Parker Open · Courses and podcasts
Your courses,
with the teacher up front.
Parker Open is a Shopify theme created by Mister Mikel for selling online courses, masterclasses, ebooks, podcasts and downloadable material: a page for every teacher or subject, with their introduction and all their courses underneath, and a product page with format, duration, level, access and what’s included. It’s free if you install it yourself. And if you’d rather skip the wrestling, we set it up for you.
This may sound familiar
A course is not a phone case.
Most Shopify themes treat a course like a box to be shipped: title, price and a photo. And what really decides the purchase, who teaches it, gets left out.
Nobody buys a course. They buy learning from someone.
The teacher is nowhere to be seen
They’re the reason someone buys, and the theme doesn’t give them so much as a page.
The product page leaves out what matters
Duration, level, format, access, what’s included. In a generic product page it all ends up in the description.
Digital feels like a different store
If you sell courses alongside books or products, digital usually ends up shoehorned in.
Loyal students can’t find what’s new
New courses, new teachers… Without a page per teacher, what’s new gets lost in the catalog.
In Parker, the author. Here, the teacher.
The same idea, told for people who teach.
A school with several subjects? Group by subject instead of by teacher: “Photography”, “Nutrition”, “Languages”.
What Parker Open brings for courses
Built to sell what you teach.
A page for every teacher
Introduction, training and teaching approach at the top. Résumé or consultations in a “More details” dropdown. Underneath, all their courses.
A clear product page
Up to five fields with whatever label you want: format, duration, level, access, what’s included. Plus type and last-updated date.
Filter by type
Courses, masterclasses, ebooks, downloads. The catalog filters by type with no extra apps.
“By the same teacher”
On every course, what you can learn next with the same person.
Digital, properly presented
Courses and downloads are sold with Shopify apps such as Courses or Digital Downloads. Parker Open presents them with the teacher alongside.
You run it yourself
Adding a product or changing a price takes two minutes. On Shopify, without touching code. Two styles to choose from.
How it looks
Three stores, one theme.
A product photographer made up for the demo. His page tells who he is and how he works; underneath, his online course, a masterclass and a downloadable preset pack, with duration, level and access on each product page.
See Jon in the demo →
A dietitian-nutritionist, also made up, with her cooking course, her ebook and her plans. Everything hangs from her page, and in the same store they sit alongside physical products.
See Irene in the demo →A podcast that sells premium seasons, bonus episodes and merch. Each show has a page with who makes it and what it’s about, and underneath everything you can buy from it.
How to get it
Two ways to get Parker Open.
The theme is the same either way. What changes is who installs it.
You install it yourself.
Write to us and we’ll send you the theme in both styles, with its guide. Upload it to your Shopify, load your catalog and start selling.
- Parker Open Classic and Parker Open Contemporary
- Installation and setup guide →
- No odd sign-ups, no small print
We set it up for you.
We install it and adapt it to your brand inside your Shopify store: teachers, catalog, payments, shipping, languages. And we show you how to run it yourself.
- Installation and fitting to your brand
- Teachers, catalog, payments and shipping set up
- Training at handover and a fixed proposal
Frequently asked questions
What people usually ask us.
Can you sell online courses with Shopify and Parker Open?
Yes. Shopify sells courses with apps such as Courses, and Parker Open takes care of presenting them: a page for every teacher and a product page with format, duration, level, access and what’s included.
Where are the lessons watched?
In the course app you choose. Parker Open is the storefront and the store, not the video platform.
Can I sell courses and physical products together?
Yes. A course, an ebook and a printed book can sit in the same store, each with its teacher or author alongside.
What about ebooks, podcasts or downloads?
Yes. Ebooks, presets, templates or podcast seasons are sold as downloads with apps such as Digital Downloads, and Parker Open presents them just like a course.
Does it work for a school with several teachers?
Yes. Every teacher has a page with all their courses. If you prefer, you can group by subject instead of by teacher.
Does it work for selling outside Spain?
Yes. It comes bilingual (Spanish and English) with a language selector and a country/currency selector, built for selling to Latin America and Europe.
Is it free?
Yes. If you install it yourself, the theme costs nothing: we send it in both styles with the installation guide. What has a price is having us set it up and adapt it, if you’d rather.
What if I want you to set it up?
It depends on your catalog and on what you need. We don’t post a sticker price: tell us about your case and we’ll send a specific proposal with a fixed timeline. See the service →
Parker Open
Selling something else?
The same theme works for other catalogs with an author or an origin. See Parker Open →
Let’s talk
Shall we set up your course store?
Ask for the theme and we’ll send it over. Or tell us what you sell and where it gets stuck, and we’ll come back with a fixed proposal within 24 hours. And if you like, take a look at the demo first.