Teachable setup

Sell your course through a Plandalf checkout and let Teachable deliver it. When someone pays, a sequence finds or creates them as a Teachable student and enrols them in the course they bought. When they’re refunded, another sequence can remove them from it.

Before you start

• A Teachable school on the Growth plan or higher. Teachable’s API isn’t available on lower plans.
• Access to your school admin’s Settings, to create an API key.
• The courses you sell, set up in Teachable.

Teachable counts students added through its API toward its usage fees. For schools created on or after 3 September 2026, the first 100 such students are free and each one after that is $0.50 a month. Older schools are on Teachable’s legacy schedule until they switch. Check Teachable’s usage fees for your school.

Get your Teachable API key

1. Open the API settings

   In your Teachable school admin, go to Settings and open the API tab.

2. Create a key

   Click Create API Key, enter “Plandalf” as the Name and click Create.

3. Copy the key

   Copy the key and keep it safe until you paste it into Plandalf.

Connect Teachable to Plandalf

1. Find Teachable in the Marketplace

   In Plandalf, open Automation in the sidebar and choose the Marketplace tab. Find Teachable under Available now and click Connect.

2. Paste the key

   In the Connect Teachable window, keep or change the Integration name, paste your key into API Key, then click Connect.

3. Check the result

   Plandalf checks the key with Teachable straight away. When you see Teachable connected, choose Build an automation or Not now.

Steps you can add

Each step works from the student’s email address and looks them up in Teachable for you, so you don’t need to pass an ID between steps.

Find or Create Student

Finds a Teachable student by email, or creates one.

• Email Address (required), usually {{trigger.customer_email}}.
• Name: used if the student is new, usually {{trigger.customer_name}}.

Enrol Student in Course

Gives someone access to a course, creating the student first if Teachable doesn’t have them. If they are already enrolled, the step succeeds without changing anything.

• Email Address (required).
• Course (required): pick a course from your school. Unpublished courses are marked “(unpublished)”.
• Name: used if the student is new.

Remove Student from Course

Removes someone’s access to a course, for example when they’re refunded. If Teachable has no student with that email, or they aren’t enrolled, the step is skipped.

• Email Address (required).
• Course (required).

To run it when a buyer is refunded, see Remove students on refund. Plandalf has no subscription-cancelled trigger yet, so for a cancelled subscription run it from a sequence you start yourself, such as one with a Webhook Trigger, or remove the student in Teachable.

Example: enrol buyers in your course

1. Create the sequence

   Go to Automation → My Sequences and create a sequence called “Course buyers to Teachable”.

2. Set the trigger

   Choose Plandalf and Checkout Completed. Under Offer, pick the checkout that sells the course. On 3. Test, pick a recent checkout as the sample record.

3. Enrol the buyer

   Click Add a step, choose Teachable and Enrol Student in Course, and pick your Teachable account. Set Email Address to {{trigger.customer_email}}, pick the Course, and set Name to {{trigger.customer_name}}.

4. Test and turn it on

   Testing enrols a real student, so use your own email. Then turn the sequence On.

Selling several courses? Add one Enrol Student in Course step per course, or one sequence per checkout. To try it with a test card, switch on Run on test purchases in the sequence’s Settings first.

Remove students on refund

Take the course back from refunded buyers with the Remove access on refund template.

1. Add the template

   Go to Automation → Templates, find Remove access on refund and click + Add. Pick the same checkout as your purchase sequence. Plandalf creates the sequence and opens it.

2. Pick the course

   Open the Remove Student from Course step. Email Address is already set to {{trigger.customer_email}}. Pick the Course the checkout sells. For several courses, add another Remove Student from Course step for each.

3. Turn it on

   The trigger is Invoice Refunded with Full refunds only on, so a partial refund leaves access alone. Turn the sequence On.

The template adds a removal step for every connected app that has one, so you may see steps for other apps in the same sequence. Set them up too, or delete the ones you don’t need.

Common errors

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