Can I Take Payments Off Platform?

Mighty’s integrated payment features give you the ability to easily set up one-time purchases, subscriptions in varying intervals, and installment plans—all with a smooth checkout flow that gives members on the web the option to use Apple Pay or Google Pay. You can create the flexible payment options that fit your business, and allow members to manage their payment information and subscriptions securely and in one place.

If, for some reason, you need to take payments off-platform and then grant access to your Mighty Network, it’s easy to set this up using plans.

Plans offer the most options and flexibility for gating access to your Mighty Network, Spaces, or both. Plans also allow you to bundle access to multiple Spaces along with access to your Network, making it easy to give someone the access they need after making a purchase through your external setup.

Follow the steps in this article to create a plan.

The first step will be deciding what your members need access to on Mighty after they’ve completed their purchase elsewhere.

Add access to your Network and/or any Spaces to the plan(s) that you create.

If you exclude access to the Network in any of your plans, people joining those plans will be limited members (unless they already have access to your Network through a different plan).

For the step that asks you to Choose Your Gates, keep all of the gating options turned off. This will make it easy for people to join the plan in one simple flow with no payment, screening questions, or approval required.

Once you’re finished setting up your new plan(s), you’ll need to decide how you want to invite people to join the plan, so they can get access to everything you included.

Now that you’ve set up your plan (or plans) without gates that include everything someone should have access to in your Mighty Network after their external purchase, you can decide how you want to send or provide this access link to join.

In Admin > Plan List, select the plan you want to use. Then, go to the Visibility & Sharing tab.

This is where you can decide if you want to make your plan visible within your Network. We recommend keeping your new plan hidden, so that only people you invite to the plan can find and join it.

Under Send Invites for This Plan, you’ll see the option send one-time use links to join the plan. Clicking the link to the Invite Form will take you directly to a page with the plan selected and options for sending direct email invites to join this plan.

You can decide when sending invites to a plan if you want someone to land first on the Plan Landing Page, or if you want them to Skip the Landing Page.

Next, add the individual email addresses of people who purchased off-platform, or upload a CSV with email addresses. We also recommend adding custom invite text.

Your members will receive an email with your invite text and a button to “Access Now” that will take them through the flow of joining your new plan. Once you've sent an invite, invitees will automatically get up to three email reminders from our system. These reminders go out after 3, 10, and 30 days.

In the Visibility & Sharing tab for a plan, you also have the option to use a Share a Link for This Plan.

A share link can be used multiple times.

We strongly recommend only using this link if you are hyperlinking it within a button or text that’s included in your post-confirmation pages or emails. This is so that members are not aware that it’s a share link.

Share links can be deleted and regenerated at any time, simply by choosing the option to Delete All Links at the bottom of the Visibility & Sharing tab for a plan.

For this example, we'll show you how to set up this Zap that will automatically invite someone into your Mighty Network when they make a payment on Stripe.

Step 1: Set Up Your Trigger

Choose App

In this example, the Trigger is happening inside another app— Stripe. You will need to sign in to your Stripe account.

Select Trigger Event

Then, you'll need to select the specific Stripe Trigger you want to use. For this example, you'll use the Stripe Trigger "New Subscription," which activates when a subscription is purchased.

Set Up Your Action

Selecting your Action is the second required step when you are setting up a Zap.

Choose App & Event

Because the Action in this example is happening inside your Mighty Network, you’ll need to first select Mighty Networks as the app. Then, select the Action “Plan Action”

The Action type will be “Invite to Plan”

And search for the plan name to invite them to.

Click Enter text" under "Email Addresses" and select the "Email Address" field that comes over from the Trigger.

Then customize the invite text which will appear in an email notification to members.

Finally decide whether you would like the member to land on the Plan Landing Page or Skip the Landing Page and go directly to the checkout page.

Once you’re finished, you may be asked during this step to test the connection to ensure the data gets transferred properly. Then, Zapier will let you know that the Zap is ready to be turned on!

If you are using an off-platform payment processor to process payment and want to automate canceling member subscriptions, you'll need to set up a Zap with Mighty Networks as the Trigger and your off-platform payment processor as the Action.

We’ll use Stripe in this example.

Set Up Your Trigger

The Trigger will be “Canceled Subscription”

Set Up Your Action

The Action will be “Plan Action” and the Action Type will be “Remove from Plan”

Then search for the plan name.

Click the box for email addresses, select “Insert Data” to connect Stripe and Zapier, and test to make sure the Zap is working.

Additional Resources and Support

Zapier offers a comprehensive Help Center you can access here for additional support and guidance around creating Zaps, managing your Zaps, and troubleshooting tricky issues that may arise.