Integrating Supercast with Membership Platforms

One of the benefits of Supercast's platform is the ability to integrate with other online tools.

Integrating Supercast with your website is a good alternative to the All-in Plan if:

• You already have a membership system in place you want to continue using.
• You sell other products and services through your website and want to list podcast subscriptions alongside them.

Under this set-up, your membership platform manages the member sign-up and billing, while Supercast provides the private RSS feeds and episode hosting. Supercast enables your members to connect to their private RSS feed by displaying player links in your member area. Members can click on these links to connect to their private podcast feed in a podcast player of their choice. 

The player links look as follows:

This article will cover integrating Supercast with the following platforms and tools:

• WordPress (MemberPress, Memberful or WooCommerce)
• Memberstack
• Zapier
• API

WordPress (MemberPress, Memberful or WooCommerce)

There are several ways to integrate Supercast into a WordPress site. Our top recommendation is to use our  WordPress plugin, which will integrate with MemberPress, Memberful and WooCommerce.

1. Install the plug-in on your Wordpress site. You can learn more about installing plug-ins on your site here.

2. You'll need an API token to connect your Supercast account to WordPress - Navigate to API under Advanced Settings.

2. Click on Generate podcast access token to generate a new one. 

3. Copy the token (at the bottom of the page) to your clipboard.

4. In your Wordpress admin panel, if you've installed the plugin, you should have a new menu item named Supercast. Click on it and paste the API token into this text box:

5. Click on Fetch Supercast Channels - if you don't see an error, you're successfully connected!

6. Next, you need to tell Supercast how your memberships correspond to your channels/networks. Go to the Feeds tab, and for each of your plans that you want to sync with Supercast, select it (from the dropdown), and choose whether it should give users access to a single channel or your whole network.

7. After that, all you need to do is add the shortcode [supercast-feeds] anywhere on your site (on a page that's gated behind a membership), and we'll show the podcast feed URLs with links to players for subscribers.

8. Recommended:  Checkmark Connection Reminder Emails in Supercast

From your Supercast dashboard, click Notification Preferences under 'Advanced Settings.

Then, checkmark Connection Reminder Notifications. This will send members who have not connected to their feeds 3 days after sign-up a reminder email, which contains their player links.

Here's an example of what the email will look like:

Memberstack

Before proceeding, please ensure the following accounts are set up:

• Memberstack
• Supercast

1. Get an access token from Supercast

To set up webhooks, you'll need an access token from your Supercast install. You can get one from the "API" section of the dashboard (under advanced settings). Click on "Generate podcast / network access token" to generate one. If you plan to have subscribers subscribe to your network, you should do this from the network, for a single channel do it from the relevant channel.

2. Set up MemberStack Webhooks

Go to the "webhooks" section of MemberStack and add the following webhooks, replacing (access token) with the token from 1.

New Member - https://supercast.tech/webhooks/member_stack/events/new_member?access_token=(access token)

Membership Cancelled - https://supercast.tech/webhooks/member_stack/events/membership_cancelled?access_token=(access token)

Member Deleted - https://supercast.tech/webhooks/member_stack/events/member_deleted?access_token=(access token)

3. Verify a network bundle exists

You need at least one network bundle set up in your install to use Memberstack. Note: if you have multiple network bundles, let us know so we can ensure that subscribers are receiving the correct bundle when subscribed.

4. Add Supercast Javascript

Add the following Javascript tag on any page that you may want to include Supercast functionality on. This is a lightweight script that doesn't make additional network requests or track anything unless requested, so it's generally fine to include on every page in your site.

<script src=" https://supercast.tech/js/embed.js"></script>

You should also verify that MemberStack javascript files are included wherever you want to show player links (see memberstack's instructions for details)

5. Add Player links

Include the following wherever you want to display player links for a subscriber:

<supercast-player-links subdomain="(your subdomain)"></supercast-player-links>

Where (subdomain) is the subdomain of a podcast or network. If a podcast is specified, only links for that podcast will appear. If a network is specified, we'll display links for every show that the subscriber has access to.

6. Recommended: Checkmark Connection Reminder Emails in Supercast

From your Supercast dashboard, click Notification Preferences under 'Advanced Settings.

Then, checkmark Connection Reminder Notifications. This will send members who have not connected to their feeds 3 days after sign-up a reminder email, which contains their player links.

Here's an example of what the email will look like:

Zapier

We can integrate with other membership plugins and CRMs using Zapier.

Before proceeding, please ensure:

• Your membership platform is compatible with Zapier
• You have a Zapier account
• You have a Supercast account

1. Zapier Invite 

Accept Supercast's public Zapier invite. 

2. Create subscribers in Zapier

3. Include player links on a gated page

4. Disable Subscribers when they unsubscribe