How To Build An Online Course in Wix | Part 1

what’s going on which nation MPs here from which training academy and Wow we are living through a very wild time right now in fact last night I was just informed that the rest of our semester for college is online and we have to be moved out by this weekend so that’s what I’ll be doing for the remainder of the week here I hope you’re staying healthy hope you’re staying safe but with this actually brings some opportunity so for those of you
that have physical businesses right now I’m sure you are probably feeling some level of hurt from this whole corona virus pandemic however the opportunity lies right here and what I’m going to introduce you to today is a three-part miniseries on how to build an online course website in Wix and we’re gonna go through each part each part will be released on a different day so part 1 will be tomorrow which is Wednesday then Friday and then Monday
and we’re gonna go through this three-part miniseries and I’m gonna break it down step by step and show you how to build an online course in Wix and why is that opportunity well it’s opportunity because taking your business online right now is where people are going to be people are gonna be online they have more time because we’re supposed to be quarantined social distancing playing our part and because of that they’ll be looking to hopefully
advance their business or they’ll even be looking for new opportunities to either grow in their skill set or just new opportunities online to start businesses so you with your knowledge can take that package it and turn it into an online course and then obviously build your website for it so let’s dive into this first part but obviously before we do make sure you click that subscribe button in the bottom right of this video and turn those Bell
notifications on because you’re gonna want to stay tuned here over the next few weeks especially because we’ve got a lot of great content coming to show you how to tackle this whole kovat 19 coronavirus pandemic maximizing your online business and you’ll instantly join thirty three thousand almost thirty four thousand plus other like-minded entrepreneurs let’s jump in okay so in part one of this miniseries what we’re gonna do is we’re actually
gonna utilize the Wix paid plans app now some of you may have seen this before some of you may even actively be using it or have utilized it in the past but I got a lot of questions on my video when I first made that when which paid plans initially came out and the good news is is which has adjusted some of the data in which paid plans to make it a little more user friendly more importantly we’re able to use corvid tools not kovat corvid tools by
Wix to actually maximize the backend of the which paid plans app so we can get a little bit more sophisticated so what we’re gonna do is we first have to add our which paid plan app to do that we’re gonna go to add apps on the Wix app market place and then we are going to type in paid plans and it’s now called pricing and plans by Wix and we’re gonna click that and we’re going to click Add now what we’re gonna do here is this is gonna be the
starting framework for the online course now typically how you’ll build an online course is you’ll either build it as a one-time single payment or you’ll charge people you know ongoing subscription to access the content in your online course or even membership website and this can be used for both another solution for your online course is using Wix video if you’re doing just video and I actually created a video for that right here in the card up
above now if you want to go without route that’s totally fine quite frankly it’s an easier less work intensive route however that’s not the route we’re gonna take in this video we’re gonna take the route assuming that you’ve got some sort of ongoing subscription or if not just even a one-time payment and I’m gonna show you how to build that out and it starts with the paid app because this is what’s going to actually enable people to purchase that
subscription or that one time and then this will give them permission based on their membership level to certain pages on your site or your course in particular so with that said we’ve now added which paid plans or pricing and plans and we can first click on settings when we go to settings we’re gonna see a couple things manage paid plans this is where we’re gonna really live for today’s tutorial but you have settings here as well so you have the
ability to choose what information you’d like to show in this whole design over here you get to show what plan you’d like to highlight as well so you always see that when people are choosing plans for things you see one like best value or best option and you have the ability to choose which of these you’d like to highlight as you can see which gives you three pre-made which are beginner pro and VIP and then you can show the ribbon on there too
which is that best value ribbon if you’d like you can add a disclaimer as well now for layout this is just very basic you’re just choosing the spacing text this is a little bit more creative this is where you can choose if you want this header up at the top what you’d like that to say what you’d like the button to say maybe you’d like it to be more of a call to action type you can see button with free trial start free trial so you have to
determine what you want these text to be and then you can choose what that ribbon says up top as well and then lastly the the design of it this is where you come through you can design every piece of it the background of this the colors the fonts the text all that good stuff that’s the technicalities now I’m going to show you how to actually create and manage paid plans so we’re gonna manage paid plans here it’s gonna open up in our Wix dashboard
actually because everything we create in the editor in terms of Wix apps such as which stores which bookings which blog which pricing and plans can all be accessed from our dashboard we’re gonna go ahead and press get started and once you get started you can see a couple of things number one you see the paid plans over here on the left hand side you see plans and you see purchase plans we’re gonna start on manage plans so what we’re gonna do is
we’re gonna create our first plan so we’re gonna create a plan and then we’re gonna tag it and type it so here’s what I want you to look at before we even title our plan pricing and duration you can see you have a few options in terms of how you price your plans you can make it a free plan which basically give someone free membership access because you’ll assign them a user role you can make it a one-time payment so if you’re building a course
and you want one single payment one upfront fee you can choose a one-time payment or you can do reoccurring payments and you can choose both the frequency either weekly monthly yearly and also the price in addition to that you can select the length of the plan so is it a three month six-month two years until it cancelled or is it a custom planner you’re gonna choose maybe it’s a three week plan maybe it’s a five or six week plan you get to choose
