ChallengeFuel Review (2026): How to Run an Automated 5-Day Challenge with WebinarFuel's FuelSuite

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you buy WebinarFuel or FuelSuite through them, Styles Business Group earns a commission at no extra cost to you. Full disclosure.

The short version

Five-day challenges are one of the most common ways coaches sell a program, but running one live every month wears you out. ChallengeFuel is FuelSoft's tool for running a multi-day challenge from pre-recorded sessions on a schedule, with reminders, VIP upsells and sales tracking built in. It comes bundled with WebinarFuel in the FuelSuite Pro plan, or you can buy it on its own.

It's a good fit if you already have a challenge that converts and you want it to run without you. It's a poor fit if you've never run a challenge live, because automating an offer that hasn't been tested just automates the guesswork.

What it costs (checked Oct 23, 2026)

• FuelSuite Pro (WebinarFuel Pro + ChallengeFuel Pro): $297/month on challengefuel.com's main page (listed as "normally $394/mo"). This is the plan the 14-day free trial runs on.
• WebinarFuel Pro alone: $197/month. It does not include challenges.
• ChallengeFuel Pro alone: shown on challengefuel.com/our-pricing as $122/month billed annually (normally $147/month).
• 14-day free trial, cancel anytime, per the site.

What you need before you start

From FuelSoft's public onboarding doc and the ChallengeFuel feature list:

1. A registration page. ChallengeFuel gives you an embeddable registration widget, not a full page builder, so you'll need a page on your own site or funnel tool.
2. Your session videos, one per day plus any VIP sessions. ChallengeFuel offers hosted videos (5 on FuelSuite Pro), or you can use Wistia, Vimeo or Sprout.
3. An order page for your offer, and a thank-you page so sales can be tracked.
4. Your offer and deadline, decided in advance. If the deadline resets for each person, don't say it's a one-time chance.

How a challenge gets built (per FuelSoft's onboarding doc; not tested hands-on)

1. Create the challenge: name it, choose your videos and set the time zone.
2. Schedule the days: map a video to each day's session and add VIP sessions where you want them.
3. Embed the widgets: put the registration widget on your page and the thank-you widget on your thank-you page.
4. Set what happens at the end: where attendees go when the challenge finishes. FuelSuite can "link" challenges and webinars so finishers are invited to the next event.
5. Design the event room: look and feel, replay settings, and your calls to action.
6. Connect integrations (optional): send registrants to your email tool. There's also a built-in contact database with segmentation.
7. Turn on reminders: email, SMS and push notifications. Watch your credits: our trial shows 250 emails and 25 SMS.

The features that matter for coaches

• VIP upsells: sell VIP session access, "gate" VIP sessions, and split-test the VIP offer.
• Facebook group streaming (per the vendor; not seen in our trial): stream sessions into a Facebook group. If you do, label them as pre-recorded.
• Show-up help: SMS, calendar sync and push reminders across the days. ChallengeFuel's own site claims 40-70% of registrants drop off after Day 1 on most platforms; that's their marketing claim, not a figure we've tested.
• Tracking: sales, conversions, traffic-source tests, and backend sales or booked calls.

Who should try it

• Coaches who've already run a challenge live at least once and know it sells.
• Course creators who want a webinar and a challenge in one account, linked together.
• Anyone happy to run a WebinarFuel webinar only should stick with the $197 Pro plan. See WebinarFuel Pricing (2026).

Sources: challengefuel.com and challengefuel.com/our-pricing (checked Oct 23, 2026); FuelSoft onboarding docs at docs.fuelsoft.com.