[gdangelo]

Thanks for your comment. The payment processing fee is what Stripe charges and unfortunately I can't change anything about it. However, it is very low and I believe it is fair to take it out from the sales amount. In other words, if you make 10,000 (or more) sales a month, AlterClass cannot cover the Stripe fees for all those sales just with the monthly subscription. Finally, you can check out the following page where I compare Udemy to AlterClass for instructors. There is a nice revenue calculator and a detailed comparison table. Let me know your thoughts.

-> https://alterclass.io/udemy-alternative

[Closi]

I agree with the original poster - if you say no transaction fees it should mean no transaction fees.

What Stripe charges you is your expense/cost. If you want to pass that on to the customer, then that's fine, but that is you charging a transaction fee to cover the cost (not Stripe - because it is you billing it to the subscriber).

[gdangelo]

Thanks for your feedback. I've tried to be as transparent as possible about the fees on the platform, so that's why I've differentiated between AlterClass cut/fee and the Stripe fees for processing the payments. So when I say no transaction fee, I mean no extra cut/fee from using AlterClass. I'll try to make it clearer and obvious to the customer. Thanks for pointing this

[Closi]

Sure, maybe you could say 'Zero Commission and Low Transaction Fees' :) Understand where you are trying to get to.

Good luck with your business - the site looks great and it's clear a load of work has gone into it. Wish you every success! A few other notes:

- Unsure why your login system needs full access to all my user data on GitHub - seems excessive but maybe I just don't understand what 'full access' means in this context?

- Agreed with other posters on price, it seems like a free tier would be mutually beneficial for both you and the course writers. Also not sure how you are planing to police preorders in particular, but it's worth making sure that you don't lose your shirt if someone doesn't make with the goods (i.e. as this is a preorder rather than a pledge, if you already paid the creator and they never delivered the course, I assume you might be liable for refunds unless you are very careful).

[gdangelo]

Thanks for the advice and your feedback.

For the authentication, I'm using the Next-auth.js library, and what I get from Github is only your Id, name, email, and avatar URL. That's it. Not sure why you've seen "full access".

I'll think about the free tier. And for the pre-orders, yes this is something I've though about and this is definitely something I'd like to avoid. I'll probably unlock the fund only if the instructor delivers (for first time instructors for example) so that I protect the students from losing their money if the instructor does not deliver and run away with it.