that if you choose the custom and then you can also enable free trials so if you’re building some type of membership website you can enable free trial and allow people to try it out before they officially commit and get charged right just like you would traditionally do if you’re online so once you have that figured out and the reason I wanted to highlight those first is because that’ll determine obviously what the name of your plan is so it’s
not going to be a membership if it’s a one-time payment maybe it is maybe it is but in this case we’re just gonna say single pay investment and well we’re gonna spell investment the right way number one investment and that is gonna be for the course and we ran out of characters there so we’ll just call it single pay and then tagline one time got a spot right today one time course payment and there we go that’s our tagline so it’s a single pay and
it’s a one-time course payment so they’ll single pay they’ll pay one time for the course and then they get access to the course and then you can actually choose what your plan includes here so what are the benefits as you saw on that drop down under each little tear there it showed what they access to you get to come up with these this is your creative piece obviously when you’re thinking about benefits think about what people really want what
are the benefits they’re going to receive not just features benefits because benefits is what’s gonna actually sell somebody I’m moving into that direction and then what you’re gonna do is you’re gonna come down here you create your plan and then you have planned policies so you can choose if it’s a one purchase per person or if not keep that unchecked and then if you have policies such as a refund renewal cancellation trials all of that good
legal jargon you’re gonna want to make sure you put it down here in plan policy text and make sure you do put it there because I promise you there will be people along the time in your course that either want a refund want a free update on their trial don’t want to renew or they do want to cancel so make sure you have policy text to indicate that and then you would click Save now I obviously have to pick this I’m choosing a one-time payment we’re
gonna say it’s a just under $2,000 course and this one-time payment is custom choose period yearly and how many years one it’s a one-time payment for that year that’s what it is and then we’re gonna click Save and then what it’s gonna do is it’s gonna save that plan and you would replicate this entire process for however many payment options you want to give your visitors for your course and once you do that you’ve got plans now if you decide you
want to cancel a plan you can edit it or you can archive it if you archive it it’ll go straight to your archived plans here and that will show your old plans but this is an active plan so once you have this you now have one payment option now you’re probably asking okay so what happens how does this work so they’re gonna come to your site they’re gonna go ahead that you have a sales page or a landing page for your course and then you’ve got the
plans at the bottom or maybe it’s just one single plan which is your one-time payment option like we have right here and then what they’ll do is they’ll click it to get started it’ll take them through the payment process you do have to have an upgraded which account on the business and e-commerce hosting plans in order to accomplish this why because you’re taking payments over your website and which requires that which does not take a commission
but you do need that hosting plan one of the business and e-commerce plans in order to accept payments on your website and then what happens is it’ll take them through the payment process and then it’ll have them create an account to log in because what’s gonna happen next is you have to assign user roles and permissions and essentially what that means is this single pay person the person that just paid for a course what do they have access to on
your website and we’re gonna build the back-end infrastructure in part two and three but that’s what this how this process works once they go through and purchase this plan they’ll then be redirected back to create their account so that way they can log in and get access to all the pages you assign so to see how many people purchase your plan you can go right here to purchase plan obviously we have zero purchasers right now but this is where
you’ll see all of the data and you’ll see who purchased it the payment status the plan status where everyone stands and you can even add new purchases up here based off of the contacts in your Wix CRM if you have a conversation with someone they commit maybe it’s over the phone a sales conversation you can click it and you can add them as a new purchase straight through your Wix CRM which is through Wix ascend and that’s how you actually go ahead
and create your first plan and that’s how you manage the plan as well and then as I just mentioned what will happen is they’ll go through that process select a plan and I’ll walk through that part right now so now we’ve got a plan we’ve got the single pay I’m gonna click preview and then I press select now you can see if you check out on your publish site so what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna publish it for right now so that way you can see it but I
need to create some navigation to that plans and pricing page so I’m gonna go ahead and add a button and we’re just gonna go ahead and link it to that page now I’m gonna publish it so that way when we go to the home page we can access it so we’ll go to the home page let’s just pretend this is a landing page for your course someone will go ahead and click this button to purchase or to learn more they’ll go ahead and click that and then it’ll take
them to the plans and pricing that they have available to them they say ok yep I’m ready to buy this is the course I want you’ll see all the benefits obviously I didn’t list any benefits so press select and then it’ll have them create a membership login so they’ll sign up for your actual website so that way they can access the course and then it’ll take them through this process and I’ll just go ahead and test and then test one two three four
five and then I’ll sign up and then you can see it shows an order summary and we’re not able to accept online payments at the moment and that’s because I don’t have an upgraded which plan but you’ll see what’ll happen is they’ll buy and then they’ll be redirected back to your site to login to access their course and that’s how that part of the process works if this video helped you guys out I would kindly ask that you drop a like down below
comment if you’ve got any questions about this process and remember we’ll be covering step two and three in our next parts of the mini series and lastly don’t forget to make sure you hit that subscribe button and turn those Bell notifications onto you instantly join thirty four thousand like-minded entrepreneurs looking to do exactly what you’re looking to do let’s band together during this time of Kovan nineteen the corona virus pandemic and
let’s actually expand not contract during this wild economic and social time so let’s do it together I appreciate you guys watching this one I’ll catch you on our next one