Can a human still deliver coaching?
Yes. Manual delivery keeps the order pending and notifies you with the buyer's details.
Direct answer
Use Cartcord to sell clearly described course resources, private learning links, Discord access or a manually fulfilled coaching service. State the curriculum, access duration, session capacity, prerequisites, support and cancellation terms before payment. Cartcord can deliver the configured resource or instructions after verified payment; it does not include an automated booking calendar, live-class hosting, learner progress system or recurring buyer billing merely because a course preset is selected.
How it works for course and coaching sellers
- 01
Invite the bot
Open the dashboard with Manage Server.
- 02
Publish the product
Review payment eligibility and configure private url, student role, or a manual order.
- 03
Buyers use /buy
After payment verification, configured delivery is attempted.
Understand the operating cost
Choose by the actual product, audience and services you need. Cartcord's plans are Free $0, Basic $29.99, Pro $59.99 and Enterprise $129.99 per month. Cartcord charges no sales commission; PayPal processing and other merchant costs remain separate. A marketplace may provide discovery, billing, hosting or tax services that a flat Discord-store plan does not.
What a buyer would see
- Cohort access$199 · Private URL, student role, or a manual order
- Code review$75 · Private URL, student role, or a manual order
What /products shows
Interactive example. This preview does not create an order or charge a payment.
Members open the storefront, choose a product, and start checkout.
Separate the content from the service
A recorded course, a cohort and an individual coaching session are different products. List the actual lessons, formats and learning objectives for a recording. For a cohort, publish the schedule, timezone and participation requirements. For coaching, describe the session length, scope and what the customer must prepare. A private Discord channel is an access mechanism, not evidence that all of these services are included.
Explain prerequisites and dependencies. A learner may need a particular software version, a paid external account or prior experience to follow the material. Show a sample lesson or a representative exercise that you are authorized to share. Avoid a result promise that depends on the learner's time, background or an external platform. Describe the skills and support you actually provide rather than guaranteeing a job, income or another individual outcome.
Choose the right fulfillment workflow
A file product can deliver an owned workbook or recording archive within the supported limits. A link can lead to the external learning portal you operate. A role can unlock the intended Discord channels. Manual fulfillment can send instructions for arranging a service. A single product does not automatically combine every delivery engine, create a booking or synchronize progress with a learning-management system.
Use an external scheduling service only when that service is genuinely configured, and explain where the customer completes the booking. A calendar link alone does not reserve a unique session slot. If capacity is limited, maintain the schedule and product availability together so buyers do not pay for time you cannot provide. Cartcord's stock controls are not a substitute for a calendar that handles timezones, overlaps and rescheduling.
Publish access and cancellation terms
State whether access is untimed, limited to a cohort or tied to a separately managed portal. Optional timed Discord passes require an available expiry service and explicit setup; they are paid once and do not renew. If that service is unavailable, do not sell an untimed role while promising automatic expiry. Explain which course materials the learner may keep and which ongoing benefits depend on continued access.
Give a concrete support and cancellation process appropriate to the offer and applicable requirements. Explain what happens if you move a class, cannot attend or replace a lesson. Keep the purchased terms and schedule with the order so both parties can understand the original commitment. A successful payment does not prove that a live session occurred, and an access-role grant is not a learner attendance record.
Protect learning materials and participant privacy
Use only recordings, examples and third-party resources you have permission to distribute. If a recording contains participants, arrange the relevant permissions and explain how it will be shared. Remove customer information from sample projects. Keep private learning links out of public announcements and provide a clear recovery route for a learner who used the wrong Discord account or cannot open the resource.
Maintain a change log for course updates and a practical process for reporting a broken link or missing file. Ask for the order ID and the affected lesson rather than collecting an entire personal learning history. Use evidence exports to review stored payment and delivery state when needed, but do not claim that a delivery attempt proves a learner completed the course or received the full value of a coaching engagement.
A launch checklist you can repeat
Start from a hidden product and review it as a buyer: name, current price, included deliverables, dependencies, access duration, license and support contact. Connect the seller payment account for the intended store and verify that the selected product can be published. Use a genuine preview of your work. Remove test data, private credentials and unlicensed material before adding the delivery destination.
Run an authorized checkout test with an identity that represents a buyer, then inspect both the payment result and fulfillment result. A browser return page is not evidence of a captured payment by itself. Exercise purchase recovery and a delivery retry. Before announcing the product, keep a record of the terms, the version being sold and the recovery instructions your staff will give a customer.
Compare the operating model, not just the headline fee
Manual ticket selling can suit occasional custom work, but staff must reconcile each payment and fulfill each promise. A percentage marketplace may include discovery, billing, tax or hosting services you would otherwise operate. Cartcord's flat server plan and direct seller PayPal checkout serve a different workflow. Calculate the cost of the features you actually need instead of treating every percentage or subscription as interchangeable.
Include payment processing, currency conversion, hosting, refunds and support time in the comparison. Cartcord taking zero sales commission does not remove those costs or make Cartcord the merchant of record. Check the current plan's limits and provider eligibility for your particular product. Choose the route that meets the buyer's delivery and recovery needs at the volume you can realistically support.
| Responsibility | Manual ticket workflow | Cartcord released workflow |
|---|---|---|
| Payment confirmation | Staff reconcile the correct merchant transaction | Provider confirmation is checked before configured delivery |
| Fulfillment | Staff send the resource or complete the promised service | Configured file, link, key or role delivery is attempted; manual work still needs staff |
| Recovery | Staff locate the purchase and determine what was delivered | Original-account purchase recovery and recorded delivery results help investigate failures |
| Cost | Account for processor charges, tools and staff time | Account for the store plan, processor charges, hosting and support |
Compare your monthly cost scenarios
Enter your actual fees. These are editable USD scenarios, not provider quotes. Include processor charges in both scenarios. Compare equivalent services and permitted products; required platform checkout still applies.
Enter every fee, including zero where applicable. Use non-negative amounts, whole orders and percentages up to 100.
Taxes, refunds, disputes, conversion, payout and support costs need separate review. Cartcord sales commission is 0%; the store plan and processor costs remain.
Questions
Does Cartcord book a calendar?
No. You write the instructions. The bot does not schedule the call.
Where is the payment?
In your PayPal account after capture.
Can I gate a channel?
Sell a one-time role product. Put the bot above that role.
Is there a commission on a $199 sale?
Cartcord's cut is $0. PayPal's processing fee still applies.