Use Case for online business (course / community + AI tool)

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Hey everyone,

I have an online business (service provider and educational branch).

Essentially, I have a course platform with a community on heartbeat.chat and plan on creating my AI tools in pickaxe. So ppl will pay for the initial program / course of mine + gain access to a starter set of credits in pickaxe.

I wonder if there are ppl here with this presumably common use case.

Two options I see:

  1. OPTION: Use my own checkout e.g. via ThriveCart
  • Zapier → sending buyers to my heartbeat.chat course / community platform (I already set this up / use this :white_check_mark: )
  • Zapier → granting buyers access to an access group in pickaxe with a starter-set of credit, they can individually top-up etc. (:red_question_mark: Is this possible?)
  1. OPTION: Using the pickaxe checkout via Stripe

  • The initial purchase would include not just the AI credit fee but my course / program fee granting buyers access to an access group with a starter-set of credit, they can individually top-up later (:red_question_mark: Is this possible as: A) in the initial payment is amount X (course-fee + starter credits) + B) the later top-up credit purchase is different amount Y?)

  • Zapier → granting buyers access to an access group in my heartbeat.chat course / community platform (:red_question_mark: Is this possible?)

Looking forward to a helpful reply as this determines if pickaxe is the right platform for my use case.

Regards,
Alex