Where they are hosted
The database is in the United States (Virginia), the application servers in Nuremberg, Germany. Better said than guessed.
Paths, pronunciation, corrections, daily practice, courses and community — in one place, with one login for your students. Fixed price, and 0 % on what you charge.
See pricing €97/month, all included →
This is not a picture: it is the platform, live, on a demo Spanish-learning community. Click inside, move around. The data is fictional.
The heart of the platform
Fourteen screens, open live on a demo community. Click inside, move around: this is not a mock-up, it is the platform. Six more tools right below, and everything is in the subscription.
The words that trip them up, with their phonetic transcription, your tip and a difficulty level. Your students practise them and you see which ones come back most.
The rolled R explained once, findable by everyone.
An email, an essay, an exam task: the student submits it, you correct it, they see where it stands — open, reviewed, closed. No more texts lost in your inbox.
Corrections are explained in a dedicated channel.
“From A2 to B1 in 12 weeks”, “DELE countdown”: steps in order, ticked off one by one, with a progress bar. The student always knows what to do next.
Students can build their own path too.
Fifteen minutes of listening, twenty of conversation: every session logged, the week in bars, the streak of days. They see they are moving; you see who went quiet.
A little every day, made visible.
“I help you with French, you help me with Spanish”: your students offer what they know and find a conversation partner inside the community.
Tandem partners, without looking elsewhere.
Your method in lessons and chapters: grammar, conversation, exam preparation. Free or kept for your paying tier, with each student’s progress.
No separate course platform.
Your community in channels: introductions, small wins, corrections, and a speaking channel where they post what is hard and you answer with a tip.
Channels kept for your paying students.
Conversation club, grammar clinic, mock exam: in the calendar, with RSVP, in each student’s time zone.
No separate scheduling tool for your group sessions.
One-to-one with you or between students, in the same app as everything else. Nobody has to give you their phone number.
Conversations with your students stay in your space.
The questions everyone asks — ser or estar, the subjunctive, understanding fast native speakers — answered once, searchable forever.
Fewer repeated DMs.
Who is in the community, at what level, for which plan. Your students find each other: someone moving to the same city, someone preparing the same exam.
A community, not a student list.
Every finished lesson, logged session and submitted text earns points. The monthly leaderboard nudges those who slow down.
Consistency rewarded, not just level.
Every week, two students with close interests are paired, with an idea to start the conversation.
Speaking practice, organised without you.
Points earned are exchanged for what you decide: a free correction, a private session, early access.
You set the rewards, they come for them.
The math
Assumption: 100 students paying $49/month, so $4,900 collected each month, community on Skool, paths and exercises on Teachable, group-session sign-ups on Calendly. Public prices checked on the vendors’ pages on 10 November 2026.
Three subscriptions, three tools, several logins for your students.
The fee grows with you: at $9,800 collected a month, that cut alone reaches $284. And Teachable’s community space only comes with its Growth plan, at $189.
One app, one login, your domain.
Over $220 less a month at this size, and the gap widens with every student you add. Your students open one app instead of three. Everything is included, there is nothing to add.
Side by side
Skool is built for communities and courses, Teachable for courses and graded exercises. Each does its job well; neither does speaking, writing and community in one place, under your name. Only what the vendors state on their pricing pages is written here, checked on 10 November 2026.
Swipe the table →
| Bonfire | Skool Pro | Teachable Builder | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Written exercises to hand in | Included | No | Yes |
| Practice log and pronunciation | Included | No | Not on its pricing page |
| Auto-graded quizzes | Included | No | Yes |
| Courses with lessons | Included | Yes | Yes |
| Community space | Included | Yes | Growth plan, $189/mo |
| Fee on your sales | 0 % | 2.9% | 0% on the Builder plan |
| App under your brand | Included | No | Teachable student apps (iOS, Android) |
| Price at 100 students | €97, all included | $99 + 2.9% | $89, no community |
Commissions come on top of payment processor fees, which exist everywhere, with us as with them. What this table compares is what is taken on top of every dollar you collect.
What nobody says
On Skool, every payment from your students leaves 2.9% in commission, on top of the processor fees. At 100 students paying $49, that is $142 a month; at 200 students, $284 — for exactly the same tool.
