Podia lets you choose who can view your products, giving you flexibility over which products, events, and plans are visible to different members and visitors.
In this article, we’ll show you how to manage your product visibility settings.
Overview
Product visibility settings let you decide who can view your products, events, and community plans throughout your site and community.
You can make an offer visible to everyone, hide it from everyone, or restrict it so it’s only visible to members of specific products, events, community plans, or individual members.
Here are the available visibility options:
Visible to everyone
Your product is visible to everyone on your site and in your community.
This means visitors and members can discover it throughout your site, including on site pages and, for events, on the Events page.
Only visible to specific members
Partially visible products let you choose exactly who can see a specific product/event/plan.
You can make a product, event, or plan visible only to members who meet specific access requirements, including:
Members with access to specific community plans
Members with access to specific products
Members registered for specific events
Members with access to specific spaces
Individual members you select manually
This can be useful in situations like:
Making an event visible only to members who have access to a specific product.
Making a product available for purchase only to members of a particular community plan.
Hosting a virtual event exclusively for paying members
Want only specific people to be able to purchase an offer? You can make it visible to just one person or a small group by selecting individual members directly.
Hidden to everyone
Your product, event, or community plan is hidden from everyone on your site and in your community.
This means visitors and members won’t be able to discover it while browsing your site, including on site pages, the Plans page, or the Events page.
The offer can still be accessed through its direct sales page URL. You can copy this link from Podia and share it directly with anyone you’d like to purchase/register for your product/plan/event.
Managing product visibility settings
Here's how to manage the visibility settings for products/plans/events:
From your home feed, click on your site name and select Admin from the dropdown menu.
From the admin dashboard, use the sidebar menu and click:
Products, if you want to update the visibility of a product (such as an online course, download, coaching session, or bundle).
Events, if you want to update the visibility of an event.
Plans, if you want to update the visibility of a plan.
Click the Edit icon next to the product/event/plan you'd like to update.
Navigate to the Availability tab.
Click Edit next to Visibility.
Select the visibility option you'd like to apply to your product/event/plan.
If you’ve selected Only visible to specific members, choose the products, events, plans, spaces, or individual members whose members should be able to view this product.
Hit Save to save your changes.
FAQs
Are products restricted to specific products, events, or plans visible to logged-out visitors?
Are products restricted to specific products, events, or plans visible to logged-out visitors?
Yes. If you’ve restricted a product so it’s only visible to members of specific products, events, plans, spaces, or individual members, people outside those groups won’t be able to discover it while browsing your site or community.
However, as long as enrollment is still open, they can still view the product’s sales page and purchase it if you share its direct sales page link (or direct checkout link) with them.
Only eligible members included in the visibility settings will be able to discover the offer through listings across your site and community, such as the Events pages.
Can people who aren’t included in a partially visible product’s visibility settings still purchase it?
Can people who aren’t included in a partially visible product’s visibility settings still purchase it?
Yes. As long as enrollment is still open, people who aren’t included in the product’s visibility settings can still purchase and access the offer.
They simply won’t be able to discover it while browsing your site or community. However, if you share the product’s direct sales page link (or the direct checkout link for a plan), they’ll still be able to purchase it and gain access.
Can people purchase hidden products?
Can people purchase hidden products?
Yes. As long as enrollment is still open, hidden products, events, and community plans can still be purchased.
Although they won’t appear anywhere on your site or community, anyone with the direct sales page link (or direct checkout link for a community plan) can still purchase or register for the offer.
Can I list hidden products on my website?
Can I list hidden products on my website?
No. By default, hidden and partially visible products can’t be listed on site pages, although they can still be accessed directly through their sales page link.
One exception is if a product was originally visible to everyone and was already added to a site page before its visibility was changed.
In that case, the product may remain on the page, but only logged-in members who meet the visibility requirements will be able to see it. Logged-out visitors and members who don’t have permission to view the product won’t see it listed.