Whop × The Uncommon Business

AI Employee Bootcamp: payments move to Whop

Whop charges every Fall 26 purchase. GoHighLevel keeps contacts, email and SMS — it stops handling money and stops deciding what a buyer bought.

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The flow

One Worker sits between Whop and everything downstream. It knows what was bought at the moment of the charge, so nothing after it has to guess.

Buyer checks out on your pageWhop's form, embedded in the GHL funnel page. The page around it is unchanged.
Whop charges and fires payment.succeededTier, cart, funnel, affiliate cookie and all five UTMs were stamped on before the charge.
Worker upserts the GHL contact17 fields and the full tag set in one call, before any workflow runs.
Worker enters the workflows by IDPOST /contacts/{id}/workflow/{id}. A bumped cart enters two — base tier and upgrade.
FirstPromoter and Supabase, both directNeither waits on a GHL workflow firing correctly first.

GHL workflows no longer decide anything about the purchase.

They branched on order amount to work out the tier. There is no GHL order now, so those branches read nothing. Emails, SMS, waits and tag conditions all stay — they just stop guessing.

Plans

Twelve live plans, all hidden from the storefront — reachable only through a checkout page. A price that steps on 20 Sep needs two plans, because a Whop plan carries one price.

PlanPriceSellsPlan ID
Early Bird$47to 13 Sepplan_NWlCLuu4NotNr
General Admission$9713 Sep → closeplan_mtHkdjlQbvkHX
VIP$197to 20 Sepplan_vo09qNeR1gNKf
VIP$29720 Sep → closeplan_bgTK8oeOyv1up
Platinum$397all launchplan_pNNTBm1uvAmB4
EB → VIP$150to 20 Sepplan_GzR4MwQNIv42l
EB → VIP$25020 Sep → closeplan_NjHgKCFXKRlzK
EB → Platinum$350all launchplan_f5bsCu7Z7iyrS
GA → VIP$10013–20 Sepplan_MbBsqny6AWqxZ
GA → VIP$20020 Sep → closeplan_0XxN2EAjEKK7P
GA → Platinum$30013 Sep → closeplan_xiPbxrH89tmRU
VIP → Platinum$200all launchplan_RDxBErVUsQ3oB
VIP $297 → Platinum$100on holdnot created

Needs Lex  VIP → Platinum exists at $200, per 14 Aug. The $100 rung is deliberately not built: pricing it off today's VIP price means a $197 buyer upgrading on 21 Sep pays $100 for a $200 gap. Nothing sells it before 20 Sep.

Affiliates

Sales reach FirstPromoter directly from the Worker. Eight GHL workflows are gone.

Capture

  • Block reads the _fprom_tid / _fprom_ref cookies at page load, falling back to ?fpr=.
  • Cookies first: ?fpr= only exists on the landing hop and is gone by checkout.

What the eight workflows did

  • Clear a field → write {{order.total_price}} → ×100 → POST the sale.
  • The first three steps existed only because GHL cannot multiply inline. The Worker holds cents already.
  • {{order.total_price}} does not exist without a GHL order, so those workflows are dead, not redundant.

Two fixes came out of it

  • No more duplicate commissions. Every sale carries event_id = the Whop payment ID. FirstPromoter requires it to dedupe; all eight workflows omitted it, so one retry paid twice.
  • Amounts were about to be 100× wrong. Whop reports dollars, FirstPromoter wants cents. Caught pre-launch.

One deletion still owed

  • The #2 Math operation step in the eight FirstPromoter workflows. The Worker sends cents — leave it in and every sale reports at 100×.

Your side  Tracking is on every funnel already and carries to checkout. Outstanding: add the bootcamp link to the promoter signup, so promoters have one to share.

Attribution

Organic, ads and tripwire are one attribute on the page. No logic to build.

  • Each block declares data-funnel="organic" | "ads" | "tripwire". It rides the payment; the Worker turns it into a tag.
  • New funnel page = copy the block, change data-tier and data-funnel. Nothing else.
  • Declared, not inferred, because two bootcamp funnels share one page URL.
  • The exact page slug also lands in aieb_page, so GHL conditions can target one ad page without a code change.
  • Tripwire is a real third value. GHL only ever wired ads and organic.

Upgrades never re-run attribution.

Re-tagging an upgrade would credit the funnel the upgrade page sits on and overwrite the source that won the original sale. Funnel tag applies on first purchase only.

GHL changes

Tier workflows stay separate, one per tier. Each loses its payment trigger and its price branching, and keeps everything that speaks to the buyer.

Remove

  • Every Payment received trigger — keys on a GHL order that no longer exists
  • The price branch block and its tag nodes
  • Ads / Organic / Tripwire, its three branches and two tag nodes
  • The duplicate n8n webhook — keep one, on the main line
  • Any Go to that only existed to rejoin a deleted branch

Keep

  • Aevent, disable DND, the waits, Wisernotify
  • Every SMS and email, and add-to-WF4
  • The email-opened branch — engagement, not purchase
  • Any branch reading a tag, prior purchase or contact state
  • WF3's 180 / 195 Platinum seat notifications

Rule for anything ambiguous

Branch reads Amount, Workflow trigger or Funnel → delete. The Worker knows, and the branch now reads a value that never arrives.

Branch reads tags, prior purchases or email opens → keep. That is contact state and still works.

One addition per workflow: the n8n webhook's custom data gains whop_payment_id. It replaces ghl_order_id as the dedupe key and is the same value Supabase stores as processor_ref.

