If you run a paid Skool community, every new paid member is a moment worth celebrating. Skool’s built-in email notification works, but it doesn’t ring a bell on every team phone or tick a counter on a TV behind your desk. PingBell does. Here’s how to wire it up.
What is PingBell?
PingBell is a web and mobile app that lets you create custom notifications for events on websites and apps — including Skool. Every event becomes a push notification, a counter increment, and a graph point.
Step 1: Create a source in PingBell
Sign up. Visit PingBell.io and start a free trial. Sign in at my.pingbell.io, open the Sources page, and create a new source (custom webhook).
Configure it. Set a title and description (“New paid member”, “Skool community joined”). Pick a sound from PingBell’s library — bells, cheers, chimes, gongs (70+ to choose from). Invite teammates so the bell rings on their phones too.
Step 2: Set up the Skool trigger via Zapier
Skool connects to PingBell through Zapier.
Create a Zap. Sign in to Zapier and click Create Zap.
Pick the Skool trigger. Search for Skool and pick an event — New Paid Member is the obvious choice. You may need to provide your Skool API key and community URL during setup.
Test the trigger. Use a recent paid signup to confirm Zapier can read the data.
Set the PingBell action. Search for PingBell in the action step and select Notify PingBell.
Authenticate. Get your PingBell API key from PingBell’s settings and paste into Zapier.
Pick which source. Select the one you created in Step 1.
Save and test. Have a teammate sign up at $0 (or use a test cohort) and confirm the notification fires.
Step 3: Put the counter on a board
Design a board. In PingBell, design a board with a counter block bound to your Skool source.
Customize the look. Pick fonts and your brand colors, and set a baseline if you want the counter to start at your current member count.
Put it on a screen. Install the PingBell TV app — it shows a short pairing code. Enter it on the Screens page at my.pingbell.io (or scan the QR) and cast the board.
Step 4: View analytics
Open the Activity page to see how often it fired — today, the last 7 days, or any range back to all-time. Useful for spotting which marketing pushes drive the most paid signups.
Try it
If you run a paid Skool community, the difference between a quiet email and a literal bell on your desk every time someone joins is real. Start a free 7-day trial and feel it.