FLEXIBLE Payment plans for courses and training

Your students will go from “can’t afford it ” to “let’s do it!”

Turn more prospective students into enrolled students with payment plans for your courses, professional training or certification programs. Let them pay in full, via a set payment plan, or even design their own payment schedule.

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Always free while you test. Just 2% per live payment.

Let students choose.
Pay in full or via a payment plan

Some students are ready to pay the full fee. Others need to spread it out. Offer both options through one easy to share link with our Pay your way plan.

You set the payment plan schedule. Each student chooses that plan or a single upfront payment. We handle all schedules, reminders, payments, retries automatically.

👉 Try a pay your way plan demo

Moreflexibility.

Moresales.

Flexipay plans let students choose their payment plan dates and amounts to suit their budget and pay cycle within parameters you’ve set, making your courses accessible to even more interested customers.

You retain full control over critical aspects like the minimum upfront payment and the timeframe.

👉 Try the flexipay payment experience

Align course payment dates with course delivery dates

Date-based plans let you charge everyone on the same pre-set dates, regardless of when they sign up. You can also charge an optional amount on sign up.

This lets you precisely aligns payment plans to course delivery dates or key milestones to ensure everyone is up to date with payments before the next session.

👉 Try a demo date-based plan

Looking for a classic weekly or monthly payment plan?

Our standard payment plan gives you everything you need. Add weekly, monthly or custom billing intervals. Plus surcharges, deposits, custom terms and much more. Works with a single pre-set price or varying totals per student.

👉 See example payment plan

Keep your existing sign-up flow, just add Paythen

Already have an enrollment process or application form that works well? Keep it. Just add flexible payment logic at the end. Configure your form to send students to the relevant payment page based on their course selection and/or payment choice in your enrollment form.

You can route all payments to Paythen, just payment plan payments, or even generate dynamic payment plans for each student based on optional add-ons and form fields they choose.

Paythen works with most custom setups and form tools including Jotform, Cognito, Formstack, Gravity, Tally, Ninja forms, and many more. Optional advanced workflows can be set up using Zapier.

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1. What if I don’t have an enrollment/sign up form? Can I use Paythen?

Yes you can. Paythen works with direct links where you pre-set a payment amount or with variable totals. If your enrollment flow has add-ons, variations, optional extras that mean each student pays a different total amount, we’ve got you covered. Using Paythen templates, you can dynamically generate personalized payment pages for each student based on their total payment amount.

Students complete the enrollment form and are taken to the payment page immediately with their payment amount split into installments.

This is easily set up via the form’s redirection settings and passing the total cost and any other key values to an easy template link you’ll get when you set this up in Paythen.
2. Our students have different totals based on add-ons / options selected. Will Paythen work with this setup?

Easy! You can add a new question into your sign up form/flow to ask students whether they want to pay in full or via a payment plan. If they choose pay in full, you can retain your existing payment flow, and if they choose payment plan, you can redirect them to a Paythen page with a payment plan option only.

If you’re using an off the shelf form builder, this is typically available as “conditional logic” in the form settings. We can help you set this up if you need a hand.

Does your student journey start on your eCommerce store or LMS?

If you sell your courses, training or accreditation programs through eCommerce platforms like WooCommerce and Shopify or learning management systems like Kajabi, Teachable, or others, you can use Paythen with them too, either directly or via Zapier.

Whatever your workflow, we can help you get set up. Just reach out via chat.

Fully integrated into the checkout, one seamless flow

Using our native WooCommerce plugin, integrate Paythen directly into your checkout. Customers select the payment plan option at checkout and are immediately shown their plan payment page based on their cart total and their order status is updated automatically. Also works with custom checkouts like Funnelkit, Cartflows and others.

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Integrated into the checkout, payment plan link sent via email

Students see a payment plan option at checkout and complete the checkout. They then get an email with their custom payment plan link using our Zapier app.

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Students use a pre-set coupon code at checkout, payment plan link sent via email

Students use a pre-set discount code like PAYMENTPLAN that you have defined and set as 100% off. This lets them complete the Webflow checkout with no payment. They then get an email with their custom payment plan link using our Zapier app.

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Students pay via a Paythen link first, then are enrolled into the course automatically

With most learning management systems, the best workflow if using Paythen is to send customers to the plan payment links, and once they have signed up to the payment plan, enroll them into the relevant course, offer or group in your learning management system using Zapier.

