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Yes. DeanDesk Marketplace is free to start. Open a school with an email address and a Stripe account, list a course, publish a registration form or sell event tickets, and make your first dollar on DeanDesk. When you want your own site, admissions, families or memberships, move up to a DeanDesk plan and your courses, students and payments come with you.

Setup is free on every plan, and every plan starts with a 30-day free trial. You can cancel anytime.

Yes — every plan includes free, end-to-end onboarding. Our team sets up your platform with you: we migrate your website content, import your students and families, rebuild your courses and programs, and configure admissions and billing so you launch ready to enroll.

Yes. We regularly migrate schools from spreadsheets, student information systems, learning platforms like Canvas and Thinkific, and existing websites — including course content, rosters, products, and pages. Migration is handled by our team as part of free onboarding.

A simple setup is live in days. Larger migrations with years of course content take a few weeks. Your current system keeps running until your DeanDesk platform is ready.

Yes. You can map your own custom domain (e.g., portal.yourschool.org) so members, families, and students stay on your brand.

Yes, every organization gets access to the DeanDesk mobile app, with custom branded apps available for organizations that want their own.

Anything people join, pay for, or learn from: schools and seminaries, afterschool and youth programs, online academies, coworking spaces, studios, nonprofits and fundraising campaigns, community centers, and networks that run many of these at once. If you sign people up and collect payments, DeanDesk fits.

Yes. Terms, schedules, and pricing are fully flexible. Run year-round programs, weekend classes, six-week workshops, monthly memberships, or day passes, each with its own pricing and rosters.

Yes. Parents get their own accounts linked to their children, so they can apply, enroll, pay tuition, and receive every notification on their child's behalf. Children without email addresses are fully supported.

Yes. An organization can operate multiple platforms — separate campuses, programs, or brands — each with its own website, enrollment, and billing, managed from one place.

Yes. Schools on any DeanDesk plan can connect their school to the Marketplace and list open-enrollment courses, public registration forms and events there, so new learners and attendees can find you and sign up. Marketplace pricing is published on DeanDesk Marketplace.

DeanDesk runs coworking spaces, donation campaigns, online academies, and community programs alongside schools. You choose which parts of the platform you use: sign-ups, payments, classes, community, or all of it.

Tuition (one-time or recurring), application and enrollment fees, membership plans, donations, invoices, and even physical products like uniforms and books — all through your own branded checkout.

Opening a Marketplace school and listing courses, public registration forms and events is free. Pricing for Marketplace sales is published on DeanDesk Marketplace, and payouts go to your own Stripe account.

We use Stripe for secure payments. Tuition, fees, and donations are deposited directly into your connected bank account on a rolling basis.

Yes. You can offer recurring billing and subscription-style payment plans, so families can pay monthly instead of all at once. Billing runs automatically once a family enrolls.

Yes. You can create discount codes, automatic rule-based discounts (like sibling discounts), and per-family financial aid rates that apply across tuition.

Refunds are issued right from your admin dashboard and processed back to the family's original payment method through Stripe.

Yes. DeanDesk includes payroll tools for tracking teacher hours and rates per course, reviewing and approving pay periods, and exporting payroll records for your bookkeeper or payroll provider.

Your finance dashboard shows revenue, transactions, subscriptions, and payouts in one place, with detailed records for reconciliation — so you always know exactly what came in and from whom.