Lessons, student access and course payments on a platform you own — $200 to start, then a monthly that comes off the price, whatever it earns: no marketplace taking a cut, and no monthly that grows when you enrol more students.
Course marketplaces are the fastest way to sell the first one and the hardest way to build anything: they own the relationship, set the discounts, and take a share.
A working course platform is three systems pretending to be one: the content, the access rules and the payment. Every one of them tested before a student sees it.
No per-student fee, no share of enrolments, no licence that gets more expensive the better the course does.
“Daniel set up our store and SEO completely. Within 3 months we were selling consistently online — he handles everything.”
“Our old website was years behind the business. Daniel rebuilt it from scratch and now runs our SEO — one point of contact, and things move without chasing.”
I build the structure and load one full module properly, as the template for the rest. You add the others — and you should, because you will be editing them long after the build is done.
Not on the web server, which is the mistake that makes course sites crawl. It goes on a proper video host and plays inside your lesson pages. I will tell you what that costs before we start.
Yes — one-off, instalments or a membership, whichever fits. It depends on what your payment provider supports, and I will check that before quoting.
No. The monthly is the same whether you have thirty students or three thousand.
Course platforms borrow from all three of these.
One call. How the course is structured, how people pay, and what it would take to run it on your own site — and whether that is worth it yet.
