Students: nothing to join
A student account is free. You pay only when you buy something: a ticket, a session pack, a subscription. On a one-off purchase the $5 platform fee shows as its own line at checkout, so nothing is hidden in the price.
One flat fee. Payouts through Stripe. Profit shared with the people who teach.
Arsclepius has no monthly fee. It earns a flat $5 on each paid order, covers its costs, and shares what is left with the instructors who actually taught in the period. This page is the whole model, with nothing rounded up.
- No monthly fee
- $5 flat per paid order
- Share paid quarterly, after costs
What things cost
Instructors, performers, communities: no monthly fee
No listing fee, no subscription, no percentage of your sales. The platform's only cut is the flat fee per paid order. You set every price.
The fee itself
$5 on every paid order. If an order is under $5, the fee equals the order and no more. On one-off purchases it is added on top for the buyer, so your price stays your price. On subscriptions it comes out of each cycle instead, because a recurring charge cannot carry a one-off line.
Card processing
Every payment runs through Stripe. Stripe's own processing charges apply to card payments as they do anywhere, and Stripe holds the bank details, not us.
How payouts work
Connect Stripe
Every seller connects a Stripe account from Settings. Stripe handles the identity checks and the bank details.
Ticket money is held for a week after the event
Ticket revenue is held until seven days after the event ends, then released to the host. The window exists so refunds under the event's refund policy, and any disputes, are settled before the money moves.
The release date is fixed at the moment of sale. Rescheduling an event never pulls a payout forward.
Packs and subscriptions settle as Stripe processes them
Session packs and subscription plans deliver immediately, so they pay to your connected account on Stripe's normal schedule with no hold.
Refunds follow the event's policy
You choose the policy when you create an event: all sales final, refundable until a cutoff, until the event starts, or any time. A refund returns the seat price and tax. The platform fee is not refunded, and the buyer is told that before confirming.
The revenue share
After costs, what is left of the platform's fees is shared among those actively teaching. Here is exactly how that is computed.
- After costs
- profit is shared, never revenue
- Quarterly
- when it closes and pays
- 50 / 50
- split evenly and by contribution
The waterfall. Fees collected in the period, minus the fees on orders that were refunded, minus the budgeted costs of running the platform: operations, salaries, advertising, a safety and support net, and leadership. If costs were not covered in earlier periods, that deficit carries forward and is covered first. Whatever remains is the pool, and it is never negative.
The split. Half of the pool is divided evenly among everyone who taught in the period, so nobody who taught is left with nothing. The other half is divided by contribution: each skill you verified for another person counts one point, each hour you taught one to one counts one point, and each person checked in at one of your events counts half a point.
Who is in. Eligibility is not a flag you tick. It is a non-zero contribution score for the period: you verified someone, taught someone, or had people through your door. Sales do not count at all. Ranking instructors by revenue would pay whoever charges the most, which is close to the opposite of the point.
People who work for Arsclepius can teach on it too. Their pay is a salary, which comes off the top as a cost. They are not in the ranked share.
Where it stands. The share is new. The first distribution comes at the first quarterly close where fees clear the platform's costs, and the ledger runs every quarter until then. The owner's console shows the real figures, and this page will say so when the first payout has gone out.
Standings, not money leaderboards
Communities, instructors, performers and services are ranked by live members, with recent activity shown alongside. Never by revenue. Publishing income to competitors rewards charging more, not teaching better, and a blended score nobody can explain is a leaderboard people assume is rigged.
Every professional can see where they sit on each board, and the boards only show published, approved pages. A private or draft experience never appears in someone else's ranking.
The shared skill library
The part that lets the platform grow safely and fairly, without a founder as the bottleneck.
Every skill on Arsclepius lives in one shared library. A discipline's ladder is drawn from it, and an instructor's experience picks from it and can add to it.
When you add a skill nobody has taught here before, it is usable in your experience straight away and it joins the shared list marked as new. Other professionals in that discipline, the people who teach and do it, can review it with one tap: real, duplicate, or not a skill. Votes can change, and the history of every vote is kept for years, so a determination is never a mystery.
Progressions are reviewed the same way. One skill leads to another, and the people teaching it can agree or disagree. Your own syllabus order stays yours; the shared graph belongs to everyone.
Duplicates are merged, never deleted, so no card, sign-off or XP is ever orphaned. Curated ladders are marked as platform canon so they do not sit in review, and a skill you pull from the library arrives at the tier the ladder gives it, so a heavy lift never lands on Tier 0 by accident.
What stays yours: the tiers you sign carry your name for as long as the student holds the card. The share rewards verified teaching, and nothing in the library or the ledger pays for buzzwords.
Questions people ask
Is there a monthly fee for instructors or communities?
No. There is no listing fee, no subscription and no percentage. The only cut is the flat $5 on each paid order.
Who pays the $5?
On a one-off purchase, the buyer: it is added as its own line at checkout on top of your price. On a subscription it comes out of each cycle, because a recurring charge cannot carry a one-off line.
When do ticket sales pay out?
Seven days after the event ends, to the Stripe account you connected. Packs and subscriptions pay out on Stripe's normal schedule with no hold.
How are refunds handled?
By the policy you chose for the event. A refund returns the seat price and tax; the platform fee stays with the platform, and the buyer sees that before confirming.
How do I qualify for the revenue share?
Hold an instructor account and have a non-zero contribution score in the quarter: verify a skill for someone, teach a completed one-to-one session, or check attendees in at your event.
Can I teach outside Arsclepius as well?
Yes. What you do elsewhere is your business. Only verified teaching on the platform counts toward the share.
When does the share start paying?
At the first quarterly close where fees exceed the budgeted costs. The ledger, the close and the payout path are built and running; the console shows the owner the real figures every quarter, and this page will change the day the first payout goes out.