Pricing Your Community

Choose your community price by looking at the member value and the full cost of delivering it. Include the Skool plan, transaction fees, payout timing, refunds, and affiliate costs in that cost picture, so the price still works once the offer is live.

Best practice

• Start from Skool's published plan prices: Hobby at $9/month and Pro at $99/month.
• Remember the 30c per-transaction component and the separate Pro tier for large charges, both from Skool's payments FAQ.
• Treat Hobby versus Pro as a break-even decision.
• Model refunds because transaction fees are not refundable.
• Model payout timing around Wednesday distribution and bank settlement timing.
• Keep free trial length claims out of public copy unless you have confirmed them on Skool's own pages.
• Separate platform affiliate income from community-level referral commissions.
• Double-check current pricing, fees, and payout facts whenever you plan a launch or a new sales page, because Skool can change them.

How it works

• As of September 2026, Skool lists Hobby at $9 per month and Pro at $99 per month, with the same headline features on both plans: unlimited members, courses, videos, live calls, a custom URL, and an affiliate program. Some settings-level integrations, Zapier among them, are Pro only.
• At the public plan level, Skool shows a 10% transaction fee for Hobby and 2.9% for Pro.
• Plan cost and transaction cost should be considered together.
• The payments FAQ adds 10% plus 30c for Hobby transactions.
• Skool's payment guidance adds 2.9% plus 30 cents for Pro transactions in the standard tier.
• A different Pro percentage applies above the documented large-charge threshold.
• The simple standard-tier break-even is about $1,267.61 gross paid revenue under the stated assumptions.
• The break-even changes when offer mix, high-ticket charges, refunds, and affiliate commissions change.
• Subscription pricing is in USD.
• Payouts are distributed weekly on Wednesday.
• An initial payout may take up to 14 days.
• Revenue numbers you see in articles or social posts are other people's results, not Skool benchmarks.

Pitfalls

• Do not omit the 30c transaction component.
• Do not ignore the Pro large-charge tier for high-ticket products.
• Do not tell an owner Pro always wins.
• Do not tell an owner Hobby always wins.
• Do not publish the break-even as a guaranteed result.
• Do not treat the $100,000 per-charge maximum as a fee cap.
• Do not turn "2 months free" into an annual dollar amount unless an official current source states it.
• Do not treat a trial length you read in a blog post as Skool billing policy.
• Do not confuse Skool's platform affiliate program with community-level referrals.
• Do not use valuation or revenue benchmark articles as proof of what your community will earn.

Pricing worksheet

• Offer type: subscription, one-time course purchase, or both.
• Member outcome: the reason someone keeps paying or buys the course.
• Plan choice: Hobby or Pro based on expected gross paid revenue and charge mix.
• Gross revenue: monthly paid subscriptions plus one-time purchases, kept separate where needed.
• Charge count: number of transactions, because the 30c component is per transaction.
• Charge size: standard and high-ticket charges may use different Pro fee treatment.
• Refund exposure: Transaction fees are not refundable.
• Affiliate cost: Add the referral rate you actually set because Skool does not publish a default community rate here.
• Payout timing: model first payout delay and Wednesday distribution.