What’s New in Kourses – And Cross-Selling Is Coming

Your members notice more than you think. Not in an obvious way, they're not evaluating your members' area like a critic. But they feel it. Whether your community feels warm or like a message board. Whether a lesson comment reads as friendly or abrupt. Whether your members' area looks like it belongs to you or like everyone else's.

The small things do that. An emoji turns a blunt reply into something human. An icon or a colour makes a sidebar feel considered rather than generic. These aren't features your members will ever mention, but when they're done right, everything just feels right. And when things feel right, people stay.

We’ve just released a few little additions to the Kourses platform, no single headline feature, but a collection of improvements that make your platform feel more polished, your community more alive, and your setup faster.

Small things that add up to a noticeably better experience, for you and for your members.

Here’s what’s new.

Written words are easy to misread. A short reply can come across as blunt when it was meant to be friendly. A question can sound critical when it is genuinely curious. Emojis fix that, not by dumbing things down, but by giving people a way to add warmth and intent to what they’ve written.

The emoji picker is now available in community posts, comments, and lesson comments. Members can express themselves more naturally, interactions feel less transactional, and your community starts to develop a tone that makes people want to come back.

Nobody will say, “I love that I can use emojis here.” They’ll just feel more comfortable, and they’ll engage more.

When a member logs into your platform, the sidebar is one of the first things they see. If it’s a plain list of product names with no visual treatment, it works, but it doesn’t feel like anything in particular. It could be anyone’s platform.

In addition to emojis, you can now assign icons to your products, which appear next to the product name in the members’ area sidebar. It’s a small change, but it shifts the feel of your platform from generic to considered. A bit more branded. A bit more professional. The kind of thing a member won’t mention, but will quietly appreciate.

The sooner your content is live, the sooner you're earning, and the new setup guide is here to help you get there faster.

If you haven't yet added your first product to Kourses, the new setup guide checklist is here for you. It walks you through the key steps in the right order, so you can get your first product live and ready to sell without second-guessing yourself. Less time figuring out the platform. More time building the thing you're here to build.

If you missed our recent update, Hubs has been renamed to Products across the platform. But it's more than a name change, we've streamlined the way you create and organise your content and improved how your members navigate it.

You now create a main product first, then optionally add courses, communities, or downloads as add-ons inside it. Add-ons were also moved from the top navigation in the members' area to the sidebar, making them easier for members to find and engage with.

Your existing Hubs were automatically converted to Products, so there's nothing you need to do.

If you have more than one product, or you’re planning to, this one’s worth knowing about.

The most valuable audience you have is the one that's already bought from you. They know you. They trust you. They've already said yes once. Cross-selling to that audience is one of the most efficient ways to grow your revenue.

We're building a cross-sell feature that lets your members see the products they don't yet have directly in their members' area. No extra tools, no complicated funnels. We're making it as frictionless as possible. A member sees a product they want, and in just a few clicks, they've got access, and you’ve got a revenue boost - without lifting a finger.