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Teach the People, Inc.

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Teach the People Will Easily Monetize New Facebook Application with Z-Payments

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We had the recipe for success: 100 million Facebook users plus a world-class learning management platform. The missing ingredient? How do we, and our educators, get paid? Z-Payments provided the answer. Thanks to Zuora, we we’ll be equipped with a complete billing and payment infrastructure for our Facebook application on launch day—and we’ll get paid. 

Company Background

Teach the People is the world’s first people-powered University. With Teach the People, anyone can be a teacher, and anyone can be a student using the Facebook social platform. Teach the People’s learning communities provide educators and students with all the standard learning management system tools, like Blackboard and Moodle, in addition to some not so standard like video chat and VOIP. However, beyond content delivery, Teach the People is about building technology to connect teachers with students through powerful recruitment tools and a Digg-like topic request system. Teach the People makes community-based education truly social, scalable, and, with its subscription platform, profitable for educators.
Business Challenge
  • Need to successfully launch and monetize their Facebook application
  • Need automated subscription management and payment processing for Facebook application users
  • Need to provide educators with the ability to create their own subscription plans and charges for Facebook community members
Solution
  • Selected Zuora to monetize their Facebook education application
  • Zuora provides a flexible subscription infrastructure so educators can charge a variety of one-time, monthly, and yearly fees to their Facebook community members
  • Zuora automates billing and payments so Teach the People can bill and collect monthly platform fees for subscription-based Facebook communities and storage
Results
  • Launch-ready: Z-Payments will provide the billing and payment subscription infrastructure so Teach the People can immediately monetize their Facebook application
  • Scalability: With the Z-Payments infrastructure, Teach the People can scale to meet the demands of the 100 million-use Facebook social network
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