Where they are hosted
The database is in the United States (Virginia), the application servers in Nuremberg, Germany. Better said than guessed.
Content calendar, brand deals, media kits, courses and community — in one place, with one login for your members. Fixed price, and 0 % on what you charge.
See pricing €97/month, all included →
This is not a picture: it is the platform, live, on a demo creator academy. Click inside, move around. The data and the brands are fictional.
The heart of the platform
Fourteen screens, open live on a demo community. Click inside, move around: this is not a mock-up, it is the platform. Six more tools right below, and everything is in the subscription.
Every video, Reel and newsletter of the month, on the calendar with its platform and its status: idea, draft, in review, scheduled, published. Your members see their month at a glance; you see who actually posts.
Consistency is planned before it is kept.
You post the partnerships you receive or negotiate for the community: the brand, what it asks for, what it pays, the deadline. Your members apply where they learn to sell.
One real first contract is worth ten lessons on rates.
Followers, engagement rate, average views, platforms, rate card: every member keeps their media kit up to date, public or private, ready to send to a brand.
No more PDF rebuilt for every request.
The hooks, thumbnails, email subject lines and sponsored integrations that worked, sorted by category with the reason they worked. Your community learns from its own wins.
Every member adds to it, everyone uses it.
Every member has their referral link, sees who they brought in and where the weekly challenge stands. Your community grows through the people already in it.
One creator brings another.
Your method in lessons and chapters: posting system, hooks and editing, brand deals. Free or kept for your paying tier, with each member’s progress.
No separate course platform.
Your community in channels: introductions, wins, hook tests, and feedback where they post a draft and you answer on the hook, the pacing and the thumbnail.
Channels kept for your paying members.
Live hook teardowns, rate Q&A, group filming sessions: in the calendar, with RSVP, in each member’s time zone.
Your rhythm, published once.
One-to-one with you or between members, in the same app as everything else. A rate card shared, a shoot organised, without swapping phone numbers.
Conversations stay in your space.
The questions everyone asks — what to charge, how often to post, what makes a good hook — answered once, searchable forever.
Fewer repeated DMs.
Who is in the community, on which platform, in which niche. Your members find each other: a collab, a podcast guest, someone pitching the same brand.
A community, not a student list.
Video published, lesson finished, hook shared, live attended: every action earns points. The monthly leaderboard shows who is moving, and makes people want to post next week.
What gets seen gets kept.
Every week, each member is matched with another based on platform and goals, with a question to start the conversation. Collabs start there.
Nobody faces their audience alone.
Points earned turn into perks you choose: a channel review, a seat at the next live, a media kit template. Consistency is rewarded, not just results.
Your perks, your rules.
The math
Assumption: 200 members paying $29/month, so $5,800 collected each month, community and courses on Skool, calendar on Later, media kit and brand outreach on Beacons. Public prices checked on the vendors’ pages on 10 November 2026.
Three subscriptions, three apps, and your members only see one.
The fee grows with you: at $11,600 collected a month, that cut alone reaches $336. And your members still have no calendar or media kit inside your community.
One app, one login, your domain.
Over $220 less a month at this size, and the gap widens with every member you add. Your members plan, apply and learn in one place. Everything is included, there is nothing to add.
Side by side
Skool is built for communities and courses, Later for planning and scheduling posts. Each does its job well; neither brings the community, the calendar and brand deals together, in one place, under your name. Only what the vendors state on their pricing pages is written here, checked on 10 November 2026.
Swipe the table →
| Bonfire | Skool Pro | Later Growth | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Content calendar by platform | Included | No | Yes |
| Media kit and brand deals | Included | No | Elsewhere, $30/mo (Beacons) |
| Idea, review, publish workflow | Included | No | Yes |
| Community space | Included | Yes | Not on its pricing page |
| Courses with lessons | Included | Yes | Not on its pricing page |
| Fee on your sales | 0 % | 2.9% | Not applicable: nothing to sell |
| App under your brand | Included | No | No, the Later app |
| Price at 200 members | €97, all included | $99 + 2.9% | $50 monthly |
Commissions come on top of payment processor fees, which exist everywhere, with us as with them. What this table compares is what is taken on top of every dollar you collect.
What nobody says
On Skool, every payment from your members leaves 2.9% in commission, on top of the processor fees. At 200 members paying $29, that is $168 a month; at 400 members, $336 — for exactly the same tool.
