Create a Subscription Price for Your Course or Bundle

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!

The subscription payment option allows you to take recurring payments for your course 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. For example, if they sign up for a monthly subscription on January 15th, their next billing date will be February 15th.

Create a Subscription Price

Go to Manage Learning Content
Select Courses
Click on the image of the course or 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 select Month(s) or Year (to define the payment frequency). Note: with Thinkific Payments you also have the option to set the payment frequency to Days(s) or Week(s).
Optional: add a Free trial period
Optional: add a Custom first payment
Click Save

Example of a monthly subscription at $50 per month:

Payment Frequency

In the Paid every field, you can define the frequency 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 signed up on Jan 1st, they would be charged Jan 1st, Feb 1st, Mar 1st, etc.

Example of a $50 subscription every 3 months:

If a student signed up on Jan 1st, they would be charged Jan 1st, Apr 1st, Jul 1st, etc.

Example of a $99 per year subscription:

If a student signed up on Jan 1st 2019, they would be charged Jan 1st 2019, Jan 1st 2020, Jan 1st 2021, etc.

Free Trial Period

You can also select to offer a Free Trial period of days or months prior to the subscription beginning. During this free trial for the course, all lessons will be available. As a best practice, you may want to utilize a Drip Schedule to prevent some lessons from being available.

Custom First Payment

If you would like a custom initial payment for the subscription, you can fill out this field. Please note that if you choose to add a custom first payment, this payment will apply to the first billing period of your subscription.

For example, if you have a $50 per month subscription, with a custom first payment of $25, a student who enrolls will pay $25 for the first month, and then $50 on their next billing date a month later. In another example, say you have a $50 per year subscription with a custom first payment of $25. A student who enrolls in the subscription will pay $25 for the first year, and then $50 on their next billing date a year later.