Can you sell courses on a free online platform, or will I hit too many limits?

I tried something similar in Rome. Used a free plan at first to avoid platform costs, made eighteen hundred euros, but only walked away with fifteen hundred and seventy. Between platform fees and payment processing, nearly two hundred and thirty euros just vanished into thin air.

Skip the tech headaches and stick to a free plan until you land your first five sales. No point spending money building your own site before knowing if the course will even sell. Once the cash starts coming in, use that first revenue to move to an independent platform right away.

watch out for video sizes tbh they usually give you ridiculous caps like one gigabyte total once u upload high res design videos it fills up by the second lesson and forces u onto a paid plan.

Are you planning to do live streams or grade assignments? Most free tiers completely lock down community features, file uploads, and homework submissions. Is your course strictly pre-recorded video, or is student interaction a must?

The three main bottlenecks you'll run into are: 1) You can't use your own custom domain, so you won't build brand awareness 2) They won't let you export your student email list, or they make it extremely difficult 3) High transaction fees will eat up your profits.

While building your own site sounds great, server maintenance, anti-piracy protection for videos, setting up email notifications, and invoicing integrations can take weeks. Spending fifty hours dealing with tech headaches to save a hundred euros doesn't always make sense.

If you are issuing invoices directly to your students, make sure to watch out for tax regulations in Italy as well. Free international platforms do not handle local invoicing processes automatically meaning you will have to reconcile everything manually at the end of the month.

In short, free platforms are a great starting point just to test your content and validate demand. But the moment you start generating regular sales, the high commissions and video limitations will quickly force you to build your own site.

absolutely. if I were to add anything: The real issue isn't the number, but what it's based on.

if I were you I'd go this route.

Great work.

Timely topic.

Thanks a lot, I'll try it today.

Thanks, that was the answer I was looking for. Weekly written progress reports are much more useful than asking for dates.

I'd say don't rush. Every "we'll look at it later" in a meeting means unbilled work.

If you have questions, write them; I'll answer as best I can.

I'm a small business let me explain from my side. The harder it is to reverse a decision the slower you should make it.

This is my opinion, Im not claiming its absolute truth.

My perspective changed after experiencing that. Processes without records never improve, because you don't know what to fix.

If you have questions, write them; I'll answer as best I can.

My perspective changed after experiencing that. When making decisions write down the worst-case scenario too, not just the best.

The system lives on after delivery; maintenance is a separate line item. Hope this helps.

I'm curious too. The biggest time-waster for us was not knowing who had the final say.

Correct me if I'm wrong.