What Does Course Creator 360 Do? The 10 Features

I coined a name for a disease I used to have: software stacking. Before I built Course Creator 360 we were spending over $5,000 a month across Kajabi, Teachable, Thinkific, Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, Twilio, Wix, Calendly, Hootsuite, ManyChat and ClickFunnels, more than 15 subscriptions to run one course business. CC360 is those ten jobs in one login: course hosting, community, funnels and websites, CRM, email and SMS, automations, calendars, checkout, forms, sales pipelines and contracts. In May 2025 I filmed a 57-minute walkthrough of all of it. This is that demo in writing, feature by feature.

The ten, in the order I'd rank them for you

I ranked these by what actually matters to somebody selling what they know, not by what's impressive on a feature page. Number ten still beats not having it. The prices in the third column are my own averages from May 2025 for what those categories cost when you buy them one at a time, so treat them as a ballpark, not a quote, and that's exactly why the number at the bottom of the table is safe: shave a third off every line and the gap between that column and $147 is still hundreds of dollars a month.

#	What it does	The subscriptions it replaces	Roughly, separately	Which plan
1	Course hosting and building. Unlimited courses and video, drip and completion locking, quizzes with a pass grade, certificates, student progress reports, themes, comments, a student app	Kajabi, Teachable, Thinkific, Podia, LearnDash, Kartra	$149/mo	All three
2	Community and gamification. Public and private channels, levels, leaderboards, DMs, rewards, an event calendar, free or paid tiers, sitting inside the same login as the course	Skool, Circle, Mighty Networks, Kajabi	$100/mo	All three
3	Funnels, websites and the page builder. Drag and drop, mobile and desktop, A/B testing, unlimited domains, order bumps, one-click upsells and downsells, exit pop-ups, SEO fields, tracking code per page	ClickFunnels, SamCart, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Systeme.io	$200/mo	All three
4	CRM, email and SMS. Contacts with no cap, tags and smart lists, lead scoring, a drag-and-drop email builder, email A/B tests, and one inbox holding email, texts, WhatsApp, Instagram DMs, Facebook DMs and calls	ActiveCampaign, Mailchimp, HubSpot, Salesforce, Twilio	$200/mo, conservatively	All three
5	Automations. Triggers off a purchase, a lesson finished, a login, a form, an Instagram comment. Actions from tagging to course access to WhatsApp. If-then logic, waits, Facebook conversions API. Plus a social planner for scheduling posts	Zapier, Make.com, ManyChat, Hootsuite	Varies by task volume	All three
6	Calendars and booking. Round robin, class bookings with limited seats, collective, event and service calendars, SMS and email reminders, buffers, payment taken at booking, synced to Google, Outlook or iCloud	Calendly, Acuity, OnceHub, HoneyBook	$50/mo	All three
7	Payments and reporting. One-time, subscription, payment plan or a custom structure like three months up front then a retainer. Coupons, automatic tax, dozens of processors, a dashboard you build yourself	SamCart, ThriveCart, the checkout you're renting	Usually a % of every sale	All three
8	Forms and surveys. Unlimited fields, conditional logic that redirects, reveals or disqualifies, multi-page surveys, file uploads, and everything lands in the CRM automatically	JotForm, Wufoo	$25/mo	All three
9	Sales pipelines. Kanban board, custom stages, notes and tasks per lead, assignment to reps, forecasting. Unlimited users, which is the whole point	Pipedrive, Zoho, Keap, HubSpot	$20-30 per seat, per month	All three
10	Contracts and e-signature. Drag-and-drop builder, signing order, and you can attach the payment to the signature	DocuSign, PandaDoc	$47/mo	All three

Add the seven with a flat monthly price and you get about $770 a month. Our middle plan is $147. That gap is the entire argument, and it gets wider the moment you hire a second person, because half the tools in that column charge by the seat and we don't.

What "unlimited" means here, and where other platforms put the meter

Every platform in that table sells you a plan and then meters something. Kajabi caps courses, contacts, admins and funnels on every tier it sells. Mailchimp charges by how many contacts you store. Pipeline tools charge by the seat. We were paying $1,300 a month for our Mailchimp subscription before I built this, and we were paying it for the privilege of having a bigger list. We send millions of emails a month now, we get better open rates and better deliverability than we did on that bill, and the line item is gone.

Here's the list of things we don't cap on any plan: courses, lessons, video storage, products, price points, funnels, websites, domains, contacts, admins and users, form fields, automations, and customers. You can point as many domains at one account as you need and run several businesses out of it.

The honest exception is email sending. On the $97 Starter plan, emails are pay as you go. On Premium and Elite they're unlimited, and we set up your DNS and deliverability on an onboarding call, which is the part almost nobody does for you anywhere else. If you plan to email a list at all, Premium is the plan to be on, and that's exactly why it's the one I recommend: $50 buys you unlimited sending plus a person setting up your records so the emails land, instead of a bigger bill every time your list grows.