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DRIVE MORE ENROLLMENTS USING OFFERS

The right incentive at the right time, fully automated.

As satisfied students approach the end of their payment plan, encourage them to enroll into the next logical course with a personalized, limited-time discount code generated and sent automatically based on plan progress. Set up different offers for different courses, all from within your dashboard.

👉 Send yourself a personalized offer

How much work is it to set up and manage really?

Paythen is designed around two guiding principles – helping you sell more, and minimizing busy-work. We want to help you make more money and waste less time.

⚡ Fast, no-code setup – under 10 minutes

Setting up Paythen requires no code or technical know-how and typically takes less than 10 minutes. If your workflow involves Zapier, this can be 20 or 30 minutes. Either way, it’s pretty fast. And if you need a hand, we’re here to help.

🙌 Self-serve, automated student experience

Most students will sign up and complete their payment plans with no manual intervention needed. This includes upcoming payment reminders, automatically charging scheduled payments, failed payment retries and notifications for students and admins, automatic status updates, self-serve pages for students to change their billing info 24×7, make early payments, and more.

💪 A powerful admin dashboard and handy admin controls when you need them

For cases where you might need to step in, customers are clearly shown with a manual action required status in your dashboard. Handy admin controls like pausing, resuming, cancelling plans, changing plan dates, collecting ad-hoc payments, and more are just a click away. Plus it’s free to invite unlimited team members to your Paythen account. For everything else, we’re here to help. Just ask us via the chat icon.

Customer self-serve page demo

Generated for each student to easily manage their plan 24 x 7. Included in every email sent to them automatically.

Public company link demo

You’ll get a page like this when you sign up. It lets your students get access to their self-serve pages using just their email.

Set up deeper workflows and keep everything in sync

Our fully featured Zapier app lets you generate and send custom payment plan links to students based on almost anything from other tools like your CRM, email, Slack and more.

Or take actions and update data in your other tools– enroll students in courses after they’ve signed up on Paythen, send custom sms notifications, slack updates and almost any workflow you can imagine.

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Risk free. No fixed fee.
We only make money when you do.

We don’t charge fixed monthly fees and there are no hidden charges – just 2% for successful payments. You can even pass this on to customers. Our fees are separate to Stripe’s payment processing fees.

Getting started is easy

1. Create your free account

Sign up and create test plans and test payments using test cards in test mode. Understand if Paythen is right for you. No stripe connection, No credit card.

2. Connect Stripe when ready

Connect your Stripe account to create live plan links and to accept real payments from your students. Paythen requires Stripe to process payments.

3. Let your customers know

Share your plan links with students anywhere they are or add Paythen to your site. Let prospective students know your courses are now more accessible.

Need a hand? We’d love to help! Just talk to us via the chat icon or email hello@paythen.co.

No-code, no-fuss setup

It takes just a few minutes and no technical know-how to offer easy payment plans with Paythen

Custom branding

Your logo and brand color is front and center on all customer pages and emails

Self-serve everything

Students can manage their plans, change billing info, pay early 24×7 without emailing support

Powerful discount codes

Offer discounts codes & use  auto-applying discounts to maximize sales

Encourage faster repayments

All students can pay off their plan early in part or full. Incentivize this further with an early-pay discount

Automated reminders & emails

We automatically send reminders before payments & follow-ups if a payment fails. Auto retries too.

Get useful, simple insights

Useful, easy to understand reports at the company, product and customer level

Fine-grained controls

You’re always in control. Add surcharges, deposits, custom billing intervals, terms and more

We’re getting better every day

With frequent updates based on feedback, Paythen keeps getting better for you and your students

Help more students access your courses with Paythen

Based on actual analysis from over 26,000 students, typically 36-45% choose a payment plan when given the option at checkout. How many of your interested students are walking away because they can’t manage that large upfront payment?

Try Paythen for your next intake

Always free while you test. Just 2% per live payment.

Experiment with new plans, discounts and more in test mode

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Paythen now has a one-click test mode toggle – you can switch to this anytime to try out new plan types, understand how a new discount would work, test new templates and understand customer progression first-hand. You get real emails in test mode from simulated events – just like your customers would. Use test mode to fast-forward payment plans, get customer-facing emails, simulate what happens when a payment fails, and test new things without any live payments.

