New in LearnWorlds: Product Recommendations, Order Bumps, and Cart-based Discounts

Growing online course sales often depends on what happens before, during, and around checkout.

You need to help buyers find the right courses, programs, and add-ons while they browse. You need a simple way to recommend the right next product at checkout. And when someone is ready to buy more, you need a way to reward that larger purchase without rebuilding bundles or managing a long list of one-off coupons.

That is why we are adding three commerce tools to LearnWorlds:

• Automatic Recommendations to help learners discover relevant products across your school
• Order Bumps to add targeted upsells on the payment page
• Cart-based Discounts to apply discounts based on cart value or number of items

Together, these features give training businesses more control over how learners discover, add, and buy learning products inside LearnWorlds.

What’s new

Here’s what’s new in a nutshell.

Now let’s explore each feature in more detail.

Help learners find the right next product

When someone is exploring your school, they may not know which course, program, or add-on is the best fit. With Recommendations, you can surface relevant products across more of the buying journey—not only at the final payment step.

You can use recommendations to promote learning products:

• on website pages
• in the cart
• and on the payment page

That means you can guide learners toward the next relevant purchase while they browse, compare options, and get ready to buy.

Set Automatic Recommendations

With Automatic Recommendations, the system automatically suggests products to learners based on strategies. You can set strategies such as frequently bought together, best-selling products, and custom rules, so you do not have to choose every recommendation for every page or checkout flow manually.

For training businesses with a larger catalog, this makes product discovery easier to manage. Instead of relying only on static bundles or manual cross-promotions, you can help learners see related products at the moments when they are most likely to consider them.

💡 Learn more about Automatic Recommendations

Add targeted checkout upsells with Order Bumps

Sometimes you know exactly what product should be offered next.

For example, someone buying a certification prep course may also need a practice exam. Someone enrolling in an introductory program may be a good fit for a coaching session, advanced module, or related resource.

That is where Order Bumps help.

Order Bumps let you manually recommend a specific product on the payment page when someone is checking out for a related product. You choose the primary product, choose the product you want to recommend, and decide how that offer appears during checkout.

This gives you a direct way to present a relevant add-on while purchase intent is already high, without rebuilding your offer as a bundle.

Order Bumps are best when you want full control over the upsell:

• a specific add-on for a specific course,
• a discounted companion product,
• a practice resource for a certification program,
• or a next-step product that fits the buyer’s current purchase.

💡Learn more about Order Bumps

Combine your approaches with Hybrid Recommendations

So far, we’ve shown you two ways to leverage recommendations in your school: automatically with guided instructions, and manually with Order Bumps. 

With Hybrid Recommendations activated, you can have both strategies working at the same time: manual placements where they matter most, plus automatic recommendation logic to fill the remaining recommendation slots.

This gives you flexibility based on how your training business sells.

💡 Learn more about Hybrid Recommendations

Reward larger purchases with Cart-based Discounts

Discounts are often tied to individual products. They work for some campaigns, but it can become hard to manage when you want to encourage larger purchases across the whole cart.

Cart-based Discounts give you a new way to apply incentives based on the full order.

You can create discounts based on:

• the total cart value
• or the number of items in the cart

For example, you can create offers like:

• 15% off orders over $300
• $10 off orders over $100
• tiered discounts that increase as cart value grows
• or volume-style incentives based on the number of items in the cart

You can also choose how the discount is applied:

• automatically at checkout
• or with a coupon code for campaign-specific promotions

If more than one cart-based discount is eligible, LearnWorlds applies the one that gives the customer the highest benefit. Cart-based discounts do not stack with each other, so the customer gets one clear cart-level discount.

For training businesses running seasonal campaigns, selling multiple products, or encouraging learners to buy more at once, this means less manual setup and a cleaner checkout experience.

💡 Learn more about Cart-based Discounts

How these features work together

Each feature plays a different role in the same buying journey. Used together, they help you shape the path from browsing to buying and avoid adding more manual work to your team.

This gives you more ways to sell inside LearnWorlds without creating a separate bundle, rebuilding your checkout flow, or managing every promotion product by product.

Availability of features

Cart-based Discounts and Order Bumps are available on all plans. Automatic and Hybrid Recommendations are available on Learning Center plans and above.

Try the new features today

LearnWorlds is built for training businesses that need their academy to do more than host content.

When you sell multiple courses, programs, resources, licenses, or learning products, your commerce setup needs to support discovery, upsells, promotions, and checkout without forcing your team into manual workarounds.

Whether you want to highlight specific products, increase order value, or reduce the setup work behind promotions, you now have more ways to do it inside LearnWorlds.

Not a LearnWorlds customer yet? Start your free trial today and see how we help you sell, deliver, and grow your training business from one platform.