Practice

What happened to Practice?

Practice shut down on 3 November 2025 after a failed acquisition. The wind-down was announced by chief executive Julien Smith in October 2025, the platform went fully offline with roughly two weeks of notice and no read-only mode, and accounts are now locked. The pricing and features pages return 404 and the product cannot be bought.

Two weeks of notice with no read-only period is the part worth naming plainly, because it is the reason this page is a warning as well as a record. Coaches who did not export in that window lost session notes and portal content permanently.

Before it closed it was priced from roughly $5 to $99 a month, which was among the cheapest in the coaching admin category.

What was Practice, and what did it cover?

Practice was a coaching admin tool: an operating surface for the business around coaching, with a client portal as its distinguishing feature. Booking links, Stripe payments, invoices, contracts with e-signature, intake forms, workflow automations, per-client chat, SMS reminders and Zoom links were all part of it.

The registry records self-serve session scheduling, payments and invoicing, contracts and e-signatures, intake forms and questionnaires, and a client portal with chat as fully covered. Two-way calendar sync, structured programmes, and a client mobile app are recorded as partial. Habits and daily check-ins, community and group cohorts, and online courses are recorded as absent.

So what its customers lost was an admin hub with an unusually good client-facing side, not a full coaching platform. That matters when choosing a replacement, because the obvious like-for-like options are the other coaching admin tools.

Where did Practice users go?

Two products published migration paths and both are legitimate like-for-like choices. The third column is what you gain or lose relative to what Practice covered.

Prices as recorded in the registry, verified May 2026. Paperbell and CoachAccountable both published migration paths at the time of the shutdown.

What should you check before you commit to any replacement?

The Practice shutdown is the best argument in this directory for asking these four questions of a vendor before you depend on them.

• Can you export your full client data yourself, today, without asking support?
• Does the export include session notes and form responses, or only a contact list?
• Is there a read-only period if the service ends, and is it written down anywhere?
• Is the plan monthly, so leaving is a decision rather than a negotiation?

How does Coachful answer those four questions?

No vendor can promise to exist forever, and a directory published by a vendor should be especially careful about implying otherwise. What we can do is make leaving painless, so here is the answer to our own checklist: you can download a full client-data ZIP covering roster, notes, check-ins, goals, habits, sessions and form responses, plus a course export and an organisation backup, at any time. Plans are monthly and cancel in one click.

On scope, Coachful covers everything Practice did — booking, payments and invoicing, contracts with e-signature, intake forms and a client portal with chat — and adds two-way Outlook and Microsoft 365 sync, which Practice users asked for and never got, along with programmes, daily habits, check-ins, goals, courses and community.

That is an interested party’s account of itself and should be read as one. The point of the checklist is that you can ask the same four questions of anybody.

What should you do about it?

If you are a former Practice customer, find your export first and choose software second. If you have the CSV or ZIP, any of the replacements above can start from it. If you do not, rebuild the client list from your payment processor and your email, which are the two places the data usually survives.

If you are simply choosing software and arrived here by accident, take the four questions with you. The coaching admin category lists the products that occupy the space Practice left.

What does Practice do fully, and what does it leave out?

Practice is recorded as fully covering 5 of the 11 capabilities in its row: self-serve session scheduling; payments & invoicing; contracts & e-signatures; intake forms & questionnaires; client portal with chat.

It is recorded as not including 3 of them: habits & daily check-ins; community & group cohorts; online courses. A coach who needs any of those runs a separate tool for it.

A further 3 are recorded as partial: two-way calendar sync; structured programs (weekly goals, daily tasks); client mobile app (iOS & Android). Test those with your own workflow before relying on them.

Coachful’s published tiers, for comparison

How does Practice’s price compare with an all-in-one plan?

The registry records Practice’s price as Shut down (was $5–99/mo). That figure covers Practice alone, so the fair comparison adds the monthly cost of whatever you would run beside it, starting with habits & daily check-ins.

On Coachful’s published tiers, 5 clients on Lite cost $29 a month ($5.80 per client), 20 clients on Solo cost $49 ($2.45 per client), and 50 clients on Pro cost $99 ($1.98 per client). Pro has no client cap, so the per-client figure keeps falling as the practice grows.

Write both totals down for your current client count and for double it. The cheaper tool at today’s size is not always the cheaper tool at the size you are aiming for.