Online course & membership platform with your own data, your own checkout, your own shipping. Bilingual, no platform subscription, no lock-in.
Builder platforms are quick to set up - as long as your model fits the grid. Bilingual courses, custom shipping, regulars area, book sales with country-dependent postage: three modules glued together, monthly subscription plus transaction fees, and in the end everything runs on someone else's servers.
Online courses, members area and book sales in one platform. Stripe checkout with country-dependent shipping, your own auth layer, bilingual (DE/EN). Member data, orders, course progress all live with you - not with the provider.
Course content, progress and membership status in one platform - with your own login area instead of a platform account.
Payment runs through your own Stripe contract. No extra transaction fee to a course platform on top.
Physical products alongside the course - postage is calculated by destination country, not bolted on as a plug-in.
Courses, shop and member area in two languages - one data set, no second platform.
Members, orders and course progress stay with you. Hosting where you choose: Austria, EU or international.
Courses, members and payment data come across in parallel operation - cut-over on a set day, no course downtime.
Course platforms are quick to set up and charge every month for it - plus a share of revenue. When your model does not fit the grid, you pay twice: fees and workarounds. The honest comparison:
| Course platform | mP Academy | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Monthly subscription plus transaction or revenue share | One-off investment, then hosting and the Stripe fee |
| Participant data | Sits with the platform | Sits with you - members, orders, progress |
| Language and shipping | One standard, extensions as plug-ins | Bilingual, country-based shipping, book sales built in |
| Design | The platform templates | Your brand, your domain, your flow |
| Switching | Export, as far as the platform allows | Migration path from Kajabi - walked together with Dominique Scharax |
For a single course with a standard flow, a platform is often the right choice. We tell you the volume at which your own platform pays off - before anyone builds anything.
Builders are strong when your model fits the grid. Where it doesn't - bilingual courses, custom shipping, custom member logic, book sales - we build the platform around your model. No monthly platform fee, no lock-in, full data sovereignty. Dominique Scharax is currently moving off Kajabi onto an own platform - that's the path we walk with you.
Platform subscriptions cost per month plus transaction fees - predictable, tied to the model. An own platform is a one-time investment with low running cost (hosting + Stripe fee). At what volume that pays off, we tell you before anyone builds anything.
Yes, both are built in. Stripe checkout runs on the standard merchant contract; shipping is calculated per destination country - not a plug-in pile, but part of the platform.
