What's new with Kourses: Our Changelog

We regularly add new features, updates and improvements to make this the best platform for your business.

15 Dec 2025

New Feature

Facebook Conversion API

We’ve added a direct integration with the Facebook Conversions API (CAPI) to Kourses.

With CAPI built directly into your Kourses checkout funnels, conversion data is passed from your ads through Kourses and back to Facebook - without relying on a messy stack of third-party tools.

Simple setup with just a few clicks, means you have far more confidence when you decide to spend on ads. 

Find out more about the Facebook Conversion API integration here.

10 Dec 2025

New Feature

Broadcast Messaging

Broadcast Messaging - a simple way to send one message to all your members, or only a specific membership, directly into their Kourses inbox.

It gives you an easy, reliable way to activate your community, share updates instantly and keep your members connected and moving forward.

No email tools. No scattered communication. Just one message that reaches everyone who needs to see it.

Find out more about Broadcast Messages here.

Improvements

Show purchased memberships on the Thank You Page: We have added an option to display your buyers' purchased memberships on the thank you page after checkout to confirm purchases.
Thumbnails for Upsell & Thank You page videos: We have added an option add a thumbnail image to the videos on your Upsell & Thank You pages. You can now add that extra branded touch to your pages. 

Fixes

Pagination added to the Bookmarks page: We have added pagination buttons (prev & next) to the Bookmarks page so your members have easier navigation of their bookmarked lessons.

16 October 2025

New Feature

Member Messaging Now Live

If you’ve ever wished your course or community felt a little more alive, this is the update you’ve been waiting for. We’ve just added Messaging to Kourses: a clean, simple way to chat directly with your members and help them connect with each other.

  • Private 1:1 messaging: Admins can message members directly, and members can message each other in real time. 
  • Personal inboxes: Every member and admin has their own private inbox for easy, ongoing conversations. 
  • Simple, familiar interface: Messaging feels natural and distraction-free, built right into the same clean design you already know in Kourses. 
  • Connection drives retention: When communication flows easily, engagement follows. Conversations lead to strong relationships and members who stay long term.

Find out more about these new features here.

26 August 2025

New Feature

Track Success with the New Stats Dashboard

Course & Membership Stats DashboardCourse & Membership Stats Dashboard

The new Stats Dashboard in Kourses puts your key business metrics in one clean, easy-to-read view - so you can make smarter decisions, grow your revenue, and finally stop guessing what’s working. Learn more about the new Stats Dashboard here.

6 August 2025

New Feature

Build a Connected Community with Member Profiles

Member Profiles FeatureMember Profiles Feature

When members feel anonymous, it’s easy for them to drift away. But when they feel seen, heard, and connected to others, they stick around. That’s why we’ve just released Member Profiles in Kourses.

Now, your members can introduce themselves, share their stories, and connect on a deeper level, turning your platform from a content hub into a thriving, connected community. Learn more about the new Member Profiles feature here.

16 July 2025

New Feature

Boost Course Sales Using Upsells

Course & Membership UpsellsCourse & Membership Upsells

Now, you can boost your revenue by offering a simple, one-click upsell right after a customer makes a purchase. No extra tools. No tech headaches. There is no need to duct-tape another funnel together.

Whether you’re selling courses, memberships, or digital products, this is one of the easiest ways to increase your average order value without spending more on ads, launching new offers, or burning out trying to do it all. Learn more about selling with Kourses Upsells.

Fixes

Currency change on second website: When changing additional account websites from the default USD to EUR the pricing plans inside of memberships remained in USD. This is now fixed.

14 May 2025

New Feature

Make Your Courses More Accessible, Engaging, and Professional

Course Transcriptions & Closed Captions

We’re excited to introduce the first AI-powered feature inside Kourses: Video Transcriptions.

