Courses and exams are real Shopify products. Buyers check out the way they already do, get access the instant the order is paid, and learn inside your own theme — no subdomain, no second login.
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PaidThe Wheel-Throwing Course
Digital · Course access
Access granted
Enrolled automatically · Start learning
Native checkout
When you publish a course or exam, Chapters creates a real Shopify product behind it. That means everything you already rely on at checkout keeps working — no separate cart, no payment integration to wire up.
Checkout
Watercolor Foundations
Course · digital access
Secured by Shopify · PCI handled
Instant auto-enrollment
The moment an order is paid, the buyer is enrolled and can start learning. No manual fulfillment, no "your access is on the way."
Enrollment fires as soon as the order is paid. Guest checkout works too — access is matched to the buyer's email, so they don't need an account first.
Course orders mark themselves Complete instead of sitting in an unfulfilled, "awaiting shipping" state — your order list stays clean and accurate.
Refund an order and access is removed automatically — but the student's progress is preserved, so a re-purchase picks up right where they left off.
Cap how many seats a course can sell, and set time-limited access per course — perfect for cohorts, limited intakes, or subscriptions that expire.
Four theme blocks
Add the blocks to your theme in the editor and place them where you want. They render nothing on non-course products, so they're safe to add theme-wide.
A grid of your courses on any page — a homepage section, a dedicated catalog page, wherever you want browsing to start.
Curriculum and outcomes laid out right on the product page, so buyers see exactly what's inside before they purchase.
Enrolled
Continue lesson →
On the product page, "Buy" turns into "Continue" the moment a student is enrolled — one button that knows where they stand.
A header button that takes students straight to everything they're enrolled in — the front door to their learning.
Because the blocks stay invisible on products that aren't courses, you can add them once and leave them in place — they only show up where there's a course to display.
Thank-you page
You're enrolled
Start your first lesson now
Order status page
The Wheel-Throwing Course
No shipping — it's a course
Checkout & order extensions
Selling something digital shouldn't end on a page that talks about shipping. Chapters adds course-aware extensions to the post-purchase moments where buyers are most ready to start.
One-time setup. Checkout and order-page extensions need to be switched on once in Shopify's checkout & accounts editor — it's a couple of clicks, then they're live for every course order.
Themed vs focus
Browsing and managing courses should feel like part of your store. Watching a lesson or sitting an exam should feel like nothing else exists.
Catalog, details, and the student dashboard can render with your header, footer, and domain — so they feel native to your store. In-theme rendering is opt-in.
When a student opens a lesson or starts an exam, the interface switches to a clean, focused view — no store chrome competing for attention while they learn.
See the focused experience in detail on Courses & video and Examinations.
Make it yours
Set your brand once and it flows through the whole student experience — the portal they learn in and the emails they receive. A live preview shows your changes as you make them.
Branding is a shop-level toggle. Pair it with branded lifecycle emails for a consistent voice end to end.
Brand preview
LivePresets
Atelier Academy
My courses
An app on the home screen
Students can install the portal as a Progressive Web App, right from their browser. It lands on their home screen, opens in its own window, and feels like an app — on both Android and iOS.
Install Chapters free from the Shopify App Store and turn your store into a school.
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