If you're worried about your student forgetting to apply the coupon at the checkout, you can share a link with the student which includes the coupon already applied!
About This Feature
You can make it even simpler for customers to redeem their offer by sending them to your course landing page or checkout via a URL where the discount is already applied. This means your students will not need to type in a coupon code at checkout!
Coupons codes can automatically be applied to the following links:
Get Started
Before building your links, you will need to:
- Create a coupon
- Copy the link to your desired course/bundle page or checkout page
Once you have your coupon and link, you can start building your custom link with coupon code applied!
Apply a Coupon to Your Course or Bundle Landing Page URL
You can use this feature to send users to a landing page with the coupon code already applied.
- Copy the link to your desired course or bundle page
- Paste this in a text document where it can be edited
- Append ?coupon=XXXXX to the end of your URL
- Replace the XXXXX with your coupon code
For example, if your coupon code is 50off and your course landing page is https://training.thinkific.com/courses/ebook-into-course, the final URL would look like this:
https://training.thinkific.com/courses/ebook-into-course?coupon=50off
Student Experience on Course or Bundle Landing Pages
When the coupon is added to a landing page URL, students will see a banner displayed at the top of the page indicating the discount the coupon provides.
If they proceed to checkout from the landing page, the discount will be automatically applied without needing to re-enter the coupon code.
Apply a Coupon to Your Checkout Page URL
You can use this feature to send users straight to checkout with the coupon code already applied.
- Copy the checkout link for your course
- Paste this in a text document where it can be edited
- Check if your link includes a question mark (?) in the URL. Here is an example of a link that already includes a question mark:
https://mysite.thinkific.com/enroll/336493?price_id=348234 - If your link already includes a question mark, see Ampersand Coupon Method below
- If your link does not already include a question mark, append ?coupon=XXXXX to the end of your URL
- Replace the XXXXX with your coupon code
For example, if your coupon code is 50off and your checkout link is https://mysite.thinkific.com/enroll/336493, the final URL would look like this:
https://mysite.thinkific.com/enroll/336493?coupon=50off
Ampersand Coupon Method
If the checkout link for your course already includes a question mark (?) in the URL, there is a slightly different set up to make sure that your coupon is automatically applied.
- Copy the checkout link for your course
- Paste this in a text document where it can be edited
- Check if your link includes a question mark (?) in the URL. Here is an example of a link that already included a question mark:
https://mysite.thinkific.com/enroll/336493?price_id=348234 - If it already includes a question mark, append &coupon=XXXXX to the end of your URL
- Replace the XXXXX with your coupon code
For example, if your coupon code is 50off and your checkout link is https://mysite.thinkific.com/enroll/336493?price_id=348234, the final URL would look like this:
https://mysite.thinkific.com/enroll/336493?price_id=348234&coupon=50off
Student Experience with Direct to Checkout Link
When the coupon is added to your checkout, students who have never created an account will be taken through our two step checkout process. They will first be required to create an account and then be taken to the checkout payment page where they will see the discount automatically applied.
Students who already have an account will simply need to sign in and will experience the same checkout payment page like the above example!