Migrate from Podia to Heights Platform
Podia is popular with creators who sell courses, downloads, memberships, webinars, and simple digital products. Migrating to Heights is a good opportunity to add stronger course engagement, projects, certificates, analytics, community structure, product bundles, and AI support.
A smooth Podia migration starts with content organization and ends with a clear student invitation. Do not import students before the Heights version of your products is ready. Your existing customers should log in and immediately understand where their courses, downloads, and communities now live.
Because Podia is often used by creators with several lightweight products, the biggest migration mistake is copying every small product exactly as-is. Instead, rebuild the product library around outcomes and customer access.
Get free hand-migration help on an annual plan.
Free Podia migration help
If you sign up for an annual Heights plan, our team can help hand-migrate your Podia content for free. This can include rebuilding course structures, organizing resources, and moving student-facing content into the right Heights products.
Step 1: Inventory courses, downloads, and memberships
List the Podia products you actively sell and the products existing customers still need. Separate courses, digital downloads, communities, webinars, and memberships so each can be rebuilt in Heights as the right product type or bundle.
For each Podia offer, write down what the buyer should receive. A membership might include a course library, a monthly resource drop, community access, and replay videos. In Heights, that can become a bundle or subscription that grants the right products together.
Use the audit to remove clutter. Retired downloads, expired bonuses, old product versions, and launch-only resources do not need to follow you unless they still support the current student experience.
Step 2: Download assets and clean up content
Download videos, images, PDFs, worksheets, templates, audio files, replay recordings, and product files. Review the material before rebuilding. Remove expired bonuses, update worksheets, replace broken links, and rename lessons so the Heights course feels polished.
Organize your files by product and lesson before uploading. This preparation is especially helpful if you use Heights' free annual-plan migration help, because it gives the migration team a clear map of where everything belongs.
Step 3: Rebuild offers in Heights
Create courses, bundles, digital products, and community access in Heights. If a Podia membership included multiple products, create a Heights bundle or subscription that grants those products together. Add projects and certificates when they help students apply the material.
Podia products can sometimes feel like separate islands: one course here, one download there, one community elsewhere. Heights lets you organize them into a clearer product ladder. A download can lead to a mini-course. A mini-course can lead to a flagship course. A flagship course can lead to coaching or membership.
Step 4: Set up domain, payments, and email
Connect your payment setup, configure pricing, rebuild coupons or payment plans if needed, and connect your custom domain if students should access the new academy under your brand. Test checkout and product access before announcing the move.
Customize the welcome email to tell students that Heights is the new learning home and include the login path. For existing students, send a separate announcement that explains what changed, what did not change, and where they should start.
Step 5: Import customers after the platform is ready
When the products are ready, import students into the correct courses, bundles, or communities. Announce the move as an upgrade: easier navigation, better progress tracking, a clearer learning path, and a more organized place to access all purchased resources.
If you have a large customer base, import in groups. Start with one product or one membership tier, confirm access, then continue with the next group.
Podia migration checklist
| Podia area | Heights migration action |
|---|---|
| Courses | Rebuild modules and lessons, upload videos, and attach resources. |
| Downloads | Move files into digital products or lesson resources. |
| Memberships | Recreate as Heights subscriptions or bundles with course/community access. |
| Community | Create channels around products, cohorts, or member tiers. |
| Customers | Import after products, domain, payments, and welcome emails are ready. |
FAQs: migrating from Podia
Can Heights migrate my Podia courses?
Yes. Free hand-migration help is available with annual Heights plans.
Can I move digital downloads?
Yes. Digital products and downloads can be recreated in Heights and bundled with courses or memberships.
Can I keep selling while migrating?
Often yes. Keep Podia running until the Heights products, checkout, domain, and student access are ready.