Integrating Thinkific with Pabbly Subscription Billing: A Complete Guide

Learn how to integrate Thinkific with Pabbly Subscription Billing for automated user enrollment after successful payments. Follow this step-by-step tutorial for seamless integration. Discover how to streamline your subscription management while maintaining complete flexibility over billing cycles, trial periods, and payment processing.

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1. Accessing Pabbly Subscription Billing for Integration

To start integrating Thinkific with Pabbly Subscription Billing, you first need to access the Pabbly dashboard. Sign in if you are an existing user, or create a new account if you are new. This process is quick and grants you 100 free tasks upon account creation.

After logging in, navigate to the dashboard. On the right-hand side, you will see a tab labeled ‘Create Workflow’. Click on it to begin setting up your integration workflow. Here, you can name your workflow based on your integration objective, such as enrolling users in Thinkific upon successful payment via Pabbly Subscription Billing.

2. Setting Up Webhook in Pabbly Subscription Billing

In this section, you will set up a webhook in Pabbly Subscription Billing to trigger the integration. Go to the ‘Settings’ section within your Pabbly Subscription Billing account. Here, you will find the ‘Webhook’ option. Click it to add a new webhook.

• Name the webhook (e.g., Demo Test).
• Select the product you want to associate (e.g., PHP Course for Beginners).
• Paste the webhook URL you received from Pabbly Connect.
• Choose the event as ‘Successful Payment’.

After filling in these details, click on ‘Save’. This action will set up the webhook to capture successful payment events, which will trigger the integration with Thinkific.

3. Testing the Webhook Response in Pabbly Connect

Once the webhook is set up, the next step involves testing it to ensure it captures data correctly. Go back to Pabbly Subscription Billing and navigate to the checkout page for the product you selected. Fill in the necessary information, such as name, email, and billing address, then complete the order.

After the successful payment, return to Pabbly Connect and click on ‘Recapture Webhook Response’. This will allow you to see if the webhook successfully captured the payment details. You should receive a response showing the payment event type and user details, confirming that the integration is functioning correctly.

4. Enrolling Users in Thinkific Based on Payment Status

In this section, you will use Pabbly Subscription Billing to determine if the user exists in Thinkific and enroll them accordingly. Set up an action step in Pabbly Connect where you select Thinkific as the application and choose the action event to ‘Search User’.

Map the email address from the previous step to search for the user. If the user exists, you can directly enroll them in the course. If not, you will create a new user and then enroll them. This process is automated and eliminates the need for manual user management.

• Use the router feature in Pabbly to manage conditions based on user existence.
• If the user exists, proceed to enroll them directly.
• If the user does not exist, create a new user before enrolling them.

This method ensures that every user who pays for the course is automatically enrolled in Thinkific without any manual intervention.

5. Finalizing Integration and Testing in Real-Time

To finalize the integration, you will perform a real-time test to confirm everything is working as expected. Go back to Pabbly Subscription Billing and conduct another test payment with a new user. Fill in the checkout details and complete the order.

After the payment is successful, check Thinkific to see if the new user has been created and enrolled in the course. This real-time test will validate that your integration is correctly set up and functioning seamlessly.

Once confirmed, you can confidently use this integration to automate user enrollment in Thinkific for all future payments made via Pabbly Subscription Billing.

Conclusion

This tutorial provided a detailed guide on how to integrate Thinkific with Pabbly Subscription Billing for automated user enrollment. By following these steps, you can streamline the process and enhance user experience significantly.