Why hello.fan + store.fan is our pick
- Charge per minute for live lessons, from 50 to 5,000 credits a minute (100 credits = $1).
- Booked sessions are paid up front, and weekly sessions repeat at the same time every week.
- Live translated subtitles in 30 languages help when you teach students who speak another language.
- Sell worksheets, study guides and courses on store.fan, with instant digital delivery.
- Keep up to 70% on lessons when your hello.fan page links to a store.fan shop on a paid plan.
Why do online tutors do best with two tools?
Tutoring earns in two ways. There's live time, when a student needs you on camera to work through a problem, and there's material a student uses alone, like worksheets, practice tests and short courses. Each is easier to run with a tool built for it.
hello.fan handles live lessons: 1:1 video, voice and chat, billed per started 15 seconds only while you're both connected. store.fan handles materials: a shop at store.fan/yourname that delivers downloads instantly and can also sell courses and memberships.
Both come from the same company, which also runs this site, so weigh our pick with that in mind. The practical upside is that they link. When your store.fan shop is on a paid plan and links to your hello.fan page, you keep 70% on hello.fan instead of 60%.
Start with our hello.fan and store.fan overviews.
How do live lessons work on hello.fan?
You choose how students reach you:
- Drop-in help by the minute. A student stuck on one problem calls while you're online and pays only for the time used.
- Booked sessions. Students book a time inside your working hours and pay up front.
- Weekly sessions. A regular student keeps the same slot every week.
Calls have live translated subtitles in 30 languages. That helps when you teach someone whose first language differs from yours, or when a student wants to read along with a tricky explanation. Chat translates itself too, which is handy for a quick follow-up note after the call.
Working hours switch you online and offline automatically, so students only reach you when you've chosen to teach. A student who tries outside those hours can heart you and get an alert when you're back, or send an Icebreaker, a one-line hello for 10 credits that you can answer once.
Nothing is recorded, and phone numbers stay private. See how it looks from your side on hello.fan for creators.
What can tutors sell on store.fan?
store.fan turns your teaching material into products students can buy without booking you. For tutors, the most useful ones are:
- Digital downloads: worksheets, answer keys, study guides and practice tests, delivered instantly after purchase.
- Online courses: a full topic, step by step. Pro adds hosted course videos.
- Webinars: a group study session before exam season.
- 1:1 coaching calls: fixed-price bookings with Google Calendar sync and automatic Google Meet links.
There's also an AI e-book studio if you'd like to turn a study guide into an e-book. Payments land in your own Stripe account, and store.fan never holds the money. The inbox and customer CRM keep student questions about your materials in one place.
Keep each subject as its own product, so students buy only what they need.
See digital downloads and online courses on store.fan.
Should a tutor charge per minute or per lesson?
Both have a place. Per-minute billing is fairest for short, unpredictable help, like one question the night before an exam. A booked or weekly session suits a structured lesson where you both know the plan in advance.
One simple setup:
- Per-minute calls on hello.fan for drop-in questions.
- Booked and weekly sessions on hello.fan for regular lessons.
- store.fan for anything a student can work through alone.
On store.fan, Free Plus costs $0 a month and store.fan keeps 30% of each sale. Starter is $24 a month at the launch price (regular $29), with a 0% platform fee and a 14-day free trial. Starter and Pro are also the paid plans that lift your hello.fan share to 70%.
Compare plans on store.fan pricing, or read our language practice guide if you teach a language.
How to get started
- Open your hello.fan page. Sign up as a creator on hello.fan and set your per-minute prices and the working hours you teach.
- Build your store.fan shop. Create a free store.fan page and add your first worksheet or study guide as a digital download.
- Link the two. Put your store.fan shop on Starter or Pro and link it to your hello.fan page to keep 70% on lessons.
When does something else fit better?
Fits better when Better if you want a marketplace to match you with new students, especially school-age learners.
What it misses You teach on the marketplace's terms and usually can't sell your own materials from a shop you control.
Fits better when Works if every lesson is a fixed-length class at a flat fee and you don't mind running three tools.
What it misses There's no per-minute billing for quick questions and no built-in shop for your materials.
Fits better when Better if you only want to sell recorded courses and never teach live.
What it misses They don't give you live, per-minute calls for the moments a student needs you right now.
Frequently asked questions
Can I teach students under 18 on hello.fan?
No. hello.fan is for adults 18+ only, so it fits adult learners, university students and professionals. For younger students, use a tool made for them; you can still sell study materials from your store.fan shop.
Do live lessons have subtitles?
Yes. hello.fan calls have live translated subtitles in 30 languages, and chat translates itself. That helps when you and your student don't share a first language, or when a student wants to read along.
How do I get paid on each platform?
store.fan payments go to your own Stripe account, so store.fan never holds the money. hello.fan earnings are paid to your bank through Stripe from $100, after a quick ID check, and each earning is ready 14 days after it is made.
Do I need a paid store.fan plan?
No. Free Plus costs $0 a month, and store.fan keeps 30% of each sale. A paid plan, Starter or Pro, drops the platform fee to 0% and, once linked to your hello.fan page, lifts your hello.fan share to 70%.
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