Every video you upload to Kourses can automatically generate a transcription file—perfect for subtitles, closed captions, and improved student learning. With just one click, AI takes care of the heavy lifting—making your course content more accessible, more engaging, and more professional. Learn more about AI Transcriptions & Closed Captions here

3rd May 2025

New Feature

Edit checkout urls, sell with more pricing plans, improved bulk upload and course interface

Course Platform Improvements

If you’re a creator juggling multiple tasks — course content, offers, branding, customer engagement — the last thing you need is friction in your tools. That’s why we focused this release on the little things that save time, reduce clicks, and give you more control.

Want cleaner links for your checkout experience? Now you can adjust the URL slug.

Need more flexible pricing options? You can now offer three or more plans, including multiple instalment payment schedules.

Tired of reorganising videos after bulk upload? You can now assign them to the right module the moment they’re uploaded.

Managing a complex course? The editor is faster to navigate and easier to scan with module accordions and layout refinements.

2nd April 2025

New Feature

Clone Hubs, Courses & Members With Smart Clone

Clone Courses & Memberships

You can now clone entire Hubs, full courses, individual modules or lessons and even complete Membership setups—all with just one click.

We know it takes time to recreate membership offers manually and that you want to clone Hubs and Courses for different cohorts or variations of your programs.

With Smart Clone now, you can launch course cohorts faster, test variations of memberships and pricing, and spend less time on setup and more time on growth.

Improvements

Link text colour: Now, you can choose a specific colour for the text links on your Kourses website. The default setting for text links is the website accent colour.

Fixes

Members unable to download resources: Sometimes, members would see an error message when attempting to download a resource. This was related to the signed link expiry time, which has now been extended.

18th March 2025

New Feature

Translations and Custom Texts

Course Translations

We’re excited to introduce a powerful update to Kourses – the new Translations Feature! Now, you can change the primary language of your website to serve your audience better and create a seamless experience for students in different regions.

If your audience prefers French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, or Dutch, you can switch your site’s primary language to match their needs.

Custom Texts: In addition, we've also added Custom Texts so you can customise the interface of your Courses and Members areas with unique texts that showcase your brand personality to increase additional rapport with your members.

Improvements

Membership name on Order Bump: On the Order Bumps admin screen, we have added the name of the membership being sold as the Order Bump to make it easier for site admins to manage their order bump products.

Fixes

Missing notifications on mobile: In some scenarios, the notifications alert bell was not showing on mobile devices. This is now fixed.

27th February 2025

New Feature

Multiple Order Bumps

Multiple Order Bumps For Courses & Memberships

We’re excited to introduce a powerful new way to increase your revenue—Multiple Order Bumps are now live in Kourses!

You can now add multiple order bumps to your checkout, giving customers the opportunity to spend more with a single click.

Selling order bumps means you increase your average order value without extra effort using the same traffic you already get!

Increase revenue – Sell add-ons like workbooks, VIP access, or premium content.

Boost conversions – Offer relevant upgrades without disrupting checkout.

No extra effort – Customers accept offers with one click, no extra steps.

Improvements

Kourses website switchReplace the Kourses logo on the admin screen with a website dropdown switch to make it easy to switch between websites.
Comment sorting and filtering: We have updated the comments sorting and filtering options on the Comments admin screen. You can now sort by
oldest and newest posts/comments, filter by date, filter by unread comments, and search for comments by member name, email and comment text.
Mailchimp tags Support added for Mailchimp tags to create new members and abandoned cart leads.
Help articles - Added help article links to the Integrations screen.

Fixes

Progress tracking: Hubs with no courses incorrectly showed a progress bar on a member's record. Progress bars will now only show on a member's record for hubs that have courses.
Updated UX for custom domainsWe have added instructions on the custom domain screen to show (the type of record and value) to help improve the ease of custom domain setup.
ActiveCampaign Integration does not validate when connected from membership screen - Fixed

8th February 2025

Improvements & Fixes

New Activation Link Flow 

We’ve improved the activation link flow for members added from external systems (like ThriveCart) or via the API

If an activation link expires (after 7 days), the expired link page now lets members request a new one on their own.

