Systeme.io is an all-in-one funnel, email marketing, CRM and course platform — a lighter, European-built alternative to Kajabi, Kartra and GoHighLevel. Our Systeme.io integration lets you sell your Systeme.io courses, memberships and communities from our hosted checkout pages, using any of our supported payment gateways and payment options.

• Easy setup and full control over the payment options available to your customers

• Automatic enrollment of buyers into your Systeme.io courses, communities and memberships

• Fully secure checkout experience for your customers

• Reporting and notifications on payments received

• Automatic currency conversion when your customer's currency doesn't match the payment processor (e.g. selling in USD via Paystack, which only settles in ZAR)

Watch this quick walkthrough to see the full setup and a live checkout end-to-end:

How does it work

Systeme.io uses tags to power automations on contacts. CheckoutJoy uses this to grant access to a product when a customer completes a purchase through our checkout pages.

In Systeme.io, your setup will include creating a Tag, and setting up an automation that enrolls a contact in a course (or grants community / membership access) when the contact is assigned that specific tag.

In CheckoutJoy, you will set up a checkout page that is also linked to the tag that you created in Systeme.io.

When a customer completes a checkout on your checkout page, CheckoutJoy will look up the contact in Systeme.io (and create them if they don't exist) and assign the tag to the contact. This will kick off the Systeme.io automation to enroll the customer in your course, community or membership.

If you later refund the purchase in CheckoutJoy, we'll automatically remove the same tag from the contact, so you can configure a follow-up automation in Systeme.io to revoke access if needed.

And that is it! You have now completed a sale for your Systeme.io product using a payment option that your customers know and trust!

Setup Guide

This guide assumes that you already have a course, community or membership set up in Systeme.io.

Step 1 - Create a Tag

In your Systeme.io dashboard, navigate to Contacts > Tags and click Create. Give the tag a unique name (for example, cj-vip-course) so you can recognise it later.

In the next step we'll set up an automation that enrols the customer in your product when a contact is assigned this tag.

Step 2 - Set up an automation

Now set up an automation that grants access to your course, community or membership when a contact is assigned that tag.

Systeme.io offers two automation types under the Automations menu:

• Rules — simple "if this, then that" triggers. This is all you need for the CheckoutJoy integration.
• Workflows — multi-step, branching automations (similar to a Zap in Zapier). Use these only if you want to chain additional actions after the tag is applied.

1. Go to Automations > Rules and click Create.
2. Set the trigger to "Tag added" and pick the tag you created in Step 1.
3. Add the action that grants access to your product — for example, "Enroll in course", "Grant access to a community" or "Grant access to membership".
4. Save the automation and make sure it is active — Systeme.io does not retroactively trigger automations on tags that were applied before the automation was activated.

Step 3 - Generate a Public API key

CheckoutJoy needs a Public API key to apply tags to your contacts on your behalf.

1. In Systeme.io, click your user icon (top-left) and select Settings.
2. Scroll down to the MCP and API keys section.
3. Under Public API key, click Create API key, give it a name (for example, CheckoutJoy), leave the expiration date empty (or set one if you want to rotate the key on a schedule), and copy the generated key.
4. Keep this tab open — you'll paste this key into CheckoutJoy in the next step.

That's it for your Systeme.io setup! Now move over to CheckoutJoy.

Step 4 - Connect your Systeme.io account in CheckoutJoy

In your CheckoutJoy dashboard:

1. Navigate to Settings > Integrations > systeme.io.
2. Toggle Enabled on.
3. Paste the API key from Step 3 into the API Key field.
4. Click Save.

Once saved, CheckoutJoy will be able to look up your Systeme.io contacts and tags.

Step 5 - Create your Product in CheckoutJoy and link your Systeme.io tag

A Product in CheckoutJoy is used to set pricing and currency information for your Systeme.io products. You need a product in CheckoutJoy for every course, community or membership that you want to sell.

1. Navigate to Products and click Create Product.
2. Pick systeme.io as the product type.
3. Complete the form:

The Activation Tag dropdown is populated by calling the Systeme.io API directly — if it's empty, double-check that the API key from Step 4 is saved and that you've created at least one tag in Systeme.io.

Step 6 - Create a Checkout Page

To sell Systeme.io products you need a checkout page in CheckoutJoy. From your Systeme.io site (or anywhere else you link your customers), your customers are taken to the CheckoutJoy checkout page for checkout, and after checkout they will be redirected to a thank-you page that you configure.

1. Navigate to Pages in your CheckoutJoy dashboard and create a new page using one of the prebuilt templates.
2. Once the Page Editor opens, navigate to Settings > Checkout Settings and select the product that you want to sell on the page. The dropdown contains all the products you've configured in CheckoutJoy.
3. Go to Sections on the left-hand menu to open the checkout page content editor. Make the required changes to your page content.
4. Save and Publish your page to make the changes live.

If you want to edit the URL of the checkout page, go to Settings > Page Settings and change the URL of the page. You can also connect a custom domain to link your pages to a subdomain of your website — e.g. https://checkout.yourdomain.com/.

Refund handling

When a payment is refunded in CheckoutJoy, we automatically remove the activation tag from the contact in Systeme.io. If you want to revoke access on refund, set up an automation in Systeme.io with the trigger "Tag removed" pointing to the same tag, and add the action that revokes access to the course, community or membership.