Significant incomplete Payment Feature with manual payment
I want to love Heights Platform with future potentials but so incomplete until now.
<< Significant incomplete Payment Feature >>
On Teachable,
a) make people join school free
b) can provide free or/and sell courses
c) can sell paid course separately or Bundle
d) can sell for subscription or 1 time
So I can provide free, paid, bundle, 1 time, subscription mix as I want. Simple.
Let’s say Heights Platform.
I can provide school free or paid
1. If Free,
a) Make people join for free
b) I can sell paid course separately, just 1 time price
c) I can’t sell bundle course, nor subscription any more.
Solution) If I set school free, I can’t make any payment differentiations like subscription.
This sould be solved.
2. If Paid
a) Only provided Paypal and Stripe, not manual payment.
If I don’t enable Paypal nor Stripe, students enrollment not allowed
b) In this case, registration form is burden!!
If someone fills in the form to register, he would got “No enrollment allowed” message.
And that’s all, he would be BLOCKED!!
He can’t see any other pages, just blocked to registration page. He can’t even log out,
Solution) You have to provide manual payment for zapier integration.
In that case, default school registration form must be disabled and provide link to my own sales page outside. (I can/must make myself.)
c) “Join Program” button in course preview page can be linked to sales page outside.
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3. Lesson Editor
a) Video embed input field too small and narrow.
b) No HTML mode support
4. Lesson Type
Provides just one selective lesson type now.
Many course author might want to provide hybrid lesson.
Like video and texts, lesson material downloads for that lesson.
But we have to provide separately now.
We have lesson material (PDF or sample Text files) with separate lesson.
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I don’t understand why I’m doing this kinds of test work.
If I don’t like this product, I just can refund and go away without saying nothing.
But I might still believe the Heights Platform’s possibilities.
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P.S. It is good to embed domain-restricted vimeo videos with sub-domain.
And I’ve tested integration with Swarmify and this is good too.
But I can’t control the restriction once CDN delivered.
I mean, someone can steal(embed to their website without any restriction) my lesson video, once delivered with CDN.
Bryan_HeightsPlatform
May 14, 20243a. Regarding the embed field for a video lesson, this field is meant for you to paste your embed code into, rather than be an area to edit text.
3b. We purposely don't allow full HTML editing of each individual lesson because we want creators to be focused on adding their content and we want to create a consistent experience for your students. You can embed HTML in any lesson via the embed button in the lesson editor toolbar. You can also add custom scripts and CSS to your entire program or landing page from your account settings if you are an advanced user.
4. We do allow for hybrid lessons! Let's say you want to create what you described, a lesson that has a video, download and text in a single lesson. First, you would add any text you want in your lesson. Next, you would choose the download type at the bottom of your editor and upload your attachment. Finally, you would switch the lesson type to a video lesson and upload or embed your video. Then when you hit save and view your lesson you will see it is a video type lesson with a download area underneath your video player and your lesson text below that.
Yes, both Vimeo and Swarmify can be used with Heights Platform, and you can configure domain restrictions in platforms like Vimeo. Our video hosting provides this option automatically, but Vimeo and Wistia are probably the most popular alternatives for creators that will also provide similar security for your videos.
Again, I'm going to reach out via email to help walk you through how you might want to configure payment in your unique situation.
Thank you!