If you sell online courses and use Mercado Pago as your payment platform, you can automate the enrollment of your students in an LMS like Kajabi, Teachable, or Thinkific after a successful purchase. With our application, “Notifications for Mercado Pago”, and automation tools like Zapier or Make, this process can be easily set up.
Here’s a step-by-step guide to achieve it:
1. Connect Your Mercado Pago Account to Our System
Before integrating with an LMS, you need to connect your Mercado Pago account to our platform. To do this, follow these steps:
- Link your Mercado Pago account to our system. For more details on how to connect your account, check this guide: How to Connect Your Mercado Pago Account.
- Create a payment link (or a plan if you are selling subscriptions) for each course you want to sell through our panel.
- Use the link generated by our platform in your sales channels (website, social media, etc.).
2. Set Up the Integration in Zapier
Once your Mercado Pago account is connected, you can integrate it with your LMS using Zapier. Here’s how to do it:
Step 1: Set Up the Trigger
First, ensure your automation trigger is correctly configured. Our application provides the following triggers:
- New Payment Accredited: For successful payments.
- New Authorized Subscription: For new subscriptions.
If you’re unfamiliar with this process, you can refer to this guide: Connect Notifications to Zapier.
Step 2: Set Up the Action in the LMS
After setting up the trigger, configure the corresponding action in your chosen LMS (Kajabi, Teachable, Thinkific, etc.). Each platform has a specific “action” to automatically enroll a user in a course:
- In Kajabi, the action is “Grant Access to an Offer”.
- In Teachable, the action is “Enroll User in Course”.
- In Thinkific, the action is “Enroll Student”.
Required Fields
When configuring the action, you need to specify two mandatory fields regardless of the LMS being used:
- Course/Product: This field should specify the course linked to the payment link.
- Email: Our triggers include the buyer’s email within the information, which can be used to grant the user access with the corresponding email.
By specifying the course and email, the automation will correctly enroll the user in the associated course.
If you want to include additional fields, such as the person’s name, it’s important to note that this information is not captured by Mercado Pago. Therefore, it cannot be automatically included in the course enrollment. While there is a field called “cardholder name”, it refers to the name of the cardholder and is only included if the payment was made via credit or debit card. Additionally, it’s important to consider that the cardholder’s name might not match the name of the person taking the course.
Multiple Courses: Create an Automation per Course vs. a Single Automation
Filter the Trigger by Payment Link
Our application allows you to filter triggers based on the payment link. This means the trigger will only execute if the purchase corresponds to a specific payment link. This approach is ideal for automating enrollment in different courses based on the payment link, allowing you to associate each payment link with a specific course in your LMS by creating separate Zaps for each course.
Single Zap with Different Paths for Each Course
As an alternative, you can create a single Zap for all your courses using Zapier’s Paths feature. This feature allows you to create multiple flows within a single Zap based on specific conditions. You can define a path for each payment link identifier and associate each path with the corresponding course enrollment in the LMS.
Make configuration
For Make, the configuration process is very similar to Zapier. You can refer to the detailed guide on how to connect Notifications for Mercado Pago in Make here: Connect Notifications for Mercado Pago in Make.
Below are some specific considerations for integrating the mentioned LMS platforms in Make:
- Kajabi: There is an available integration, but it requires a one-time payment for usage. The corresponding action is “Grant Access to an Offer”, just like in Zapier.
- Teachable: There is an action called “Update Student”, which might eventually allow adding a course to a user. Alternatively, you can use the “Make an API call” action to interact directly with Teachable’s enrollment API.
- Thinkific: The integration works the same as in Zapier, using the “Enroll Student” action to enroll a student in a course.
Conclusion
Connecting Mercado Pago with your LMS using our application and automation tools like Zapier or Make is a powerful solution to automate student enrollment. This process not only saves you time but also enhances your students’ experience by granting them immediate access to their courses after a successful purchase.
If you have any questions or need assistance, don’t hesitate to contact us. We’re here to help you optimize your processes.