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Kiwify Integration

ApproveThis manages your Kiwify Integration approvals.

April 17, 2025

Integration Category: It Operations Education

Why These Two Should Date

Let's get real - selling online courses through Kiwify shouldn't mean drowning in Slack threads trying to get sign-offs on refunds, subscriptions, or student access. Meanwhile, ApproveThis over here is like that hyper-organized friend who actually enjoys creating structure out of chaos. Put them together through Zapier, and you've got something better than a corporate romance novel.

Kiwify handles the heavy lifting of hosting courses, processing payments, and managing students. ApproveThis brings the adult supervision with automated approval chains, calculated fields for financial thresholds, and email-based approvals that even your least tech-savvy team members can handle. Together, they turn "Did you approve that?" chaos into "It's already handled" calm.

Real Problems This Duo Solves

1. The "Oops, We Approved a Fraudulent Order" Fiasco

Picture this: Your new $997 course gets 15 orders overnight. Three are from the same IP address using stolen credit cards. Kiwify sees paid orders, ApproveThis spots the red flags.

How it works: Zapier triggers an ApproveThis workflow for every Kiwify "Order Paid" event. Your fraud detection team gets an email with order details, IP addresses, and purchase history. They click approve/reject without needing to log into Kiwify. Approved orders get processed; rejected ones trigger automatic refunds.

Who cares: Edtech companies scaling past $1M/year. Lets finance teams sleep without worrying about chargebacks.

2. The "Why Is Cancelled Guy Still in Our Course?" Mystery

Students cancel subscriptions but stay in your members area for months, costing you hosting fees and creating support tickets. With this integration:

When someone cancels in Kiwify, ApproveThis automatically:

  • Flags the student's course progress
  • Routes to customer success for exit surveys
  • Removes access after final approval

Real-world win: A cybersecurity training company reduced AWS costs by 18% by automatically pruning inactive users.

3. The "New Student Onboarding Black Hole"

Manual student onboarding creates delays between payment and course access. Not great for NPS scores.

Fix: New ApproveThis requests trigger Kiwify to add students to the members area after internal checks:

  • Enterprise clients: Legal approval for group licenses
  • B2B sales: Manager confirmation of training budgets
  • Scholarships: Committee review completion

Teams That Stop Hating Mondays

Finance Teams

Configure approval thresholds so any order over $5k gets auto-flagged for manual review. Vacation delegation means no more "Waiting on Janet" delays when she's hiking in Patagonia.

Customer Success

Get cancellation requests routed through ApproveThis with calculated fields showing:

- Lifetime value
- Previous support interactions
- Upsell potential

Approve retention offers or process cancellations without jumping between 8 tools.

Course Creators

When students request advanced module access, trigger ApproveThis workflows that:

- Check completion of prerequisites (via Kiwify progress data)
- Require instructor sign-off
- Automatically unlock content upon approval

Setting This Up Without Losing a Day

1. In Zapier, connect Kiwify and ApproveThis.
2. Pick your trigger (New Order, Cancellation, etc.).
3. Map key Kiwify data to ApproveThis fields (amount, user email, course details).
4. Set approval rules: Who needs to sign off? What thresholds apply?
5. Test with a $0.99 test course purchase.

Pro tip: Use ApproveThis' calculated fields to auto-approve renewals under $500 or flag international orders for extra scrutiny.

Why This Isn't Just Another Integration

Kiwify knows courses. ApproveThis knows approvals. Neither tries to do the other's job. Together, they solve specific headaches for growing course businesses:

- No more seat licenses for approvers: Your external partners can approve/deny requests via email without Kiwify accounts.
- Audit trails that actually help: Every approval ties back to specific Kiwify orders for compliance.
- Scale without chaos: Add 10 new courses without creating 10 new approval processes.

It's not about doing more - it's about finally having control as you grow.

Cool, But Does This Actually Work For...?

Enterprise Training Teams

When Microsoft needs to onboard 200 new hires to a cloud certification course, ApproveThis handles manager approvals per employee while Kiwify manages bulk access. HR stays happy.

Udemy-Style Marketplaces

Automatically route new course submissions through ApproveThis for quality review before they go live on your Kiwify-powered marketplace. 43% faster instructor onboarding.

Nonprofits With Scholarship Programs

Applicants get Kiwify checkout links. ApproveThis routes applications to review committees, applies scholarship discounts upon approval, and tracks utilization rates.

Bottom Line

If you're managing course approvals through spreadsheets or Slack emojis, we need to talk. ApproveThis + Kiwify via Zapier is like hiring an operations manager who works 24/7 and doesn't drink all your cold brew.

Next steps:
- Grab an ApproveThis trial
- Book a 15-minute demo (we'll show your specific use case)
- Try not to resent how easy this could've been 6 months ago

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Integrate with Kiwify Integration and get 90 days of ApproveThis for free.

After you create a Zapier integration, please email us at support@approve-this.com with your account name and we'll add 3 months of ApproveThis to your account. Limit one redemption per account.

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Best Approval Workflows for Kiwify

Suggested workflows (and their Zapier components) for Kiwify

Create approval requests for new approved orders in ApproveThis

Ensure that each new approved order is verified efficiently. This automation creates an approval request in ApproveThis for every order marked as paid in Kiwify, allowing your team to process orders with a structured review process.

Zapier Components

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Trigger

Order Paid

Triggers when orders are approved.

Action

Create Request

Creates a new request, probably with input from previous steps.

Initiate approval workflow for canceled subscriptions in ApproveThis

Track and manage your subscription cancellations effectively by automatically creating a new approval request in ApproveThis whenever a subscription is canceled in Kiwify. This helps ensure proper analysis and follow-up on cancellations by the customer support team.

Zapier Components

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Trigger

Subscription Canceled

Triggers when subscriptions are canceled.

Action

Create Request

Creates a new request, probably with input from previous steps.

Remove students from member area after approval denied or request completed in ApproveThis

Maintain an up-to-date members area based on structured approvals. This integration automatically removes students from the Kiwify members area whenever an approval request is denied or completed in ApproveThis, ensuring that only authorized users have access.

Zapier Components

Trigger

A Request Is Approved/Denied

Triggers when a request is approved or denied.

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Action

Remove Student From Members Area

Removes Student from Members Area.

Add new students to Kiwify members area when new request is created in ApproveThis

Ensure that students are enrolled promptly by adding them to the Kiwify members area whenever a new approval request is created in ApproveThis. This helps streamline the onboarding process for educational courses and resources.

Zapier Components

Trigger

New Request

Triggers when a new approval request workflow is initiated.

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Action

Add Student to Members Area

Adds Student to Members Area.