Skool's hiden automation charges
Zapier is by far the easier alternative for automation, and if you have the pro plan, it's pretty clear that skool want you to use it. But here is the thing: they only have 2 trigers, one for membership questions, and the other one for new PAID member. I have a client that wished to get the membership questions and add them to flodesk. It should be prety simple right. 2 step automation, first the trigger, sencond the floodesk. It should work even on zapier free plan. But there is an issue with membership questions being a triggered designed for both approved and rejected members, and that makes it useless for mailmarketing use cases, since you only want to incude people who actually joined to your newsletter. So we can only make this automation work for paid members? Why don't skool add a triger for any member joining and not just paid members? Greed I believe. Not only they want you to pay the larger fees for a pro account, they also want you to charge at least 1 usd for your members if you want to have easy automations. So we have to be unethical and use webscraping methods to go around the limitations that they put themselves. And in this proccess we create something that works even on a hoby plan. They won't like it, but it's a consequence of their own design.