Set up differentiated access to multiple admins, instructors, site editors, to custom roles such as blog managers, accounting, customer service & blogging roles. Assign specific roles and backend access to specific users. |
Limited offering |
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Live Phone & Chat Support + Email Support & vast knowledge base |
Support just doesn't get any better than this. Our business specialists and customer success teams are always there to help you with the platform. You can call us, or reach out to us via chat. |
Limited hours available on higher plans only. |
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Group Coaching Sessions & Grow Your Business Strategy Webinars |
Free access to weekly group coaching sessions & webinars on how to grow your business faster. |
Not Available |
Detailed Feature Comparison
Though both the platforms let you create, market, and sell your training & courses online, many key differences have a big impact on your online course business. It’s no wonder, many former Thinkific course creators have switched to Knorish.
Course Creation
Knorish & Thinkific both offer you their platform to create & sell your online courses/ training. Using the inbuilt course builder, you can upload your course content such as downloadable pdfs, videos, images in the sections or chapters formats.
Now that you know what’s similar, let’s take a look at the differences between the two.
Site Design & Customization Features
Knorish offers a wide array of themes available in the theme library that can be used as a base for your website design. Simply edit the images, texts, and videos and your site is ready.
But there’s more to it. Here are the detailed differences between the two platforms:
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Drag and Drop website builder tool |
Yes |
Yes, but not so easy to use |
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Custom-site Themes & Course Landing Pages |
Yes, 30+ beautiful sales funnel enabled templates, plus more upcoming |
Limited |
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Beautifully designed mobile first themes |
Yes |
Limited |
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Customizable design |
Yes |
Yes |
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Custom HTML/CSS Code |
Full access to theme code with the ability to add layouts, sections, pages, fonts, styles & much more. |
Yes |
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Preview Mode and Live Changes |
Live preview of your site changes helps you publish the changes you approve of on your site. |
Yes |
Courses, Bundles, Subscriptions & Sessions
Knorish offers a wide array of themes available in the theme library that can be used as a base for your website design. Simply edit the images, texts, and videos where required and your site is ready.
But there’s more to it. Here are the detailed differences between the two platforms:
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Free Live Zoom Webinars Account License |
Yes. Available for FREE on all paid plans. |
Feature Not Offered |
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Course builder |
Yes. Easy to use |
Available |
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Assignments & Quizzes |
You can create easy to upload quiz formats/ objective graded assignments including multimedia, allow multiple attempts. Need even more? You don’t need to integrate any third-party quiz tool. Unlimited Assessments, instructor controlled number of attempts - 1 or many, timed assessments, Add images or videos to questions, add hints, and more |
Yes |
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Multimedia content |
Add multimedia content - Videos, PDFs, embed videos from YouTube/ Vimeo, add Google Docs files, appointment booking tools, forms, etc. without complicated coding. |
Multimedia content is available |
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Drip content |
Yes, in Professional and Power Plans |
Available from basic plans which are more expensive than Knorish |
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Unlimited Zoom Live/ Concurrent Sessions Free Pro Zoom Account |
Yes |
Not Available |
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Graded Assessments: Pass/Fail |
Yes |
Yes |
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Include Hints |
Yes |
Feature Not Offered |
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Shuffle Question Order |
Yes |
Feature Not Offered |
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Copy Site Pages |
Yes! Duplicate lessons or site pages within and between courses. This gives an option for the site pages either to be used across multiple courses or site pages converted to perfect landing pages. |
Yes |
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Course Page Templates |
Right from a blank page, or choose from theme templates you have an option to design your course pages in easy a few clicks entirely by yourself. |
Not many templates |
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Course builder tool |
Super easy to use |
Yes |
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Easily move Course Sections/ Chapters |
Yes |
Yes |
Marketing & Sales
Now that your course is ready, it’s time to bring in the students. Learning to market & sell your online courses is an important task of a course creator.