The four things people are surprised are in here

We get asked "does it have X" constantly, in the chat, the inbox and on every demo call. These four come up the most, and all four are included. If yours isn't here, book a demo and we'll show you it working.

• One-click upsells and downsells. After somebody buys, the next button charges the card they already used, no re-entering anything. Order bumps too. This is my biggest complaint with the polished course platforms: they'll let you have an upsell, but only inside their one template, so if their page doesn't convert, you're out of moves.
• Texting, WhatsApp and Instagram DMs from the same inbox as your email. Not through a connector. The conversation with one person shows every channel in one thread. Text open rates run far ahead of email, and most course sellers never use the channel because it's a separate bill somewhere else.
• Contracts with real signatures. If you sell coaching, run an affiliate agreement, or hire a contractor, you're not buying DocuSign. You can attach the payment to the signature so they sign and pay in one motion.
• Certificates and quizzes with a pass grade. Certification programs are a bigger slice of our members than I expected. The certificate builder is drag and drop, and you can gate the next module on passing.

The one thing I'll flag honestly: because there's this much in the box, the admin looks like a business platform rather than a boutique. That's the engine underneath showing through, and your students never see it. They see your portal on your domain, in your colors, in your app, and that's exactly why you get upsells, texting and pipelines at all: the boutique platforms keep the admin pretty by not shipping them. Plenty of platforms call themselves all-in-one and their CRM, automations and booking are all bad, jack of all trades and master of none. I'd rather hand you a real one of each plus a bootcamp that shows you where the buttons are.

About 1 in 4 people on a call with us describe the same problem, and it isn't a missing feature

We review our onboarding and demo calls. Across the ones we've coded, close to a quarter include somebody describing tool friction or asking for fewer logins. Not "I need gamification." More like they're paying for seven things, three of them barely get used, two of them are stitched together with Zapier, and every time something breaks they have to work out which company to email.

I said this on one of those calls a few months back, to somebody weighing us against a community tool: we replace it entirely, you build the exact community you already have on our platform, and you stop paying two subscriptions for one thing. What people actually do is sign up for Skool, then Kajabi, then Mailchimp, and end up paying something like 800 bucks a month just to run the software behind a course business. That's a big waste of money, and it's the number the table above is really competing with.

That's what the ten features are actually for. The point isn't that we have a calendar. Calendly's booking page is cleaner than ours and always has been. The point is that the calendar knows who the contact is, the automation that texts them the reminder is the same automation that gave them course access when they bought, and one support chat covers all of it at 2am. Their booking page is prettier, and that's exactly the trade: a prettier page that knows nothing about your buyer, or a plainer one that books, reminds, tags and charges without you wiring anything up.

Skool's answer to the same problem is to remove the options: no CRM, no funnels, no email tool, so there's nothing to get lost in. It works, right up until you want to run a launch, and then you're buying four subscriptions and a connector to glue them together. Go look at their leaderboard: the top creators on the platform that sold them simplicity are nearly all running ClickFunnels, ActiveCampaign, Zapier or Calendly on top of it. We kept the options and put templates, a 14-video bootcamp and 24/7 chat around them, which is the version of simple that survives your first launch. The long version of that argument is here.

All ten are on the $97 plan. Here's what the extra $50 buys.

Nobody gets a stripped-down version of the software. Every feature above is on Starter, Premium and Elite, at the same capacity. What moves between plans is the help and the head start.

• Starter, $97 a month ($81 annual), 14-day trial. All ten features, no caps, 24/7 chat, 10 templates, emails billed as you send them.
• Premium, $147 a month ($119 annual), 30-day trial. Unlimited email sending, DNS and deliverability set up for you, 50+ funnel and website templates, 50+ automation and email templates, and a second CC360 account for a separate business.
• Elite, $297 a month ($239 annual), 30-day trial. Every template plus the template hub, priority support, five accounts, and bi-weekly coaching calls with me.

Most people belong on Premium, and it's the plan I'd put you on if you asked me at a party. The template library and the deliverability setup are worth more than $50 in the first week, never mind the first year. Prices checked September 2026. The full plan breakdown is here.

What you'll get billed for that isn't in the subscription

Short list, and I'd rather you read it here than find it later.

• Payment processing. Stripe and PayPal charge about 2.9%, same as they charge everyone, on every platform. We take zero percent of your sales on top of that, which is not true of most of the names in the table above.
• Done-for-you builds. If you want us to build the funnel or move you off another platform instead of doing it yourself, migrations run $300 to $1,500, most land near $600.

That's the whole list. There's no per-contact fee, no per-seat fee, no charge for adding a course, and no revenue share.

