Sales Tax and VAT on Online Courses: What Creators Owe
Sales tax and VAT on online courses follow the buyer, not you. When you must collect, who the merchant of record is, and how to protect your margin.
Sales tax and VAT on online courses follow the buyer, not you. When you must collect, who the merchant of record is, and how to protect your margin.
The delivery model you pick quietly sets your pricing ceiling, weekly workload, and completion rate. Here is how cohort, self-paced, and hybrid really compare.
Cohort or self-paced? The choice isn’t about prestige, it’s about your topic, your margins, and your calendar. A 2026 framework for matching the model to your business, plus the hybrid that’s winning this year.
Enrollments and page views won’t warn you before revenue drops. These five course analytics metrics will — plus the vanity metrics to stop watching and a 15-minute weekly dashboard.
The window between checkout and first progress is where refunds and completions are decided. A 48-hour onboarding sequence, the activation math behind it, and the three metrics that prove it works.
Accessibility is the most underused retention lever in online courses. A practical 2026 guide to captions, WCAG 2.2, ADA risk, platform differences, and a 10-point checklist.
Descript vs Camtasia vs CapCut for course creators in 2026 — an honest look at pricing, time-savings, and a repeatable editing workflow to pick the right tool.
A five-step 2026 playbook for running a live webinar that converts attendees into paying online-course students: one promise, filling the room, a 60-minute structure, a clean offer, and follow-up.
An email list is the highest-converting channel for an online course launch. Here is how to build one from zero in 2026, even before your course exists.
Should you drip your online course or open all lessons at once? A creator’s decision framework, what the completion data really says, and how to set up drip on Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi, Podia and LearnWorlds.