In this article we'll show you how to connect your Ontraport account to Kourses. This will allow you to add new member information from Kourses to your lists inside Ontraport account for followup marketing.
In this guide, you'll learn how to connect Ontraport with your Kourses memberships. This integration lets you automatically capture new members and send them into Ontraport for additional marketing follow-up.
Log into your Kourses dashboard.
Select the membership you want to integrate.
(Example used: "Sales Funnel Bootcamp" membership.)
Go to the Integrations tab.
Under Email Marketing and Other, find the New Members section.
Click Add Service.
Scroll down until you see the Ontraport option.
Click Choose Service.
Now, you’ll need to connect your Ontraport account by entering your credentials.
Here’s how to find your Application ID and API Key inside Ontraport:
Log into your Ontraport account.
Click the Profile Menu (top right corner).
Choose Administration.
From the left menu, select Integrations.
Click Ontraport API Instructions and Key Manager.
Click New API Key.
When creating your API Key:
Select the Contact Owner (you can just pick yourself).
Set the following permissions:
Add Contact
Search Contacts
Delete Contacts
Manage Fields
Enter a name for your API key (e.g., "Kourses Membership").
Click Save.
Now you’ll see your new API key listed.
Copy your App ID and paste it into Kourses.
Copy your API Key and paste it into Kourses.
Important: Remove any spaces before or after the pasted credentials.
Click Save and Connect.
If successful, you’ll now see a list of your Ontraport Automations inside Kourses!
Your automations (campaigns) from Ontraport will be listed.
Pick the automation you want new members to be added to.
(Example used: "One Click Email Survey" automation.)
Pro Tip: Ideally, you should create a new automation in Ontraport that's specific to the course or membership you're integrating with.
If you need help creating automations, reach out to Ontraport support directly.
You can also apply a tag from Ontraport to each new member.
If you don’t want to use tags, simply leave this field blank.
Click Save.
Done! 
Now, whenever someone becomes a member via your Kourses checkout or API/webhook, they'll be automatically added to the Ontraport automation you chose.
If you would like to pass your abandoned checkout / cart leads through to MailerLite, follow this guide to integrating MailerLite. We'll show you how to create the custom fields required for this integration to work most effectively.
This guide will walk you through how to connect Ontraport to the Abandoned Cart feature in Kourses, so you can capture and follow up with leads who don't complete their checkout.
Let’s dive in!
Log into Kourses.
Select the membership you want to apply the abandoned cart integration to.
(Example: "Lead Funnel in a Weekend" membership.)
Click on Integrations.
Under Email Marketing and Others, find the Abandoned Cart Lead section.
Click Add Service.
Scroll through the email services list and select Ontraport by clicking Choose Service.
Enter your Application ID and API Key.
(If you don't know how to find these, check the separate tutorial specifically for retrieving them.)
Click Save and Connect.
You’ve now completed the first half of the integration!
After connecting, Kourses will pull a list of your Ontraport automations.
Choose the automation you want (e.g., a campaign called "Abandon" that sends follow-up emails).
Optionally, you can also select a tag to apply when someone abandons the cart.
(In this tutorial, the tag field was left blank.)
You’ll need two custom fields to store information sent from Kourses:
Membership Name
Checkout URL
Here’s how to create them:
In your Ontraport account, go to the Contacts tab.
Click Settings and open the Field Editor.
Under Contact Information, click Add Field.
First field:
Name: Membership Name
Type: Text
Unique: Yes
Save it.
Second field:
Name: Cart URL
Type: Text
Unique: Yes
Save it.
Go back to Kourses and save to refresh the integration.
Scroll down to the Custom Fields section.
Map your new Ontraport fields:
Under Membership Name, select Membership Name.
Under Checkout URL, select Cart URL.
Click Save.
The integration is now fully complete!
When a visitor abandons checkout (e.g., closes the browser without completing), after around one hour, their info will be sent to Ontraport.
They’ll be:
Added to the automation you selected (e.g., "Abandon").
Tagged, if you chose to add a tag.
Membership name and checkout URL will be populated in their contact record.
You can then use this information to personalize your follow-up emails — increasing your chances of recovering the sale.