With us the price is fixed: €97 a month, whether you collect $3,000 or $30,000. Your students pay you directly, on your own Stripe account: we take nothing on the way.
“2.9% transaction fee”
Skool pricing page, Pro plan — checked on 10 November 2026Made to measure
The platform is not frozen software you take as is. What makes your method yours — your placement test, your marking grid, your exam preparation — can become a module of its own, built for you and living inside your space.
Your students do not see a bolted-on extra: they see a feature of your teaching, in the same place as the rest, with your data.
A placement test that puts the student on the right path · a marking grid with your criteria · a timed mock exam · an automatic progress report to your students · a link to the tool you already use.
You describe the need, we quote the module and its timing. Build, testing with you, release in your space. The module is maintained with the platform: it does not break at the next update.
Quoted case by case, once, on top of your subscription. No module is billed before you approve the quote.
On the phone
The platform goes on the home screen, on iPhone and Android, and opens full screen — no browser bar. No app store, no review, no 30% cut. And it is your name under the icon, not ours.
Live, at phone size.
Roadmap
You are not renting frozen software. What follows is the real state of the product: what just arrived, what is in progress, what is built on request. Everything delivered is delivered for everyone, at no extra cost.
This list is kept up to date. What is not on it is not promised.
Your data
You are trusting us with the details, the writing and the payments of people who trust you. It is the question a serious teacher asks before signing, so the answer is on the page rather than in a document sent afterwards.
The database is in the United States (Virginia), the application servers in Nuremberg, Germany. Better said than guessed.
Each of the 283 tables enforces its access rules in the database itself, not in the page code. A display bug cannot show another teacher’s students: the database would refuse the request.
The site only accepts current transport encryption and refuses older versions. The database is encrypted on disk. Passwords are never stored in clear, including by us.
No data can be read without being a member of the community. No student list reachable by guessing an address, no paid lesson readable from outside.
We sell nothing, train no model on your content or on your students’ writing, and never contact your students. You export whenever you want and ask for deletion when you leave.
Your students pay on your own Stripe account. Card numbers are entered at the payment processor, never on our servers: we neither see nor keep any.
Pricing
One offer, complete. No tier to compare, no feature kept for those who pay more, and no setup fee.
The whole offer
€97/month
The whole product. No tier, no option to unlock.
Secure payment. Cancel anytime.
We import your members and your courses, rebuild your price grid, set up your brand and your domain. Your students sign in and find their access, their seniority and their tier: nobody signs up again. Their subscription is taken over on the date you choose — we tell you exactly how, platform by platform, before you sign.
It is the first question everyone asks. It is included in the subscription: there is no setup fee.
The way out
Handing your students to a stranger is the real risk on this page. Here is what happens if you want to leave — better said before you pay than after.
The subscription is paid monthly and stops monthly. No yearly contract, no cancellation penalty, no bundle you must sign to get the displayed price.
Your members, their tiers and seniority, your courses, your messages: everything exports from your admin, at any time, without asking us. It is a feature of the product, not a favour.
The platform runs on your domain, which you own. The day you point it elsewhere, your students follow without changing address.
We import your members and content, rebuild your price grid, switch subscriptions on the date you set. It is included in the subscription: no entry fee, and no exit fee either.
What teachers ask
I only use Teachable. Why pay more?
You should not, if recorded courses are all you sell: Teachable Builder is $89 a month, less than us. Bonfire becomes the cheaper setup the moment you also run a community — Teachable keeps it for its Growth plan, at $189 — or pay Skool or Circle to host it.
And my current students?
They are imported with their seniority and tier, and find everything when they sign in — nobody signs up again. Payment methods do not move between platforms: that is a processor rule, not a choice. We switch subscriptions without double charges, on the date you set, and show you the method before you sign.
If I stop one day, do I lose everything?
No. Exporting your members and content is possible at any time, from your admin. Your community stays yours.
Start
A thirty-minute demo, on an instance with your brand, with your paths and tiers already in place. You will see exactly what your students will see.
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No commitment. No card asked.
The family
Same foundation, same community, course and progress modules — plus what learning a language needs: paths, pronunciation, writing corrections and daily practice. What you see here runs on Bonfire.
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