# How to Add Sensei Courses to Your WooCommerce Products: A Beginner’s Guide
Want to sell online courses alongside your other WooCommerce products? This guide will show you how to seamlessly integrate Sensei, a popular WordPress learning management system (LMS), with your WooCommerce store. Selling digital products and courses together is a powerful way to increase revenue and offer your customers a wider range of services.
Why Combine Sensei and WooCommerce?
Many online businesses find themselves needing to sell both physical and digital products. Imagine a yoga studio: they might sell mats and apparel (WooCommerce) *and* offer online yoga classes (Sensei). Combining these platforms allows you to:
- Manage all your products from one dashboard: No more juggling multiple platforms.
- Offer a bundled experience: Sell a course *with* supplementary materials (e.g., a workbook as a downloadable product).
- Streamline your sales process: A unified checkout process simplifies the buying experience for your customers.
- Maximize your revenue streams: Reach a broader audience and increase your earning potential.
- “Yoga Course Bundle”: Includes the online course (your Sensei product) and a downloadable yoga mat guide (another WooCommerce digital download product). WooCommerce allows you to create bundled products, which combine multiple products into a single listing.
Setting Up the Integration: A Step-by-Step Guide
This process requires you to have both WooCommerce and Sensei plugins installed and activated on your WordPress website. If not, install them from your WordPress dashboard under “Plugins” -> “Add New”.
1. Create Your Sensei Course
First, you need to create your course within Sensei. Navigate to “Sensei” -> “Courses” in your WordPress admin panel. Click “Add New” and create your course with all the necessary modules, lessons, and quizzes. Make sure to save your course!
2. Create a WooCommerce Product for Your Course
Now, create a WooCommerce product for your Sensei course. Go to “Products” -> “Add New”. Choose “Digital Download” as the product type.
* Product Name: Give your product a clear and concise name, e.g., “Beginner Yoga Course.”
* Product Description: Provide a detailed description, highlighting the course’s benefits and content.
* Product Image: Upload an appealing image of your course.
* Regular Price: Set your course’s price.
* Downloadable Files: This is crucial. You won’t directly upload the course files here; instead, you’ll use a redirect URL (explained below).
3. Linking Sensei Course to WooCommerce Product
This is where the magic happens. Instead of uploading files, you need to create a redirect to your Sensei course. You can achieve this in several ways, the simplest being a custom URL:
* Obtain the Sensei Course URL: Find the URL of your newly created Sensei course. This is usually the permalink to your course page. For example: `yourwebsite.com/courses/beginner-yoga-course`
* Use a Plugin: There are several plugins that help seamlessly integrate WooCommerce and Sensei. These can sometimes handle the linking of the course and the download link, removing the need for the manual URL.
* Using a Custom URL: In the WooCommerce product settings, under “Downloadable files,” paste the direct URL to your Sensei course page in the “Download URL” field. Do not upload any files.
Example:
Let’s say your Sensei course URL is `yourwebsite.com/courses/beginner-yoga-course`. You would paste this URL into the “Download URL” field of your WooCommerce product.
4. Test Your Integration
Once you’ve completed these steps, purchase your course through the WooCommerce storefront. Make sure the purchase successfully redirects you to your Sensei course page. If not, double-check the URLs and settings.
Advanced Techniques: Bundling and More
You can take this further by creating bundled products. For example:
Conclusion
Integrating Sensei and WooCommerce empowers you to offer a diverse range of products and services. By following these steps, you can easily start selling your Sensei courses alongside your other WooCommerce products and expand your business opportunities. Remember to always test your setup to ensure everything works as expected!
