How to grow your payments app with online course creators
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Online course creators teach everything from cooking and photography to coding, languages and business skills, through recorded video courses, live group cohorts and paid monthly communities. Their students can be anywhere in the world, and many creators sell straight from social media, a newsletter or a simple website. Big course platforms take a share of each sale, so many creators want a simpler way to take payment themselves. A payments app that sells a course by link, splits a bigger course into instalments and runs a monthly membership charge can win these creators, and every student who pays sees your app.
Talk to course creators
Ask online course creators you know:
- How do students pay for your course today?
- How much do you pay the platform or checkout for each sale?
- Do you offer instalments for higher-priced courses?
- How do members pay for a monthly community or group?
Sell a course by link
A payment link for each course, shared in a post, a newsletter or a direct message, lets a student pay in a few taps from wherever they found it.
Offer instalments and memberships
Splitting a bigger course into monthly payments and charging members on the same day each month make higher prices easier to say yes to.
Grow through creators' audiences
Creators know other creators, coaches and teachers. One creator on your app can introduce many others, and every student sees your app at checkout.
Build it
Create your own financial platform.
Pick a template, name it, brand it, preview every page before you pay. Your brand, your users, your fees.
Build my platform →Questions people ask
What about life and business coaches?
The life and business coaches guide covers one-to-one sessions, monthly programmes and group courses, mostly online and often to clients in other countries.
Life and business coaches →What about language schools?
The language schools guide covers taking course fees from students in many countries and currencies.
Language schools →Can I call it a bank?
In most countries "bank" is a protected word you can only use with a banking licence. Call it an account, a wallet, an app or a platform. The accounts and payments behind a SendPay Business platform are powered by licensed partners.
Is there a step-by-step plan I can follow?
Yes. The free launch checklist takes you from picking your people and naming your app to setting fees, going live and winning your first ten customers.
Digital bank app launch checklist →How do I start?
Pick a template, name it and preview every page before you pay. Your platform can be live on your own domain within 24 hours of confirmation.
Build my platform →Read next
This guide is general information, not legal or financial advice. SendPay Business is a technology company, not a bank, and does not take deposits; regulated services on the platforms are provided by licensed partners. PayPal, Patreon and Substack are named as reference points only and are not affiliated with SendPay Business.