Set up payments

Receiving payments is effortless in CourseLit, and you get to keep 100% of what you make (except for the charges from your payment platform).

CourseLit offers integrations with the following payment platforms:

• Stripe
• Razorpay
• Lemonsqueezy (Experimental)

A school can only have a single payment platform activated at a time.

Stripe setup

1. Sign up for an account on Stripe and get your business approved (or use a test account).
2. In the Stripe dashboard, go to Developers > API Keys section as shown below.
3. In your CourseLit school, go to the Settings > Payment tab and select Stripe in the Payment Method dropdown.
4. Enter your Stripe publishable key and secret key in the Stripe Publishable Key and Stripe Secret Key input boxes as shown below:
   
5. Set up the webhooks. Using webhooks, your school receives timely updates about payments from Stripe.
6. Open the webhook configuration dock, by clicking on Developers > Webhooks menu option.
7. Create a new webhook using the button as shown below:
   
8. In the webhook dialog, perform the following actions:
   • Select the following events:
     • checkout.session.completed: For confirming one-time payments
     • invoice.paid: For confirming subscription payments
       
   • In the destination type, select Webhook endpoint.
   • In the destination, enter your CourseLit school’s webhook endpoint (listed in the same payment screen in your school).
9. That’s it! Your Stripe configuration is complete, and you are ready to receive payments.

Razorpay setup

1. Sign up for an account on Razorpay and get your business approved (or use a test account).
2. In the Razorpay dashboard, go to the Account & Settings tab and select API keys as shown below:
   
3. Generate a new API key and keep this screen open.
4. In your CourseLit school, go to the Settings > Payment tab and select Razorpay in the Payment Method dropdown.
5. Enter your Razorpay key and its secret in the Razorpay Key and Razorpay Secret Key input boxes as shown below:
   
6. Set up the webhooks. Using webhooks, your school receives timely updates about payments from Razorpay.
7. In the Razorpay dashboard, go to the Accounts & Settings tab and select Webhooks.
8. Create a new webhook using the button as shown below:
   
9. In the webhook dialog, enter the following:
   • The webhook URL for your CourseLit school (listed in the same payment screen in your school).
   • Check the following events:
     • order.paid: For confirming one-time payments
     • subscription.charged: For confirming subscription payments
       
10. That’s it! Your Razorpay configuration is complete, and you are ready to receive payments.

Lemon squeezy setup

Lemon Squeezy does not support creating custom products on the fly. Hence, we have built around the restrictions laid down by Lemon Squeezy. That’s why we are calling our integration experimental. If something does not work, reach out to us.

1. Sign up for an account on Lemon Squeezy and get your business approved (or use a test account).

2. In the Lemon Squeezy dashboard, go to Products and click on the New product button to create a generic product.
   
   This generic product will be used to create checkouts since Lemon Squeezy does not allow creating custom products on the fly.

3. In the sidebar form that slides in, enter the product name and create three variants as described below.

   You can name these variants whatever you like, as we will use the Variant IDs instead of variant names. The same goes for pricing—we only care about the pricing type, not the actual price set on a variant, as we will override it during checkout.

   • A variant with one-time pricing: To enable one-time payments in CourseLit
   • A variant with subscription pricing with a monthly frequency: To enable monthly subscriptions and EMIs in CourseLit
   • A variant with subscription pricing with a yearly frequency: To enable yearly subscriptions in CourseLit
     

4. The following screenshot shows how to select a variant’s pricing.
   

5. In your CourseLit school’s dashboard, go to Settings > Payments and configure the settings as described below.
   

   1. Currency: This will be visible throughout your school but won’t affect Lemon Squeezy checkouts, as Lemon Squeezy does not allow overriding it via custom checkout.
   2. Payment method: Select Lemon Squeezy.
   3. Lemon Squeezy Store ID: In the Lemon Squeezy dashboard, go to Settings > Stores as shown below. Copy and paste this ID into the CourseLit settings.
      
   4. One-time variant ID: In the Lemon Squeezy dashboard, go to Products and click on the product you configured in the steps above. In the slider popup, scroll down to the Variants section, click on the triple dots menu of the one-time variant, and Copy ID. Paste this ID into the CourseLit settings.
   5. Subscription (Monthly) variant ID: Do the same as #4.
   6. Subscription (Yearly) variant ID: Do the same as #4.
   7. Lemon Squeezy Key: In the Lemon Squeezy dashboard, go to Settings > API and click on the + icon to generate a new key. Paste this key into the CourseLit settings.
      

6. Set up the webhooks. Using webhooks, your school receives timely updates about payments from Lemon Squeezy.

7. In the Lemon Squeezy dashboard, go to Settings > Webhooks and click on the + icon to create a new webhook.
   

8. In the webhook slider popup, enter the following:

   • The webhook URL for your CourseLit school (listed in the same payment screen in your school).
   • Enter any random string in Signing secret (coming soon).
   • Check the following events:
     • order_created: For confirming one-time payments.
     • subscription_payment_success: For confirming subscription payments.
     • subscription_resumed: For detecting canceled subscriptions that are resumed automatically by Lemon Squeezy. It is an edge case that we need to handle.
       

9. That’s it! Your Lemon Squeezy configuration is complete, and you are ready to receive payments.

Looking for developer docs?

We have created a detailed documentation for understanding the payment flow in CourseLit. Check it out here.

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