LearnPress Commission Add-on

Transform your LearnPress-powered website into a fully functional multi-vendor marketplace with the LearnPress Commission Add-on. This essential tool bridges the gap between course creators and platform owners, allowing you to automatically calculate and distribute earnings based on predefined commission rates. Whether you are building an educational hub, a professional training academy, or a niche learning platform, this add-on provides the financial infrastructure needed to manage complex revenue sharing effortlessly, ensuring your instructors are paid fairly and promptly while you retain your platform’s share.

Key Features

• Automated Commission Calculations: Eliminate manual spreadsheets and human error. The system automatically calculates the commission percentage for each sale based on the rules you define, ensuring accurate payouts every time a student enrolls in a course.
• Flexible Commission Rates: Set global commission rates for all instructors or customize rates on a per-instructor basis. This flexibility allows you to reward top-performing educators with higher splits or adjust margins based on specific partnership agreements.
• Comprehensive Earnings Tracking: Gain full visibility into your marketplace finances. Both site administrators and individual instructors can track their earnings, pending commissions, and completed payouts through a dedicated, intuitive dashboard.
• Detailed Transaction Reporting: Keep your accounting organized with detailed logs of every transaction. View order history, commission breakdowns, and payment statuses to maintain transparency and trust with your teaching partners.
• Seamless Integration: Designed specifically for the LearnPress ecosystem, this add-on works in perfect harmony with your existing course content, student management tools, and payment gateways, requiring no complex custom coding to get started.
• Instructor Payout Management: Streamline the disbursement process by tracking which commissions have been paid and which are still outstanding, helping you maintain a consistent and professional payment schedule for your contributors.

Use Cases / Who It’s For

The LearnPress Commission Add-on is the ultimate solution for entrepreneurs and organizations looking to scale their educational platforms through a collaborative model. If you are an administrator aiming to build a site similar to Udemy or Skillshare, this plugin is indispensable. It is specifically designed for:

Multi-Instructor Marketplaces: If you want to invite external experts to host courses on your site, this tool provides the necessary framework to manage the revenue-sharing aspect of the business relationship professionally.

Educational Agencies: For agencies that manage a roster of trainers, this add-on simplifies the process of compensating staff or contractors based on the performance of their individual courses.

Niche Training Hubs: If you are building a specialized learning portal for a specific industry—such as coding, culinary arts, or professional certification—you can use this add-on to incentivize industry leaders to contribute content, knowing that their compensation is handled automatically and transparently.

Setup / How It Works

Getting started with the LearnPress Commission Add-on is designed to be straightforward, allowing you to focus on growing your marketplace rather than wrestling with complex configurations.

1. Installation and Activation: Once installed, activate the add-on within your WordPress dashboard to unlock the commission management settings in the LearnPress menu.
2. Define Global Settings: Navigate to the plugin settings to establish your default commission rate. This will serve as the baseline for all instructors unless otherwise specified.
3. Configure Individual Instructor Rates: If you have specific agreements with certain instructors, you can override the global settings by editing their profile settings within the LearnPress instructor management area.
4. Monitor Sales and Earnings: As students purchase courses, the plugin automatically records the sale and calculates the commission. You can view these details in the dedicated reports section, which provides a clear breakdown of the site owner’s revenue versus the instructor’s commission.
5. Process Payouts: Use the reporting data to manage your payment schedule, ensuring that all contributors are compensated according to your platform’s payout policy.