Do you want to use your external sales page instead of your Thinkific product page? Not a problem!
In this article:
How to Redirect Your Product Page
Affiliate Tracking When Using an External Sales Page
How to Redirect Your Product Page
If you are using an external site, you might not want to use the default Thinkific site page created for your product. You can simply redirect your Thinkific page to your external sales page!
Redirect Your Course Page
- From your Admin Dashboard, go to Products
- Select Courses
- Click on a specific course
- Select the Settings tab
- Click Page Code
- Paste the following code:
<script>window.location.href = "https://www.yoursalespage.com";</script>
- Replace https://www.yoursalespage.com with your external sales page URL
- Click Save
Redirect Your Community Page
- From your Admin Dashboard, go to Products
- Select Communities
- Locate the community you want to edit, click the ellipses (3 dot icon), select Edit
- Select the Settings tab
- Click Page Code
- Paste the following code:
<script>window.location.href = "https://www.yoursalespage.com";</script>
- Replace https://www.yoursalespage.com with your external sales page URL
- Click Save
Redirect Your Membership Page
- From your Admin Dashboard, go to Products
- Select Memberships
- Click on a specific membership
- Select the Settings tab
- Click SEO & page code
- Paste the following code into the Page code field:
<script>window.location.href = "https://www.yoursalespage.com";</script>
- Replace https://www.yoursalespage.com with your external sales page URL
- Click Save
Redirect Your Bundle Page
- From your Admin Dashboard, go to Sales
- Select Bundles
- Click on a specific bundle
- Select the Settings tab
- Click SEO & page code
- Paste the following code into the Page code field:
<script>window.location.href = "https://www.yoursalespage.com";</script>
- Replace https://www.yoursalespage.com with your external sales page URL
- Click Save
Important Considerations
- It is not possible to redirect AI-generated landing pages. At the moment, it is not possible to redirect landing pages for Digital Downloads, Coaching & Webinars, and Courses, if you set AI-generated landing pages as your default page type.
- When adding this redirect via code, your landing page can no longer be edited from Site Builder. If you decide to use the Thinkific landing page in the future, you'll need to remove the redirect in order to customize it in Site Builder.
When Would I Use This?
External Site
This is used most commonly when you have an external site with sales pages already designed. Instead of pushing your prospects to your Thinkific site, you plan to promote your existing sales pages. This redirect prevents students from seeing your Thinkific product landing page instead, they'll be redirected to your external sales page.
If you are using external sales pages to sell your Thinkific courses, also check out Using External Sales Pages with Your Thinkific Checkout
Affiliate Tracking When Using an External Sales Page
Sometimes you will be promoting a sales page on your external site, but want to track affiliates using our Affiliate feature. By using a redirect on your product landing page in Thinkific, your affiliates can share their affiliate URL's from Thinkific, but visitors will be redirected to your actual sales page. On your sales page, you can then link back to the checkout page in Thinkific.
Thinkific affiliate tracking will only work if your customers purchase through the Thinkific checkout.
Since the student originally visited your Thinkific site through an affiliate link, they'll be tagged to the appropriate affiliate and the sale will also be linked to that affiliate!
Best Practices
When adding this redirect, your Thinkific page will briefly load before a visitor is redirected to the new page. The script is added to the Footer of your page, which means the redirect is the last item to load. Since this is the case, we recommend keeping all other elements on the page to a minimum so that your page loads faster, which will reduce the time that your Thinkific page is briefly visible.
You can easily remove all sections on the Thinkific page to help with this: Delete a Section in Site Builder