Guides — everything about selling courses on Shopify

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How to Sell Online Courses on Shopify — the complete walkthrough

From install to first sale: build your course, upload the video, set a price, and let your store's own checkout do the selling.

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Switching platforms

Teachable to Shopify: the migration guide

What moves over, what you rebuild, and how to switch without losing students — or the monthly platform fee coming with you.

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Money

What it really costs to sell courses on Shopify

Every line item, with real numbers: apps, video hosting, commissions — and where your app bill can genuinely stay at $0.

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Tutorial · with screenshots

Publish your first course in Chapters

Eight steps from an empty dashboard to a live course, every screen shown — including the one thing that blocks the Publish button.

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Tutorial · 4 steps · with screenshots

Put your courses on your storefront with theme blocks

Show your Chapters courses on your Shopify store in 5 minutes: add the Course Catalog and Course Details blocks in the theme editor. No collections, menus or product pages to build.

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Tutorial · 4 steps · with screenshots

Sell courses in your customer's currency

Show course prices in rupees, euros or dollars depending on who's looking. Turn on Shopify Markets, add the currency selector to your theme, and Chapters follows automatically. No settings inside the app.

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Tutorial · 3 steps · with screenshots

Give students a way back into their courses

Three ways students get back into their Chapters courses on your Shopify store: a My Courses button in the header, a course access card on the product page, and a My Learning page inside their Shopify account.

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Tutorial · 3 steps · with screenshots

Release lessons on a schedule

Unlock lessons a set number of days after enrollment, or on a fixed date, with Chapters on Shopify. One course switch, one rule per lesson, and an automatic email when each lesson opens.

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Tutorial · 3 steps · with screenshots

Add a quiz to a lesson

Build a multiple-choice quiz on any Chapters lesson: set a passing score and attempts, add questions (or import them from Excel), and decide whether a pass is required to move on.

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Tutorial · 3 steps · with screenshots

Award certificates automatically

Set a signer and signature once, preview the PDF, and Chapters issues a verifiable certificate of completion to every student who finishes a course. Sell certificates as an add-on too.

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Tutorial · 3 steps · with screenshots

Enroll a student without a purchase

Give someone a Chapters course without a purchase: add their email under Students, pick the course and an access window. Works for staff, gifts, refunds and people who paid elsewhere.

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Tutorial · 4 steps · with screenshots

Sell an exam on its own

Build a timed, auto-graded exam in Chapters, give it a price, and it becomes a real Shopify product customers buy at your normal checkout. Certification without a course attached.

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