At Forento, we’ve made it easy for anyone to turn their knowledge and expertise into scaleable products. As a creator, you can offer essentially any sort of information-based product and have it sold, distributed, and delivered right on your own Academy.

The truth is, that almost all sorts of files, formats, and content can be delivered within a course, but to help you craft irresistible offers, Forento has a few different product types available. The available formats are:

In this article, we’ll cover the core aspects of each of the different product formats and go through what sort of content can be sold for each. We’ll also cover basic pricing for products.

When creating a Course on Forento, you’ll be able to set up chapters, which act as modules of content. Each chapter can have as many pages of content as you’d like, but we usually recommend keeping it short and digestible, for user-experience.

Pages within a chapter can use these formats: Text, Audio, Video, YouTube, Vimeo, Loom, Embed, Quiz, Input, or Custom. Choose the format that fits your content and add the details supported by its editor.

The different formats for course pages are:

Some digital downloads go best as free resources within a course, others are so good they need a place of their own.

With Downloadables, you’re able to sell essentially any digital download product, a range of what we’ve seen become popular on Forento academies during the past year are:

When creating a downloadable, you can either upload a file directly from your computer or enter a link. Adding a link is a great option if the product is for example a Canva or WordPress template. Access to the file or link depends on the product’s free, sign-in, purchase, membership, or assignment settings.

The Sessions format is a perfect way to offer service-based products in your academy. Rather than selling something on-demand (such as courses, downloadables, and videos), you can have your members pay you for coaching sessions or consulting.

The Sessions feature is built to work for all sorts of setups. Meaning, that you can design the process of redeeming a session freely. For example:

With Events, you can schedule both free and paid happenings on your academy. They can be either online events, such as a webinar, or in-person events.

When setting up an event you’ll be able to enter a time & date, location, and other details. It’ll be displayed directly on your academy, and any of your members who’ve paid (if the event isn’t free, that is) will be able to add it to their own external calendars (Such as iCal or Google Calendar) in a single click.

Most use the Events Feature for pre-scheduled group coaching sessions or webinars.

You’re also able to sell individual videos on your academy. Most creators on Forento use the Videos feature as a place to host content that is separate from the content in their courses.

For example, you could upload recordings of your events or webinars and upload them as videos, and that way those who couldn't attend still have a chance to join in.

Videos can be both paid and free, but also open for non-signed-in visitors on your academy.

Some creators have tens of thousands of active subscribers who pay them a few dollars every month, whereas others are selling individual masterclass courses for thousands of dollars apiece. We’ve built Forento in a way so that you can decide how you want to get paid.

Videos and downloadables can be Free, allowing access without an account, or Signed in, requiring registration or login. Choose Signed in when you want those resources to collect registrations.

For these products, you can also set a purchase price. A one-off purchase grants access to the product. For courses, access can be limited to the number of months set by the creator. If you’d rather make recurring revenue, you can include the products in a membership tier and have people pay per month or year for access. If you're looking to sell high-ticket packages of products, you can create a bundle. It works similarly to memberships (you can select a combination of products to sell as a package) but instead of a recurring fee per month or year, you set a one-off fee.

Most creators offer both individual products and combinations of bundles/memberships to make sure they address as many clients as possible.

When creating an Event, you can either leave it free or set a ticket price. A meeting link entered in the dedicated field is available to members with access who have responded as attending. The Location field is not restricted in the same way.

Sessions can be free, require sign-in, be sold individually, be included in memberships, or use manual assignment where your plan supports it.