Thinkific

Thinkific is an online course platform that lets creators and businesses build, market, and sell courses, communities, and digital products. Its Admin REST API exposes account data such as users, courses, enrollments, orders, and promotions, and supports creating and updating records. Nexla connects to the Thinkific Admin API to move this data in and out of your other systems.

Power end-to-end data operations for your Thinkific API with Nexla. Our bi-directional Thinkific connector is purpose-built for Thinkific, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to Thinkific or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your Thinkific workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.

Features

Type: API

SourceDestination

• Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
• Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
• API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
• Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs

Prerequisites

Before creating a Thinkific credential, you need your Thinkific API Key and your account Subdomain. Thinkific authenticates every Admin API request by sending both values as request headers: X-Auth-API-Key and X-Auth-Subdomain. API access requires a Grow/Pro plus Growth plan or higher.

To obtain your Thinkific credentials, follow these steps:

1. Sign in to your Thinkific admin account.

2. Navigate to Settings and open the Code & analytics tab.

3. Locate the API section, then click Reset key to generate an API key.

4. Copy the key immediately and store it securely. Thinkific displays the key only once, so record it before leaving the page.

5. Note your account Subdomain. This is the first segment of your Thinkific URL. For example, if you access Thinkific at example.thinkific.com, your subdomain is example.

Keep the API key confidential. If it is compromised, reset it from the same Code & analytics screen to invalidate the old key. For details, see the Thinkific API Key Authorization documentation and the Thinkific Admin API Reference.

Authenticate

Credentials required

Authenticate to Thinkific using your API key and store subdomain. Both are sent as request headers (X-Auth-API-Key and X-Auth-Subdomain).

Field	Required	Secret	Description
API Key	Yes	Yes	Your Thinkific API key for authentication.
Subdomain	Yes	No	The subdomain of your Thinkific URL (e.g., if your URL is example.thinkific.com, your subdomain is "example").

Create a credential in Nexla

1. After selecting the data source/destination type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.

2. Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.

3. Enter your Thinkific API key in the API Key field. This value is sent in the X-Auth-API-Key request header and must be kept confidential.

4. Enter your account subdomain in the Subdomain field. This is the first segment of your Thinkific URL, and it is sent in the X-Auth-Subdomain request header.

   If your API key is compromised, reset it from Settings > Code & analytics > API in your Thinkific account to invalidate the old key and generate a new one.

   For detailed information about API authentication and available endpoints, see the Thinkific Admin API Reference.

5. Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source/destination creation.

Use as a data source

To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the Thinkific connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to the Thinkific account, and click Next; or, create a new Thinkific credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common Thinkific endpoints. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below.

[Rest API] List Users

Retrieve users. This endpoint template returns the users in your Thinkific account for analysis, reporting, or synchronization with other systems.

For detailed information about the response structure and available fields, see the Thinkific Admin API Reference.

[Rest API] List Orders

Retrieve orders. This endpoint template returns the orders placed in your Thinkific account, including purchase and transaction details.

For detailed information about the response structure and available fields, see the Thinkific Admin API Reference.

[Rest API] List Groups

Retrieve groups. This endpoint template returns the groups defined in your Thinkific account.

For detailed information about the response structure and available fields, see the Thinkific Admin API Reference.

[Rest API] List Courses

Retrieve courses. This endpoint template returns the courses published in your Thinkific account.

For detailed information about the response structure and available fields, see the Thinkific Admin API Reference.

[Rest API] List Promotions

Retrieve promotions. This endpoint template returns the promotions configured in your Thinkific account.

For detailed information about the response structure and available fields, see the Thinkific Admin API Reference.

[Rest API] List Categories

Retrieve categories (collections). This endpoint template returns the categories, also known as collections, used to organize content in your Thinkific account.

For detailed information about the response structure and available fields, see the Thinkific Admin API Reference.

[Rest API] List Reviews

Retrieve course reviews for a given course. This endpoint template returns the reviews submitted for a specific course in your Thinkific account.

For detailed information about the response structure and available fields, see the Thinkific Admin API Reference.

[Rest API] List Enrollments

Retrieve enrollments. This endpoint template returns the course enrollments recorded in your Thinkific account.

For detailed information about the response structure and available fields, see the Thinkific Admin API Reference.

[Rest API] List Instructors

Retrieve instructors. This endpoint template returns the instructors associated with your Thinkific account.

For detailed information about the response structure and available fields, see the Thinkific Admin API Reference.

[Rest API] List Products

Retrieve products. This endpoint template returns the products available in your Thinkific account.

For detailed information about the response structure and available fields, see the Thinkific Admin API Reference.

[Rest API] List Coupons

Retrieve coupons for a given promotion. This endpoint template returns the coupons associated with a specific promotion in your Thinkific account.

For detailed information about the response structure and available fields, see the Thinkific Admin API Reference.

Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving.

Manual configuration

Thinkific data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid Thinkific Admin API endpoint, including endpoints not covered by the pre-built templates, chained API calls, or custom request parameters. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.

Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Create button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the new Thinkific data source. Nexla will now begin ingesting data from the configured endpoint and will organize any data that it finds into one or more Nexsets.

Use as a destination

Click the + icon on the Nexset that will be sent to the Thinkific destination, and select the Send to Destination option from the menu. Select the Thinkific connector from the list of available destination connectors, then select the credential that will be used to connect to the Thinkific account, and click Next; or, create a new Thinkific credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure destinations to send data to common Thinkific endpoints. Select the endpoint to which data will be sent from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Then, click on the template in the list below to expand it, and follow the instructions to configure additional endpoint settings.

[Rest API] Create User

Create a new user in Thinkific. Each record from your Nexset is sent as a separate request to create a user with the supplied fields.

The request body must match the format expected by the Thinkific Admin API. For details about required and optional fields, see the Thinkific Admin API Reference.

[Rest API] Update User

Update an existing user by ID in Thinkific. Each record from your Nexset is sent as a separate request to update the matching user with the supplied fields.

Each record must include the ID of the user to update along with the fields to change. For details about the request body format, see the Thinkific Admin API Reference.

[Rest API] Create Enrollment

Enroll a user in a course. Each record from your Nexset is sent as a separate request to create an enrollment linking a user to a course.

The request body must reference a valid user and course. For details about required fields, see the Thinkific Admin API Reference.

[Rest API] Create Coupon

Create a new coupon for a course or bundle. Each record from your Nexset is sent as a separate request to create a coupon with the supplied fields.

The request body must match the format expected by the Thinkific Admin API. For details about required and optional fields, see the Thinkific Admin API Reference.

[Rest API] Create Promotion

Create a new promotion in Thinkific. Each record from your Nexset is sent as a separate request to create a promotion with the supplied fields.

The request body must match the format expected by the Thinkific Admin API. For details about required and optional fields, see the Thinkific Admin API Reference.

Manual configuration

Thinkific destinations can also be manually configured to send data to any valid Thinkific Admin API endpoint. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, data format, endpoint URL, request headers, attribute exclusions, record batching, and response webhooks.

Thinkific APIs typically expect JSON format for most operations. For update operations, include the ID of the object to be updated as required by the endpoint.

Save & activate

Once all endpoint settings have been configured, click the Done button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the destination. To send the data to the configured Thinkific endpoint, open the destination resource menu, and select Activate.

The Nexset data will not be sent to the Thinkific endpoint until the destination is activated. Destinations can be activated immediately or at a later time, providing full control over data movement.