Pricing Your Course

Your online course can be free like this one, or you can charge people a fee to access the content.

If you do charge for a course, the fees you will pay per student are similar to the membership pricing that was released back in 2020.

There are tiered options where the percentage fee changes. Here is information directly from the Squarespace support article, last updatd in August 2023.

You can sell access to your course using pricing plans.

Pricing plans are the fees customers pay to gain access to your digital products. When you add a course page, videos page, monetized blog, or member site to a pricing plan, you place the content behind a paywall.

To create a pricing plan, you’ll describe the digital products included, list the benefits of signing up, choose the enrollment dates, and set the price (if applicable). Then you can preview and style your paywall on a page-by-page basis.

You can also offer free pricing plans and require visitors to provide their email address.

When you add a course page to a pricing plan, you can hide the entire course page behind a paywall, or only the lesson pages. If you hide only the lesson pages, the course overview page will be accessible by all visitors to your site.

When lesson pages are behind a paywall, you can make specific lessons accessible for visitors who haven't signed up for your pricing plan yet. To do this, hover over the lesson in the side panel, click ..., then click Set as Public Preview. Keep in mind, if you hide the entire course overview page behind the paywall, visitors can't access the lessons set to public preview.

Source: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/16096751630221