Button card or Code injection

Sell more than subscriptions from your Ghost site

Ghost runs the publication and its paid tiers. A Plandalf checkout opens from a Button card or Code injection for one-time products, courses and deadline offers.

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No native Ghost integration. Plandalf does not add buyers to Ghost members.

Ghost

Plandalf

Stripe

checkout.completed
invoice.paid

How it connects

Ghost runs the publication. Plandalf runs the other sales.

Ghost keeps members and tiers. A button in a post opens a Plandalf Offer.

How Plandalf reaches Ghost

Button card or Code injection

A Ghost Button card linking to a hosted checkout, or the SDK in Settings, Code injection and markup in an HTML card.

Keep memberships in Ghost. When you also sell a course, a workshop, a template pack or an upgrade, a button in a post opens a Plandalf Offer, Stripe takes the payment and Plandalf records the sale. Buyers do not become Ghost members unless you wire that up yourself.

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Ghost owns

Posts, pages and newsletters
Members and paid tiers
Themes, domain and hosting

Plandalf owns

One-time products and bundles
Upsells and deadline offers
Invoices and post-purchase automation

Same on every platform: payment goes through your own Stripe or PayPal account, Plandalf keeps the invoice, and every Offer has a hosted link and a test mode link.

What syncs

What moves between Ghost and Plandalf

Plandalf has no Ghost app, so no member is created from a sale.

What	How it works	What it needs
Button card	Ghost’s Button card links to any URL, so it can point at Your checkout link from the Offer’s Share tab.	A published Offer
Code injection	Settings, Code injection. Put the SDK in the Site Footer and markup in an HTML card, or inject on a single post.	Access to Ghost Admin settings
Paid tiers	Ghost keeps its subscriptions. Plandalf does not touch tiers or members.	No action
Adding a buyer as a member	Not built. A Send Webhook step, or a Zapier catch hook, could call Ghost’s API from your own endpoint, but we have not built or tested it.	Your own receiver

Why add Plandalf

What Ghost’s own checkout can’t do

From Ghost’s help centre. Ghost is built for publishing and memberships, and these are the edges for selling.

Paid tiers are subscriptions
Each tier has monthly and yearly prices, with an optional free trial. The tiers help page describes no one-time or lifetime price.
One-time money is gifts and tips
Ghost documents gift subscriptions and tips and donations as one-time payments. A one-time course or product is not a tier.
No bumps, upsells or deadline countdowns documented
Ghost’s tiers and payments help pages do not describe order bumps, upsells or expiring deadline pricing.

Sources: Ghost: create paid tiers, Ghost: gift subscriptions, Ghost: transaction fees.

Set it up

Add Plandalf to Ghost in three steps

Start with a Button card. Add the script if you want the checkout to open over the post.

1
Use the hosted link in a post
In the Ghost editor add a Button card, set the text and paste Your checkout link from the Offer’s Share tab. Publish and click it.
2
Load the script with Code injection
Open Settings, then Code injection. Paste your SDK script into the Site Footer, which Ghost places before the closing body tag, and save. Use the post’s sidebar injection to keep it to one post.
```
<script src="https://your-org.plandalf.dev/js/plandalf-sdk.js" async></script>
```
3
Add the markup with an HTML card
Add an HTML card with a button carrying your offer slug, or a div with data-plandalf-promo for a countdown. Test the published post signed out.
```
<button data-plandalf-present="workshop" data-plandalf-mode="test">Join the workshop</button>
```

Plandalf · Ghost

The Plandalf offer editor: the checkout a website buy button opens.

Gotchas

What catches people out on Ghost

Buyers are not members
A paid Plandalf checkout does not create a Ghost member or grant a tier. If a purchase should unlock members-only posts, that needs your own wiring.
Wrap code in tags
Ghost needs script tags around JavaScript in Code injection. Ghost recommends the footer for JavaScript so it loads properly.
An HTML card does not say it runs scripts
Ghost’s HTML card page does not say whether scripts run, so put the SDK in Code injection and keep the card to markup. Check the published post.
Theme selectors vary
Scripts that target page elements by a theme class may need adjusting when you change theme.
We have not published a tested walkthrough
These steps follow Ghost’s help articles. We have not published screenshots from a Ghost replay.

Integrations

Keep your site. Upgrade how it sells.

Plus a fully documented REST API and webhook layer for whatever’s not in the list.

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Questions

Ghost checkout and Stripe questions

The short answers. The docs have the long ones.

Can I sell one-time products on Ghost?

Ghost’s documented tiers are subscriptions, with gifts and tips as one-time payments. For a one-time course or product, open a Plandalf Offer from a Button card or a button in an HTML card.

Do I need a separate Stripe account for Plandalf and Ghost?

No. Ghost connects to your Stripe account for tiers, and Plandalf connects to a Stripe account for its offers. They can be the same account. Ghost itself takes no transaction fee, only Stripe’s.

Does a Plandalf purchase make someone a Ghost member?

No. There is no native Ghost integration. A webhook or a Zapier catch hook to your own receiver could add a member, but we have not built or tested that.

Can I add an upsell on top of Ghost’s paid tiers?

Ghost’s tiers help pages describe no bumps or upsells. Sell the add-on as a Plandalf Offer that you link from your tiers page or a post.

Can I add a countdown timer to a Ghost post?

Yes, with a Plandalf Promo. Load the script in Code injection and add a div with data-plandalf-promo and your promo slug to an HTML card.

Does Code injection need a particular Ghost plan?

Ghost’s tutorial does not say. Check Settings in your Ghost admin for Code injection.

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