CoursePay.co
Beta · onboarding our first academies

The finance system for modern academies.

Invoices, deposits, payment plans and direct debits in one branded dashboard. Students pay on a Klarna-style portal. You get notified when anything breaks.

Bank-grade security
Built for academies
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Remaining balance
£1,575
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Live walkthrough

See it end-to-end in 60 seconds

Create an invoice, pay it as a student, then watch the academy dashboard light up with reminders and activity in real time.

01

Create the invoice

Build a branded invoice and 6-month plan in the academy wizard.

Open invoice builder
02

Pay as a student

Olivia just received her invoice. Sign the agreement and pay the £300 deposit on her secure link.

Open Olivia's pay link
03

Reminders hit the academy

The owner sees a deposit-paid notification, fresh activity entry, and the dashboard balance updates.

See academy inbox

Invoice & plan builder

Branded invoices, deposit + 3/6/12-month plans, custom schedules.

Provider switching

Stripe, GoCardless, Square, PayPal — pick the right rails per student.

Recovery & reminders

Auto-retries, certificate holds, friendly reminder templates.

Pricing

One plan per stage of growth.

Start on a low-cost monthly plan and scale up as your academy grows. Cancel any time.

Pay as you grow
Starter
£39.99/month
2% per invoice
Unlimited active payment plans
  • Unlimited invoices & students
  • Student payment portal
  • Digital terms & agreements
  • Automated payment reminders
  • Stripe, PayPal, Square & GoCardless
  • Direct bank transfer support
  • Email support
Get started
Most Popular
Most Popular
Professional
£149/month
0% platform fee
Up to 20 active payment plans
  • Up to 20 active payment plans
  • 0% platform transaction fee
  • 2 staff accounts
  • Everything in Starter
  • Standard support
Get started
Established
Growth
£199/month
0% platform fee
Up to 50 active payment plans
  • Up to 50 active payment plans
  • 0% platform transaction fee
  • 5 staff accounts
  • Advanced reporting (cohorts, aging, CSV export)
  • Everything in Professional
  • Priority support
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Scaling
Business
£299/month
0% platform fee
Up to 75 active payment plans
  • Up to 75 active payment plans
  • 0% platform transaction fee
  • 10 staff accounts
  • Custom payment schedules
  • Everything in Growth
  • Premium support
Get started
Enterprise
Unlimited
£399/month
0% platform fee
Unlimited active payment plans
  • Unlimited active payment plans
  • 0% platform transaction fee
  • Unlimited staff accounts
  • White-label branding (logo & brand colour)
  • Custom payment schedules
  • Dedicated account manager
  • VIP priority support
  • API access (coming soon)
Get started

All plans include Stripe payments, automated reminders, a branded student portal and digital agreements.

Why we built this

One tool instead of five.

Stop stitching spreadsheets, Stripe links, mail-merge and chase emails. CoursePay is built for how academies actually take payment.

The old way
  • Manual Stripe links + payment-plan spreadsheets
  • Chase missed payments by hand over WhatsApp
  • Send signed PDF agreements via email
  • Receipts re-typed into Xero each month
  • No visibility on who's ahead, behind, or at risk
With CoursePay
  • Branded plan links · deposit + monthly schedules
  • Auto-retries, certificate holds, smart reminder cadence
  • In-portal signature · agreement stored & timestamped
  • Live receipts, Xero export, real-time cashflow forecast
  • Dashboard with KPIs, sparklines and at-risk alerts
Early access

Be one of our first academies.

We're onboarding founding academies now. Get hands-on setup help, lock in early-access pricing, and shape the roadmap.

Create my academy
JM
A note from the founder

I built CoursePay after watching my partner run an academy on twelve Stripe links and a panic-spreadsheet. Every Sunday was a chase session. We knew there had to be a better way — so we built the finance system we wished existed.

James Mercer· Founder, CoursePay.co
Trust & Compliance

Built on bank-grade rails. Designed for academies.

How payments are processed, how student data is handled, and what's real vs simulated in this demo.

256-bit TLSPCI DSS L1UK GDPR
Payments

Bank-grade payment rails

Production CoursePay processes payments through Stripe, GoCardless, PayPal and Square — all PCI DSS Level 1 certified. Card details never touch our servers. Direct Debits are covered by the UK Direct Debit Guarantee.

  • Tokenised card vaulting
  • Strong Customer Authentication (3DS2)
  • Per-student provider routing
Data

Your data, encrypted & isolated

All academy and student data is encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.3). Records are stored in UK/EU regions, row-level isolated per academy, with full audit trails on every action.

  • UK/EU data residency
  • Role-based access controls
  • GDPR data export & erasure on request
Demo

This is a simulated demo

No real money moves. All students, invoices, signatures and payments live in your browser. Reminders and notifications fire instantly so you can see the full loop — but nothing is sent to real students or banks.

  • No live charges or mandates
  • Browser-local state, no PII collected
  • Resets when you clear site data
SCA / 3DS2 UK/EU hosting SOC 2 partners AES-256 at rest
Production-grade · Demo runs locally