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CRM for Coaches 2026: Webinar, WhatsApp, Calls and Deals

· 10 min read · Webinly team

A coach's week is a list of people at different distances from a yes: one watched the whole webinar and asked about payment plans, one booked a call and did not show, one paid last month and needs a welcome, not another pitch. A general CRM holds the names, not what each of them watched, answered or paid for; that happened in three other tools.

This article describes a CRM built the other way round, from Webinly's public pages: every registrant becomes a contact on its own, scored by what they did, with a booking page, a deal board, a call button and WhatsApp on the same record. It compares that with a general CRM you wire yourself, names the limits, and prices it for a solo coach and a coach with a setter.

What a CRM for coaches has to know

A CRM for coaches has to answer one question per person: how close is this one to buying, and what do I do next? That takes four facts: what they watched, what they answered, whether they booked and what they paid, plus a way to call them from the same card. Webinly's webinar CRM is built on those four: every registrant becomes a scored contact on every plan from $39 a month, and a booked call becomes a deal you can call from the browser.

It works because the webinar, the form, the booking page, the checkout and the emails all write to one contact. Register once with an email, and attendance, watch milestones, poll votes, questions, form answers, bookings, deals and in-webinar purchases land on that profile. The webinar CRM page has the full scoring model; prices here were read on Webinly's pricing page on 25 October 2026.

A general CRM and Webinly, side by side

The middle column is a general CRM run by a coach who also pays for a webinar tool and a WhatsApp tool: capable, but every connection is yours to build. No vendor named, no price invented.

What a coach needsA general CRMWebinly
Who watched, how muchExport, import, tag, by youOn the record as it happens: attended, watch percentage, milestones, reached the pitch
Intake form answersA form tool and a mappingA scored form creates or updates the contact and fills custom fields
Booked callsA booking tool and its integrationIn the account; a booking lands on the contact and opens a deal
A deal boardIts core jobBooked, Showed up, Won, Lost, No-show to start; several pipelines; deal value, lost reasons
Who to call firstA score you feed by handEngagement, buyer-intent and fit scores, updated the moment a person acts; Hot at 80
Calling from the recordA dialler add-onClick Call on a contact or deal card; runs in your browser with a three-line brief
WhatsAppA separate tool, synced by youYour own WhatsApp Business number through Meta: reminders, missed-start link, journeys, replies in Webinly
Follow-up on behaviourRules you buildJourneys that start on the pitch, an abandoned checkout, a booked call, a score crossing 80, a deal won or lost
The billThree billsOne plan: Starter $39 (one person), Pro $159 (3 people), Scale $349 (10 people) a month

What lands on the record, and the three scores

The contact is created the first time someone gives you an email. Each profile carries a timeline, newest first: registrations with the campaign that sent them, attendance with watch percentage, milestones, poll votes, questions, chat, form submissions, bookings, deals, and the latest emails with their status. The customer data platform page covers how two addresses become one person, import, export and erasure.

Three scores sit on every profile. Engagement counts involvement: 5 points for registering, 15 for attending, 5, 10, 20 and 30 for the watch milestones, 12 for a question, 25 for being there when the offer appears. Buyer intent counts the moves near money: 20 for reaching the pitch, 40 for starting a checkout, 25 more for leaving it unfinished. Every point halves after 30 days. Bands turn the number into a decision: Cold under 20, Warm to 49, Engaged to 79, Hot at 80 and above; buyer intent uses the same lines, up to Ready to buy. Fit is how well someone matches what you sell. Every number is a default you can change.

Lifecycle stages move on their own: Lead at registration, Warm lead after watching 80% of any webinar, Hot lead once a call is booked and not cancelled or missed, Customer when you or an automation set it after a purchase, Churned after 90 days without a registration, attendance or booking. Segments update themselves from scores, stages, tags, a specific webinar or 'did this in the last N days', with ready-made ones for no-shows, attended but did not buy, checkout abandoned and Hot.

From the webinar to a booked call to a deal

Booking pages come with every plan, including Starter. Each is an event type with its own link: call length, where it happens, weekly hours in your time zone, notice and buffers. Connect Google Calendar and busy times disappear from the page while each booking is written to your calendar. The visitor sees times in their own zone and gets a confirmation, reminders 24 hours and 1 hour before, and a link to reschedule or cancel.

Put the booking link in a handout at the pitch, thrown from the control room on a live webinar (Pro and Scale) or placed on the timeline of an automated one. Booked with the registration email, the call lands on the same contact, makes them a Hot lead, and appears as a deal on your board. A coaching intake form does the same from the other side: score five to eight answers and send the top band to the booking page with name and email filled in.

The board starts with Booked, Showed up, Won, Lost and No-show; rename, add or remove stages, and record a deal value. When it is time to talk, click Call on the deal card or the contact: the call runs in your browser with a three-line brief of what that person did first, on your own SIP line or a calling plan, recorded with consent, every call in one log.

WhatsApp runs on the same contact: connect your own WhatsApp Business number through Meta's sign-up window, and the registrant who missed the start gets their watch link 7 minutes in, while a journey can send a Meta-approved template to a no-show. The WhatsApp marketing software article has the plan rows; no SMS, Meta bills the messages, and promotional messages need opt-in.

Set up the coach's pipeline in an afternoon

Six steps, each one a screen Webinly's pages describe.

