Front door
A free public channel
A public channel is a sample of your teaching. Post one complete lesson, a weekly exercise with its solution, or answers to common questions. A reader should learn something real from it without paying.
For teachers and course creators
Sell courses on Telegram with a paid study group
Telegram works well for teaching that happens over weeks. Lessons arrive as posts, files and voice notes, and students ask questions in the same place.
Students pay you directly through your own Stripe account, and MyMembers manages who has access to your course channel or study group.
Who this is for
- Language teachers and tutors running group classes.
- Exam preparation teachers with a study group that runs up to an exam date.
- Course creators in programming, design, music, marketing or any subject that benefits from a community next to the lessons.
- Writers and experts who teach through a paid channel of lessons and Q&A.
The model
How a paid course or study group works
The product
A paid channel or group
Most educators split the paid side in two. A private channel holds the lessons in order, so a new student can scroll from lesson one. A private group is the classroom, where students ask questions and post their work. One plan can unlock both.
The promise
What members get
List the syllabus, the number of lessons, how often new material appears, whether you give feedback on homework and how long access lasts. If the course has an end, say what happens after it.
Setup
Set up a paid course channel
Prepare the first lessons before you open the doors, so the first student to pay finds something to study.
- 1
Connect Stripe
Complete onboarding and connect your own Stripe account. Students pay into it directly.
- 2
Create your page
Your course page lives at mymembers.io/yourname. Put the syllabus and schedule in the description.
- 3
Fill the lessons channel, then connect it
Post your opening lessons and pin a contents post. Then add @mymembersadminbot to the channel, and to the study group, as an admin with full admin rights.
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Choose how students pay
Create a subscription billed in weeks, months or years, or a one-time price, and choose which channel and group it unlocks.
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Share the enrolment link
Post it in your public channel and anywhere your students already follow you. Each student is invited when they pay.
Pricing
Pricing patterns for courses and study groups
The right structure depends on whether your teaching has an end date.
Monthly membership
For ongoing communities where new lessons keep arriving, such as language practice or a study club.
Billed per term
Set the interval to every few months or every year to match a term or an exam cycle.
One-time payment
For a self-contained course: a single payment and no renewal.
Lessons only, or lessons plus classroom
A lower plan that unlocks the lessons channel, and a higher plan that adds the study group with your feedback.
Free sample over free trial
A lessons channel shows all its content at once, so a free trial gives away more than it would for a live service. A sample lesson in your public channel is often the better offer.
Coupons
A percentage or fixed amount off for early enrolment or returning students.
Read this first
What to deliver so students stay
Students stay when they can see their own progress. Most of what follows is about making that progress visible.
- Publish on a schedule
- New lesson on fixed days, at a fixed time. A course that goes silent for two weeks loses its students even if the material is good.
- Make the first hour easy
- Pin a start-here post: where lesson one is, how the group works, what to do before the next session.
- Give feedback people can use
- Homework that nobody reads stops being handed in. If your page promises feedback, decide how much you can give and say so.
- Keep the classroom on topic
- Set the group rules on day one and moderate. A study group full of off-topic chat is hard for a serious student to use.
- Teach with material you own
- The acceptable use policy forbids selling content you do not have the rights to. That covers scanned textbooks and other people’s paid courses.
- Be honest about outcomes
- Do not promise grades, certificates you cannot issue, jobs or income. The policy forbids false or misleading claims about what subscribers get.
What it costs
MyMembers charges a 5% commission on each sale. There is no monthly fee, and the fee is invoiced monthly for the previous month. If you sell at high volume, we agree a lower rate with you. Payments go straight to your own Stripe account, where Stripe's own processing fees apply.
Smart Recovery, an optional service that tries to win back members who cancel or fail to renew, is on by default for new pages. You pay for it only when a member is recovered: 20% of the revenue it recovers, as set out in the terms. You can turn it off in your page settings.
Further reading
- PricingThe 5% commission and what is included.
- Telegram membership botWhat the bot does in your channels and groups.
- MyMembers vs WhopWhat differs if you sell access to Telegram.
- MyMembers vs InviteMemberHow the two Telegram membership bots compare.
- Subscription pricing strategyHow to think about what to charge.
- Membership growth strategiesFinding the next students for your community.
Questions
educators questions
Yes. Put the lessons in a private Telegram channel, use a private group as the classroom and connect both to a MyMembers page. Students pay you through your own Stripe account and the bot gives them access.
Use a channel for lessons, because only you can post there and the material stays in order. Use a group for questions, homework and discussion. One plan can unlock both.
Yes. Besides subscriptions billed in weeks, months or years, you can set a one-time price for a course that has a fixed scope.
The bot removes the student from the channel and group their plan unlocked. If they subscribe again, they are invited again.
Yes. Connect a channel or group for each course and create a plan for each one that unlocks only its own channels.
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Ready when you are
Open enrolment for your course.
Connect Stripe, add the bot to your lessons channel and share one link. Setup is free.
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