Let learners in without accounts or passwords
Every account you make a learner create is a small tax on their enthusiasm — a password invented at checkout, forgotten by the weekend, reset by the time lesson two comes around. A bernard course charges no such tax.
How it works
- They enrol and pay on your course page, through Stripe's secure checkout.
- The welcome email arrives — a receipt and a way in, in one. Its personal link opens the course with every lesson unlocked.
- They come back the same way. The link keeps working — forever on a pay-once course, until the end date on a fixed term (Charge once, or sell a year of access). Lost the email? The course page has a "get my way back in" form that re-sends it (A learner lost their way back in).
There is no learner portal, no profile to fill in, no progress dashboard demanding attention — and that's the point. Your learner clicks an email, watches your teaching, and gets on with their day. You see who's enrolled, on which course, and until when, on your Courses page.
The prompt
“How do my learners get into the course after they pay? Explain what the welcome email contains and what to tell a learner who asks.”
The [bracketed] parts are yours to fill in. First time? Log in to bernard → your site → Edit with AI → copy your access prompt, paste that into your AI first, then ask the above.
Questions people ask
- Do my learners need to create an account to take the course?
- No. When someone enrols, their welcome email contains a personal link — clicking it unlocks the lessons on that device. No username, no password, nothing to forget.
- Is a link secure enough for a paid course?
- The link contains a long random key that exists only in that learner's email — it can't be guessed. It's the same pattern banks and booking systems use for secure email links. If a learner ever forwards theirs, it's like lending a book: possible, visible to you in spirit, and not worth an account system that punishes everyone else.
- What does the learner see if their access has ended?
- For a fixed-term course, the lesson page says plainly that the term has ended and offers enrolment again. Nothing errors, nothing strands them — and as the owner you approve every change to how that page reads.