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The Skool Automation problem
[ROAST MY LESSON]
Automations on Skool are pretty limited and a lot of times frustrating.
API is something that developers use to provide automation solutions by allowing an app to talk to other apps/codes. Solutions like Zapier, Make and N8N are basically a way to simplify all of that with no code needed.
The problem is that Skool does not have a public API. It is also not featured at N8N. Meaning you're limited to automations on Zapier and Make, that are only avaiable for pro communities. Of course automation wizards can go around that, but the alternative solutions are usually complicated and against Skool's terms and services.
The Skool integration with Make is basically useless. The only possible action is to Invite a New Member, So we are left with Zapier. Here is what you can do with it:
--> Triggers: the starting point of an automation
- Membership questions: take the answers of the membership questions and use them to store somewhere or peform an action. The problem: it would be great if it didn't also work for rejected members. So you can't use that for email automations or automatic messages, as they would also include people you don't want inside your community. So it's only decent use case is market research.
- New PAID member: that's right, the triger only works for members who paid. If your community is free, you can't use that. And another stupid limitation: the trigger also don't work if a member joined at a free trial! What a joke.
---> Actions: stuff you can do after the automation already started
- Invite member: invite a member to a specific classroom course
- Unlock course for member: the name says it all
That's it. Shitty triggers with anoying and unecessary restrictions and patetically limited actions. No way to automate messages, posts, calendar events, add auto moderation. No way to get info for stuff beyond member's answers. And no open API to get around those limitations in an ethical way.
THE SOLUTION:
Panda is the best Skool addon at the moment. It still does not solve the mailmarketing issue but it's on the roadmap. And it's only 24 usd, less than a third of what you pay to upgrade to Pro.
Here are some of the highlights for this tool:
- The best CRM avaiable for Skool. It includes a way to tag members is a very customizable way, an amazing dashboard, a way to add extra information to manage your users, a way to keep and track goals and a kaban like task management tool that you can manage with drag and drop features, that is on par with paid trello.
- Feautures for automating DMs and shceduling posts.
- Feaures to be notified when someone makes a post with a keyword you want to use
- a Loom like feaure for screen recording (paid Loom is 18 usd)
- Notifications that skool overlook, like members upgrading or downgrading, as well as churn.
- Since Panda is a chrome extension, there is no data scraping or invasive method used. It also collects no data from you.
- And many more that I can't fit in a single post.
-> You can join the community for free to check out for more info. Use my link and get free premium access here in case you upgrade to get full access to the tool.
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