Kommune for course creators
Teach once, sell every day, and get paid straight to your account
Visitors watch a free lesson on your website, buy the course in a few clicks and start straight away. They learn at their own pace or with a group, pass the quizzes and download their certificate, while every payment lands in your own Stripe account.
Sample business · Lumen Photo Academy
Why it matters
What makes selling a course harder than teaching it
- Every sale shared with the platform
- Course marketplaces and all-in-one platforms take a monthly fee, a cut of each sale, or both. On a modest launch, that's a real share of what you earn for months of work.
- Five tools held together with links
- Videos on one site, payments on another, a quiz tool, a community app and a certificate template in a document. Students get lost between them, and you can't see who finished what.
- Visitors who never get past the sales page
- People want to see how you teach before they pay. Without free lessons they can open from your own website, most of them leave without buying.
A day with Kommune
A month at Lumen Photo Academy
The sample academy runs the way two instructors in Vancouver would sell photography courses on Kommune. Here's how it's set up and what happens from a visitor's first free lesson to their certificate.
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Elena builds the course
Elena creates Photography Fundamentals: three modules of lessons with notes and practice assignments, a quiz at the end of each module and a certificate of completion. She marks the first two lessons as free previews and sets a one-time price.
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The academy's website shows the course
The homepage lists every course with its price, the number of lessons and quizzes, and the full curriculum, with each free preview lesson one click away. Prices, outlines and previews update by themselves when Elena changes the course.
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A visitor watches a free lesson, then buys
A visitor opens the exposure lesson, likes the teaching and clicks Buy on the course page. They type the launch code for 25% off, give their name and email and pay by card. Kommune makes their account, adds them as a student and emails a receipt with GST.
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Learning at their own pace
The student works through the lessons with Continue and a progress bar, asks questions under each lesson, and takes the module quizzes: multiple choice, short answer, putting steps in order and matching pairs. Each quiz must be passed at 70% before the next lessons open.
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A certificate to share
When the last quiz is passed, the certificate is issued. The student downloads the PDF, adds it to LinkedIn and shares the verify link, which shows the course, the academy, the date and Elena's name.
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Payment plans, a cohort and a membership
Sam's Lightroom Masterclass can be paid in three monthly payments and opens a module a week. Elena's Portrait Lighting Cohort starts on set dates with 16 seats, a private group discussion and a weekly live critique. The Photo Club membership adds a new challenge every month.
How the sample is set up
How Lumen Photo Academy is set up
Two instructors, four courses, one membership and a handful of rules. Open the sample, watch a free lesson and go as far as checkout to see each one at work.
Courses and membership
Photography Fundamentals
9 lessons · $149
Self-paced: exposure, light, composition and a first photo walk, with two free preview lessons, three quizzes and a certificate of completion. The LAUNCH25 code takes 25% off.
Lightroom Editing Masterclass
8 lessons · $249 or 3 × $89
Import, global edits, masks and export, one module released each week after the student starts. Pay at once or in three monthly payments, with a certificate at the end.
Portrait Lighting Cohort
8 weeks · $390 or 2 × $199
One light, two lights and window light, taken with a group of up to 16. Each start date has its own private discussion and a 90-minute live critique every Thursday in Kommune's classroom.
Lumen Photo Club
Membership · $19 a month
A new assignment and a short lesson every month, with critiques in the club's discussion. Members keep access while they subscribe and can cancel from the course page at any time.
Settings that do the work
- One-time prices, a three-payment plan, a two-payment plan and a monthly subscription, all charged on the academy's own Stripe account.
- GST of 5% added to every course, with numbered receipts that show the academy's GST number.
- Two free preview lessons on Photography Fundamentals and one on the Lightroom Masterclass, open to any visitor on the public course page.
- Quizzes with a 70% pass mark that must be passed to continue, and the right answers shown after each attempt.
- Lightroom modules released 7, 14 and 21 days after a student starts; Portrait Lighting lessons opening when each group starts.
- Certificates of completion on three courses, and students rating the lessons they've finished and the live critiques they've attended.
Sample sites are real Kommune sites set up as fictional businesses. Try everything — the last step shows a demo notice instead of booking, ordering or charging anything.
Questions people ask
Start taking bookings this afternoon
Sign up free, add your services and share your link. No credit card, and card payments go straight to your own Stripe account.