Instructor Terms

1. Your courses and content

• You must own, or have permission to use, everything in your courses: videos, slides, documents, images, music and quizzes.
• You keep ownership of your content. You give ABBLEARN a worldwide, non-exclusive licence to host, stream, promote and sell your courses on the marketplace, and to let learners who enrol use them.
• Learners who buy or enrol on a course keep access to it, including after you stop selling it, so they can finish what they paid for.
• Your course must not contain anything unlawful, hateful, sexually explicit, misleading or harmful, or advertise other services.

2. Review and listing

• The ABBLEARN review team checks every course before it is listed. They may ask for changes or decline a course.
• After approval you can keep improving your course. Changes to the course page or curriculum go live straight away, and the review team may check them.
• The review team may take a course off the marketplace (unlist it) if it no longer meets these terms. You will be told why. Learners who bought it keep access, and you can ask for it to be listed again once it is fixed.

3. Prices, coupons and promotions

• You choose whether a course is free or paid. Paid courses cost between £4.99 and £999.99.
• Prices are shown to learners including any VAT due.
• You can create coupon codes for the courses you lead, including codes that make a course free.
• ABBLEARN may run promotions that discount your paid courses.
• Any discount comes off the price before the platform fee is worked out, so you and ABBLEARN share it.

4. Your earnings

• ABBLEARN sells your courses to learners. The earnings from each sale go to the course's lead instructor.
• From what the learner pays, ABBLEARN first takes out any VAT due. It then keeps a platform fee, currently 20% of what is left. You receive the rest.
• Changes to the platform fee apply only to sales made after the change.
• You are paid through Stripe Connect. You must set up a payout account and accept Stripe's terms before a paid course can be sold.
• Your share is sent to your Stripe account when a sale is paid. Stripe then pays it to your bank on its own schedule.
• You are responsible for any income tax and other taxes due on your earnings.

5. VAT

For marketplace sales, ABBLEARN acts as the seller to learners. Where VAT is due on a sale, ABBLEARN collects it and pays it to the tax authority. VAT is never taken from your share.

6. Refunds

Learners can refund a paid course within 30 days of buying it, and ABBLEARN may refund in other cases, such as payment disputes. When a sale is refunded, your share of it is taken back from your payout account.

7. Ending and changes

• You can stop selling a course at any time by making it private. Learners who already have it keep their access.
• ABBLEARN may suspend instructors who break these terms. Any money owed for sales that were not refunded will still be paid.
• We may update these terms and will tell you before changes take effect. Teaching after the change means you accept the new terms.