With Podia, you can set different offer types for your products. These options let you decide whether a product is free, paid, or included in a membership.
In this article, we’ll go over the different product offer types.
Changing your product offer type
Here's how to change your product's offer:
From your home feed, click on your site name and select Admin from the dropdown menu.
From the Admin dashboard, click Products in the sidebar menu.
From the Products page, click the Edit icon next to the product you'd like to modify.
Once inside the product, navigate to the Pricing tab.
Click on Edit to edit the offer of your product.
Select between a Free, Free email delivery (digital downloads only), Included with membershop, 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” tab to continue.
Let's take a look at each one of the different offer options:
Free
Free email delivery
Included with membership
Waitlist
Paid
Free
Allow people to sign up for your product for free.
They’ll still go through checkout and either create an account or log in to an existing one. After signing up, the free product will appear in their product dashboard.
You can add upsells for paid products in a free offer.
Free email delivery
For digital downloads, you can choose the Free Email Delivery option, which sends the file via email without requiring account creation.
Waitlist
Creating a waitlist is a great way to collect email addresses from people interested in your product before it launches.
This option won’t collect payments or grant access to the product. Instead, it lets you gather emails through the product sales page and build a list of people interested in the product before it goes live.
Included with membership
Products with the “Included with membership” offer are automatically given to anyone who joins your community. These products are included as part of the membership, whether the member has free or paid access.
Someone can join your community either by joining a community plan or indirectly — by purchasing a product, signing up for email, or creating an account on your site.
To access these products, members must be logged in. Once they are, they’ll be able to find them in the Products tab of their home feed.
This type of offer bypasses checkout, so upsells won’t be triggered.
Paid
Paid offers will charge customers a specific amount during checkout before they can get access to your product.
You can set multiple paid offers for your product at the same time.
Available options are:
Single payment: set a one-time payment that customers must pay to gain access to the product.
Payment plan: lets customers split a purchase into smaller, scheduled payments over time instead of paying the full amount upfront.
Subscription: Charge customers on a monthly or yearly basis, giving them access to your product for as long as their subscription remains active.
FAQs
Why can’t I share the checkout link for a product with the “Included with membership” offer type?
Why can’t I share the checkout link for a product with the “Included with membership” offer type?
Products that are included with membership don’t have checkout links. Instead, you can share the link to the product’s sales page.
Since access is done via the community, members must sign up for your community to gain access to the product. This can be done either directly — by signing up for one of your plans — or indirectly, by signing up for a product.
When someone clicks Get on the sales page for an included-with-membership product, they’ll be taken to the account creation form. After creating their account, they’ll gain access to your community and the product.