Keep your own website and let Taskpipe run the course

You may already have a website that works for your business. Your audience knows it, your course pages sound like you, and you do not want to move everything to start teaching online.

Taskpipe can work behind that website. Your site helps people find the right course; Taskpipe gives your students a place to learn and your team a place to manage their progress.

This is often called headless mode. It lets you sell through your own site while using Taskpipe for teaching and student support.

Show your course groups on your own site

Your website can show your published groups, including dates, location and available seats. You choose which groups it can list.

If you run a coaching programme several times a year, your site can show the available groups. If you teach in person as well as online, it can help visitors choose a city or venue.

You manage those group details in Taskpipe. Your developer can connect your website to those details, so you only need to update them in one place.

Draft and closed groups stay out of those results.

Collect interest before someone is ready to join

A form on your own site can send a lead to Taskpipe and link it to the group they are interested in. An email address or phone number is enough to get started.

This is useful for a course where people ask a question or speak to you before buying. Your team can follow up in the Leads area instead of keeping a separate list of form replies.

If your form asks whether someone wants marketing messages, the connection can save their answer too.

A lead does not have course access and does not reserve a seat. Treat it as the start of a conversation.

Check the contact details and course against the enquiry sent from your website.

Connect enrolment to course access

If your team confirms enrolment on your website or in another tool, a connection can then give the student access to their Taskpipe group.

If you take payment outside Taskpipe, ask your developer to check that payment before giving access. Marking a student as paid in Taskpipe does not charge them or check an outside payment.

Taskpipe can then email the student a link to their course. They learn in Taskpipe, with lessons, assignments, appointments and progress together.

You can also keep the Taskpipe public course page and use your website to lead people there for enrolment.

Set up a connection for course lists and enquiries

For a first connection, let visitors choose a group and send an enquiry on your website, then send them to the Taskpipe course page to enrol. Your developer will connect the website; you choose what it can access.

As the organization owner:

1. Open Settings → API access.
2. Enter Course website in Key name, so you can recognise the connection later.
3. Select Read cohorts and seat availability to let the site show your published, listed groups.
4. Select Register leads to let your enquiry form send interested people to Taskpipe.
5. Leave Add students to cohorts off for this example. Enrolment happens on the Taskpipe course page, so the website does not need to grant access.

These two selected permissions let the website show groups and collect enquiries. They do not let it add students to a course.

Select Create API key when the choices are right. The key is shown once. Save it securely and share it privately with your developer, who should keep it on the website’s server. You can turn off the key in settings.

If you later connect confirmed enrolments from an outside checkout, that connection needs Add students to cohorts. Ask your developer to grant course access only after checking the payment, as described above.

Test the customer journey

Before sharing your website, check the connection together:

1. Open your website and find a published group. Compare its dates and available seats with Taskpipe.
2. Send a test enquiry and check that it appears in Leads for the right course.
3. Follow the enrolment link and check that it opens that group’s Taskpipe course page.
4. Test your enrolment flow and confirm that the student can open the right course.

Ask your developer to handle full groups and repeated form submissions too.

Choose the right starting point

If you are starting from scratch, the standard Taskpipe setup gets you a public course page and a student experience with fewer parts to connect.

If your website is already an important part of your business, the integrations let you keep it while Taskpipe handles course delivery. The connection covers course listings, leads and student access. Students still learn in Taskpipe; building a separate learning area on your own site is outside the current connection.

We are also planning more ways to make your course pages feel like part of your business. Read what is coming next.