Before you send us a single file, you should know exactly what a sale will pay you. Not a range, not an estimate, but the amount that will show up on your statement. This article gives you that number at six common price points, from a $1 worksheet to a $50 bundle, along with the formula behind it so you can check any price you like.
The short version: you keep 67.9% of the price the customer paid, at every price, with no fees on top. If that works for you, you can submit your resources now and read the rest later.
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The formula in one line
Every sale follows the same rule. We take the price the customer actually paid, excluding sales tax or VAT and after any discount. We deduct the payment processing cost, which is always 3% of the transaction. What is left is net revenue. You receive 70% of it and TeachLessons keeps 30%.
Written as a formula, your payout is the price × 0.97 × 0.70, which comes to 67.9% of the sale price. On a $10 sale, the payment cost is $0.30, net revenue is $9.70, you receive $6.79 and we keep $2.91. There is no membership fee, no annual fee, no sign-up fee and no per-resource transaction fee.
The full table
These are the amounts for one sale of one resource at each price. Figures are rounded to the cent. Add the two columns together and you get the price minus the 3% payment cost.
| Price | You receive (70% of net) | TeachLessons keeps (30% of net) |
|---|---|---|
| $1.00 | $0.68 | $0.29 |
| $3.00 | $2.04 | $0.87 |
| $5.00 | $3.40 | $1.45 |
| $10.00 | $6.79 | $2.91 |
| $20.00 | $13.58 | $5.82 |
| $50.00 | $33.95 | $14.55 |
Why the share is the same at every price
Because the only deduction before the split is a flat percentage, your share does not change with the price. A $1 worksheet pays you 67.9% of the price, and so does a $50 bundle. There is no fixed fee per resource that takes a bigger bite out of cheap items.
That matters if a lot of your catalog is small. Fixed per-item fees, wherever you meet them, hit low-priced resources hardest. With TeachLessons, a $3 resource pays you $2.04 and a $1 resource pays $0.68, in the same proportion as everything else. Bundling can still make sense for other reasons, and our article on when bundles beat single resources explains when.
Working out a price that isn't in the table
Your prices probably aren't round numbers, so here are two worked examples using the same rule.
At $8, the 3% payment cost is $0.24, leaving $7.76 in net revenue. Your 70% of that is about $5.43, and our 30% is about $2.33. At $12, the payment cost is $0.36, net revenue is $11.64, and you receive about $8.15.
The quickest way on a phone calculator is to multiply the price by 0.679. Try it with two or three of your own best sellers. If you'd rather skip the arithmetic, the payout calculator does it for you.
Discounts follow the same logic. If a $20 unit is sold at half price during a promotion, the customer pays $10 and you receive $6.79, exactly as on a regular $10 sale. If a customer is refunded, the sale is reversed and no payout is made on it.
To see how this adds up over a month, take a seller who sells 25 copies of a $5 resource and 12 copies of a $10 one. The $5 sales pay 25 × $3.40 = $85.00. The $10 sales pay 12 × $6.79 = $81.48. That month's statement would show $166.48, with every sale listed so you can check each line.
What the table doesn't tell you
Per-sale amounts tell you what you receive if a sale happens. They don't tell you how many sales you will get, and we can't promise any particular number. We would rather be clear about that than let a table suggest more than it shows.
What we can describe is what comes with each listing. Our 30% pays for running the store and for work on your resources: we write or improve the title, description, FAQ and structured data for every accepted resource, and we feature seller resources on landing pages, in relevant Teacher Hub articles and in a seller spotlight. You get an author profile. You keep your copyright, grant us a non-exclusive licence and can remove a resource at any time, so you can keep selling it on your own site or anywhere else your agreements allow.
Where to go next
For a step-by-step look at the split, including why the 3% comes off first, read how the TeachLessons 70/30 split works. If you are setting prices for a new resource, our guide to pricing your teaching resources may help.
When you're ready, send us your resources through the submission form with your author details. We review every submission for quality, originality and rights and reply by email. Payouts are monthly for the previous calendar month's sales, with a statement listing each sale. This is general information, not financial advice.
Key takeaway: With TeachLessons you receive 67.9% of every sale price, from $0.68 on a $1 resource to $33.95 on a $50 bundle, with no fees on top. Multiply any price by 0.679 to check it yourself.
Keep 70% of net revenue. No fees, no exclusivity.
We take out the 3% payment cost, then you keep 70%. That is $6.79 on a $10 sale. We also handle SEO for every accepted resource and feature it on our pages.
Questions sellers ask
What share of the sale price do I receive?
You receive 67.9% of the price the customer paid. That is 70% of net revenue, where net revenue is the price minus a flat 3% payment processing cost.
Why do I receive 67.9% and not 70%?
The 3% payment processing cost comes off the top before the split. You receive 70% of the remaining 97%, which equals 67.9% of the price.
Do these amounts change for orders with several resources?
No. Because there is no fixed fee per resource or per order, each resource pays the same 67.9% of its price whether it is bought alone or with others.
More for teacher-sellers
General information about the TeachLessons Seller Program, not legal, tax or financial advice. The seller agreement you receive before listing sets out the binding terms.
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