How to grant access to a course on a specific date

In this article, you’ll learn how to grant access to a course on a specific date.

What you will need:

a systeme.io account
an order form
a student

Setting a date for your course launch

To set a specific date for your course launch, follow these steps:

1. Go to the payment page of the sales funnel you’re going to use to sell your course, select the "Digital product" offer type (number 1 in the image),

Then click on the "(+)" button in the "Resources" tab (number 2 in the image).

2. Choose the "Courses" resource and select the course of your choice, the type of access you want to grant to your customers, then you will see a setting that you must activate by clicking on the "Grant access on specific date" switcher.

3. Select the publication date of your choice, then save.

Notes:

Your students will gain access to the course on the selected day at 00:00 in your time zone
You could also set an expiration delay if you select "Full access" or "Partial access" instead of "Drip content" (learn the difference between the two here)
Expiration delays are set in days
Your students will receive an email giving them access to the course immediately after payment, but the course will only be unlocked on the specified date.

Here is an example of granted timed access to a course:

In the payment page of the sales funnel we’re using to sell our course, we selected resources settings and set the following values:

The date to grant access to the course is 01/06/2025

The expiration delay is set to 30 days

Students will get access to the course from 01/06/2025 at 00:00 (your time zone) until 30/06/2025 at 23:59, and that’s 30 full days of access.