01 / 06Gating
Premium content, gated behind your checkout.
Your free content lives on YouTube and Instagram. Your premium teaching belongs behind a paywall you own. Alva Courses binds a course to a Shopify product, so the lessons only unlock after checkout. The buyer becomes a customer in your store — you keep the email, the order, and the right to market to them again — instead of renting the relationship from a free platform.
Sequential lesson gating and "require completion before next lesson" mean students move through the material in the order you designed, not by skipping to the end.
02 / 06Video
Reuse your videos, or host them privately.
The video block embeds YouTube, Vimeo, VdoCipher and Loom directly inside a lesson, so you reuse footage you already shot. For content that should exist nowhere public, upload it to Alva Video Hosting on Unlimited Pro: 50 GB of storage with no 1 GB / 10-minute per-video limit, so a full masterclass stays gated behind your checkout rather than living on a free platform.
03 / 06Community
A discussion under every lesson.
Audiences pay for access to you, not just the video. Alva Courses adds a native per-lesson comment system: students ask questions under the exact lesson, you reply and moderate from the Shopify admin, and you get an email notification on every new comment. The community stays attached to the content your audience paid for, inside your store — no separate forum tool to buy or log into.
04 / 06Launches
Drip a challenge, sell a cohort.
Drip scheduling releases lessons or whole sections a set number of days after enrolment, so a five-day challenge unlocks one lesson per day and keeps your audience coming back. Limited-time access sells a course whose access expires after a set window — ideal for a seasonal cohort or a launch-week offer. Both controls sit in the builder and need no code.
05 / 06Experience
A branded player, no second login.
Buyers find the course in their Shopify customer account under "My Courses" and watch lessons in a branded storefront player with a sidebar lesson list, a progress bar and completion ticks. They can also start straight from the checkout thank-you page and the order status page. No second platform, no separate subdomain — the experience stays inside your brand.
06 / 06Brand mail & proof
Branded emails, certificates, completion.
Enrolment and certificate emails go out from your own custom sending domain with a fully editable template and a "Start Learning Now" CTA — so the delivery looks like your brand, not a generic receipt. Award a custom-designed completion certificate automatically when a student finishes, and use quizzes inside lessons to keep them engaged to the end.
