Podia is primarily designed to sell products to individual customers. However, there are a few workarounds you can use if you’d like to sell bulk licenses or multiple seats and grant access to a larger group of people at once.
Whether you’re working with B2B clients, corporate teams, schools, or organizations, it’s common to have someone ask, “Can I pay once and give access to my whole team?”.
While Podia doesn’t have a built-in multi-seat feature, it is possible to set this up with a bit of manual configuration — and we’ll walk you through how to do that below.
Step 1: Charge for the licenses/multiple seats
Once your product is created and published, and someone reaches out wanting to purchase multiple seats, you can invoice them for the total amount based on how many seats they’d like to buy.
The exact setup will depend on a few things — like how many seats they need and how you prefer to collect payment. Here are a few simple ways you can handle it:
Invoice them outside of Podia
You can invoice them separately using a payment processor like Stripe or PayPal and collect the full payment directly there.
If you prefer something more manual, you can also create a custom invoice using a free tool like https://invoice-generator.com and receive the payment via bank transfer.
Create a separate “bulk purchase” product on Podia
Another option is to create a separate product inside Podia specifically for bulk seat purchases.
This product doesn’t need to contain real course content — it just needs enough information to be published and available for purchase. You can:
Set the price to reflect the total cost for the number of seats.
Adjust the pricing depending on the organization’s needs.
Use this product purely as a checkout mechanism for bulk buyers.
Step 2: Import customers into products
After the payment is complete, gather the email addresses of everyone who should receive access to the product.
Ask for a .csv list with all of the emails you need to import. Then, import this list into the correct product to give these customers access.
If it’s just a few people, you can add them manually one by one instead.
If you’re working with different organizations, you can duplicate your product and use a separate copy for each group. You can also hide a product from your site so it’s not visible to the public.
If you need anything else feel free to click the chat icon at the bottom right or reach out to the fine support folks at [email protected] for additional assistance.