This question usually arrives from someone who already runs a funnel and likes their checkout exactly as it is. So here's the structure of the honest answer up front: no, you can't plug your Stripe into TeachClub's checkout — and yes, you can absolutely sell on your own Stripe and use TeachClub anyway. Two supported roads. Here's each one, and who belongs on which.
Road one: the built-in checkout (and what it actually is)
TeachClub's checkout isn't just a card form — it's a package deal where the platform acts as merchant of record. When your student pays, TeachClub processes the card, issues the receipt, answers the chargeback, files the sales tax, and — the part unique to this platform — funds that student's ongoing AI teaching: every lesson, quiz, and 2am tutor question for as long as they're enrolled. You keep 60% of each sale and never touch a line of payment infrastructure. That bundle is why an external Stripe can't be swapped in: the checkout's share is what pays for everything downstream of the sale.
Road two: your funnel, your Stripe, your price
If you want checkout control — your upsell stack, your order bumps, your pixel-perfect funnel, prices TeachClub's checkout doesn't dream in — keep it. Sell wherever and however you like, on your own Stripe, and use TeachClub as the fulfillment: after the sale, enroll the buyer into your school by email, and the AI takes over the teaching. The cost is a flat per-seat fee based on your school's listed price ($9 minimum per 30-day window) — not a percentage of your outside sale. On a $500 funnel sale into a $27 school, that's about $11 a month per student; the full math with worked examples is in the migration guide.
If you need to build that funnel first, one pointer and no hard sell: SuperCool is what we recommend for funnel-building, and buyers from it enroll here the same way as from anything else. Some teachers already run exactly this setup — premium funnel outside, AI school inside.
Which road for whom
| Take the built-in checkout if… | Take your own funnel + Stripe if… |
|---|---|
| You don't have (or want) payment infrastructure | You already run a funnel and love your checkout |
| Your prices fit normal school pricing ($19–97 territory) | You sell premium packages and bundles at prices you control |
| You want refunds, disputes, and taxes to be someone else's job | You're comfortable being the merchant of record yourself |
| You'd rather never think about this again | Checkout optimization is genuinely part of your edge |
And it's not exclusive — the roads combine. Run the built-in checkout for your school's standard price and push premium buyers through your funnel with granted seats. Per student, per offer, your call.
The bottom line
"Can I use my own Stripe?" is really "who controls my money flow?" — and the answer here is: you choose per sale. Let the platform be your entire payment department, or keep your funnel sovereign and pay a flat fee for fulfillment and teaching. The one thing you can't do is bolt your processor onto our merchant account — and now you know exactly why, which is more than most platforms will tell you.