You can easily start monetizing your know-how by setting up a payment gateway for your collection. Mini Course Generator makes this practical and quick with its direct integrations with the payment service providers Stripe, Lemon Squeezy and Pabbly.
Pabbly differs from Stripe and Lemon Squeezy in the way that it allows you to use other payment gateway providers by its own integration system. Pabbly is not capable of collecting payment itself directly. It needs to be connected with another payment processor.
We’re going to use the Pabbly integration to set up a pay-wall for your collection in this article.
Setting Up Connections
Set your Learners’ Access as “Enable access behind a pay-wall” and choose Pabbly as your payment processor.
💬 This setting modifies access for all your mini-courses in the related collection. If you want to sell a single mini-course, you should create a new collection, move your mini-course to the new collection and then set up your pay-wall.
Copy your payment link on Pabbly and paste it to your Learners’ Access tab.
💡If you have not created your product and payment link beforehand, you can create it at “Products” in your Pabbly dashboard. While creating your plan (payment link), you can choose to be paid on subscription model or one time payment model.
Copy the payment success URL and add it to “Redirect URL after successful payment” in advanced settings of your payment link.
🔹 Using our payment success page, your learners will be able to access your mini-courses seamlessly after payment.
Add Webhook to Pabbly.
Copy the webhook URL from “Learners’ Access” tab. Go to “Settings” in your Pabbly dashboard. Click on “Webhook” and add a webhook.
Paste the webhook URL to “Webhook URL” section. Give a name to your Webhook, choose correct products and plans. Finally, add these events below:
"Subscription Create, Subscription Cancel, Subscription Activate, Subscription Expire, Subscription Renew, Subscription Delete"
"All Payment Event"
After adding these events, save your webhook. Go back to your Mini Course Generator dashboard and click on “Done”.
👀 Correct events must be added to the webhook, otherwise your pay-wall may not work successfully.
Add a Payment Gateway to your Pabbly account.
Under “Settings”, go to “Payment Gateway Integration”. Select the payment gateway integration of your choice to connect. Complete the pay-wall integration process on Pabbly.
Once you go back to your Mini Course Generator dashboard and click on done, your pay-wall is all set.
How learners access after payment
Here’s how it looks to buy a collection from learners’ end, step by step.
Mini-courses or collections are designed to be shared online using their link, or to be embedded in other webpages. A new learner encounters your content through the share link or your webpage.
Note: For your learners that won’t be able to complete the content in one sitting, or would like to revisit your content later on, make sure to share your content with your learners somewhere they can reach repeatedly.
Learner enters email address information.
The Learner receives the payment link via email.
Learner makes the payment and accesses the collection.
We store learner information using browser cookies, so that learners can access your mini-courses again and again without the need of email address verification every time. If a new device or browser tries to access your collection, they will run into a pop-up that asks for full name and email address verification.
All access links expire when clicked on so that it is not possible to share your content with those who did not pay. Your valuable knowledge is secure and in good hands with Mini Course Generator.
Edit your Landing Page
Mini Course Generator allows you to edit your collection landing page by features such as adding a badge and your logo, displaying a price tag, embedding media, customizing the share link by adding a custom domain and more. You can create an aesthetically inviting collection using these features under the "Overview" tab of your collection.
👀If you'd like to learn more on customizing the share link, click here.
Track your Learners
Now that your learners have successfully paid for, accessed and enjoyed your collection, it’s time to track their progress. Analytics give information about which cards your learners completed, what answers they gave to questions and more.
The analytics tab of your collection allows you to see important data about your learners' journey specific to the collection. You can choose to see data for all mini-courses in the collection, or see data for each mini-course in the collection specifically.
You can download learner analytics for each mini course by clicking on “Analytics” button of your mini course on your admin dashboard or the “Report” button on top right corner of your mini course edit screen.
