How to make lessons/files previewable

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When a potential customer is considering your online course or digital download, giving them a preview (or a free sample) may be just the thing to help close the sale.
With Podia, you can easily set some lessons or files of your product as previewable so even people that don't have an account can access it!

In this article:
Enabling preview for lessons/files
Adding a Contents page section on your product sales page
What will visitors see?
Enabling preview for lessons/files
Here's how you can easily enable preview for lessons and files of your products.
Step 1: Click on Products in the top bar of your navigation and choose All products.

Step 2: From there, click on Edit next to the product you'd like to edit and set previewable lessons/files for.

Step 3: Click on “...” next to the file you’d like to set as previewable and choose Enable Preview.

Now, let's move on to adding a Contents page section of your site so visitors can actually preview these files.
Adding a "Contents" page section on your product sales page
For people to be able to preview those lessons once accessing your site pages, you will need to add a Contents page section to your product sales page.
A Contents page section will display the content of your product, including the files you made previewable.
Here's how to add one to your product sales page.
Step 1: Click on Products in the top bar of your navigation and choose "All products".

Step 2: Scroll down to the product you want to edit the sales page for, click on "..." and select "Edit sales page".

Step 3: Click the "+" symbol to add a page section and choose Contents from the left-hand menu.

And that's it! Once a "Contents" page section is added to your page, lessons marked as "Previewable" will automatically show up.
What will visitors see?
When visitors and/or potential customers visit your product sales page they will view a preview button next to each of the lessons/files you made "previewable":

Clicking on Preview will allow potential customers - even those who do not have an account yet - to view the lesson/file.
From there, we will also give them the option to Buy the course or to go back to the sales page.

If visitors click on lessons or files that aren't set for preview, they'll see a message reminding them to buy the product for full access:

If you have more questions about how to make your product content previewable, just reach out to us at hello@podia.com (or just click the little purple icon at the bottom right of the screen) 😄