Podia lets you enable a Shop area for your members, giving logged-in members one place to browse and buy your products.
This gives you a simple way to promote your products to people who are already connected to your Podia. Members can explore products, compare offers, add products to their wishlist, and make purchases without leaving your Podia.
In this article, you'll learn more about the Shop feature.
Overview
Shop adds a storefront to your member area where members can browse your published products.
Anyone logged in to your Podia can browse and buy your other products without leaving. That makes it easier for them to buy again, and easier for you to sell more to the customers you already have.
You can use Shop to help members:
Discover products available on your site.
Purchase paid products or get free products.
Save products to a wishlist.
Shop doesn’t replace your public product sales pages. Instead, it adds a shopping experience for members who are already logged in to your Podia.
Member experience
If you have Shop enabled, members will see a Shop tab directly from their Home. From there, they can click and discover all of your available offers.
You can customize the Shop label to match your site. For example, you might call it Shop, Store, Catalog, Resources, Library, or Offerings.
You can also add a Shop button to the Products page, giving members another way to access your shop area.
Shop page
The Shop page gives members a complete view of the products available in your account.
From there, members can:
Search for products.
Filter products by type or category.
Change the order in which products appear.
Switch between grid and list views.
Open a product to view more information.
Only filters containing available products will appear. For example, the Coaching filter won’t appear if you don’t have any coaching products available in Shop.
Products appear based on their existing publication and visibility settings:
Published and visible products appear in Shop.
Closed products remain visible and display a Closed label. Members won't be able to purchase these.
Hidden products don’t appear to members.
Draft and unpublished products don’t appear.
Products a member already owns display You have access instead of a price.
When a member selects a product, they’ll be taken to its dedicated Product Shop page.
From there, they'll be able to view all of the information you've added to your product's shop page, select their payment, and purchase the product.
Getting started with Shop
The Shop feature is enabled by default, giving logged-in members a place to browse the products available on your site.
Any product set to Visible to everyone will automatically appear in the Shop. Products using a different visibility setting won’t be displayed there unless their access and visibility settings allow it.
You can manage your Shop settings to control where the Shop appears or hide it completely:
From your home feed, click on your site name and select Admin from the dropdown menu.
From the Admin dashboard, click Settings > Shop in the sidebar menu.
Click Edit next to the Shop page option.
Check/uncheck the boxes for "Show sidebar navigation item" and "Show button in Products page header" to enable/disable Shop from showing up for your members.
Hit Save to save your changes.
What’s next?
This is just the beginning! Check out our additional help docs to explore more features and get even more out of Shop: