Courses as a product

You build the course first—lessons and curriculum—under Portal Manager. You add a product when you want people to pay on your website and automatically get course access. Invite-only students do not need a product listing.

Curriculum help: Courses overview. Invites without checkout: Set course access rules · Invite clients to portal.

How course and product fit together

Stage	Where	Product listing?
Build curriculum	Portal Manager / course editor	No—content only
Invite-only	Portal Manager → Invitations	No
Sell on storefront	Products → Digital Products → Course (wizard)	Yes—active product
After payment	Client portal—students sign in to lessons	Checkout → portal grant

Flow

[Create course + ordered lessons]
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        v
[Digital Products → Step 1 Course → Step 2 name/price → Step 3 link course]
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        v
[Active SKU on storefront / product page]
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        v
[Checkout → welcome email → student opens lessons in portal]

Invite-only students skip the product steps—see Set course access rules.

Prerequisites

Create a course and add lessons

Products → Digital Products (included on plans that sell digital goods)

Digital product templates and delivery — Course is always Client portal access, not email file delivery

Sell your course on the storefront

1. Finish the course content while it stays in draft if you are still building lessons.
2. Go to Products → Digital Products → What are you creating? → Course (Step 1).
3. In Name & price (Step 2), set title, description, image, and price. Delivery stays Client portal access—there is no email-zip option for Course.
4. In What your customer receives (Step 3), link your course (required). Optionally enable add-ons such as downloads or messages.
5. Set status Active and save.
6. Add the product to a Pages shop block or link it from your site / product detail page.
7. Buy once with a personal email (not your admin login) and confirm you can open lessons in the client portal.

What you'll see

Paying customers get a welcome email and sign in to the client portal to watch lessons. Invited students who did not pay never use the product checkout. Everyone else sees buy or sign-in prompts—not lesson content.

Common mistakes

Mistake	Fix
Expecting email zip for a course	Course template is portal-only—use a Digital Download Pack if you only sell files
Course is live but nothing to buy	Create an Active Course digital product and link the course in Step 3
Step 3 has no course selected	Bind at least one course before publishing

Verifying your setup

• Active Course product is portal delivery and points at the right course in Step 3.
• A test purchase opens lessons in the client portal.

After students purchase, recommend related digital products in the portal—see Upsell products in the client portal.