Here’re the similarities in features between the platforms first such as Google Analytics, Mailchimp. Both have drip mail content, provisions for creating discount coupons. Now we’ll help you still deep dive into major differences between the two on the sales & marketing front.
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Course expiry/ Time-bound courses/ |
Yes |
Yes |
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Limit Course Sales |
One click setup. Super easy to use. |
Yes |
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Bundle Courses |
Advanced Any combination of the courses can be bundled |
Yes |
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SEO Sitemaps |
Automatically generated & updated SEO-friendly sitemaps that ensure your site on Knorish is fully search engine friendly. |
Yes |
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Custom roles: Specific access to team members |
You can assign custom roles, and choose which privileges to grant a user on your site. Setup multiple admins, instructors, site editors, blog managers, accounting, & customer service roles. |
Yes |
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Advanced one-click Paid Ads & Digital Marketing Integrations: Facebook Pixel, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager |
Yes |
Yes |
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Email Marketing & Automation: MailChimp API Based Integration |
Yes |
Yes |
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Upsells |
Offer upsells on courses post successful purchase. Plus fully customizable site pages and automated course completion emails can further be used to promote your courses. |
Yes |
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Discount Coupons |
Advanced feature. Setup and offer coupons for each course or in bulk for all courses. By price or by percentage, by categories, for one month, or for extended periods. You can create any no. of discount offers & win user confidence both in INR & USD currency. |
Yes |
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Individual Course Sales Pages |
Yes. Easy to create and build. Plus templates available |
Yes |
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Blog |
Advanced in-built blogging feature is available on all paid plans. |
Need to integrate a separate blog solution |
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WordPress Connection |
Yes |
Yes |
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Whitelabel your subdomain or domain |
Yes |
Yes |
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Your site as a marketplace of courses |
Yes |
Feature Not Offered |
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Social Logins |
Enable 1 click sign-up by learners on your site more easily using their LinkedIn, Facebook, or Google accounts for great speed & convenience. |
Yes |
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Complete white labeling to highlight your brand |
Yes |
Yes |
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Custom Signup Fields |
Capture Whatsapp numbers, phone numbers, addresses and more |
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— Shaurya Sinha, Founder- Sleepdepriveddreamers.comHaving launched my online courses on Knorish in 4 days, I can say with confidence that creating your online courses needs a robust platform as Knorish that is complete with rocking Technology & helpful customer care.
Knorish Vs. Thinkific: Detailed Comparison
Student Experience - A Complete Learning Experience
Knorish offers a wide variety of features to students for that complete learning experience. Resume course on any device mobile responsive websites and apps (android and iOS), send automatic email notifications and build email pipelines, and course discussion boards, offer excellent customer support, and many other such features that allow you to interact with your students more effectively.
While both the platforms aspire to create incredible courses and student experiences, Here's where the platforms differ while delivering incredible student experiences:
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Automatic Email Notifications |
Yes, you can use the default templates or customize them to create your own student communication. Plus, options to import template designs. |
Yes |
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Custom branded mobile app for students to learn on the go |
Android, iOS & native apps available at no extra cost. Let your students learn from anywhere in the world with just a click on an app icon. |
Custom branded mobile apps not offered. Would need to hire a developer team to build one |
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Resume course on any device |
Yes. Auto resume. Plus no buffering. Based on internet speed, video optimizes automatically. |
Yes |
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Student Dashboard |
Intuitive student dashboard with customizable messaging, and fast access to course content. |
Yes |
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Spotlight |
Promote new courses, & share product updates with Spotlight |
Feature not available |
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Mobile Responsive Websites |
Yes. A wide number of completely customizable pre-designed mobile responsive themes available across domains. |
Yes, with limited themes |
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Chat/ Course discussion boards |
Yes |
Yes |
THE NEXT DIFFERENCE between Knorish and Thinkific is that Knorish provides dedicated PHONE, LIVE CHAT, & EMAIL support for all our customers.
