Last year, Mina Irfan decided to use a third-party tool to create her sales page but the experience didn’t go as expected—despite hiring a professional designer to work on the new page, her students found it hard to navigate to the purchase button. For Mina, leveraging this third-party tool was costly and she experienced continuous technical difficulties.

When Mina heard about TCommerce, which includes built in business management and sales tools, she knew it was the right decision—the less tools she had to learn and manage, the better.

Read on to find out about Mina’s journey with using TCommerce.

Complicated tools leading to integration failures

Mina Irfan is a life coach and spiritual mentor; her teachings revolve around inner work, spiritual energy work and personal development. As someone who personally experienced childhood trauma, she aims to help others heal through her work.

She launched a Youtube channel 11 years ago, focused on giving spiritual and life advice, and then pivoted into her current journey as a life coach. Not long after, Mina launched her first course on Thinkific under the Universe Guru. At the beginning of her journey as a first-time Course Creator, Mina began experimenting with different systems and tools to help her business grow. A mentor strongly suggested using a third-party tool to create her sales page to drastically increase her sales.

Unfortunately, her sales did not improve as expected. Her students complained that the sales page was difficult to navigate, and they were left confused about where the purchase button was. For Mina, the sales tool was glitchy, and she was always running into technical problems, which meant she needed to remedy them, and their support team was extremely difficult to contact.

After spending many hours and dollars on getting it professionally designed and hiring extra staff to manage this platform, her sales and conversions didn’t increase as she had hoped, and her business was not scaling. Having to manage the third-party platform, third-party payment processors, and Thinkific was complicated, confusing, and costly. Mina felt stressed about whether all the tools would integrate with the Thinkific platform without any problems. This ultimately left her spending an unnecessary amount of time on selling and marketing when she really wanted to spend more of her time on teaching.

Mina wanted a solution that would simplify her day-to-day business operations, cut down on the number of third-party integrations, and help increase her sales to scale her business. When Thinkific launched TCommerce, Mina was one of the first creators to try it out.

Things are always better when integrated together

TCommerce is a suite of business management, payment and selling tools that are integrated into Thinkific and can be accessed from one central place. Here are the 3 main reasons why Mina loves TCommerce:

1) A simpler business: By using TCommerce, Mina was able to streamline her business operations. Thinkific hosts her education platform, payment processor and her sales page, meaning Thinkific is the only platform she needs, simplifying her entire business.

2) Save time & money: Mina saves time by not needing to manage a third-party tool, and she doesn’t need to hire extra staff or train them to use multiple platforms. Mina also saves money by not needing to pay for third-party tools.

3) Constant growth and improvement: Mina loves how all the revenue made from Thinkifc Payments is reinvested into developing and improving the product. Whenever she suggests improvements to the product, the team always listens and takes them into consideration. She feels heard and feels truly confident in all the new features because they are built for Course Creators.

With the extra money and time, Mina can focus all her energy on creating courses, supporting her students, and refining or thinking of new course content with as little interference as possible. Her sales took off after migrating to TCommerce, with it now being so much easier to manage payments and sell than before.

Mina’s favourite features within TCommerce

There are 2 features that are Mina’s personal favourites on TCommerce:

1. Order Bumps: They allow Mina to upsell products to her students right at the checkout. With a large number of course offerings, it’s impossible for her to create every combination of bundles. Instead, Mina can easily add a relevant course as an Order Bump, which brings more value and learnings to her students, all the while increasing her average order value.

“I’m loving the Order Bumps, giving my students the opportunity to buy my courses at a discount, who doesn’t love that? Sales went up immediately when I started using them.”

2. Support Team: Thinkfic’s support team is very responsive and easy to reach. Whenever Mina has problems with payments, the team is always ready to help her resolve them. Additionally, she loves how one support team can solve all of her problems.

“I love how if I run into any problems with payments, the Thinkific Support Team is always ready to help. I feel fully supported and thankful that everything runs smoothly.”

Mina’s advice for those looking to migrate to TCommerce

Mina recommends that any businesses strapped for time should undoubtedly migrate to TCommerce. TCommerce helped her reduce time spent on managing payments and sales and gave her more time to focus on what mattered most – creating course content & supporting her students.

Take just 5 minutes to set up TCommerce

Get set up in minutes with TCommerce, then you can access our suite of powerful integrated payment processor, bookkeeping tools, and selling tools for free, like Order Bumps and check-out features,

Need some help with setting up? Follow our step-by-step guide here.