> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://fayneos.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Set Pricing and Accept Payments in Your Academy

> Set each course to free, paid, or members-only, sell bundles and the Academy Pass, and connect Stripe to receive payments directly in your own account.

Fayne uses Stripe Connect to handle payments. When a student buys from you, the money goes directly into your Stripe account. You connect your own Stripe account once, decide what to sell, and start accepting payments. Fayne charges a small platform fee per sale depending on your plan (see [Platform fees](#platform-fees) below).

## Connect your Stripe account

Before you can accept payments, you need to connect a Stripe account. In your owner dashboard, go to **Settings > Payments** and click **Connect Stripe**. You are redirected to Stripe to authorize the connection to your existing Stripe account. Once you approve, you are returned to your dashboard and your account is linked.

<Note>
  Connecting Stripe requires a paid plan (Starter, Pro, or Scale); trial academies cannot connect Stripe. You need a connected Stripe account to sell, so if everything in your academy is free, you can skip the Stripe connection.
</Note>

## What you can sell

Selling in Fayne is built on [Offers](/docs/payments/offers). The simplest offer is a price on a single course; bundles and the Academy Pass build on the same primitive.

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  <Card title="Free courses" icon="gift">
    Set a course to free and everyone in your academy can start it, with no payment step and no Stripe connection required. Good for lead magnets, client value-adds, or an introductory course that leads into your paid ones.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Paid courses" icon="credit-card">
    Give a course a one-time price between \$1 and \$999. Students pay once through Stripe Checkout and keep access permanently.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Bundles" icon="boxes">
    Sell several courses as one product with its own name, cover, and shareable product page. Charge once or monthly. See [Offers](/docs/payments/offers).
  </Card>

  <Card title="Academy Pass" icon="key-round">
    One offer that unlocks every course in your academy, including ones you publish later. Sell it as a one-time purchase or a subscription.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

You set a course's access (free, paid, or members-only) in that course's settings, or for all courses at once from **Sell → Course pricing**. See [Pricing Models](/docs/payments/pricing-models) for how the three settings behave.

<Note>
  Course pricing controls what a course costs. Who can join your academy in the first place is a separate setting: in **Settings**, your academy access model is either **Open** (anyone can sign up) or **Invite only** (students join by invitation). The two combine freely, so an invite-only academy can still sell to its invited members. See [Managing students](/docs/students/managing-students) for invitations.
</Note>

## How checkout works for students

When a student buys, they go through Stripe Checkout, a payment page hosted by Stripe. After payment, they land on a celebration screen that lists exactly what they unlocked, and everything the purchase covers is available immediately.

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  <Card title="Stripe Checkout" icon="credit-card">
    Stripe's hosted checkout handles card validation, 3D Secure, and international payments. You do not need to build or maintain a payment form.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Direct to your account" icon="arrow-down-right">
    Charges are made directly on your connected Stripe account, so payouts and customer records live in your own Stripe dashboard.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

<Note>
  On an academy with open signup, buyers can purchase without creating an account first. They pay, then Fayne creates their account from the email Stripe collected and sends a sign-in link; one click and their access is ready. Invite-only academies keep buyers on the sign-in flow, since access there is tied to their invitation.
</Note>

For a bundle or the Academy Pass sold as a subscription, the student is billed on the interval you set (monthly or yearly) and manages the subscription from **Purchases** in their account area, where they can cancel or resume. Canceling stops billing but keeps their access until the end of the paid period.

## Platform fees

Payments go directly to your Stripe account, and Fayne takes an application fee on each paid sale based on your plan:

| Plan    | Fayne fee per sale |
| ------- | ------------------ |
| Starter | 5%                 |
| Pro     | 3%                 |
| Scale   | 0%                 |

Stripe's own processing fees apply separately and are set by Stripe. Your Stripe dashboard is the source of truth for gross sales, fees, and payouts.

## Revenue and reporting

Your owner dashboard shows your revenue in two places: **Sell → Transactions** is the ledger (every purchase, refund, and dispute, with gross, fees, and net, refunds you can issue in place, plus CSV export, filterable to a single offer), and **Insights** shows revenue trends and a per-course breakdown for the period you select. Each offer's hub also has an Overview tab with that offer's own revenue and, for subscriptions, its active-subscriber and past-due counts. For full transaction history, disputes, and payout schedules, open your Stripe dashboard.

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  <Accordion title="Can I change a course's price after launch?">
    Yes. Update it in the course's settings or the Sell → Course pricing table at any time. Students who have already purchased keep their access; a price change only affects new purchases. For a subscription offer, existing subscribers keep paying their original price until they cancel.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Does Fayne take a percentage of my revenue?">
    Yes. Payments go directly to your Stripe account, and Fayne deducts an application fee per sale: 5% on Starter, 3% on Pro, and 0% on Scale. Stripe's processing fees are separate.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Can I make a paid course free later?">
    Yes. Set the course back to free in its settings. New students start it without paying. Existing purchasers are unaffected.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>