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 a coupon 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:
Getting Started
Before building your links, you will need to:
- Create a coupon
- Copy the link to your desired course or bundle landing 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 on your Thinkific site with the coupon code already applied.
- Copy the link (URL) to your desired course or bundle landing page
- Paste this URL into a text document where it can be edited
- Add
?coupon=XXXXXto the end of this URL - Replace the XXXXX with your coupon code
For example, if your coupon code is 50off and your course landing page URL 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 with Link to Course or Bundle Landing Pages
When a student click on the landing page link created using the steps above, they will be taken to your landing page in Thinkific and a banner will pop up at the top of the page showing the value of the discount provided by the coupon.
If they proceed to checkout from the landing page, the discount will be automatically applied without the student 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 (URL) for your course
- Paste this URL into a text document where it can be edited
- Check if your URL includes a question mark (?). Here is an example of a URL that already includes a question mark:
https://mysite.thinkific.com/enroll/336493?price_id=348234 - If your URL already includes a question mark, see the Ampersand Coupon Method below
- If your URL does not already include a question mark, add
?coupon=XXXXXto the end of your URL - Replace the XXXXX with your coupon code
For example, if your coupon code is 50off and your checkout URL 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 (URL) for your course already includes a question mark (?), there is a slightly different set up to make sure that your coupon is automatically applied.
- Copy the checkout link (URL) for your course
- Paste this URL into a text document where it can be edited
- Check if your URL includes a question mark (?). Here is an example of a link that already included a question mark:
https://mysite.thinkific.com/enroll/336493?price_id=348234 - If your URL already includes a question mark, add
&coupon=XXXXXto the end of your URL - Replace the XXXXX with your coupon code
For example, if your coupon code is 50off and your checkout URL 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 Link to Checkout
When students clicks on the checkout page link created using the steps above, they will be taken through our two step checkout process. They will first be required to create an account. Then, they will be taken to the checkout payment page where they will see the coupon discount automatically applied.
Students who already have an account will simply need to sign in to then be taken to the checkout payment page where they will see the coupon discount automatically applied.