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
Who uses Minbar
Anyone with knowledge to teach and an audience that follows them — the platform does not dictate the shape of the material.
Qur’an memorisation circles
Tajwīd and qirā’āt
Islamic sciences
Arabic for non-native speakers
Foreign languages
Professional skills
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
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.