In this guide, we'll provide a comprehensive walkthrough of the new course pricing and payments feature in Proserva. This allows you to create, price, and receive payments for your courses.
Step 1: Creating a Course
Start by clicking the Create Course button.
Choose between Course or Live Workshop. In this instance, we're selecting Course.
You will be directed to the course creation page.
Add a title for your course. E.g. "Effective Strategies for Differentiated Instruction."
Provide a detailed description of your course. Ensure to mention any prerequisites like valid teaching certificates, etc.
Add relevant categories for your course, like "Special Education" and "Elementary Education."
Step 2: Course Settings
Move on to the Course Settings page.
Here, you can select the publisher and adjust other settings, such as completion certificate settings, course timeline, privacy and sharing, and link sharing.
To get access to the pricing, click on the district you have publishing rights for under the publisher settings. (Note: You must be an admin or a network leader or an organization leader or an admin of that organization to have access to this.)
Step 3: Setting Up Payments
You will now see a price section. To set up a price, you need to have a registered seller account. Click on the link to go to the settings page.
Under the settings page, there's a block for Accepting Payments. Click on Register.
Proserva has partnered with Stripe for payments. If you already have a Stripe account, you will need to create a new Stripe account using the same banking information.
Complete the Stripe onboarding process. This includes adding an email, password, payment information, your organization's details, and banking routing number.
(Note: Remember that only one user may be registered as a seller for the organization.)
Step 4: Pricing the Course
Once you've registered as a seller, you can now set a price for your course. Input your preferred amount, for example, $100.
After entering the price, Proserva will display the amount you will receive after fees and revenue share (Proserva retains 20% plus Stripe's processing fees).
You can also apply a general discount or promotional price for anyone on the platform.
Step 5: Entity and Individual Discounts
You can set a different price for specific entities or organizations. For instance, you can offer the course for free for teachers in your district.
You can also invite specific users and set custom prices for them, which could be less or more than the original price. You can do this by clicking on Invite Students, adding their email, setting the price, and clicking on Invite.
Step 6: Course Completion and Certificates
Select whether the certificate is given automatically upon completion of the course or there needs to be manual completion check.
Define who can access the course: Public, Only Invited People, Available to Members of Specific Entities or Organizations Only.
Decide if you want to allow link sharing.
Step 7: Add Content to the Course
Before you publish your course, add some content to it. You can even add multiple courses within a course or import an external course.
Set up discussion forums, embed videos, etc.
Step 8: Publishing the Course
Once you're ready, click Publish. You can still make changes after publishing.
Your course will be listed on the Proserva store. Students can view and enroll in the course from there.
Step 9: Managing Payments and Receipts
Payments are handled via Stripe, and receipts are sent via email.
If you need to issue refunds or resend receipts, you can do it directly from the Stripe dashboard. To access this, go to your account settings, select sales, and then view your dashboard.
Remember, Proserva support is available to assist you through the entire process. Reach out to us through the chatbox located at the bottom right corner of your screen or send us an email.