Instructors on Community Heart are able to monetise their courses.
This means you can sell your courses for a profit to help sustain your organisation. For example, you could:
- Sell a popular course as a method of fundraising,
- Sell your course to those outside your organisation, but manually enrol your volunteers so they can access it without payment,
- Recoup the cost of course development and maintenance.
There are two ways to arrange this:
1. Take Payment Yourself
In this scenario, you charge a fee for the course, and take the payment yourself. This might be via your own website or similar, with a payment gateway.
- When Creating a Course, go to the Settings tab.
- Under “Access Mode” choose “Closed”.
- Set the “Course Price”
- In the “Course Enrollment URL”, paste the link to your payment gateway.
Note: Once a user has paid, you will need to manually add the learner to your course.
- Pros: Payments are managed by your organisation directly
- Cons: The learner must wait for you to process the payment before getting access.
If you prefer an automated solution, consider option 2:
2. Take Payment via Community Heart
In this scenario, you charge a fee for the course which is processed by Community Heart. The learner gets access immediately after making payment. To set this up:
- When Creating a Course, go to the Settings tab.
- Under “Access Mode” choose “Closed”.
- Set the “Course Price”
- Leave the “Course Enrollment URL” field blank, and click the “Update” button.
When you click “Update”, a new product is created in the Community Heart shop. It uses the content from your Course overview page to create the product. When a learner purchases this product, they gain access to the your course.
Note: Instructors keep 80% of the course fee. The remaining 20% covers the the transaction fees and payment gateway maintenance.
- Pros: The learner gains access to the course immediately on payment. Perfect for organisations that do not have a method to take payments themselves.
- Cons: Instructors keep 80% of the course fee – so factor this in to your pricing.
Note: Instructors cannot delete products directly. Please contact Community Heart to do so.
