Create a Subscription Price for Your Product

Are you looking to start a membership site, take recurring payments or subscriptions for your course? With Thinkific, you have the option to set up subscription pricing for your courses!

Create a Subscription Price

You will need to have T-Commerce or Stripe connected to your Thinkific site to set up a subscription price.

The subscription payment option allows you to take recurring payments for your course, bundle, or community via Thinkific Payments or Stripe. Subscriptions are based on monthly or yearly billing periods, and the student’s billing date will be based on the day of the month that they sign up on.

In the example below, a monthly subscription has been set up for $50 per month. If a student were to sign up for this monthly (30 day) subscription on January 15th, their next billing date would be on February 15th.

Learn more about how to set up your subscription pricing by expanding the dropdown sections below.

Create a Subscription Price for Your Course

Go to Manage Learning Products
Select Courses
Click on the image of the course you want to edit
Select the Pricing tab
Select Subscription / Membership
Enter an Amount per payment (the amount for each subscription payment)
In the Paid every field, input a number value and choose a payment interval from the dropdown menu (choose from day(s), week(s), month(s) or year.
(Optional) add a free trial period (outlined below)
(Optional) add a custom first payment (outlined below)
Click Save

Create a Subscription Price for Your Bundle

Go to Manage Learning Products
Select Bundles & Memberships
Click on the image of the bundle you want to edit
Select the Pricing tab
Select Subscription / Membership
Enter an Amount per payment (the amount for each subscription payment)
In the Paid every field, input a number value and choose a payment interval from the dropdown menu (choose from day(s), week(s), month(s) or year.
(Optional) add a free trial period (outlined below)
(Optional) add a custom first payment (outlined below)
Click Save

Create a Subscription Price for Your Community

Go to Manage Learning Products
Select Communities
Locate your community, click the ellipses (3 dot icon) and select Edit
Select the Pricing tab
Select Subscription / Membership
Enter an Amount per payment (the amount for each subscription payment)
In the Paid every field, input a number value and choose a payment interval from the dropdown menu (choose from day(s), week(s), month(s) or year.
(Optional) add a free trial period (outlined below)
(Optional) add a custom first payment (outlined below)
Click Save

Payment Frequency

In the Paid every field, you can define the recurring period on which you would like your customers to be charged. Subscriptions are based on monthly or yearly billing periods, and you can specify a value for the monthly or yearly frequency.

Example of a $50 per month subscription:

If a student signs up for a monthly subscription on Jan 1st, they will be charged again on the first day of every consecutive month (ie: Jan 1st, Feb 1st, Mar 1st, etc.)

Example of a $50 subscription every 3 months:

If a student signs up for a tri-monthly subscription on Jan 1st, they will be charged again on the first day of every third month (ie: Jan 1st, Apr 1st, Jul 1st, etc.)

Example of a $99 yearly subscription:

If a student signs up for an annual subscription on Jan 1st of 2019, they will be charged again on the first day of the next calendar year (ie: Jan 1st of 2020, Jan 1st 2021, etc.)

Free Trial Period

You can also choose to offer a Free Trial period prior to the beginning of your student's subscription. The duration of the free trial is decided by you, and can be set for either a certain number of days, or months. During this free trial, all offerings within the product will be available (ie: for a course with an attached free trial, all lessons within the course would be available unless a Drip Schedule has been put in place to prevent certain lessons from being accessed).

Custom First Payment

In this optional field, you can add a custom initial payment for your subscription. If you choose to add a custom first payment, this payment will apply to the first billing period of your subscription, and your subscription pricing will apply to any subsequent billing periods.

Example of a monthly subscription with a custom payment:

If you have set up a subscription price of $50 per month, and add a custom first payment of $25, any student who purchases this product will pay $25 for the first month and then $50 on their next billing date a month later.

Example of a yearly subscription with a custom payment:

If you have set up a subscription price of $50 per year, and added a custom first payment of $25, any student who purchases this product will pay $25 for the first year, and then $50 on their next billing date one year later.