Forte has partnered with Stripe for student billing and teacher payment, which means you can receive funds quickly and securely.
Your student is charged for the lesson as soon as you finalize (process) the lesson in the Unprocessed Lessons section of your Teaching Hub.
Teacher payouts typically occur within two business days of when the lesson was finalized.
Tip: To ensure timely and regular payouts, you should make sure you're finalizing lessons regularly and promptly, ideally as soon as the lessons are completed!
To Finalize a Lesson
- Log in to your Forte teacher account.
- Navigate to the Unprocessed Lessons section at the top of the Teaching Hub.
- Attendance: Set the Attendance for the lesson. The attendance options are:
- Student attended
- No show
- Canceled (late)
- Canceled
- Teacher not available
- Adjust fee: Adjust the lesson fee, if necessary. The amount you will be paid for teaching the lesson appears in the Base fee column.
Important: The base fee you set represents how much you will be paid.
Forte Connect students will pay a higher rate, which includes Forte's fee, as is reflected in the Final fee column.
Note: Fees for a Trial Lesson cannot be adjusted. Students pay for Trial Lessons at the time of booking, so fees cannot be modified after the Trial Lesson has been booked.
Teachers only need to set the Trial Lesson attendance and then finalize.
5. Click "Finalize Bill"
Forte Connect Students Can Pre-Pay for Lessons
Prefer to have your Forte Connect students pre-pay for lessons? Set up Lesson Bundles, from the Teaching Profiles section of your Teaching Hub.
Want to sell a month or a semester of lessons at one time? Want to offer a discount for pre-purchased lesson bundles? Want to create bundles with 5, 10, or more lessons included? It’s all possible.
Set up your lesson bundle options according to your preferences: choose the lesson length for the bundle, the number of lessons to be included, a percentage discount (if desired), and include a bundle description.
Read more here: Pre-Paid Lesson Bundles
Finalize a Lesson Via a Lesson Bundle
When you've taught a lesson to a Forte Connect student who has purchased a pre-paid lesson bundle, you will elect whether to finalize that lesson via the lesson bundle or via normal lesson payment.
In the Adjust fee column, select "Redeem pre-paid lesson." You'll see the number of lessons left in the pre-purchased bundle.
Your lesson Base fee will auto-populate, as will the lesson Final fee (the amount you'll be paid to teach this lesson), with any lesson bundle discounts applied.
Click Finalize Bill to process the lesson, redeem one lesson from the pre-paid lesson bundle, and initiate the payment to yourself.
Go to the "Purchased lesson bundles" tab of your your Billing History to view the bundled lesson count and the redeemed lesson count.