Free tool
Course platform fee calculator
Enter your course price and how many sales you make a month. The calculator compares what you keep with a platform that takes a commission on every sale and with a flat monthly plan, and tells you how many sales it takes for the flat plan to pay off.
Free, no sign-up. The math runs in your browser: we don't store what you type.
What you keep
Commission per sale
- You keep per month
- USD 1,724.00
- Per year
- USD 20,688.00
- To the platform, per month
- USD 200.00
- To the processor, per month
- USD 76.00
Flat plan
Enter the monthly cost of the flat plan to compare both scenarios.
Enter the monthly cost of the flat plan to compare both scenarios.
How it's calculated
The formula, step by step
Everything comes from what you enter. For each sale and each month:
- 1.Processor per sale = price × processor percentage + fixed fee per sale.
- 2.Commission per sale = price × platform commission.
- 3.Scenario A, you keep per month = sales × (price - processor per sale - commission per sale).
- 4.Scenario B, you keep per month = sales × (price - processor per sale) - monthly plan cost.
- 5.Per year = what you keep per month × 12.
- 6.Break-even = monthly plan cost ÷ commission per sale, rounded up to the next whole sale.
Example: if you sell a course for 100 and make 20 sales a month, a 10% commission is 200 a month to the platform. A flat plan that costs less than that leaves you more, and the gap grows with every sale.
The calculator doesn't include taxes, refunds, currency exchange or what your bank charges to receive the money. Use it to compare both models with the same numbers, not as your bookkeeping.
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FAQ
Questions about fees
It depends on how much you sell. With few sales, a commission is usually cheaper because you only pay when you sell. As you sell more, a flat plan usually leaves you more, because its cost doesn't grow with each sale. The calculator tells you the number of sales where it flips.
Because it's charged by whoever processes the card, not by the course platform. You pay it either way, so it doesn't change which one fits you. We include it so the result looks like what actually reaches you.
It's a generic estimate of what card processors charge per payment. The real rate depends on the country, the type of card and your processor. Check it and change it in the calculator.
No. Choosing USD, MXN or EUR only changes the label on the amounts. Enter every amount in the same currency.
No. It doesn't include refunds or bank fees either. It's for comparing two ways of being charged with the same numbers.
With flat plans: Wislab doesn't take a commission on your sales. We're still defining the packages, so we don't publish prices today. Join the waitlist and we'll tell you about them.
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