What Thinkific lets you export
| Data | Documented method | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Users | Users, All Users, Export (CSV by email link) | Includes only the columns you display, plus custom sign-up fields; Thinkific says this export is on its Basic plan and above |
| Course progress | Users, Student Progress, Progress reports, Export CSV | Per course: start date, completion date, last sign-in, view and completion rate |
| Orders and transactions | Sales, Orders, export as CSV | Only Thinkific checkout purchases via Thinkific Payments, Stripe or PayPal; updated once every 24 hours |
| Videos | Video Library, three-dot menu, Download | One at a time; no bulk download; newer sites use the Asset Library |
| PDFs and audio | Download button inside each lesson in the course builder | One lesson at a time |
| Text, quiz and survey lessons | Copy and paste | No direct export of quiz questions, answers or explanations |
Gaps to plan around
There is no single course file. Thinkific's help centre states it cannot export an entire course from its course builder as one file and has no bulk download, so you are rebuilding course structure lesson by lesson on WordPress.
Progress is a report, not a portable record. The progress CSV gives completion rates and dates per student per course, which is enough to decide who should be marked complete, but not lesson-level state to import automatically. For a small cohort, marking completed courses manually is often faster than scripting.
Quizzes are manual. Copy every question, answer and explanation into a document before you lose access, then rebuild them in your LMS.
Orders cover only built-in checkout. Thinkific says orders are not tracked for external payment solutions, so any sales made elsewhere need their own records.
Subscriptions and payment plans
Thinkific's help centre describes three paths when changing from Thinkific Payments to Stripe. If you have never processed recurring payments on Thinkific Payments, you simply connect Stripe and ask support to disconnect Thinkific Payments. If you have, existing subscriptions are not automatically migrated and continue billing through Thinkific Payments until the student cancels. Or you can request a migration of customers and subscriptions to your own Stripe Standard account, which needs extra steps through Thinkific's payments support.
That third path matters for a WordPress move: once subscriptions sit in your own Stripe account, a WordPress membership or LMS plugin connected to that account can take over billing. Confirm with your plugin vendor how it links existing Stripe subscriptions to WordPress users before relying on it.
If you cancel the Thinkific plan with subscriptions still active, Thinkific says students keep being charged but lose access to the product at their next billing cycle. Cancel or move every recurring payment first.
Subscription transfer checklist
- Export orders and list every active subscription and payment plan with its next billing date.
- Identify which processor each one runs on: Thinkific Payments, Stripe or PayPal.
- For Thinkific Payments subscriptions, decide between requesting a migration to your own Stripe account or ending them at period end and re-subscribing members on WordPress.
- Rebuild matching products and prices on WordPress and test a real subscription purchase and renewal on staging.
- Tell each member the date their billing moves, the new login URL, and that they will not be charged twice.
- Cancel the Thinkific plan only after the order export shows no active recurring payments left on Thinkific.
Before you cancel Thinkific
- Remove your custom domain as the primary domain in Thinkific, as its cancellation article instructs, then point DNS to WordPress.
- Download users, progress and orders CSVs and store them in two places.
- Download every video and lesson file; copy every quiz and text lesson.
- Spot-check 10 students: they can log in on WordPress and see the same courses they bought.
- Keep the old site name and URL private if you do not want students finding the abandoned site; Thinkific notes the site stays available after cancellation.
Questions before you decide
Can Thinkific export my whole course?
No. Thinkific states it does not offer exporting an entire course as one file or a bulk download; content is saved per lesson.
Can I bulk download Thinkific videos?
No. Thinkific says it does not currently offer bulk download from the Video Library; each video is downloaded individually.
What happens to student subscriptions if I cancel Thinkific?
Thinkific says active recurring subscriptions keep charging students, who then lose access at the next billing cycle, so cancel or move them before cancelling your plan.
Sources & verification
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- Thinkific Help: Can I export my course? Accessed 29 Oct 2026
- Thinkific Help: User Table, User Report and Filters Accessed 29 Oct 2026
- Thinkific Help: Progress Reports Accessed 29 Oct 2026
- Thinkific Help: Orders Report Accessed 29 Oct 2026
- Thinkific Help: Download a video from your Video Library Accessed 29 Oct 2026
- Thinkific Help: Can I export quiz questions? Accessed 29 Oct 2026
- Thinkific Help: How to switch payment processors from Thinkific Payments to Stripe Accessed 29 Oct 2026
- Thinkific Help: Cancel your Thinkific subscription Accessed 29 Oct 2026
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