Hosted link and a native Teachable app
Sell Teachable courses through a Plandalf checkout
Buyers pay in Plandalf. A native Teachable step creates the student if they are new and enrols them in the course they bought.
Needs a Teachable school on the Growth plan or higher.
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How it connects
Teachable teaches. Plandalf sells.
Lessons stay in Teachable. A Plandalf Offer takes payment and a step enrols the student.
How Plandalf reaches Teachable
Hosted link and a native Teachable app
Your course page links to a Plandalf hosted checkout. The Teachable step runs when the checkout completes.
Lessons, progress and the student experience stay in Teachable. A Plandalf Offer takes the money in front of it, with bumps, upsells and deadlines, and a sequence step puts the paying student into the right course.
Native app available
Teachable owns
- Course hosting and delivery
- Student progress and certificates
- Coaching and downloads
Plandalf owns
- Checkout, bumps and upsells
- Deadline offers that expire
- Enrol and remove steps per course
Same on every platform: payment goes through your own Stripe or PayPal account, Plandalf keeps the invoice, and every Offer has a hosted link and a test mode link.
What syncs
What Plandalf does inside Teachable
Three Teachable steps, all keyed on the student’s email address, so there is no id to pass between them.
| What | How it works | What it needs |
|---|---|---|
| Find or Create Student | Looks the student up by email, or creates them with the name from the checkout. | A Teachable API key |
| Enrol Student in Course | Creates the student if needed and enrols them. If they are already enrolled the step succeeds and changes nothing. | A course picked from your school. Unpublished courses are marked |
| Remove Student from Course | Takes the course away. Runs from the Remove access on refund template on a full refund. Skipped if the person is not enrolled. | The same course as the enrol step |
| Teachable to Plandalf | Nothing flows back. There are no Teachable triggers, and no cancelled-subscription trigger yet. | Not applicable |
Why add Plandalf
What Teachable’s own checkout can’t do
From Teachable’s help centre. Teachable stays the home of the course.
You can only tweak a few checkout blocks.
Up to 2 testimonials, 5 bullet points, a guarantee badge and the button text.
Order bumps are capped.
Up to 3 per product, and they only show together if they match the same pricing plan.
Starter takes 7.5% of every sale.
That's on top of payment processing, and it isn't returned when you refund.
Sources: Teachable checkout page, order bumps, upsells, checkout analytics updates 2025, plans and transaction fees.
Set it up
Connect Teachable in four steps
Under ten minutes once your school is on a plan with the API.
- 1
Create the API key
In your Teachable school admin open Settings, then the API tab. Click Create API Key, name it Plandalf and copy the key.
- 2
Connect it in Plandalf
Open Automation, then the Marketplace tab. Find Teachable under Available now, click Connect and paste the key into API Key. Plandalf checks it straight away.
- 3
Build the sequence
Trigger on Checkout Completed for the Offer that sells the course. Add Teachable, Enrol Student in Course, with Email Address set to {{trigger.customer_email}}, your Course and Name set to {{trigger.customer_name}}. For several courses add one step per course.
- 4
Send the course page buyers to Plandalf
Link your Teachable sales button to the Offer’s hosted checkout link, then buy once with your own email. A test enrols a real student.
- Read the Teachable setup guide →
Gotchas
Before you move a course to Plandalf
API students count toward Teachable fees
Teachable counts students added through its API. For schools created on or after 3 September 2026 the first 100 are free and each further student is $0.50 a month. Older schools are on the legacy schedule. Check Teachable’s usage fees page.
Starter’s sales fee is unconfirmed
Teachable’s Starter plan takes 7.5% of sales made through its checkout. We have not confirmed whether that applies to sales made in a Plandalf checkout, so ask Teachable before moving a Starter school.
Code snippets have their limits
Head Code Snippets need the Builder plan or above and do not run on login or checkout pages hosted on sso.teachable.com. New schools also do not get Custom HTML blocks until Teachable Support turns them on. The hosted link avoids both.
Cancelled subscriptions need a manual trigger
Plandalf has no subscription-cancelled trigger yet. Run Remove Student from Course from a sequence you start yourself, such as one with a Webhook Trigger, or remove the student in Teachable.
Test purchases skip automations
Turn on Run on test purchases in the sequence’s Settings to try it with a test card.
Integrations
Keep your site. Upgrade how it sells.
Plus a fully documented REST API and webhook layer for whatever’s not in the list.
Questions
Teachable checkout questions
The short answers. The docs have the long ones.
Can I use a different checkout with Teachable?
Yes. Point your Teachable sales page at a Plandalf hosted checkout and add the Enrol Student in Course step. Teachable keeps the course, the student record and their progress.
How do I add an upsell or order bump to a Teachable course?
Add them to the Plandalf Offer, where they are not capped at three per product. Teachable enrols the buyer for the course the sequence names, so test a purchase with and without each add-on.
Does Plandalf work with Teachable and Stripe?
Plandalf takes payment through your own Stripe or PayPal account, connected under Settings, Payments and Tax Integrations. Teachable is told about the sale by the enrol step, not by the payment.
Can I run some courses on Teachable’s checkout and some on Plandalf?
Yes. Plandalf only enrols buyers who pay in a Plandalf checkout. Teachable’s own checkout keeps working for everything else.
What happens when a student is refunded?
Add the Remove access on refund template, pick the course in its Remove Student from Course step and turn it on. It fires on full refunds only.
Which Teachable plan do I need?
Growth or higher. Teachable’s API is not available on lower plans.
The team
Built by a team obsessed with conversion.
15+ years testing every pricing model under the sun. Every part of Plandalf comes from a real checkout problem we’ve had to solve ourselves.
No credit card required. Nothing to migrate.