How to Set Up the Tech Backend for a Live Workshop
Everything a paid live workshop needs behind the scenes: a sales page, checkout, reminders, a live room, and follow-up. Two ways to build it, and what each one costs you in time.
A paid live workshop has five moving parts behind the scenes: a page that sells it, a way to take payment, reminders so people actually show up, a live room, and something that happens afterwards. You can wire those together from separate tools, or run all five from one place. This guide shows both, so you can pick the one that matches how much time you want to spend on setup instead of on your workshop.
The five parts every workshop needs
- A sales page. One page with the result, the date, the price, and a button.
- Checkout and registration. Take the money and capture the name and email in the same step.
- Reminders. At least one the day before and one an hour before. Without them, half your buyers forget.
- A live room. Video, screen share, chat, and a way for people to ask questions.
- Follow-up. The replay or worksheet, a thank-you, and your next offer.
If any one of these is missing, you feel it on the day: people who paid but never got the link, a room with nobody in it, or a great session that leads nowhere.
Option A: the do-it-yourself stack
This is the setup most people start with, because every piece is something they already have.
- Sales page: a Carrd, Notion, or Squarespace page
- Checkout: a Stripe payment link or a Gumroad product
- Registration list: a spreadsheet, or a Zapier step that copies buyers into your email tool
- Reminders: a Mailchimp or ConvertKit automation, or emails you send by hand
- Live room: a Zoom or Google Meet link, emailed to buyers after they pay
- Follow-up: another manual email with the replay and your next link
It works. The cost is not money, it is the seams. You have to make sure the meeting link reaches everyone who paid, that the reminder automation fires, that the spreadsheet matches Stripe, and that nobody who did not pay ends up with the link. Expect two to four hours of setup for a first workshop, and an hour of checking before each one after that.
Option B: one platform that does the five parts
On Faaji.co the workshop is one thing you create once:
- Sales page and checkout are the same page. You set the title, result, date, and price, and share one link. People pay and register in one step, so the list of who is coming is always right.
- Reminders go out automatically to everyone who registered. Nothing to configure.
- The live room is in the browser. You go live from your laptop, share your screen, bring people on stage for questions, run chat, and take tips. Attendees click one button on the same page they bought from.
- Follow-up is built in: attendees can be shown your next offer while they are in the room, and you can see who came and what they paid afterwards.
Setup for a first workshop is about ten minutes, most of it writing the description. There is no subscription; Faaji.co keeps a percentage of what you sell, and free workshops cost nothing. Pricing in dollars.
Which one should you pick?
Pick the do-it-yourself stack if you already run these tools every week and enjoy the control. Pick the single platform if you would rather spend the setup time on the workshop itself, or if you have ever lost a sale because someone could not find the link.
Test the room before the day
Whichever option you choose, open the live room the day before and check camera, microphone, and screen share. On Faaji.co there is a practice mode that opens a real room with nobody in it, so you can rehearse the first five minutes without anyone watching.
Next steps
- Selling for the first time? Read How to Launch a Paid Live Workshop in Seven Days.
- Bigger audience, no seat limit? See How to Set Up the Tech Backend for a Webinar.
- Multi-day format? See How to Set Up the Tech Backend for a Paid Challenge.