We get this question fairly often:
🙋♀️🙋♂️ “Does Teachery integrate with my ________ payment processor?”
Fill that blank in with Thrivecart, PayPal, Gumroad, Etsy, Freshbooks, Shopify, Lemon Squeezy, etc, etc. There are so many payment processors out there that if we tried to integrate with all of them, we’d be doing nothing but building integrations 😵💫.
But fear not!
There are a few easy ways you can create your own small onboarding automation if you want to use a payment processor outside of Teachery.
Zapier, Pabbly, or Make are our #1 recommendations to automatically send new customers from whatever payment provider you are using directly into Teachery.
Using an automation platform like Zapier, Pabbly, or Make is easy to setup and Pabbly and Make both offer free plans!
This is a great way to automate everything but it does require your payment processor to be connected to Zapier, Pabbly, or Make as well.
For this option, you're going to create a "hidden" Payment Page that's set to a price of $0. You'll make the URL of this Payment Page something obscure and only share the link to this Payment Page with the customers who purchased outside of Teachery.
Create a free payment page that you share the URL of with your customers after they pay in your payment processor of choice.
Click in to edit the course you are working on
In the Payment Pages area of the left sidebar, click “+ Add Payment Page”
Name the new Payment Page whatever you like, make sure the Payment Type is set to "Fixed" and set the Price to $0
Click the Create Page button to make the page
Click the Actions menu (purple button, top right) and find the “Edit Page Name/URL” option - change the Page URL to something hard to guess (an example is any string of random numbers and letters you want to type, like this: 923fj03k02i021dk)
Save the Page URL settings and in the Actions menu, use the Copy Page URL option to quickly grab the URL. You're all set! 🎉 ✅
Once the free Payment Page has been created, customize the payment page to your liking! We’d recommend making it very clear in the copy on that page that your customer has already paid for your course and this is how they gain access (by entering their name and email address).
👉 Learn more about Teachery Payment Pages here
Whether you’re using PayPal*, Gumroad**, etc, you should quickly and easily be able to add text to the receipt that gets sent to a person who buys your course.
Make it very clear that they need to click the Teachery free payment page URL to get access to the course.
If you can create a thank you page that people get after they make a purchase with your payment processor, you could also include the free payment page URL and instructions on that page.
*For PayPal: You can't include an extra link in PayPal, so you'd need to use a service like Zapier to integrate and send an email after a PayPal purchase. Gumroad uses PayPal as a payment option, so we'd simply recommend avoiding using PayPal directly.
**For Gumroad: You can create a very simple PDF with a link to your free payment page (you can create a PDF using Google Spreadsheets or Word) that someone can download immediately after purchase.
It really is that easy. As long as you make your free payment page URL something very hard to guess, no one will ever be able to find it.
Very similar to the steps outlined above, you can create and share a paid payment page and Promo Code.
Instead of including a free payment page in the email receipt, you’d share a full-price payment page, and create a 100% OFF promo code in Teachery.
To create a promo code:
Click the course you are working on
In the Payment Pages section of the left sidebar, click on “Promo Codes”
Click the "New Promo Code" button to create a new code
Set the Percentage to 100% off, name your code, choose redemption amounts (optional), and set the expiration date of the code if you want the code to expire after a period of time
Save your new promo code! 👍👍
Then, edit any Payment Page you've created that has a price, make sure the Promo Code toggle in the payment page editor is turned ON (in the payment fields area), and grab the Page URL from the Actions menu (purple button, top right).
Give your customers the paid Payment Page URL and the 100% OFF Promo Code to use on that page.
This is merely another option, especially if you want to keep track of how many customers use the Promo Code to gain access to your course.
👉 More info on promo codes here
This one is REALLY easy.
When viewing the main Teachery "Teach" page, click into your Customers area.
Then click + Add Customer to Course or Theme
Enter their first name, last name, email address, and select the course you want to add them to
That's it!
Manually adding customers only takes a few seconds each. If you just have a small handful of customers buying from you, save yourself all the extra set up work and add them manually.
