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Fayne uses Stripe Connect to handle payments. When a student buys a course, the money goes directly into your Stripe account. You connect your own Stripe account once, set a price on the courses you want to sell, and start accepting payments. Fayne charges a small platform fee per sale depending on your plan (see Platform fees below).

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Connect your Stripe account

Before you can accept payments, you need to connect a Stripe account. In your owner dashboard, go to Settings > Payments and click Connect Stripe. You are redirected to Stripe to authorize the connection to your existing Stripe account. Once you approve, you are returned to your dashboard and your account is linked.
Connecting Stripe requires a paid plan (Pro or Scale); free and trial academies cannot connect Stripe. You need a connected Stripe account to sell paid courses, so if all of your courses are free, you can skip the Stripe connection.

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How course pricing works

Pricing in Fayne is set per course. Each course is either free or has a one-time price.

Free courses

Set a course to free and students enroll without a payment step. No Stripe connection is required for free courses. Good for lead magnets, client value-adds, or an introductory course that leads into your paid ones.

One-time price

Give a course a price and students pay once through Stripe Checkout to get permanent access. Prices are stored in cents (for example, 4900 means 49.00)andstartata49.00) and start at a 1 minimum.
You set a course’s price in that course’s Access settings. You can mix free and paid courses in the same academy, so a free “Getting Started” course can sit alongside a paid flagship course.
Course pricing controls what a course costs. Who can join your academy in the first place is a separate setting: in Settings, your academy access model is either Open (anyone can sign up) or Invite only (students join by invitation). See Managing students for invitations.

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How checkout works for students

When a student buys a paid course, they go through Stripe Checkout, a payment page hosted by Stripe. After payment, they are redirected back to your academy and their enrollment is activated immediately.

Stripe Checkout

Stripe’s hosted checkout handles card validation, 3D Secure, and international payments. You do not need to build or maintain a payment form.

Direct to your account

Charges are made directly on your connected Stripe account, so payouts and customer records live in your own Stripe dashboard.

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Platform fees

Payments go directly to your Stripe account, and Fayne takes an application fee on each paid sale based on your plan:
PlanFayne fee per sale
Pro3%
Scale0%
Stripe’s own processing fees apply separately and are set by Stripe. Your Stripe dashboard is the source of truth for gross sales, fees, and payouts.

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Revenue and reporting

Your owner dashboard shows your revenue under Sales and Insights: gross sales, your net after fees, refunds, a revenue-over-time chart, and a per-course breakdown for the period you select. For full transaction history, disputes, and payout schedules, open your Stripe dashboard.
Yes. Update the price in the course’s Access settings at any time. Students who have already purchased the course keep their access; a price change only affects new purchases.
Yes. Payments go directly to your Stripe account, and Fayne deducts an application fee per sale: 3% on Pro, and 0% on Scale. Stripe’s processing fees are separate.
Yes. Set the course back to free in its Access settings. New students enroll without paying. Existing purchasers are unaffected.