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Welcome! CraftCourses.com is an independent UK company founded in 2011 with the mission to connect makers, artists and craftspeople with those eager to learn and experience the joy of making. We understand the challenge of making a living from craft and know that teaching offers a sustainable and steady income, whilst the creative experience enriches our lives and protects important, traditional and contemporary craft skills.
Why join our community
How we do this
- Specialist creative courses
booking platform - Easy to use
- Excellent search rankings
- Specialist marketing support:
social media, direct marketing,
advertising, events, blogs - Nationally recognised
and trusted brand - Excellent customer service
The facts
- Over 4500
registered makers - 6.1 million
unique web visitors - 44 million
page views - 35,000
student reviews - Over 150
creative categories
Flexible
- Teach one to one or with groups
- Teach in-person or online
- Accept instant bookings or choose to receive booking requests which you authorise - it's all up to you
- Sell products, kits and pre-recorded online courses too!
- Choose from four cancellation policies (easy, medium, strict, and non-refundable) to protect you from late cancellations and no shows
Easy to use
Focus on making and teaching and leave the software and admin to us. We find your customers, get them booked in, send reminders, collect reviews, and handle refunds. It’s very easy to re-schedule courses and your earnings will arrive in 3 working days from when your course or kit was delivered. Enjoy direct contact with your prospective students. Easy-peasy!
Simple and cost-effective
The commission structure is simple: we only earn when you earn, taking a commission of 10% if you opt for ‘instant’ bookings or 12% on bookings ‘on request’. If you would like to keep all your bookings under one roof, you can opt to install our easy to use widget on your website and all bookings or orders that come via this route will only be subject to a 4% commission. Full details and examples below.
Lots of free extras!
Excellent and friendly customer services support available every weekday via phone and email helping you manage bookings. Great google rankings, a weekly newsletter to 25,000 enthusiastic craft course goers, and an active social media presence.
Do good
Making is good for us. We have collected tens of thousands of glowing reviews from happy students and our best makers were rewarded with students' awards. Being creative is a wonderful way to relax, to feel the flow and to connect with like-minded others. We are proud to be a B Corp™ company, certified as a business that's a force for good in the world, meeting the highest standards of social and environmental impact.
How does it work?
- Customer browses the site and chooses your course, kit or handmade gift
- You accept or reject the booking request we send you or the booking request is immediately accepted until there are no available places left
- Payments are handled by us; student pay online by card or gift voucher(s)
- You receive payments directly via BACS into your bank account once the course has taken place or item delivered
- 12% for bookings on request
- 10% for instant bookings
- 4% on bookings taken via our easy widget, which you can add to your own website
You choose what works best for you and you can always change the setting.
* Please note that only your commission payment is subject to VAT (e.g. 10% of course fee + 20% VAT on the 10%).We are a small and friendly team, here to help you 😊 so please feel free to contact us any weekday morning on 01239 805080 or contact@craftcourses.com.