With us the price is fixed: €97 a month, whether you collect $5,000 or $50,000. Your members pay you directly, on your own Stripe account: we take nothing on the way.
“2.9% transaction fee”
Skool pricing page, Pro plan — checked on 10 November 2026Made to measure
The platform is not frozen software you take as is. What makes your method yours — your channel review grid, your posting challenge, the way you score a hook — can become a module of its own, built for you and living inside your space.
Your members do not see a bolted-on extra: they see a feature of your academy, in the same place as the rest, with your data.
A channel review you score · a 30-day challenge with its own rules and ranking · a brand-deal contract template · a monthly report to your members · a link to the tool you already use.
You describe the need, we quote the module and its timing. Build, testing with you, release in your space. The module is maintained with the platform: it does not break at the next update.
Quoted case by case, once, on top of your subscription. No module is billed before you approve the quote.
On the phone
The platform goes on the home screen, on iPhone and Android, and opens full screen — no browser bar. No app store, no review, no 30% cut. And it is your name under the icon, not ours.
Live, at phone size.
Roadmap
You are not renting frozen software. What follows is the real state of the product: what just arrived, what is in progress, what is built on request. Everything delivered is delivered for everyone, at no extra cost.
This list is kept up to date. What is not on it is not promised.
Your data
You are trusting us with the details and payments of people who trust you. It is the question a serious creator asks before signing, so the answer is on the page rather than in a document sent afterwards.
The database is in the United States (Virginia), the application servers in Nuremberg, Germany. Better said than guessed.
Each of the 291 tables enforces its access rules in the database itself, not in the page code. A display bug cannot show another creator’s members: the database would refuse the request.
The site only accepts current transport encryption and refuses older versions. The database is encrypted on disk. Passwords are never stored in clear, including by us.
No data can be read without being a member of the community. No member list reachable by guessing an address, no paid lesson readable from outside.
We sell nothing, train no model on your content and never contact your members. You export whenever you want and ask for deletion when you leave.
Your members pay on your own Stripe account. Card numbers are entered at the payment processor, never on our servers: we neither see nor keep any.
Pricing
One offer, complete. No tier to compare, no feature kept for those who pay more, and no setup fee.
The whole offer
€97/month
The whole product. No tier, no option to unlock.
Secure payment. Cancel anytime.
We import your members and your courses, rebuild your price grid, set up your brand and your domain. Your members sign in and find their access, their seniority and their tier: nobody signs up again. Their subscription is taken over on the date you choose — we tell you exactly how, platform by platform, before you sign.
It is the first question everyone asks. It is included in the subscription: there is no setup fee.
The way out
Handing your members to a stranger is the real risk on this page. Here is what happens if you want to leave — better said before you pay than after.
The subscription is paid monthly and stops monthly. No yearly contract, no cancellation penalty, no bundle you must sign to get the displayed price.
Your members, their tiers and seniority, your courses, your messages: everything exports from your admin, at any time, without asking us. It is a feature of the product, not a favour.
The platform runs on your domain, which you own. The day you point it elsewhere, your members follow without changing address.
We import your members and content, rebuild your price grid, switch subscriptions on the date you set. It is included in the subscription: no entry fee, and no exit fee either.
What creators ask
I only use Later and Beacons. Why pay more?
You should not, if all you do is post for yourself: Later Growth and Beacons Creator Plus cost $80 a month, less than us. Bonfire becomes the cheaper setup the moment you teach other creators, sell a course or run a paid community — what you pay Skool, Kajabi or Circle for today.
And my current members?
They are imported with their seniority and tier, and find everything when they sign in — nobody signs up again. Payment methods do not move between platforms: that is a processor rule, not a choice. We switch subscriptions without double charges, on the date you set, and show you the method before you sign.
If I stop one day, do I lose everything?
No. Exporting your members and content is possible at any time, from your admin. Your community stays yours.
Start
A thirty-minute demo, on an instance with your brand, with your courses and tiers already in place. You will see exactly what your members will see.
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No commitment. No card asked.
The family
Same foundation, same community, course and progress modules — plus what a creator academy needs: content calendar, brand deals, media kits and a swipe file. What you see here runs on Bonfire.
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Write to us: we answer ourselves, within 24 business hours.
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