Should you offer a free or paid course?
Choose a free course when your goal is education, audience building, professional development, member benefits, or lead generation. Learners sign up and receive course access without purchasing it. Choose a paid course when you want to earn course revenue: learners purchase through a Course Sales Page, payment is processed through your connected Stripe account, and they then receive access.
Choose the model that fits your goal
A free course can help people learn from you while supporting audience-building or lead-generation goals. A paid course creates a purchase path for learners and course revenue for you. You can offer both free and paid courses.
What learners do to enroll
Both types of course can be found through an Authority Page and a Course Sales Page. For a free course, a learner signs up, enrolls, and gets course access; no course purchase is required. For a paid course, a learner signs up and pays on the Course Sales Page. The payment is processed through connected Stripe before enrollment and course access.
Who handles payments
Free course creation does not require a course payment. For paid courses, the creator is responsible for customer transactions, including applicable refunds, disputes, and chargebacks. Course revenue is separate from your OceSha AI subscription: Payment Details manages your subscription payments to OceSha AI, not payments from learners buying your course.
Frequently asked questions
Can I offer free and paid courses?
Yes. If you offer both, you can review free and paid enrollment activity.
Where can learners learn about a course before enrolling?
A published course can have an external Course Sales Page where prospective learners can learn about it and enroll.
Is my OceSha AI subscription payment method the same as my course-payment account?
No. Your subscription payment method is managed in Payment Details. Paid course purchases are processed through your connected Stripe account.
Start with the outcome you want: free enrollment for learning and audience growth, or paid enrollment for course revenue. Then prepare the Course Sales Page and, if you choose paid enrollment, connect Stripe.
Plan your course offer