To try test mode, just flip the switch next to the Paythen logo. A yellow “You’re in test mode” label stays on while you’re in it so there’s never any doubt about which data you’re looking at. Flip it back and you’re in live mode exactly where you left off. The first time you or someone on your team toggles on test mode, we’ll add some sample test mode data you can check out. Create more by signing up to a test plan yourself. Wipe it with one-click whenever you want.

What you can do in test mode

Build and refine new plans — payment plans, Pay your way, date-based, Wait for it, Flexipay, subscriptions and one-off payments, plus templates and discount codes.

See exactly what customers see — open any test plan link and go through the full checkout with simulated card fields. No real card is saved or charged. Use a real working email to ensure you get the same emails customers would. You can toggle your admin email settings for test mode separate to your live mode settings too.

Simulate what happens next — test plans don’t advance on their own, so each test customer’s page has controls to simulate the next payment, a failed payment, or send the upcoming payment reminder.

Get the real emails — sign up with a working email and the customer and admin emails land in your inbox, clearly marked as test-mode emails. Email settings in test mode are separate, so you can switch them on or off without affecting live.

Copy between modes — move plans, templates and discounts from test to live once you’re happy, or bring a live plan into test to try a change. Each copy is a new, isolated object and not synced between modes in real time to avoid accidental changes. Copy back and forth as often as needed.

Start fresh any time — add a set of sample customers, plans, templates and discounts in various statuses, or wipe all test data with one click via Settings › Account info. Live data is never touched when you do this.

Test test mode templates with WooCommerce — If you’re using our WooCommerce plugin, you can use a test-mode template link to check the full store-to-payment-plan flow before going live – this gives you a full picture of what your customers will see using your exact plan setup and configuration. Don’t forget to change this to a live template link once you’re done testing!

A few things to know

Test mode doesn’t currently work with Zapier and creates no data in your Stripe account. Early access features like Offers and our Rewardful integration aren’t available in test mode yet. If you need to test a full workflow involving Zapier or Stripe data, use a separate Paythen demo account connected to a Stripe sandbox.

As always, we’d love to hear what you think. If you have questions or feedback, reach out via the chat icon 💬

👉 Try test mode in your dashboard now
👉 Testing in Paythen guide
👉 Understand demo accounts (vs. test mode)

Flexipay – sell more by giving customers choice

Payment Pages

If you’ve ever wanted to give your customers more say in how they pay — without losing control over key aspects, Flexipay offers exactly that. It’s our most flexible plan type, and it puts the power of choice in your customers’ hands, within the rules you set. This helps you attract and sell to more customers.

Flexipay plans let each of your customers design their own payment schedule when they check out. You define the rules — the minimum deposit, the completion timeframe or date, and whether to allow customers to pay in full — and each customer picks what suits them. No two customers need to be on the same schedule. One might pay weekly over 3 months, another monthly over 6 — all from the single plan link you create. 🙌

Try a live Flexipay demo here to see exactly what your customers experience.

You’re in control

Flexibility for your customers doesn’t mean ambiguity for you. As the business owner, you set the key parameters like:

Minimum payment — what customers need to pay upfront – $100, 10%, etc.
Completion timeframe or date — all payments must be completed within a specific timeframe from sign up (eg: 12 months) or a specified date (eg: 28 January 2027)
Allow pay-in-full — decide whether you want to offer the option to pay in full
Pay-in-full discount — optionally reward customers who pay the full amount upfront

Flexipay also supports ecommerce and other scenarios where each customer has a varying total via templates. This lets you bring the power of Flexipay plans to any workflow you have including WooCommerce, Shopify and almost anything else via Zapier.

Who is it for?

Flexipay is a great fit for businesses where customers have varying budgets or cash flow preferences — and where a one-size-fits-all plan isn’t ideal. Some examples include:

🎓 Coaches & course creators — let students choose a deposit and pace that suits their cashflow

📸 Photographers & creatives — offer payment flexibility without lengthy back-and-forth on custom plans

🏋️ Fitness & wellness — training packages and retreats where clients have different financial rhythms

🎪 Events & experiences — sell tickets or packages months in advance and let customers spread the cost their way, while having a hard completion date for everyone x days before the event

🛠️ Service businesses — take on clients who need flexibility without abandoning your payment terms

If you currently use our Pay Your Way plans for flexibility, Flexipay takes that further — giving customers true control over their own schedule, not just a choice between two fixed options. Talk to us about migrating your existing Pay your way plans to Flexipay if this suits your needs better.