You no longer need to handle support queries or requests for expired links—your members can simply request a fresh link without any intervention.

4th February 2025

New Feature

Abandon Cart Recovery

Abandonment Cart Recovery

We’re excited to introduce Cart Abandonment Recovery—a powerful new feature designed to help course creators and membership site owners bring back potential customers who left the checkout without completing their purchase.

Automatic Lead Capture – When someone abandons your checkout, their details are instantly saved.

Minimal Setup Required – This feature works out of the box to help you win back lost revenue.

Seamless Email Integration – Use your preferred email provider for high deliverability.

Proven Conversion Strategies – Recover up to 30% of lost sales effortlessly.

Every abandoned checkout is a missed opportunity. Now, you can automatically follow up with potential customers, guiding them back to enrol in your course or join your community.

Improvements

API - Added support for dripped content when members added through API 
Integrations - Improved options for skipping drip content and triggering email marketing integrations on external carts integration

Fixes

Transaction reporting screen - Renewal data for cancelled transaction/order showing date information.
Website sidebar - Fixed issue with search bar placement on sidebar on some mobile devices.
Community - "3 dots" menu not working on front end in some instances.

19 December 2024

New Feature

VAT OSS & Reverse Charge Reports

We've added a new feature to our sales data to simplify your tax reporting! Kourses now allows you to generate basic VAT OSS and reverse charge reports directly from your account.

This feature is designed to help you save time and stay compliant with international tax regulations by providing easy-to-use reports for your cross-border transactions. Say goodbye to manual calculations and streamline your VAT reporting.

16 December 2024

New Feature

🔗 Coupon Links Are Here!

We're excited to announce the release of Coupon Links, an easy way to make your checkout process even smoother. You can now append a coupon code directly to your checkout link, and the discount will be automatically applied for customers at checkout—no manual input is needed!

This feature eliminates friction during the purchase process, creating a seamless buyer experience. Whether you're running special promotions, sharing exclusive discounts, or boosting sales campaigns, Coupon Links make it effortless to drive conversions.

15 December 2024

New Feature

Blocklist Buyers on Your Checkout

Blocklist Buyers Feature

We've released a powerful new feature to give you more control over your checkouts: Blocklist Buyers.

You can now prevent specific individuals from making purchases by adding them to a blocklist. This feature is perfect for managing unwanted transactions and ensuring your checkout experience remains secure and streamlined. You can blocklist buyers using either a specific email or IP address.

12 December 2024

New Feature

New Integration: MailerLite

We’re excited to announce that Kourses now integrates seamlessly with MailerLite! 🎉 This integration allows you to automatically sync your Kourses customers and members with MailerLite lists, trigger email sequences based on enrollments or purchases and streamline your email marketing efforts.

29 November 2024

New Feature

Elevate Your Style With The New Branding Kit!

We know how important it is for your courses, communities, and memberships to reflect your unique brand. One way you can add that personal touch and connect with members is with the Hub Covers and Placeholders throughout your Kourses website.
Our new Branding Kit gives you customisable templates to add that WOW factor quickly.

Feature: Increase the connection between your members and the brand.
Feature: Templates you can easily edit and add to your Kourses website.
Feature: There is no need to hire a designer or have previous design skills.

8 November 2024

New Feature

🎉 Start Selling Today - Kourses Checkout is Live! 🎉

This new all-in-one feature allows you to take payments, sell memberships, and manage your transactions directly in your Kourses account. We can't wait for you to experience the streamlined, hassle-free system we've created.

Feature: Optimized checkout designed to convert browsers into buyers.
Feature: Manage everything from courses and communities to payments in one place.
Feature: Easily sell memberships, upgrades, and exclusive content.

