Handle WhatsApp course enrollment and payments with Wati and Razorpay

Transform your educational business with a fully automated mobile storefront. This workflow manages the entire student journey—from browsing course catalogues to secure payment processing and enrollment tracking—all within WhatsApp by combining WATI, Razorpay, and Google Sheets.

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🎯 What This Workflow Does

Turns WhatsApp into a 24/7 automated enrollment desk:

• 📝 Captures Student Intent Receives text commands like courses, enroll, or pay via the WATI Trigger from the student's phone.

• 🚦 Smart Message Routing A Switch node identifies the keyword to trigger the correct path:

• courses: Displays the full course catalogue.

• enroll : Shows specific course details and a payment CTA.

• pay : Generates a unique Razorpay payment link.

• mystatus: Fetches the student's personal enrollment history.

• 👁️ Dynamic Catalogue Generation Fetches live data from Google Sheets to build a formatted WhatsApp message with course codes, prices, and durations.

• 💳 Instant Payment Processing Integrates with the Razorpay API to create secure, short-URL payment links tailored to the specific course and student.

• 📊 Automated CRM Logging Logs every enrollment attempt as "Pending" in Google Sheets, capturing timestamps, phone numbers, and unique payment IDs.

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✨ Key Features

• White-Label Automation: Sell courses under your own brand without needing a complex website or LMS.
• Real-Time Status Tracking: Students can instantly view their active and pending enrollments with the mystatus command.
• Native Razorpay Integration: Uses a clean REST API approach (HTTP Request) to generate payment links without requiring external SDKs.
• Formatted Course Cards: Automatically generates detailed summaries for each course, including instructor info and start dates.
• Multi-Category Support: Organizes your catalogue by subject (e.g., Programming, Marketing) for a professional user experience.

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💼 Perfect For

• Independent Tutors: Selling recorded workshops or live sessions without manual billing.
• Coaching Institutes: Automating the registration process for high-volume course launches.
• Skill-Based Bootcamps: Providing a low-friction "chat-to-pay" experience for mobile users.
• Corporate Trainers: Tracking employee registrations for internal certification programs.

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🔧 What You'll Need

Required Integrations

• WATI – To handle WhatsApp message triggers and delivery.
• Razorpay – To generate unique payment links via REST API.
• Google Sheets – To manage your course database and enrollment logs.

Optional Customizations

• Payment Confirmation: Set up a Razorpay Webhook to automatically update enrollment status from "Pending" to "Enrolled" upon payment.
• Automated Welcome: Add a node to send a "Course Access Guide" PDF once the payment is verified.

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🚀 Quick Start

1. Import Template – Copy the JSON and import it into your n8n instance.
2. Set Credentials – Connect your WATI, Razorpay (Basic Auth), and Google Sheets accounts.
3. Configure Sheets – Ensure your Google Sheet has headers for:

Courses Tab: name, code, category, price, duration, shortDesc, description, instructor, startDate

Enrollments Tab: timestamp, phone, courseCode, courseName, amount, status, paymentlinkId, paymentlinkUrl

1. Test Browsing – Send the word courses to your WATI number.
2. Simulate Payment – Send pay <course_code> to receive your first automated payment link.

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🎨 Customization Options

• Currency Setup: Change the currency from INR to USD or EUR in the Razorpay Payload node.
• Personalized Feedback: Edit the Build Enrollment Status code to change how the student’s history is displayed.
• Custom CTA: Modify the "Enroll Detail Card" to include links to your YouTube demo or LinkedIn profile.

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📈 Expected Results

• 95% reduction in manual coordination for course registrations and link sharing.
• Faster conversions by allowing students to pay the moment they show interest.
• Organized data with every student interaction logged in a single spreadsheet.
• Professional image using automated, well-formatted WhatsApp cards and official payment links.

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🏆 Use Cases

Upskilling Bootcamps

A programming school sends the courses list to a leads group; students enroll and pay for "Python 101" entirely through the chat.

Skill Progress Tracking

A student types mystatus to see which courses they have paid for and which enrollments are still pending.

Flash Sales

Promote a course code on Instagram; when users message that code to your WhatsApp, the bot handles the sale 24/7.

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💡 Pro Tips

• Shorthand Commands: The bot is built to handle case-insensitive commands, so PAY PY101 and pay py101 work equally well.
• Razorpay Test Mode: Always test your payment links using Razorpay's "Test Mode" keys before going live to ensure the links generate correctly.
• Clean Database: The Build Enrollment Status node uses phone number filtering to ensure students only see their own private history.

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Ready to start enrolling students? Import this template and connect your Razorpay account to automate your sales today!