If you sign up on our annual plans, the platform even offers you a one-time website design service.
Plus, we respond within a few hours and not days! However, Thinkific does not provide regional dedicated support.
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Phone support |
Yes |
Regional Option Not Offered |
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Chat Support |
Yes |
Yes |
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Email Support |
Yes |
Yes |
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Support Timelines: First Response |
Weekdays: 2 Hours |
Longer Response Times |
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Onboarding Training Sessions |
Yes. On all plans |
Only on top plans |
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Additional Support Available |
Launch preparedness Call, Priority support and onboarding concierge for your site on professional and power plans |
Only on top plans |
Library Resources & Security Features
Besides an extensive Knowledge base, we also offer regular interventions in the form of weekly group coaching sessions, webinars, and courses available on Knorish Academy. Something that has helped our creators quickly scale their academy exponentially faster and is not available with Thinkific. Plus we share success stories, business strategies, and a lot more.
In terms of site security, both Knorish and Thinkific offer security features such as SSL Certificates, SSO (Single Sign-on) on premium plans, and secure cloud hosting to ensure your site is safe and secure. However, Knorish also offers Social sign ins for your learners to smoothen the signup process with a 1 click signup with Google, Facebook, LinkedIn sign in options.
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SSL Better security. Move from HTTP to HTTPS |
Free SSL certificates for that added security |
Yes |
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SSO |
Yes |
Yes |
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DRM Enabled Content protection |
Peace of mind guaranteed as students will not be able to download videos from laptop or apps |
Feature not available |
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Secure Cloud Hosting |
Yes. Unlimited Hosting |
Yes |
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24/7 Monitoring |
Yes |
Yes |
Course Payments
Possibly the most important reason for any creator to launch online courses is the sales aspect of it. With the world moving online, selling online courses has now truly become a lucrative business, and rightly so, Knorish has kept this in mind and has several functionalities that address this area.
Here's a deeper look into the feature differences:
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Payment Gateways |
Indian Payment Gateways including Instamojo, PhonePe, Paytm, Razorpay & CCAvenue and International payment gateways - Paypal, Stripe & CCAvenue UAE |
Inbuilt Thinkific Payment Gateways Indian payment gateways available only through integrations and custom setups |
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Collect payments in INR & USD |
Automatic. No inputs required to enable this with Knorish payment gateways |
Not available for INR. Additional tools needed |
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Collect Payment via PayTm, PhonePe, Other digital wallets, UPI, net banking, debit cards, credit cards, etc. |
Yes. Default Options |
Not possible without additional integrations |
Earnings & Transactions
One of the core benefits of using Knorish is that we offer you the ability to collect payments in Indian Rupees. Something that is not available on Thinkific.
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Earnings & Transactions |
Detailed analytics & insights available |
With App Integration |
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Earnings details in INR |
Yes |
Feature Not Offered |
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Set up Auto Payouts |
Yes |
Feature Not Offered |
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GST Invoices |
Yes |
With Third-Party Apps |
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Automatic GST Invoice Generation |
Yes |
With Third-Party Apps |
We truly believe that Knorish offers a wide variety of features and support that is not available with Thinkific or any other platform for that matter. Additionally, our team is constantly working on releasing new features that help our users scale their academies even further.
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Mrs. Binita Srinivasa, Former Beauty Queen, Founder - Visionara AcademyI have finally found a platform where I don’t have to worry about designing or coding anymore. I can start right away upload my content & sell it within a couple of minutes. Good job!
Great question! We obviously think Knorish is pretty cool, but we’re here to give you an honest answer:
The best platform choice comes down ultimately to what’s the requirement at your end.
If you’re looking for an all-round platform that makes it simple to conduct your online business, has dedicated and world-class customer service, and is affordable whether you’re just starting or growing fast, then we have built Knorish just for entrepreneurs like you.
Book A Free Live DemoSince features and support are constantly changing, this analysis was accurate to the best of our knowledge as of January 2021.
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