8 November 2024

Improvements & Fixes

Minor improvements for platform settings

Improvement: Moved company details to General settings
Improvement: Removed Site Owner and User accounts from listing in the member's directory and member count.
Improvement: Moved toggle settings for auto-complete lessons, automatically go to next lesson and autoplay lesson video from General settings to Website settings.

2 September 2024

Improvements & Fixes

Admin settings, feed page default status and server updates

Improvement: Admin accounts now have additional access to "Website" settings. This gives your site admins access to all website settings, excluding the "Domain" option.
Improvement: The "Community Feed" for your members is now automatically deactivated if a member does not have access to your communities. This stops them from seeing a blank feed.
Improvement: We've upgraded our servers to provide faster, more robust hosting so we can ensure lightning-fast delivery for your course content and membership areas.

12 April 2024

New Feature

Admins, moderators and post review

Admins, mods, post review

We understand that easy community management is a big part of running an effective membership site, and we're here to support you.

We've added three new features that help you spend less time managing and more time growing.

Now live for you to use are admin user accounts, moderator members and post moderation.

Feature: Admin accounts - Now you can add admins to help you manage your membership. Admins have access to most of your membership website features.
Feature: Moderator members - Add moderators to your memberships to help manage your community posts and lesson comments.
Feature: Post review - Take control of your community's content. Turn on post review if you would like to review each community post before it goes live, empowering you to ensure the quality and relevance of our discussions.

12 April 2024

Improvements & Fixes

Rich text editor improvements

We're continually looking for ways to improve the usability of Kourses. That includes adding OR removing features we feel might make our customers lives easier.

Our latest refinements focus on the Rich Text editor interface which is used when you're writing content in posts or comments throughout a Kourses based membership site.

Today's tweaks include:

Feature: Now you can add images to posts or comments through the Rich Text Editor
Feature: Add video to comments through the Rich Text editor
Improvement: Removed text alignment options from posts and comments (we felt these weren't necessary for the majority of customer use cases.
Improvement: Removed headline 2 and headline 3 styling from comments Rich Text editor. We felt that this could make your comments look unsightly and wasn't a required feature.

7 April 2024

New Feature

Zapier & Make.com integration apps now live

Zapier and Make Integrations

As well as adding native integrations, we've now rolled out integrations with two of the leading automation tools used by digital marketers - Zapier and Make.com.

These integrations allow you to use Kourses as an "action" app - meaning you can send data from other platforms into Kourses to create new members, or to revoke access from existing members.

This opens up a wide range of opportunities for you to add Kourses into your existing business workflows with platforms where we don't yet have a native integration.

You can learn more about these integrations, and how to use them, through the knowledgebase articles linked below:

Zapier: Knowledgebase article here

Make.com: Knowledgebase article here

28 March 2024

New Feature

Post and comment editing integrity

Comment And Post Editing

We have added the ability for site admins to edit all community posts, comments, and replies. You can now also add an editing reason to maintain the integrity of your membership site.

Your members can also edit their posts, comments and replies.

All edited content gets an "edited" label.

19 March 2024

New Feature

New member quick actions and member filters update

member management updates

Filter member by status: We've added additional filter options so you can now search for a member's status. You can filter for Account activated, Account not activated, Member logged in within 30 days, and Member not logged in within 30 days.

Member quick actions: We've added a quick menu to help you manage your Member accounts easier and faster. This menu gives you easy access to the primary member actions, View member profile, Edit member, Send activation email, Send password reset, and Delete a member.

12 March 2024

New Feature

"Start Writing Your Post" Box

To encourage conversation in your communities and activity from members, we have added a "Start Writing Your Post" box to the top of the main feed page and community pages.

When your members start to write a post, the full post editor opens so they can compose their posts.

The more you can encourage new post conversations, the more engagement you will get in your membership..

New Feature

Feed Page Controls

We've added view and sorting controls for the "Feed Page". You can find Feed Page options from the main menu Website > Feed > Feed Options.