  1. 1Import your current list: upload a CSV, match the columns (email required; name, phone, tags and stage optional), check the preview, import. Existing people are matched by email; a sample file shows the format.
  2. 2Shape the pipeline: start from Booked, Showed up, Won, Lost and No-show, rename or add stages to match how you sell, and set the days before a deal is flagged as going cold.
  3. 3Create the booking page: weekly hours, Google Calendar, then an event type with the call's length, where it happens, notice and buffers. Keep the form to email, name and one question.
  4. 4Publish the webinar with an offer and a handout carrying the booking link at the pitch. Without an offer there is no pitch moment, so buyer intent has nothing to read.
  5. 5Build the intake form in Knowledge quiz mode: points per answer, one ending per band, the top band sent to your booking page, key answers mapped to custom fields.
  6. 6Switch on two automations: when buyer intent crosses 80, alert yourself; when someone buys, move them to Customer. Preview each on a real contact before it goes live.

Who is a CRM like this for?

A coach who sells through a webinar and wants the list after the session sorted by who is close to buying, not by who signed up. Ready, interested and not yet become the call list, the replay list and the keep-warm list.

A coach with one setter: Pro seats 3 people and each extra person is $19 a month; on Starter the account is just you. A coach selling to the Gulf fits too: checkout runs on Stripe or Tap, and WhatsApp reminders are on every plan.

It is not for a sales team with reps and lead routing: alerts go to one address, and there is no two-way sync with an outside CRM, only webhooks and, on Pro and Scale, the API.

What you lose, and what you keep

Against a general CRM you know, what changes, both ways.

  • You lose imported history: a CSV brings details, tags and stages, not past purchases or activity.
  • You lose Outlook and Apple calendar sync: Google Calendar only, and booking reminders are email only.
  • You lose per-rep routing: one alert address, a team of 1 on Starter, 3 on Pro, 10 on Scale.
  • You lose an import from your old booking or form tool: both are rebuilt in Webinly.
  • You keep one profile per person, matched on email; a second address with the same phone is linked on its own.
  • You keep control of erasure: Erase contact shows what will go, then deletes profile, notes and timeline.
  • You keep your numbers: contacts export to CSV, and the API (Pro and Scale) reads contacts, deals and bookings.
  • You keep the webinar, form, booking page, checkout and follow-up on one bill with the CRM, per account, co-hosts included.

What does it cost at your size?

Starter is $39 a month, or $390 a year: contacts, the three scores, stages, segments, the deal board, booking pages, forms, automations, WhatsApp reminders, inbox and campaigns, and one automated or evergreen webinar at a time with unlimited registrants and 300 evergreen viewers a month. One person, no live, no WhatsApp voice calls. For a solo coach, that is the whole stack.

Pro is $159 a month, or $1,590 a year: live rooms of 300 with 12,000 attendee-minutes, 2 co-hosts, your own domain, the API, courses, WhatsApp groups and channels, the smart chat button, WhatsApp voice calls, and 3 people with extra people at $19 a month. Scale, $349 a month or $3,490 a year, adds bigger rooms and 10 people.

Add-ons on any plan: the WhatsApp AI assistant at $39 a month for 1,500 answers, broadcast email from $29 for 10,000 emails, and a calling plan for phone minutes, whose price the pricing page does not list. On Starter, groups and channels are $29 a month, the smart chat button and the API $9 each. The full table is on the pricing page.

Frequently asked

What is the best CRM for a coaching business?

The one that answers 'who do I call first' without an export. For a coach selling through webinars, that is a record of what each person watched, answered, booked and paid, a score built from those actions, a deal board for booked calls, and a call button on the card. Webinly's CRM does that on every plan.

Does it show who watched my webinar?

Yes, per person and as it happens. Each contact's timeline shows attendance with watch percentage, the 25, 50, 75 and 100 percent milestones, poll votes, questions and chat, and the profile records whether they reached the pitch and started a checkout, which is what buyer intent is built from.

Can I call from the CRM?

Yes. Click Call on a deal card or a contact and the call runs in your browser, with a three-line brief of what that person did first. Use your own SIP line or add a calling plan, record calls with consent, and see every call in one log. WhatsApp voice calls are on Pro and Scale.

Does it work with WhatsApp?

Yes, on your own WhatsApp Business number, connected through Meta's sign-up window and billed by Meta. Registrants get the confirmation, reminders, join link, recording and no-show follow-up there, replies come back into Webinly, and automations send Meta-approved templates. There is no SMS. WhatsApp reminders, inbox and campaigns are on every plan.

What is a customer data platform, and does a coach need one?

A customer data platform keeps everything a person does on one profile, matched by email, so you can sort people by what they did. A coach needs one once the webinar tool, the email tool and the checkout each keep their own copy. In Webinly the contact is that profile, on every plan.

Is the CRM included on the $39 plan?

Yes. Starter at $39 a month includes contacts with the three scores, stages, segments, the deal board, booking pages, forms, automations and WhatsApp reminders, inbox and campaigns. It runs one automated webinar at a time and seats one person; live broadcasting, 3 people and WhatsApp voice calls start on Pro at $159.

Run the webinar, book the call and make the call from one contact record, with the score telling you who comes first: your first plan is $1 today and the plan price 7 days later, cancel any time.

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