Kajabi Community UPDATE: How to Maximise What's Available

I walk you through the latest Kajabi Community updates and what they mean for how you structure your online business. Following the Kajabi Evolved launch, community has received some significant changes that affect your product limits, access groups, and how you can position community as the central hub of your business. If you are using or planning to use Kajabi Community, these updates change the game in terms of flexibility.

Key Takeaways

• Kajabi Community no longer counts against your product limit, and neither do any access groups you add to it.
• You can create multiple paid and free access groups within a single community, each linked to its own Kajabi offer.
• You can nest existing courses and products inside your community, making it the central hub for your entire client experience.

What Changed with Kajabi Community

Before this update, community in Kajabi worked differently. You got one community per site, but it counted as one of your products against your product limit. Every access group you added — which are essentially the different levels or tiers within your community — also counted as another product.

That added up quickly. If you were on a plan with a limited number of products, your community and its access groups could eat into that allocation before you even got to building courses or other offers.

Now, every Kajabi site gets a community and it does not count against your product limit. You can add as many access groups as you want, and they do not come off your product limits either. This is a significant change for anyone building a community-driven business on Kajabi.

How to Add Access Groups to Your Kajabi Community

Setting up access groups is straightforward. Inside your Kajabi account, click on Community. You will see your existing access groups listed there. To add a new one, click to add an access group and choose whether it will be free or paid.

For a paid access group, you have several options:

• One-time payment: a single charge for lifetime access
• Subscription: recurring billing at whatever interval you choose

When setting up a subscription, you select the price, the billing interval (weekly, monthly, or yearly), and how often to bill within that interval. For example, you could bill every one month, every two months, or every three months depending on how you want to structure your pricing.

You then select your payment type — Kajabi Payments is the default — and you can enable Apple Pay and Google Pay as additional options. Save and finish, and your new access group is ready.

Linking Access Groups to Kajabi Offers

Each access group needs an offer connected to it. When you create a new access group, Kajabi automatically generates a corresponding offer under Sales and Offers. You will see both your free and paid access group offers listed there.

This is an important detail to remember. The offer is what people actually purchase or sign up for to get access to your community. Without the offer linked, there is no way for someone to join that particular access group. If you are familiar with how Kajabi pricing and offers work across the platform, this follows the same structure.

How to Edit Your Main Community Settings

To edit the main community itself — not just individual access groups — you need to navigate to the Community section from the main menu. This is where you can see how your community presents to members, manage your free and paid access groups, and control which content is available at each level.

You can link specific access levels to different tiers. For example, certain content might be available to everyone in the free tier, while other content is only accessible to paid members or a higher tier. This gives you the flexibility to build out a structured experience without needing separate products for each level.

Linking Products and Courses Inside Your Community

This is one of the most useful features from the update. You can link existing Kajabi products directly inside your community sidebar. Instead of creating a custom page that links to a URL, you select "product" and choose from your existing Kajabi products.

You can choose whether the product opens in a new tab or stays inside the community. Then you assign access — either all members or just those who have paid for that specific product. Once saved, it appears in the community sidebar and members can click straight through to the course or product.

This means your community can become a single destination where members access everything — courses, programs, resources — without leaving the community experience.

Customising Your Community Homepage

You can also change what members see when they first land in your community. Under the community settings and customisation options, you can set any linked product or page as the homepage.

For example, if you link a free program like a welcome course, you can set that as the homepage so every new member lands there first. You could also create a dedicated welcome page with action steps — what to do first, second, and third — and set that as the entry point.

This is useful for onboarding. Rather than having new members land on a generic community feed, you can guide them through a structured experience from the moment they join. If you want to learn more about building out pages like this, I cover templates and page building in my post on Kajabi landing page templates.

Why a Community-First Approach Works

The bigger picture here is how you position community within your business. With these updates, you get one community per site — if you have multiple sites, you get multiple communities. None of them count against your product limit.

You can have multiple access groups for different tiers and offers. And you can nest your courses, programs, and welcome pages directly inside the community. This means you can position community as the front door to your business. People sign up, land in your community, and everything they need is accessible from that one place.

Think of it as the consistent client experience. Instead of sending people to different products and pages scattered across your site, the community becomes the hub where everything lives. It simplifies the experience for your members and gives you more flexibility in how you structure and deliver your offers.

Conclusion

The Kajabi Community updates remove the product limit restrictions that previously held people back from fully building out their community. You can now add unlimited access groups, link products directly into the community sidebar, and customise the homepage experience for new members. If you have been considering a community-first approach to your online business, these changes make it much more practical to implement on Kajabi.