AI Studio Payments: Sell Products Directly From Your GHL Apps

AI Studio Payments let you add product sales and checkout directly into apps built with GoHighLevel AI Studio.

Instead of building a separate payment system, you can connect products that already exist inside your HighLevel catalog. You choose which products and prices the app can use, then ask the AI Studio agent to add payments.

The agent can build the storefront and checkout experience for you. HighLevel then handles the protected payment functionality behind the scenes.

Your products, orders, subscriptions, and connected payment providers stay inside the same GHL ecosystem.

The big benefit is that your AI Studio apps can now do more than provide information, collect leads, or create an interactive experience.

They can actually sell.

For agencies, this creates another way to build useful client assets without piecing together several different platforms. You could create a custom app for a client, connect their existing products, and give customers a direct path from using the app to making a purchase.

You also control exactly what the app can sell. If your HighLevel catalog contains ten products but the app only needs two, you can make only those two available. You can also control which prices, plans, or product variations buyers can choose.

That makes AI Studio Payments useful for focused offers such as service packages, digital products, memberships, subscriptions, paid tools, and client-specific offers.

The result is fewer moving parts.

Your app, products, checkout, payments, orders, and subscriptions can stay connected inside HighLevel instead of relying on a patchwork of outside tools.

For businesses and agencies, that can mean faster launches, easier management, and a much shorter path between building an AI app and turning that app into revenue.

Setting up AI Studio Payments is mainly about connecting your existing HighLevel products to your AI Studio app, choosing what buyers can purchase, and then letting the AI agent build the storefront and checkout for you.

You’ll also test the checkout, subscriptions, coupons, product pages, and post-purchase upsells before switching the app to live payments. If your project is not built on TanStack Start, you may need to migrate it before the Payments option appears.

Here are the steps to set up AI Studio Payments in GoHighLevel:

• Access Your AI Studio Project
• Access the Payments section
• Turn On Payments and Choose Test or Live Mode
• Select the Products Your App Can Sell
• Choose the Product Pricing Options
• Ask the AI Agent to Add Payments
• Test the Hosted Checkout
• Test Subscription Products
• Add and Test a Post-Purchase Upsell
• Review the Generated Product Pages
• Migrate an Existing React Project to SSR if Needed

To start make sure you are logged in to your GoHighLevel sub-account.

The main menu on the left side of your screen includes the main areas you work in when using GHL.

1.1 Click the AI Studio main menu item.

• This opens the AI Studio area where you can access your existing AI-built apps and projects.

1.2 Click the project you want to add payments to.

• The selected project will open in the AI Studio builder.
• Confirm you are working in the correct project before changing any payment settings.

2.1 Click More inside your AI Studio project.

• This opens the additional project settings and tools available for the app.

2.2 Click Payments.

• The Payments section opens.
• This is where you control whether the app can accept payments and which HighLevel catalog products it can sell.

If you do not see Payments here, check whether the project is built on TanStack Start. Projects using unsupported project types will not currently show the Payments option.

3.1 Turn on the Payments setting.

• This enables payment features for the AI Studio project.
• Additional payment options will become available after Payments is enabled.

3.2 Select Test Mode while setting up your payment flow.

• Test Mode lets you check the storefront and checkout before accepting real payments.
• Use this while building and reviewing the app.

3.3 Select Live Mode when you are ready to accept real purchases.

• Live Mode allows buyers to complete real transactions using your connected HighLevel payment setup.
• Do not switch to Live Mode until you have tested the full purchase process.

4.1 Open the product selection area inside the Payments section.

• Your existing HighLevel catalog products will be available for selection.

4.2 Select each product you want the AI Studio app to sell.

• Only the products you allow here can be displayed and charged inside the app.
• Products that are not selected will not be available to buyers through this project.

4.3 Review the selected products before continuing.

• Make sure you are only giving the app access to products that belong with the offer you are building.

5.1 Open the pricing options for the first selected product.

• The available pricing choices for that product will appear.

5.2 Choose the pricing setup you want the app to use.

• Select one fixed price if the app should sell the product at a single price.
• Select specific variations if buyers should only see certain sizes, tiers, plans, or options.
• Select the full catalog if buyers should be able to choose from all available pricing options for that product.

5.3 Repeat the pricing setup for each selected product.

• Your choices control exactly which prices and product variations the app can display and charge.

AI Studio Payments turn AI-built apps into something much more useful for agencies and businesses.

Before this update, an AI Studio app could help users interact with information, complete tasks, or move through a custom experience. Now, that same app can also connect directly to products and accept payments.

That means you can build an app around a specific offer, connect the right products from your HighLevel catalog, and give users a direct path to buy.

You can also use the same setup for one-time products, recurring subscriptions, coupon offers, and post-purchase upsells.

The biggest opportunity is that you can reduce the gap between engagement and purchase.

Instead of sending someone from an AI-powered experience to a separate external checkout, you can keep the buying journey connected to the app.

For agencies, that can make it easier to build more valuable client solutions.

You could create an AI Studio app for a client that helps visitors choose the right service, recommends the best package, and then lets them purchase without leaving the experience.

For example, imagine a marketing agency building an app for a local service business.

The app could help a customer choose between three service packages. Once the customer finds the right option, the app can show the matching product and send them into the hosted checkout.

After the purchase, the business could show a related post-purchase upsell, such as an add-on service or recurring maintenance plan.

The order and subscription information then stays connected to the existing HighLevel account.

Why This Can Save Agencies Time

The real value is not just accepting payments.

It is reducing the number of separate systems you need to manage.

Your Product Catalog, orders, subscriptions, connected payment providers, and AI Studio app can work together inside the HighLevel ecosystem.

That can make setup easier, testing faster, and client handoff cleaner.

Instead of building one tool for the app, another for checkout, and another for tracking orders, you can keep more of the customer journey inside GHL.

For agencies creating repeatable solutions, this could also open the door to building reusable AI-powered sales experiences for different clients.

The result is a simpler path from app interaction to payment, with fewer moving parts to maintain.

What AI Studio Payments Add to HighLevel

AI Studio Payments give GoHighLevel users a much more direct way to turn AI-built apps into revenue-producing tools.

You can connect products that already exist in your HighLevel catalog, control which prices and variations are available, and let the AI agent build the storefront and checkout experience into the app.

You also get support for hosted checkout, coupons, subscriptions, PayPal Express Checkout, generated product pages, and post-purchase upsells.

For existing React projects, HighLevel also gives you a migration path through Project Settings → Migrate to SSR so you can create a compatible copy without replacing the version that is already live.

Why AI Studio Payments Matter Going Forward

The biggest benefit is that you can keep more of the sales process inside the same HighLevel ecosystem.

Your AI app, Product Catalog, payment providers, orders, subscriptions, checkout, and upsells can all work together without forcing you to build a separate payment system from scratch.

That makes this update especially useful for agencies building custom client tools, SaaS providers creating paid experiences, and businesses looking for new ways to turn AI-powered apps into actual offers.

Start simple.

Connect one product. Keep the project in Test Mode. Run through the full buying experience yourself. Then test your coupons, subscriptions, and upsells before switching to Live Mode.

Once you know the process works, you can start getting more creative with the types of paid apps and customer experiences you build.

The team here at GHL Growth Garage will keep breaking down updates like this so you can spend less time figuring out what changed and more time putting new GoHighLevel features to work.

How could you use AI Studio Payments in your own business or for one of your clients?