Who is this method suitable for?

This method of accepting payments is suitable for you if:

  • You have your own website where you can accept payments and you want to use it for accepting payments while using Zenclass to host courses.     
  • You sell your courses to legal entities and issue invoices.     
  • You use other methods of accepting payments while hosting your courses on Zenclass.

How to set up ZenClass

1) Create a course.

2) Enable email access:


Course settings - Access - The course is available via email invitation


Remember to specify the setting: 


Show the course in the list of courses on the school page: all users who have course access



These settings are necessary to keep the course from being displayed on your school's home page on Zenclass. This way, access to the free course on the platform can not be obtained by third parties. Remember to save your selected settings.

3) Setup costs:

Course Settings - Payment

Check the box "Hide course cost for enrolled students" and do not add any payment method. 

As you set up other payment options, the course will be displayed as free of charge on the platform. Hiding the course price is necessary as it prevents the students who were invited to the course by email from seeing the “Free of charge” caption. Remember to save your selected settings.

4) Post information about the course on your website/social media accounts in your usual manner. Be sure to collect the email addresses of the students. When enabling payment on the site, you can set up a form allowing for collecting students’ email addresses.

5) Invite the students who paid for the course. Depending on the number of payments, you can invite students in two ways:

  • One student at a time:

Course - Students - Invite a new student to the course (at the bottom of the page below the list of students of the course)

After you enter the email address and click the "Invite" button, an email will be sent to the student. The message will contain a link to the course. Upon clicking the link, the student will be redirected to the course. Once the link is activated (by clicking), another email will be sent to the student. This email will specify a password from the student's personal account. The username will be the email address to which the invitation was sent.

  • Group invitation (up to 300 students; up to 30 students during the trial period):

Course-Students-Import CSV (up to 300 students)

After clicking the button, you will be asked to select and upload a CSV file with a list of email addresses of the students who have paid for the course Hey will also be sent emails with access to the course. Once the link is activated (by clicking), another email will be sent to the student. This email will specify a password from the student's personal account. The username will be the email address to which the invitation was sent.


Please note that there are no statistics on sent invitations. Remember to notify the students about the invitation (to ensure they will check all the folders in the inbox). If the student cannot locate the invitation, make sure the email address has been typed correctly (in case of error, send the invitation again to the correct email). If the email address was entered correctly and the invitation was sent, but the student could not locate it in their inbox, contact our support team to ascertain the email was delivered.