How to Set Up the Tech Backend for a Paid Challenge

A paid challenge is the format with the most moving parts: one ticket, several live days, homework in between, a group that talks to each other, and an offer at the end. That is exactly why most people run it on five or six tools and spend the week managing them. This guide lists what the backend has to do and shows two ways to build it.

What a challenge needs behind the scenes

1. One checkout that sells the whole challenge as a single ticket
2. Access control, so only buyers get the daily links
3. A live room for each day, ideally the same link every day
4. Reminders before every day, not just the first one
5. A place for the group between sessions: homework, questions, wins
6. A Day 5 offer people can take while they still have momentum
7. Tracking: who bought, who showed up each day, who took the offer

Option A: the do-it-yourself stack

• Checkout: a Stripe payment link or ThriveCart
• Access: a Zapier step that adds buyers to an email list or a private community
• Live rooms: a recurring Zoom meeting, link emailed to buyers
• Reminders: a five-email automation in ConvertKit or Mailchimp, one per day
• Group space: a Facebook group, Slack, Circle, or a WhatsApp group
• Day 5 offer: a checkout link dropped in the group and in an email
• Tracking: Zoom attendance reports plus a spreadsheet

This is a real amount of setup, usually a full day the first time, and it has to be rebuilt for every new challenge. The most common failures are a buyer who never got added to the group, a reminder automation that fires on the wrong day, and attendance you cannot reconcile with sales.

Option B: a challenge on Faaji.co

On Faaji.co a challenge is one thing you create: title, number of days, the daily time, and the price. Everything else follows from that:

• Checkout and access: one ticket for the whole challenge. Buyers get access to every day automatically. Nobody else does.
• Live rooms: each day is a live room you go live in from your laptop. Attendees join from the same page every day. You can run the days as a broadcast (you on camera) or as a group room where people come on stage.
• Reminders: sent automatically before each day.
• The group between sessions: every challenge has a member hub where people post homework, ask questions, and see each other's wins, and where you can post between days.
• The Day 5 offer: set an upsell on the challenge and present it in the room on the last day. Attendees see it in the room and can act on it immediately.
• Tracking: who bought, who attended each day, and who took the offer, without a spreadsheet.

Creating a five-day challenge takes about fifteen minutes. There is no subscription; Faaji.co keeps a percentage of ticket sales. Pricing.

Two rules for running the days

• Same time, same link, every day. Changing either costs you attendance.
• End every day with one piece of homework that takes under thirty minutes. The homework is what makes Day 5 feel like a result instead of a lecture series.

Next steps

• Planning the content and the sale? Read How to Run a Paid Five-Day Challenge.
• Starting with a single session first? See How to Set Up the Tech Backend for a Live Workshop.

Create your challenge on Faaji.co.