Your own course platform. No commission.
Marketplaces take a cut of every session and keep your student list. Minbar installs on your domain: you publish your courses, you manage your students, you collect payment however suits you — and you keep all of it.
Open demo, no sign-up.
What the marketplace actually costs you
Teaching through an intermediary is paid for twice: a percentage of every session, and ownership of the relationship with your students.
The percentage shows up on your statement, so you see it. The other cost only appears the day you leave: the list is not yours and neither is the page. If the rate goes up or the terms change, you start again from nothing.
A platform you own is paid for once, and the list stays with you.
What you get
A complete course platform, Arabic-first, suited to any subject.
Full curriculum
Quizzes and drills
Free and paid chapters
Student management
Usage analytics
Arabic and RTL natively
Verifiable certificates
Built-in learning record store (xAPI)
Three demo platforms, for three different subjects
Demo sites we built to showcase the Minbar product — the teachers in them are fictional and the content is illustrative. Each is a complete install on its own domain with its own identity: this is what yours would look like. Browse them the way a student would.
Who uses Minbar
Five kinds of owner run it today — find yours, and the platform is already set up for you.
Individuals and independent teachers
Professional skills
Foreign languages
Arabic for non-native speakers
Schools and training centres
Training centres and academies
Exam preparation and tutoring
Mosques, associations and non-profits
Qur’an memorisation circles
Tajwīd and Islamic sciences
Associations and non-profits
Companies
Employee training
Customer and partner academy
Government and national bodies
Public training programmes
National compliance
Two offers, no monthly subscription
Paid once. No per-session percentage, no per-student fee.
Source code
You buy the code and handle hosting and the domain yourself.
$299one-off
- Complete source code
- Licence for one platform
- Installation guide
- Hosting and domain on you
Installed and running
We install and launch it, with a year of hosting and a domain.
$499first year
- Everything in the source-code offer
- Full installation and setup
- One year of hosting
- One year of domain registration
- Monthly backup
Annual renewal
Hosting and domain for the following year.
$200per year
- One year of hosting
- Domain renewal
- Monthly backup
Licensing and resale rights
Both offers above include a licence for one platform. To sell Minbar on to others, there are two arrangements.
Single-platform licence
- The complete source, and one production domain
- A year of updates from purchase, renewable
- Complete identity: your logo, colours and fonts — including uploading a typeface you have licensed
- No commission on your sales, no per-student fee
Reseller licence
- You sell and deploy under your own name and brand
- A separate licence per client at partner pricing; the margin is yours
- A direct support channel and priority on releases
- Pricing and minimum volume agreed per market
Partnership
- A share in Minbar, not a licence on it
- A say in the roadmap and priorities
- Set out in a written agreement, case by case
Said plainly: identity customisation is complete in every licence — logo, colours and fonts are not features to unlock by upgrading. The licence governs the right to resell and the update and support channel, not how your platform looks. And if you would rather we implement your identity ourselves — your licensed typeface, palette and email templates — that is a service at an agreed price.
Worth knowing before you buy
- The platform is single-tenant: a separate instance per instructor, on their own domain and database.
- The monthly backup covers the database and uploaded files. Only one copy is kept — each new backup replaces the previous one.
- Domain registration depends on availability, and some extensions cost more than the stated amount; we tell you the difference before registering.
- There is no built-in payment gateway today: you collect however you prefer (bank transfer, wallet, cash) and then move the student to PRO from the dashboard. The money passes through neither us nor any intermediary.
Frequently asked
How much do marketplaces take per session?
It varies by platform, and it is one of the first things teachers check before registering on Fahim, Mo3almi or Preply. Whatever the rate, it repeats on every session and every student. Minbar is paid once and takes no percentage of what you earn.
Do I need technical skills?
Not with the installation offer: we handle the domain, hosting and setup, and you receive it ready. The source-code offer assumes you, or someone helping you, can deploy a Laravel application.
Does it suit language teaching, or only programming?
Any subject. The content is text, video and quizzes, which is enough for an English, French or grammar lesson. There is an in-browser code sandbox for programming teachers, and it can be ignored entirely.
Who owns the student data?
You do. The platform runs on your domain and your database; the list and the email addresses sit with you, not with us. That is the substantive difference from a marketplace.
What if I want to move it later?
The code is yours in both offers, and so is the database. You can move whenever you like, and we are not part of that decision.
Can I try it first?
Yes — the demo is open with no sign-up: browse the courses and the instructor dashboard exactly as your students will see them.
Your platform, under your name, this week
Tell us the domain you want and the subject you teach, and we will come back with a delivery date.