One exception: the Is Free? branch

  • It reads Amount, so the rule says delete — but its output, aieb-fall26_free, is how a free seat is identified downstream. The Worker does not write that tag today.
  • Unresolved until we know which route free seats take. See Open.

Fields & tags

Written to the contact on every purchase, before any workflow runs.

FieldHolds
whop_payment_idThe Whop payment. The join key across GHL, n8n, Supabase and FirstPromoter.
aieb_tierga · vip · platinum
aieb_offerThe exact rung, e.g. ga-to-platinum
aieb_funnelorganic · ads · tripwire
aieb_pageThe page slug they checked out on
aieb_cohortfall26
fp_planFirstPromoter plan string, for plan-level reward rates
fp_amount_centsSale amount in cents, stamped at charge time
firstpromoter_bidReferral tracking ID, when there is one
utm_source … utm_termAll five, carried from the landing page

Tags, in order

aieb-fall26_purchased
aieb-fall26_purchased_eb | _ga | _vip | _platinum
aieb-fall26_purchased_vip-upgrade | _platinum-upgrade   bumps and upgrades only
aieb-fall26_organic | _ads | _tripwire   never on an upgrade

An upgraded buyer keeps the tag from the tier they started on as well as the one they moved to. Hub gating reads the entitlement; the dashboard reads the trail.

Checkout map

data-tier and data-funnel are the only two things that differ between one checkout and the next.

AI Employee Bootcamp — main funnel

PageSellsdata-tierdata-funnel
/general-admission-2026Early Bird $47 + 2 bumpseb-ga,gaorganic
/vip-admission-2026VIP $197 + Platinum bumpviporganic
/platinum-admission-2026Platinum $397platinumorganic
/vip-admission-upgradeEB → VIP $150eb-ga-to-viporganic
/platinum-admission-upgradeEB → Platinum $350eb-ga-to-platinumorganic
/vip-platinum-admission-upgradeVIP → Platinum $200vip197-to-platinumorganic
/bootcamp-2026-confirmationReceipt block

AI Employee Bootcamp Ads — rebuilt 15 Aug, new slugs

PageSellsdata-tierdata-funnel
/general-admission-2026-5280Early Bird $47 + 2 bumpseb-ga,gaads
/vip-admission-2026-9281VIP $197 + Platinum bumpvipads
/platinum-admission-2026-9922Platinum $397platinumads
/vip-upgrade-eb-5042EB → VIP $150eb-ga-to-vipads
/vip-upgrade-g-2170GA → VIP $100ga-to-vipads
/bootcamp-2026-confirmation-2847Receipt block

Source: live GHL funnel pull, 15 Aug 2026, 15:10 ET.

Two things to watch

Two ads funnels exist

  • AI Employee Bootcamp Ads is the live one, rebuilt 15 Aug. 2026 - Bootcamp - ads has not been touched since May and still carries /general-admission-2026-ads-checkout. Anything pointing at the old slugs is pointing at the wrong funnel.

Newsletter, advertorial, extended enrollment

  • Still on the old checkout, so they sell nothing until a block is pasted. That is the tripwire route.

Pasted once, never again.

A page holds two lines — a <div> with its tier and funnel, and a script tag. Fields, bumps, summary, payment element, terms and button are all served by the Worker.

Wording and styling change in worker/src/copy.js, one wrangler deploy, all twelve checkouts at once. Prices, the terms link and the confirmation URL were already dynamic — all three changed today without touching a page.

The GHL page still owns the headline, body copy and images. Those stay editable in the page editor.

Supabase

  • Scott's n8n endpoint receives the purchase and writes to Postgres directly. Whop points at it; nothing of ours sits between.
  • That keeps sales private — reaching it over the API would have meant exposing all 17 tables for one insert.
  • Failures land in n8n's execution history with alerting already attached.
  • Rows land as processor = 'whop', processor_ref = the Whop payment ID — the same shape as the 25,000 GHL rows, so reporting spans both. Plan ID stored alongside.

Open

Blocking

How free seats are sold at all

The mechanism is not decided yet — a 100%-off promo code, a separate checkout page, or the existing $0 GHL form. Each behaves differently and needs a different fix, so this is the first thing to settle. Groundwork is in: a 100%-off Whop checkout already gets aieb-fall26_free from the Worker, applied at charge time. A comp seat through the $0 GHL form never reaches Whop at all, so it gets nothing and enters no workflow. Roughly 400–600 UCL members ride on this.

Lex

Promo code naming

None exist yet. Test codes must end in TEST so they archive out of launch numbers. Free and UCL codes need your convention so reporting splits.

Lisa

Bootcamp link in FirstPromoter

Promoter links generate on signup and tracking is on every funnel, but the bootcamp is not added yet — so there is no link to share.

Verify

The 200-seat Platinum cap

Set on the plan, but the plan reports unlimited stock. Treat as not working until confirmed in the dashboard. WF3's 180/195 notifications are unaffected.

Decide

Financing on or off

Card and PayPal only today, platform defaults off, so no BNPL can appear on its own. ClarityPay is US-only and needs Whop Support to enable. The largest purchase here is $397; ClarityPay is built for $30,000.

Lex

VIP → Platinum after 20 Sep

Does a $197 VIP buyer pay $200 or $100 to upgrade on 21 Sep? By date it is $100, which gives away the difference. Not urgent — nothing sells it before 20 Sep.