With Podia you have different offer types when setting up a product.
You can offer your products for free, set them on a waitlist, or sell them as paid products.
Changing your product's offer
Here's how to change your product's offer:
From your Podia dashboard, click on Products in the sidebar menu.
Click on Edit next to the product you want to set up an offer for.
Once inside the product, navigate to the Pricing tab.
Click on Edit to edit the offer of your product.
Select between a Free, Waitlist, or Paid offer.
Note: If you haven’t connected a Stripe or PayPal account yet, you’ll need to do that before setting up a paid offer.
Click “Manage payment integrations,” follow the instructions, and then return to the “Pricing” section to continue.
Let's take a look at each one of the different offer options:
Free
Waitlist
Paid
Free
Allow people to sign up for your product for free.
A free offer requires people to have an account when signing up. Free products will be available for customers on their product dashboard.
For digital downloads, you can choose between Free or Free Email Delivery (which sends the file via email without requiring an account creation).
You can add upsells for paid products in a free offer.
Waitlist
Creating a waitlist is a great way to gather email addresses from users interested in your product before it launches.
This option won’t collect payments or grant access to the product but will allow you to build a list of leads who are interested.
Paid
Paid offers will charge customers a specific amount during checkout before they can get access to your product.
You can sell your product for a one-time payment or with a monthly payment plan.
Single payment - set a one-time payment that customers must pay to gain access to the product
Payment plan - automatically charge customers monthly installments based on the offer you’ve set
Customer checkout experience
Customers will view the type of offer you've set for your product when checking out.
Free
Customers will be able to register for free.
Waitlist
Waitlist customers won't go through checkout.
Instead, they'll sign up for emails directly from email forms you've added to your site and product sales page.
Paid
Customers must pay to access the product.
If you’ve set up both single payment and payment plan options, they’ll be able to choose their preferred option during checkout.
FAQs
Is there a way to set up a donation-based price, or a pay-what-you-can option?
Is there a way to set up a donation-based price, or a pay-what-you-can option?
While we don't have a native feature for this, we have outlined a workaround in this article.
If I change the price of an existing product, will that impact existing customers?
If I change the price of an existing product, will that impact existing customers?
No. Changing the price of a product will only impact new customers.
Current customers - including the ones with an active payment plan - won't be affected.
Can I offer just payment plan pricing for a product?
Can I offer just payment plan pricing for a product?
Yes, you can create an offer that includes only a payment plan for a product without offering a single payment option.
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