Linking courses to a community

A Klixey community can include one or more courses. Members see those courses inside the community's Learning tab — either unlocked automatically as part of their membership, or available to buy as an upsell.

Quick answer

Open your community and switch to the Learning tab. Click Add course, pick a course from your workspace, and choose an access type — All access (auto-unlocks for every member) or Purchase required (members see the course and can buy it). Drag the cards to set the order members see them in.

Why link a course

Two reasons most creators link courses:

• Bundle the course with the community. A paid community feels richer when there's a real course inside it. New members get the welcome value of a structured learning track, on top of the live discussion.
• Sell the course as an upsell. Some creators run a free or low-priced community as the funnel, then offer a deeper course inside it for members who want more. The community discussion warms the audience; the course is the next purchase.

You can do both at the same time — one bundled course on All access, a second course on Purchase required. The Learning tab handles the mix.

The two access types

When you link a course, you pick one of two access types. This decides what members see and how they get in.

Access type	What the member sees	When to use it
All access	The course is unlocked the moment they join the community. They open it from the Learning tab and start watching.	Bundled courses included in the community price.
Purchase required	The course shows in the Learning tab as a card. Tapping it takes them to the course's checkout page.	Courses sold separately as an upsell.

You can change the access type later. The behavior when you switch is worth knowing about — covered below in Changing the access type.

Adding a course

1. Open your community.
2. Switch to the Learning tab.
3. Click Add course.
4. Pick a course from the dropdown. Klixey shows you every course in the same workspace.
5. Choose the access type: All access or Purchase required.
6. Save.

The course card appears immediately in the Learning tab — both for you and for any active members.

Courses must be in the same workspace

You can only link courses that live in the same workspace as the community. Courses in other workspaces don't show up in the picker.

If you haven't built your course yet, do that first. See Building a course for the walkthrough.

Reordering linked courses

Order matters. The Learning tab shows courses in the order you set, and members see them in that order — top to bottom on the page.

Drag the cards in the Learning tab to reorder. The new order saves the moment you drop it. There's no confirm step.

A sensible default:

• All access courses first, in the order members should work through them.
• Purchase required courses last, treated as optional next steps.

Changing the access type later

You can flip a course between All access and Purchase required after it's linked — but the two directions behave differently. Read this carefully before you change anything live.

Purchase required → All access

Switching a course from Purchase required to All access does not retroactively unlock the course for existing members. New members who join after the switch get it automatically. Existing members keep seeing it as Purchase required.

If you want existing members to have access too, you have a few options:

• Send them a discount code. Free or steeply discounted, distributed through your community feed or an email.
• Manually enrol them. From the course's customer list, give specific members access one by one.
• Re-add them through the community. Removing and re-inviting forces a fresh join, which picks up the new access type.

Most creators just announce the change and let it ride — existing members already paid for the community on the old terms, and unlocking the course for them is a nice goodwill move but isn't automatic.

All access → Purchase required

Switching the other direction is more disruptive. Klixey revokes the community-granted access for every existing member — they'll see the course back behind a paywall.

There's an important nuance here: Klixey only revokes the access this community granted. If a member also has access through another path — they bought the course directly, or they belong to a second community that bundles it — that access stays. You're only taking back what your community gave them.

This is rarely the right move on a live community. If a course was bundled at launch and you want to charge for it separately later, members who joined under the old terms generally feel they were promised the course. A better pattern:

• Add a new course for the upsell instead of paywalling the existing one.
• Grandfather existing members. Let them keep the bundled course as a Membership perk, and only charge new members.

Switching live access affects real members

Don't flip All access → Purchase required casually on a community with paying members. Announce the change before you make it, or grandfather existing members. Surprise paywalls erode trust faster than almost anything else you can do.

Unlinking a course

Open the menu on the course card and pick Unlink.

The behavior matches the All access → Purchase required switch:

• The course is no longer part of the community.
• Members who only got access through this community lose access.
• Members who also have access through another path (direct purchase, another community) keep that access.
• Your course itself isn't touched — it still exists in your workspace and customers who bought it directly aren't affected.

If you change your mind, re-linking the course works fine — just keep in mind that members who lost access don't automatically get it back; you'd need to manually re-grant or invite them through.

What customers see

Members find linked courses in the community's Learning tab.

For All access courses, they see a card they can open straight into the course — no payment step. The course opens in the same player they'd see if they bought it directly.

For Purchase required courses, the card takes them to the course's checkout page. Buying it grants access the same way a direct purchase would. The course then opens in the Learning tab as if it were All access — Klixey doesn't show "Purchase required" anymore for that member.

Who on your team can manage linked courses

Owner, Admin, and Editor roles can link, unlink, and change access types. Viewers can see the Learning tab but can't change anything. See Roles & permissions.

Tips for bundling well

• Keep the bundle tight. Two or three well-chosen courses beat a dump of every course you've ever made. Members feel the value more clearly.
• Lead with one strong All access course. Make sure every member's first impression of the Learning tab is something they can dive into immediately.
• Save niche material for Purchase required. Specialised courses that only a subset of your members want to go deep on work well as paid upsells.
• Re-order when the season changes. A "start here" course at the top in January might give way to a "advanced track" course at the top in June. The order is editable for a reason.

Related

• Building a course — build the course first, then link it.
• Roles & permissions — who can link and unlink courses.
• Glossary — "Community", "Course".