Question
- Is it possible to create courses that can only be purchased within a bundle?
- Can I remove the ability for students to purchase bundle courses separately?
- How to Make Courses Exclusive to Bundles
- Courses Only Available in Bundle
- I Only Want Students to be Able to Purchase my Courses From a Bundle
- Course Can't be Bought Individually, Only From a Bundle
Solution
To make your courses only available for students to enroll in by purchasing a Course Bundle, which the courses are included within, follow these steps in your Admin Dashboard:
- Create a bundle and add your courses to the bundle
- In the settings for each course in the bundle, select the option to make the course Private
This will block the checkout for individual courses, but still allow students to purchase these courses by clicking from your bundle landing page to your bundle checkout page.
These steps also apply for free courses and/or a free bundle.
Linking to Your Bundle Landing Page
We also recommended adding banner buttons to course landing pages to link customers to your bundle landing page:
- Within the Site Builder, select the Courses tab
- Choose a course landing page for a course in your bundle
- Click Add Section and the Banner (course) section (unless a Banner (course) section has already been added)
- Under Blocks, click Add Button
- Click Button heading to open Button settings
- In the Text field, input the text you would like displayed on the Button
- Under Link to select A bundle page
- From the Bundle drop-down menu select your bundle
- Click Save to apply changes
Linking to Your Bundle Checkout Page
Alternately you can also add banner buttons to course landing pages to link customers to your bundle checkout page:
- Within the Site Builder, select the Courses tab
- Choose a course landing page for a course in your bundle
- Click Add Section and the Banner (course) section (unless a Banner (course) section has already been added)
- Under Blocks, click Add Button
- Click Button heading to open Button settings
- In the Text field, input the text you would like displayed on the Button
- Under Link to select A checkout page
- From the Product drop-down menu select your bundle
- Click Save to apply changes
Important Considerations
- Making courses private will not affect the accessibility of the course within the bundle itself.
- When a course is set to Private, the Thinkific checkout is completely blocked, which means that you have full control over enrollments.
- When a course is set to Private a message is automatically added in the Course Banner of your course landing page instructing students to get in touch with you to enroll in the individual course. You can also customize this messaging to direct students to purchase from your bundle landing page. Adding a button to link to your bundle landing or checkout page (see above) will automatically hide this message.
