Paystack with Softr and Airtable

Components:

• Airtable — database with a Members table: Name, Email, MembershipType, PaidStatus (checkbox), AccessExpiry (date).
• Paystack Payment Link — one link per tier (e.g., Monthly Membership). Include a custom field for the customer's email.
• Zapier — connects Paystack to Airtable: trigger on charge.success, search Airtable for the record with matching email, update PaidStatus to true.
• Softr — web app built on the Airtable base. Uses Softr's conditional visibility to show paid content only to users where PaidStatus = true.

1. Create a new Zap. Trigger: Webhooks by Zapier → Catch Hook (or use the Paystack trigger if available).
2. In Paystack dashboard → Settings → Webhooks, add the Zapier hook URL.
3. Add a Filter step: only continue if event equals charge.success.
4. Add an Airtable → Find Record step: search the Members table where Email matches {{data.customer.email}} from the Paystack webhook.
5. Add an Airtable → Update Record step: set PaidStatus to true, set AccessExpiry to today + 30 days (use Formatter to calculate).
6. Turn on the Zap.

Test by making a payment with a test email that matches an Airtable record. The Airtable record should update within seconds of the Paystack webhook firing.

In Softr:

1. Connect Softr to your Airtable base.
2. On paid content blocks, use Visibility Conditions: show only when Logged-In User's PaidStatus = true.
3. Set up Softr's user authentication — users log in with the same email they used to pay.
4. Softr matches the logged-in user's email to the Airtable Members table record, reads PaidStatus, and shows or hides the content block accordingly.

See Paystack Payment Links guide for creating payment links.

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