Instructor payouts
Pay your instructors fairly, on schedule, every time
Every sale credits the teacher who earned it. Define revenue-share schemes once, track every commission in a transparent ledger, and run a real withdrawal queue — approve, reject or mark paid — so your instructors are always paid what they are owed, when they are owed it.
- Percentage or fixed commission schemes
- Refund-safe earnings ledger
- Scheduled, staff-approved payout runs
Commissions that add up correctly, every time
A payout desk built into your academy — no spreadsheets, no manual math, no missed payday.
From sale to payday
A commission, paid out in four steps
No manual bookkeeping and no guessing what a teacher is owed — the math runs itself, in the background.
A student buys
A course, bundle, book or private lesson sells — the assigned instructor earns their share automatically.
The commission is credited and held
The scheme is resolved and snapshotted onto an earning row, held briefly so a refund can reverse it safely.
It becomes withdrawable
Once the holding window passes, the earning releases automatically and the teacher's balance grows.
Staff approve & pay
The teacher requests a withdrawal (or staff record one manually); you approve, then mark it paid with a reference.
Commission schemes
One catalogue of revenue-share rules
Stop typing a rate per teacher. Define named schemes once — a percentage of the sale or a fixed amount — mark one as the default, and assign the rest to specific instructors. Change a scheme in one place and every teacher on it updates together.
- Percentage-of-sale or fixed-per-sale schemes
- One default scheme for every teacher
- Assign a custom scheme per instructor
- Rename or re-value a scheme in one place
Earnings ledger
A transparent ledger, safe against refunds
Every commission is one row in an append-only ledger — credited, held, then released. The rate is locked in at the moment it is earned, so a later scheme change never rewrites history. A refund before release reverses the earning instead of paying it out by mistake.
- Every credit locked to the rate at sale time
- A short holding window before it is withdrawable
- A refund reverses — it never overpays
- Idempotent crediting — never double-counted
Payout runs
A real queue for real money
Every withdrawal request lands in one queue — review the teacher's balance and requested amount, approve or reject with a reason, then mark it paid with a transaction reference once the transfer actually happens. Print a payout voucher for your records, and staff can always record a manual payout when needed.
- One queue for every withdrawal request
- Approve, reject or mark paid with a reference
- A printable payout voucher per request
- Approved / paid / rejected notifications
Two commission modes
Pick the scheme that fits each instructor
Every scheme is one or the other — mix freely across your instructors.
A share of every sale
The teacher earns a set percentage of the gross sale price — the more they sell, the more they earn, and the academy keeps the remainder.
A flat amount per sale
The teacher earns a set amount every time, regardless of the sale price — simple, predictable payouts for flat-fee arrangements.
More in every payout
Everything a payout desk needs
The details that turn "the teacher is owed something" into a clean, auditable payment.
Scheme catalogue
A reusable list of named commission schemes, ready to assign to any instructor.
Default fallback
Every teacher without a custom scheme automatically earns under the academy default.
Rate snapshotting
The rate is captured at credit time, so a later scheme edit never rewrites an issued earning.
Refund-safe holding
A short window before an earning is withdrawable — a refund reverses it cleanly first.
Withdrawal queue
See every request across every instructor — pending, approved, paid or rejected.
Any payout method
Bank transfer, wallet, payment gateway or cash — record the method that fits your teacher.
Manual payouts & adjustments
Record a payout outside the request flow, or correct a balance with an audited adjustment.
Printable voucher
A clean, print-ready payout receipt for every processed withdrawal.
All included
A real payout desk, from day one
No add-on to buy and no spreadsheet to maintain. Every academy ships with the full commission-and-payout toolkit built in.
Runs your whole academy
Payouts sit beside the rest of your business
Instructor payouts is one desk in a full toolkit for running the business of your online academy.
Instructor management
Onboard teachers, assign their commission scheme, and track their courses in one place.
Explore instructor managementStaff & HR
Roles, permissions and your own team's payroll — the same rigor, for your staff.
Explore staff & HRAccounting
Every payout posts to real, double-entry books — no separate spreadsheet to reconcile.
Explore accountingAcademies trust it
Academy owners who stopped chasing payouts
Real academies running instructor pay through a single, transparent desk.
I used to calculate commissions in a spreadsheet every month. Now every sale credits the right teacher automatically, and payday is one queue to review.
Setting a default scheme and a couple of custom ones for my senior instructors took ten minutes. I have not touched a calculator since.
The holding window saved us during a refund spike — nothing was paid out that shouldn't have been, and the ledger made it obvious why.
Questions
What academy owners ask about payouts
Each teacher is assigned a commission scheme — a percentage of the sale or a fixed amount — or falls back to the academy's default scheme. The rate is locked in and snapshotted onto the earning at the moment it is credited.
If the refund happens before the holding window passes, the earning is reversed and never counted toward the teacher's withdrawable balance. Money already paid out is never silently clawed back — that is handled as a manual adjustment.
You set the holding window in your teacher settings. Once it passes, held earnings release to the teacher's available balance automatically, on a scheduled sweep — no one has to remember to do it.
Teachers raise a withdrawal request from their own panel once their balance clears your minimum. Staff then approve, reject with a reason, or mark it paid with a transaction reference from your review queue.
Bank transfer, wallet, payment gateway or cash — you record whichever method you actually used to pay the instructor, along with an optional reference for your records.
Yes. A manual payout or a manual earning adjustment lets staff record money paid outside the normal request flow, or correct a balance — every one balance-checked and fully audited.
Ready when you are
Start paying your instructors the right way
Define your commission schemes, watch the ledger track every sale, and run your first payout — free to start.
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