Tiendup

Tiendup is a Spanish-language platform for selling digital products from your own website, and its Cursos Online solution is a course platform for creators who sell recorded courses. Each creator gets a hosted site with their own design and domain, the courses inside it, a student login and a checkout that pays into the creator's own payment account. The company lists La Plata, Argentina, in its footer, with the line "por Go Up Software LLC," and the course page says more than 6,000 course creators, coaches, teachers and professionals sell with it every day. Its central promise is that it takes no commission on sales: the FAQ answers "No cobramos ningún tipo de comisión. Todos nuestros precios son finales" (we charge no commission of any kind; all our prices are final).

Six ways to sell, one site

Online courses are one of six sales solutions, and a creator can combine them on the same site. Subscriptions sell memberships with recurring billing and automatic debit. Descargables (downloads) deliver e-books, design templates or any other file automatically after purchase. Eventos sell access to in-person events, digital events and webinars. Sesiones sell one-to-one coaching, mentoring or consulting through a direct Calendly integration. Productos Físicos sell physical products and manage their inventory alongside the digital catalog. The FAQ says each solution is priced separately because each handles a different kind of product, and that a creator can start with one, such as events, and add courses, downloads or physical products later. The homepage puts it as "Paga sólo por la solución que necesites" (pay only for the solution you need).

Building a course

The course page sets out the workflow in six steps: upload content, set the price, choose how to get paid, customize the site, start selling, and let Tiendup deliver access automatically. Lessons can be video, PDF, audio, articles or quizzes, added by drag and drop, with downloadable resources so students can learn at their own pace. Video uploads can be up to 10 GB per file and are shared securely with students. PDF lessons can be read or downloaded, and audio lessons played or downloaded. Article lessons are written straight into the platform like a blog post, and multimedia lessons combine several formats and embed content from other apps or services.

Quizzes test students with questions "de opción múltiple, verdadero o falso, y más" (multiple choice, true or false, and more). Lessons can carry attached files that students download. Certificates of completion are personalized and sent automatically to students who finish the course. Students can leave reviews and ratings on a course, and the creator reads them and decides which are shown. A private forum inside the course lets students talk to the instructor and to one another.

Access can be set several ways. A course can be paid or free, with students registering to take a free course, and one or more lessons can be opened free as a sample. Creators can enroll students manually, without a purchase or a sign-up on the site. Access can be limited to a set number of days from enrollment, after which Tiendup removes the student automatically, and lessons can be locked into a sequence so students move through them one by one. Each student has their own account and can reach their courses from any device, at any time, and the moment someone enrolls Tiendup sends them access.

Selling and getting paid

Creators set prices in their local currency and in other currencies, and can offer free access or one-time payments. Payment goes through the creator's own accounts with Mercadopago, PayPal, Stripe and other options; the homepage says you link your payment gateway account, or enter the instructions for another payment method, and customers pay you directly. "El dinero es tuyo, entra directo a tu cuenta y sin comisiones de Tiendup", the course page says (the money is yours, it goes straight into your account, with no Tiendup commission).

To sell, a creator shares the site on social media, by email or in ad campaigns, and uses Tiendup's own tools for coupons, combos (bundles), sales analytics and abandoned-cart recovery. The general features include a custom domain, landing pages and email marketing integrations. The site adapts to any device, can carry a blog, and needs no separate hosting, since Tiendup handles the technical side. A creator who already has a website can link to the Tiendup site or point a subdomain such as tienda.yoursite.com at it.

Course plans and prices

The Cursos Online plans are priced in US dollars per month, each with unlimited students and no sales commission.

• Plan Personal, $16 USD a month: up to 3 courses, video, PDF and audio lessons, 1 attachment per lesson, free lessons and free courses, certificates, course reviews, manual enrollment, and 1 instructor (the account owner).
• Plan Negocio, $39 USD a month: up to 10 courses, adding article lessons, quizzes, up to 3 attachments per lesson, the internal forum, time-limited access and up to 4 instructors.
• Plan Empresa, $79 USD a month: up to 30 courses, adding multimedia lessons, unlimited attachments, unlimited instructors, instructor accounts with access to the courses they lead, and sequential lesson order.

The trial runs 15 days, with no credit card and no purchase commitment, and plans can be canceled at any time. A creator starts the Plan Personal trial directly and then writes to support from the admin panel to have the trial of a higher plan enabled. Help comes through documentation and tutorials, a YouTube channel, free training resources and a contact form, and Tiendup runs an affiliate program for people who recommend it.

Who it suits

Tiendup suits Spanish-speaking course creators, coaches and teachers who want their own course site and checkout without giving up a cut of each sale. A coach who sells a recorded course, one-to-one sessions and an e-book can run all three from one site and one admin. Plan Personal is enough to test a first course, though quizzes, the forum and time-limited access start on Plan Negocio, and a team with several instructors or courses that must be taken in order needs Plan Empresa. The site and its help material are in Spanish, so an English-speaking creator would be working in a second language, and students come from the creator's own marketing rather than from a marketplace.