Community platform for selling memberships to online courses?

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I am working with authors who are wanting to create an online course from their upcoming publication. They would like to…

  • Create a ticketed live workshop event for each chapter via live video chat
  • Sell an online workshop for the entire series also via live video chat
  • Store the recordings in a software behind a membership plan
  • Have a forum for attendees to connect with each other as well as the authors
  • Make available and sell their book in print and digitally
  • Provide one on one or small group coaching focused on each workshop

Anyone here offering online courses with a community forum built-in?
What solutions are worth exploring which meet the authors’ requirements?

Thanks in advance for guidance and solutions
Cheers
Neil

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It would be worth looking at Wix. I know it handles bookings of online appointments and sales of digital content. There may be 3P extension for streaming, Zoom would be the obvious candidate.

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We use the BuddyBoss plugin on top of LearnDash on top of WordPress. Courses, connected fora, and Zoom meetings. Happy to chat about it.

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Thank you @David_Roper. I was not aware of that. These folks have a WordPress site and so a shift away from what they already know may not be their favorite path. I will look at Wix tho. Thank you for taking the time to contribute.

Forgive me what is 3P?

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Hello @TheWart. I appreciate both the WP stack and offer to chat. I may do that. LearnDash was mentioned to them as another tool to match their needs. What had you choose BuddyBoss? And while I am asking… What do you like about BB? Next steps are to better understand other options and report back to them. I’ll spend more time looking at MCC! Cheers. Neil

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and fwiw, I grew up with Asterix and Obelix! :blush:

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You can catch me at ben@compassclassroom.com and I can introduce you to our site admin.

We chose BuddyBoss to provide social groups for our users that we could link to ecommerce activity and provide a Facebook-lite experience that allowed us to sell LearnDash courses alongside offering free resources and support. So, for instance, with WP Fusion we can have a WoCommerce transaction grant access to BB group A and LearnDash course B.

I mostly develop the course content so you’ll need to chat with out admin if you want to probe much deeper than that!

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Third party - plug-ins that are not written by Wix themselves.