If you’re not using the AccessAlly order forms because you have a different shopping cart, you can still create teams through your CRM, here’s how.
ARTICLE CONTENT:
How to Set Up The Order Form
The Workflow:
First, plan out the sequence of events that you want to be automated. In this example, we’ll be using the following flow:
A sample workflow would be:
- User Purchases a Team License Through An Order Form
- (Order Form Automatically Creates a Team)
- Purchaser is designated as a team leader and receives login info via email
- Whenever the team leader adds a child user to the team, the child user receives login info via email
Step 1: Set up a Custom Operation
This custom operation will automatically create a team. We’ll use it on the Order Form.
Go to AccessAlly > Custom Operations > Add New.
Then:
- Choose what this operation will do: Initiate team parent
- Select a team to initiate: [select your team from the dropdown]
As you create your custom operation, you might want to offer upgrade and downgrade options for team leaders. This is an advanced use case, and may be used in the following example scenario:
Team “Silver” has access to a single course inside the membership site. One of the team leaders would like to upgrade to the “Gold” team level, which has access to ALL the content inside your membership site. Since you wouldn’t want them to lose access (or manually change their tags), you can select the “Team Gold” as the team to be initiated, with “Team Silver” as the team to be replaced.
The replacement option does NOT affect the team size, merely their permission tags.
Step 2: Set Up Your Order Form
Now it’s time to create the order form. Remember that an AccessAlly order form is always made up of one or more products inside an offer.
2.1 – Create Your Product
A team product is fairly straightforward: simply choose the product name and amount to be charged (and whether it is a one-time purchase vs. a recurring subscription).
2.2 – Create Your Offer
Next, add the team “product” to an offer.
- A new team will be automatically created
- The client who placed the order will receive the “Team Leader” tag and any welcome tags that you designated when first setting up the team.
(Optional) Step 3: Set Up Your “Parent” Automation
At this point, all of the essential actions of creating a new team will happen automatically as soon as the client submits the order form.
However, you may wish to send the new team leader a welcome email. If this is the case, please create a new CRM automation to make it happen with the following elements:
- Trigger: When the “Team Parent” tag is added
- Send Email
Since team members are added manually by the team leader, no further actions need to be taken on your part to ensure the team runs smoothly.
(Optional) Step 4: Set Up Your “Child” Automation
In Step 4 of this tutorial, you designated a “child” tag that will be applied to a user as soon as the team leader adds them to the team.
You can use this tag to trigger an automation that is almost identical to the Parent automation: a quick email that welcomes the new team member and tells them how to log in.
