Sell It Today vs. Thinkific: A Quick Overview
Thinkific is a great fit for creators, instructors, and businesses that want to create and sell learning experiences. Its official platform highlights courses, communities, memberships, digital downloads, coaching, webinars, and integrated payments.
Sell It Today aims for a broader scope: not just selling training or content, but also centralizing CRM, funnels, calendars, automations, payments, and overall business management. The LMS is just one component among many in a more comprehensive system.
In summary:
- Thinkific = excellent platform for courses, communities, and educational products
- Sell It Today = broader Business OS, designed to unify your entire digital business
If your main need is to sell training courses, Thinkific is a very solid choice. If your real challenge is the proliferation of tools across your entire business, SIT offers a more distinctive solution.
Introduction to Sell It Today
Sell It Today is an all-in-one B2B SaaS solution designed as a centralized hub for digital businesses. Sell It Today is designed as a platform that brings together, among other things:
- Customer and prospect CRM
- Landing page builder
- Automated workflows
- Booking calendar
- Personalized email outreach
- Automated LinkedIn outreach
- SMS and WhatsApp campaigns
- LMS
- Physical and digital e-commerce
- Kanban-style collaboration, pages, and notes
- Electronic signatures
- Payment infrastructure
- An integrated banking solution (coming soon).
The core promise is clear:
One platform to sell and manage everything.
The idea isn’t just to add features, but to make them work together. The CRM, pages, automations, calendar, LMS, and payments all share the same data and can trigger cross-functional actions. The marketing automation module also includes triggers for leads, payments, appointments, and NPS, as well as actions such as emails, SMS, WhatsApp messages, CRM updates, e-commerce coupons, and Kanban tasks.
Introducing Thinkific
Thinkific positions itself as a platform for creating, marketing, and selling learning products all in one place. Its official homepage describes it as an “all-in-one” platform for courses, communities, and LMS tools, with integrated payments and over 35,000 customers.
Thinkific also officially highlights:
- digital downloads
- memberships
- coaching and webinars
- communities
- marketing tools
- app store.
In terms of pricing, the official pricing page lists the following:
- Basic at $49/month or $36/month on an annual plan
- Grow at $199/month or $149/month on an annual plan
- a custom Plus plan, with FAQs pointing to Grow as the most popular plan.
Thinkific’s strength is therefore very clear:
to become a robust platform for learning businesses.
Detailed Comparison
CRM
Thinkific is not publicly marketed as a market-leading CRM. Its official focus is on creating, selling, and managing learning products, with integrations and an app store to enrich the ecosystem. The availability of integrations like HubSpot Email & Marketing Sync in the Thinkific App Store clearly shows that advanced CRM functionality is often handled through complementary tools.
Sell It Today, on the other hand, places CRM at the center of its system. Sell It Today offers a customer and prospect CRM, complete with tags, filtering, call assignment, and synchronization with payment, workflows, the LMS, and other modules.
So:
- Thinkific = excellent for managing customers, learners, and the learning audience
- SIT = CRM designed as the single source of truth for a broader digital business
If your main need is to sell courses, Thinkific may be sufficient. If you want a truly centralized CRM connected to the entire business cycle, SIT is a better fit.
Funnels
Thinkific allows you to sell and market educational products, but its public positioning remains less funnel-first than ClickFunnels or a system designed from the outset as a conversion-focused Business OS. Thinkific talks about builders, payments, communities, and marketing, but its core focus isn’t on an ultra-advanced native sales funnel.
Sell It Today explicitly includes a funnel builder with landing pages and automated workflows. This component is designed to work with CRM, LMS, e-commerce, and payments.
So:
- Thinkific = great for selling through a learning platform and structured products
- SIT = a better fit if you want a true conversion funnel integrated with the rest of your business
Marketing Automation
Thinkific highlights marketing tools, payments, memberships, and an app store that lets you add complementary features. However, its marketing offering remains primarily focused on the learning business and monetizing educational products.
SIT takes a more cross-functional approach. Sell It Today offers:
- internal and external triggers
- emails
- SMS / WhatsApp
- CRM updates
- e-commerce coupons
- Kanban tasks
- IF / ELSE
- omnichannel inbox
- proactive calling
- reputation manager.
