Goal of this Lesson:
Turn your course into a purchasable product inside WooCommerce — ready to sell, process payments, and trigger access after purchase.
🧠 Why Treat Your Course as a Product?
Even though your course isn’t a physical item, WooCommerce lets you sell it just like any digital product. Once someone checks out:
- You get paid
- They get access
- Everything is tracked in your WordPress dashboard
Let’s turn your course into something that’s ready to sell.
🧩 Step 1: Create a New Product
Go to Products > Add New
Set up the basic info:
- Product Name: This will be the title of your course (e.g., Course Rocket Launcher)
- Description: This is your long product description — you can paste in your sales copy, module list, or leave it blank (FunnelKit will handle most of your sales page layout)
- Short Description: This appears near the price — write a short 1–2 sentence summary
🔖 Step 2: Configure Product Type
Scroll down to the Product data section:
- Choose Simple Product
- Check Virtual ✅ (no shipping)
- Check Downloadable ✅ (even if there’s no file — this ensures it’s treated as a digital product)
- Price: Enter your course price (e.g., $99 or $197)
Leave “Downloadable files” empty — we’ll handle delivery through course access, not downloads.
🖼️ Step 3: Add a Product Image
Set a featured image — this shows up on your product page or order summary.
You can use:
- Your course logo
- A graphic of the course dashboard
- A custom thumbnail that matches your brand
💡 Recommended size: 1200×628 pixels (Facebook ad dimensions work well)
🔒 Step 4: Limit Access to Buyers Only
We’ll restrict access to your actual course content in a later lesson (Module 5), but just note:
You don’t need to deliver a file. You’ll use:
- Tutor LMS to unlock lessons after purchase
or - My custom LMS system + a plugin to restrict pages
So right now, all you need is the purchase logic in place — the rest will trigger access later.
📦 Step 5: Publish and Test
Click Publish to save your course product.
Then:
- View the product
- Make sure the title, price, image, and description look good
If you visit WooCommerce > Products, you should now see your course listed and live.
✅ What You Should Have Now
By the end of this lesson, you should:
- Have your course set up as a virtual product
- Added a title, price, image, and description
- Published it and viewed it on the front end