You can now control:

Layout Style: Choose how you want your posts to appear on the feed. Choose from full, shortened, or list.

Post Sorting: Select how you would like your posts sorted on your feed page. The selected option will define the posts shown first to members—E.g. Latest or most liked.

Improvements & Fixes

Improvements & Fixes

Fix: Ordered list in the bullet options for the text editor would reflect on a live post or comment but not in the text editor - fixed.

8 March 2024

Improvements & Fixes

Improvements & Fixes

Improvement: Updated text editor for "New Posts" to include additional options and video embeds.
Improvement: Added text editor options to community posts and lesson comments to give additional options and clickable links.
Improvement: Updated nested replies on community post comments to improve the conversation workflow.
Fix: Sometimes, the comment replies link "Replies" would not open. Now fixed.

1 March 2024

New Feature

Admin & Member Notifications

We've added email notifications for community activity for website admins and members. Admins can now activate a range of email notifications on the settings/notifications screen:

Activity notifications for admins: Admins will receive a daily email summary of member activity in their communities.

Activity notification for members: Members will receive a daily email summary of activity on their posts or replies to their post comments.

Weekly digest email for members: Members will receive a weekly email summary of the most popular posts in their communities.

If a site admin activates these settings, a member can deactivate/activate the options as they choose. These email notifications notify community members and drive them back to your membership to increase engagement and stick rate.

27 February 2024

Improvements & Fixes

Improvements & Fixes

Improvement: We have added a warning notice to the download/resources files upload process when you try to upload a file bigger than 100 MB.
Improvement: The Community menu link in the backend admin area is no longer required, as the "Go to website" button serves this purpose. We have removed the community menu link.
Improvement: Comments and replies on community posts were automatically posted as closed and needed to be clicked to be shown. We have updated this so that community post comments are posted as open and viewable without a click.
Improvement: How the hub covers resize and view in the frontend members' areas has been improved to better present for members.
Fix: The welcome email was not sent to a new member if they were manually created as a website member. This is now fixed.
Fix: In some instances, there were connection issues with the Infusionsoft/Keap integration. This is now fixed.
Fix: After adding a hub cover image, it was shown in the frontend of the membership but did not appear on the backend admin screen. This is now fixed.
Fix: In some instances, a member could double like a community post. This is now fixed.
Fix: In some instances, a member's name was shown as "Deleted Member" on a community post comment or reply. This is now fixed.
Fix: In some instances some video content for lessons was not playing on mobile devices. This is now fixed.

24 February 2024

New Feature

Community Feed Page

We've added a new community feed page that will pull all the posts from all your communities into one central feed. The community feed page will help your members engage in your community content. The next phase of the community feed page will add more options for customisation.

New Feature

Follow Post Option

The new follow-post feature allows your members to follow a post and get notifications of updates on that post.

Note: If a member comments on a post, they are added automatically as a post follower.

30 January 2024

New Feature

Member & Admin Notifications

The notifications feed will show all unread posts, post comments, likes and lesson comments to admins and members. Your members will only see notifications for posts they follow or comment on.

Note: Admins will see notifications for all membership activity except for likes.

Improvements & Fixes

Improvements & Fixes

Updated email templates to not use website accent colour for links as, in some cases, this meant links did not display clearly in emails.
Updated lesson video upload process to automatically pull a lesson thumbnail from the lesson video. Users can override this by uploading their own lesson thumbnail image. 
Limited field lengths to maintain a clean design focus on member pages.
Short Lesson Description - Limit to 130.
Hub Tab Title - Limit to 15 characters.
Hub Subtitle - Limit to 158 characters.

1st December 2023

New Feature

Added help links throughout the platform

To make your life easier when using Kourses, we've added super-useful help links throughout the platform. These links will take you to the relevant knowledgebase articles inside our help center.

Use these links to open the kb article - and also you can ask questions to our help widget straight from the Kourses interface with no time wasted.

Our team are available 24/7 to answer your questions