As always, we’d love to hear what you think. If you have questions or feedback, reach out via the chat icon 💬

👉 Try the Flexipay demo
👉 Flexipay setup instructions

New Find Customer Zapier action allows for more automated workflows

Zapier

If you use Paythen with your ecommerce store either via the email based flow (eg: for Shopify) or our plugin (like WooCommerce), the flow typically involves customers completing the checkout with the payment plan option chosen, and then either being shown or emailed their payment plan link.

For WooCommerce, the order status automatically changes if they complete their payment plan payment, but for email based workflows like Shopify, Webflow, Eventbrite and any others, once a customer is emailed their payment plan link, you had to manually check if they had paid by logging into the Paythen dashboard, and then manually following up.

You can now fully automate this process with our new Find Customer action available in Zapier. In your zap where you send customers the Paythen payment plan link, just add a short delay after the current flow (eg: wait for 10 minutes) and then use the Find Customer action to check if the customer exists in Paythen. If they do, you can update your eCommerce store order – eg: adding a note and/or tag in Shopify and passing the customer’s Paythen link for reference or in other platforms, you can update the status of the order directly too.

If the customer doesn’t exist, this means they haven’t signed up to their payment plan yet – you can set it up in Zapier to send them a reminder with custom text in it and include the payment plan link again. You can then continue to do this multiple times for a few hours or even a few days after the order was placed, and cancel the order and more as needed if the customer doesn’t pay eventually.

The same setup works when you’re using Paythen with any third party form tool, or any other custom workflows where you show / email them the payment plan link. You can now just add a short delay, then check if they have paid and exist as a customer in Paythen, and if not, trigger one or more reminders and take further steps as needed.

This process required manual admin till now – but can now be fully automated, saving you time. To get started, open your Zapier account and in the action step, choose “Find Customer”. You can modify your existing zap by adding a delay after you send the payment plan link, then checking if the customer exists in Paythen, and then either updating the order in your eCommerce platform or other system (find order and add a note in Shopify for example), or if not found, you can then trigger another reminder email with custom text. You can then set up further steps to check again, say in 1 hour, 4 hours, 2 days, etc to continue automated follow-ups as needed.

If you’re not sure how to do this with your workflow, just reach out to us via the chat icon and we’ll help you get set up.

Your students will go from “can’t afford it ” to “let’s do it!”

Let students choose. Pay in full or via a payment plan

Moreflexibility.

Moresales.

Align course payment dates with course delivery dates

Looking for a classic weekly or monthly payment plan?

Keep your existing sign-up flow, just add Paythen

Does your student journey start on your eCommerce store or LMS?

Fully integrated into the checkout, one seamless flow

Integrated into the checkout, payment plan link sent via email

Students use a pre-set coupon code at checkout, payment plan link sent via email

Students pay via a Paythen link first, then are enrolled into the course automatically

The right incentive at the right time, fully automated.

How much work is it to set up and manage really?

⚡ Fast, no-code setup – under 10 minutes

🙌 Self-serve, automated student experience

💪 A powerful admin dashboard and handy admin controls when you need them

Customer self-serve page demo

Public company link demo

Set up deeper workflows and keep everything in sync

Risk free. No fixed fee.We only make money when you do.

Getting started is easy

1. Create your free account

2. Connect Stripe when ready

3. Let your customers know

No-code, no-fuss setup

Custom branding

Self-serve everything

Powerful discount codes

Encourage faster repayments

Automated reminders & emails

Get useful, simple insights

Fine-grained controls

We’re getting better every day

Help more students access your courses with Paythen

Experiment with new plans, discounts and more in test mode

What you can do in test mode

Flexipay – sell more by giving customers choice

You’re in control

Who is it for?

Customer data exports now include discount information

Zapier trigger: When a customer’s status changes

Internal notes keep everyone on the same page

New Find Customer Zapier action allows for more automated workflows

Find Plan Zapier action lets you find and send plan links automatically

Customer emails are now validated automatically

Let customers choose their deposit amount at checkout

Freeze pre-filled fields to make them read-only 🥶

Your students will go from “can’t afford it ” to “let’s do it!”

Let students choose.
Pay in full or via a payment plan

Risk free. No fixed fee.
We only make money when you do.