One of the best parts of having a Podia community is that you get to keep all your work in one place. Your customers don't have to track down three separate logins just to see your products and talk to each other.
How do you set that up for your community? There are two key pieces:
Setting up your community plans
Including products in your community
1. Setting up your community plans
You can have a paid community, a free community, or both at the same time. Community plans are how you manage what your community members have access to.
Here's a simple version of what you could do:
A free plan with basic discussion
A paid plan that has private discussion topics and includes access to products
Some people choose an approach that has a few more details, and add things like a plan that includes access to a specific course or product (for cohort-based courses or other live products).
You can use your community as a private discussion area for your products, as a subscription to an ongoing library of products you offer, or just as a place where you have discussions with your audience.
Once a product is added, anyone on that community plan gets access to the product. Some people decide to create private community topics for each product as well, to focus your discussions.
You can also give community members access to products that aren't available anywhere else. If you want to offer exclusive benefits to community members, you can learn how to do that here.