In short:
- Thinkific = relevant automation for selling and managing learning products
- SIT = broader automation, focused on marketing + sales + delivery + management
Business Management
Thinkific is very strong for a learning business. Courses, communities, memberships, digital downloads, coaching, and webinars already form a cohesive stack for monetizing expertise.
SIT aims to cover that and add:
- A more centralized CRM
- Calendar
- SMS
- Broader e-commerce capabilities
- Collaboration and organization
- Cross-functional dashboards
- Integrated Finance.
Payments and Finance
Thinkific strongly emphasizes integrated payments and the monetization of learning products. The official pages mention accepting payments instantly and monetizing coaching, webinars, and digital downloads.
However, Thinkific does not position itself as a comprehensive payment infrastructure linked to an advanced CRM, nor as a neobank or a broader financial layer.
SIT, on the other hand, offers an integrated payment infrastructure, along with a neobank designed to unify payments, CRM, e-commerce, sales funnels, and cash flow into a “one-stop-shop.”
So it’s important to strike a balance:
- Thinkific is already very good for processing payments for educational products
- SIT takes the “payment + CRM + Business OS” approach a step further
Pricing
Here’s a simplified overview of the pricing plans.
| Plan | Sell It Today | Thinkific |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | €37/month | Basic: $49/month or $36/month (annual) |
| Pro | €97/month | Start / Intermediate depending on visible structure |
| Business / Advanced | €347/month | Grow: $199/month or $149/month annually |
| Enterprise | , | Plus: custom |
For SIT, Sell It Today’s pricing plan is €37, €97, and €347.
For Thinkific, the official pricing page lists at least:
- Basic: $49/month or $36/month annually
- Grow: $199/month or $149/month annually
- Plus: custom pricing.
So let’s be honest:
- Thinkific may be comparable to or more expensive than SIT, depending on the plans being compared
- but Thinkific doesn’t cover exactly the same scope as a Business OS
- the price comparison only makes sense if you’re comparing business learning features, not the entire system
Pros and Cons
Sell It Today
SIT offers a clear Business OS value proposition. The product integrates CRM, sales funnels, email, SMS, calendar, LMS, payments, and dashboards into a single system. It’s particularly effective when the main challenge stems from fragmentation between acquisition, sales, automation, and delivery.
Limitations
Compared to Thinkific, SIT faces a well-established competitor that’s already strong in the learning business market, with a clear offering for courses, communities, coaching, and digital downloads. Thinkific may be easier for a creator or instructor focused solely on teaching to understand.
Thinkific
Strengths
Thinkific is very well positioned for creators, instructors, and educational companies. Courses, communities, memberships, digital downloads, coaching, webinars, and payments, all in a single tool, make it a highly cohesive platform.
Limitations
Thinkific is not an advanced central CRM in the Business OS sense, nor is it a comprehensive financial platform or an integrated banking layer. As soon as you need to connect calendars, CRM, funnels, payments, collaboration, and broader management within a single system, you’ll often need to look elsewhere.
Which tool should you choose?
Choose Sell It Today if:
- you want to centralize more than just training
- you’re looking to connect CRM, sales funnels, calendars, automation, payments, and delivery
- you’re already using multiple tools and feel the friction caused by fragmentation
- you want your learning business to be built on a broader system.
Choose Thinkific if:
- your main need is to sell courses, communities, memberships, coaching, or webinars
- you want a robust, pre-packaged platform for learning products
- your business is primarily focused on educational content and the learner experience.
In short:
- problem = launching and selling a learning business simply → Thinkific is excellent
- problem = a fragmented business stack that slows down the entire business → SIT offers greater differentiation
Why Sell It Today Is a Business OS
Thinkific is already a very good all-in-one solution…
but for the learning business.
Sell It Today aims to serve a broader category.
Whereas Thinkific primarily unifies:
- courses
- communities
- memberships
- coaching
- webinars
- digital downloads
- learning payments.
SIT aims to unify:
- acquisition
- conversion
- customer relationships
- automation
- payments
- delivery
- business management.
So the difference isn’t just functional.
It’s structural.
SIT aims to become the system layer of the digital business.
Not just the learning platform.
A single system to run your business.