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Course products bundle videos, slides, downloads, and written lessons into a guided experience. Each course lives on your site and can be free or paid. This page shows how Courses appear to your users and what happens after they unlock one. If you’re looking for a guide on how to create Course products, you can find it here:

Course Creation

Create comprehensive courses with chapters and lessons.

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Where Courses appear

When published, your Course automatically appears on your homepage alongside other product types like Downloads. Visitors can browse the syllabus on the right, preview free lessons, check total duration and lesson count, and unlock the full course, all from the same page.
Example of a Course product page with stats and syllabus

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What users see

Each Course page (“lesson”) includes your cover, title, and description, plus a right-side syllabus showing chapters and lessons.
Course chapters and lessons list
Locked lessons display a small lock icon. Free lessons (“publicly available” ones) are clearly labeled as Preview. If the Course includes extra materials, such as files or links, users will find them under You also get. PDF and XLSX files can also be secured, and they work exactly the same as in Downloads products.
You also get panel with links and downloads
For courses, Sherpo automatically calculates total video duration, number of lessons, and total number of downloadable content, displaying these metrics to users under the Unlock button.
Sherpo's automatic video and lesson duration calculations

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Lesson player

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Custom player

Inside each lesson, uploaded videos play directly through Sherpo’s custom player, hosted securely on Sherpo. The player adapts to your brand color and supports both light and dark mode.
Sherpo custom video player
Users can adjust playback speed from 0.5× to 2.0× in 0.05× increments, pop the video out to a mini-player, or switch to full-screen mode. The setting will persist between videos.
Video speed selector in Sherpo player

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Full-screen mode

Full-screen provides a clean, focused viewing experience.
Course video in full-screen
Users can also open the Chapters panel from within the player. In this view, chapters scroll horizontally, different from the standard right-side syllabus where lessons scroll vertically.
Full-screen with chapters panel

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Description

If a lesson includes a written description, transcript, or extra resources, they will appear below the video or, when in full-screen mode, in the top-left corner, by clicking the “info” (ⓘ) icon:
Written lesson content under the video

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Progress and completion

Depending on your Course settings, users can mark lessons as completed, or they will automatically complete upon their completion of videos or slides . Progress is saved automatically and synced across devices.
Mark as completed button
Once completed, lessons show a badge.
Lesson completed badge
When hovered, a timestamp also appears:
Completion timestamp tooltip

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Embedded slides

Lessons can include interactive slides directly in the player. Users can scroll through them, zoom, and select slide number, from any device (full-screen is not available on mobile). Optionally, slides can also be made downloadable for users.
Embedded slide deck inside a lesson

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“What you get” section

On the left side of the Course page, users can see a summary card, if you have written a “What you get” section from the Dashboard. This is usually used to explain what’s included in the course.
Unlocked What you get with bullets and FAQs
On the right-side, if you have included files and links, users will also see a dedicated list under “You also get”. They will be able to visit and download them only once they unlock the product.
Unlocked resources list
You can also include additional downloadable files within lessons: these will appear with a file icon next to each lesson in the syllabus, and will count towards the automatically calculated “number of downloadable files”.
File icon for lessons with downloadable content

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Unlock count

Courses can optionally show lightweight social proof: a line besides the review count (if not hidden) displaying how many users have unlocked the course.
Unlocked-by customers counter on a course
Notes:
  • The count updates automatically after each unlock.
  • It appears next to reviews.
  • Works for both paid and free courses.

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Checkout

The Course checkout flow mirrors other Sherpo products: fast, secure, and Stripe-powered.

Checkout

Discover how Checkout works on Sherpo.

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Course example

Click here to see how a full Course product appears.

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FAQ

Yes, unless you set lessons as publicly available (which will display “preview”). Logging in keeps their progress, lessons, and access synced across devices.
Yes. Once unlocked, users can revisit it anytime as long as you keep it published.
Yes. Using the built-in speed slider in the player, users can adjust from 0.5× to 2×. The setting will persist between videos.
No. Videos stream securely through Sherpo’s player and aren’t downloadable.
When users mark lessons as completed, Sherpo saves their progress automatically on their account.
Through Stripe Connect, Sherpo supports most major payment methods, including cards, Google Pay, Apple Pay, Link, Amazon Pay, Klarna, and Afterpay.
Yes. If you offer one, users can apply it during checkout before paying.
They’ll be redirected to your unlocked course and receive a confirmation email (and a receipt for paid purchases).
Yes. Free courses can be unlocked instantly: just confirm your email to save access.
Not yet. Sherpo automatically tracks lesson completion, but certificates aren’t currently issued by the platform. If you’d like to offer them, you can create your own certificate and deliver it manually, for example, by unlocking a downloadable certificate product when the course is completed or after a user leaves a review.