The toolbox is one third of the job

This is the part I say in every demo and I'll say it here. Features are hammers and drills. They don't build anything by themselves, and I've watched people buy the most capable software on earth and sell nothing with it. The tools are about a third of what makes an online course work. The other two thirds are knowing what to sell, what to charge, how to write the emails and how to get traffic.

So the ten features come with Course Creator Pro, the course that teaches the selling part, a 90-minute bootcamp that gets you launched in 14 videos, templates we've actually run ads to, and support that answers in about a minute at 98% satisfaction. That's what the 360 in the name is. I've sold or helped sell $25 million of online courses, and none of it happened because a page builder had more elements than the other page builder.

This is the business in a box I wish I'd had when I started, and it did not exist on Kajabi, Teachable, Thinkific or ClickFunnels. Here's my incentive, stated plainly: if I can get you launched and making money, you stay on our software. That's how I win and that's how you win, which is why the education is in the price instead of sold to you as the next upgrade.

The one person I'd point elsewhere: if your actual business is selling software under your own brand, with your logo on the login and your clients billed by you, that's a white-label reseller platform and we don't compete with those. Even then, start a 30-day trial next to it and see what the ten features plus the templates do for your own offer. Here's the full answer on reselling.

Check all ten yourself in an afternoon

You don't have to take my word for any of this, and you don't have to sit through the 57-minute video either. Start the trial, then run this list in about two hours:

1. Upload one video and build one lesson. That's feature one.
2. Create a group and turn on levels. That's feature two.
3. Load a funnel template from the template hub and change the headline. Three.
4. Import a CSV of your contacts and send yourself an email from the builder. Four and part of five.
5. Build a calendar and book yourself on it. Six.
6. Create a $1 product and buy it from your own checkout page. Seven.
7. Book the onboarding call and let us set up your domain and email records.

If that afternoon doesn't convince you, cancel before day 30 and you've paid nothing. I don't want your money until you're sure. I actually lose money every time somebody starts a free trial, because you're using everything and hopping on calls with my team before you've paid a dollar. I take that on purpose: the software is a lot easier to believe once it's your video in your portal on your domain. Or book a demo and we'll run the ten live. Trial is 30 days on Premium and Elite, 14 on Starter, and our Trustpilot page sits at 4.9 across 508 reviews as of September 2026 if you want other people's read first.

Frequently asked questions

Is Course Creator 360 really all-in-one, or will I still need Zapier?

For the ten jobs above, you won't need a connector, because they're one database and one automation builder rather than separate apps talking to each other. Where people still reach for Zapier is a genuinely outside tool, like a bookkeeping app or a niche scheduling system. Everything a course business does day to day is native.

Does Course Creator 360 host video, and is there a storage limit?

Yes, video hosting is built in and there's no storage cap on any plan, including the $97 one. You also get subtitles and captions, PDFs, MP3s and other file types in a lesson, and full progress tracking per student.

Can I send text messages and Instagram DMs from Course Creator 360?

Yes. SMS, WhatsApp, Instagram DMs, Facebook DMs, email and calls all land in one inbox, and any of them can be sent by an automation. SMS and calls are billed at cost by the carrier with no markup from us, and that's exactly why texting is worth turning on here: the channel that gets read costs you cents a message instead of another monthly subscription.

Does it have quizzes and certificates?

Yes, both. Quizzes have a pass grade and can gate the next module, and the certificate builder is drag and drop with your logo, signature and badges. You can see every certificate you've issued.

Is there a mobile app for my students?

Yes. GoKollab is our default app, it's in the Apple and Google stores already, it's included at no extra cost on every plan, and it holds your courses, community, contracts and subscriptions, so your students can download it today. If you'd rather have the app published under your own name and logo, that's a separate subscription and we don't make a dollar on it: it's what Apple and Google charge us to list your app. Ask support for today's price, and start on GoKollab meanwhile, because your students get the phone experience on day one either way.

Which features are missing from the $97 plan?

None of the ten. Starter has the same course hosting, community, funnels, CRM, automations, calendars, checkout, forms, pipelines and contracts as Elite. What's different is unlimited email sending, the DNS setup call, the template library, extra accounts and the coaching calls, all of which start at $147.

Does Course Creator 360 have a real CRM?

Yes, a full one: contacts, tags, smart lists, lead scoring, pipelines and a unified inbox, because it runs on the GoHighLevel engine. Some comparison articles say otherwise and they're simply wrong. Here's the walkthrough with screenshots.

What can't Course Creator 360 do?

You can't rebrand and resell the software as your own product. And our template library is built for selling education, so if you run a dental practice you get the same engine but you'll be building your own pages, and that's exactly why the builder isn't locked to our templates the way the polished platforms lock you to theirs. Beyond that, if you find a job in a course business you think it doesn't cover, bring it to a demo and we'll either show you it working or tell you straight that it isn't there. The honest version of what we are.

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