Platform Fees
Coaches set what they take home; our fee is added on top of that rate and is what the buyer pays above it. The fee shrinks the longer a client works with the same coach, and is lowest for clients a coach brings themselves.
1 · How pricing works
Every listed price already includes our fee. A coach chooses their take-home amount; we add our fee on top to form the price you see. On a one-off purchase a coach's take-home never changes with the fee tier, only the buyer-facing price does. A subscription works differently: its price is fixed at signup, so a later tier drop goes to the coach instead (section 4).
2 · The fee tiers
The fee is a markup on the coach's rate and depends on how the client and coach met, and how many purchases the client has made with that coach:
- Client brought by the coach (via their referral link): 10% markup, for the life of the relationship.
- Client matched by the platform, first purchase: 20% markup.
- Second purchase with the same coach: 15% markup.
- Third purchase onwards: 10% markup.
Every distinct purchase counts, whether a one-off session or a subscription billing period, so loyalty to one coach lowers the fee automatically.
3 · Minimum and maximum fee
On very small purchases the fee is at least 20 (in the product's currency); on very large ones it is capped at 200. Between those bounds the percentages above apply exactly, and the resulting price is rounded up to a whole amount; the rounding never comes out of the coach's take-home.
4 · Subscriptions
A subscription's price is fixed when you subscribe and never changes mid-plan. As the fee tier drops on later billing periods, the reduction goes to the coach, not onto your bill.
One consequence worth stating plainly: a subscriber the platform matched ends up paying their coach more than the coach's listed take-home, while a subscriber who arrived through the coach's referral link starts at our lowest fee and stays at exactly the listed rate. On a monthly plan the referral link lowers what the client pays; it does not raise what the coach receives.
5 · Cancellation discount
A coach may switch on a save discount for any monthly plan they offer. When a client starts cancelling that plan, they are offered 5, 10, 15 or 20% off for three months, shown as the amount they would pay rather than as a percentage. It is off unless the coach turns it on.
The discount is shared: our fee is reduced by the same percentage as the coach's take-home, so neither side carries it alone. It is offered at most once per client per coach per year, only after the client's first renewal, and never on a subscription that already carries a discount.
6 · Discount codes and invites
From time to time we give coachees discount codes: campaign codes for a first purchase and invite rewards when someone brings a friend. A code takes a percentage off what the buyer pays, and it is shared like the cancellation discount: our fee and your take-home are both reduced by that same percentage, so neither side carries it alone. Your billing page shows what the buyer paid and your share of it. On a subscription only the first payment is discounted.
7 · A worked example
A coach whose take-home is 350 on a one-off session: a platform-matched client pays 420 for the first purchase, 403 for the second, and 385 from the third onwards. A client the coach brought via their referral link pays 385 from day one. The coach receives 350 every time; where a price is rounded up to a whole amount, the rounding joins our fee.
8 · Contact
Questions about fees? Email hello@techinterview.coach.