How membership payment works
What you are charged, when, and who takes the money.
1 min readLast updated 24 October 2026
A membership is a subscription to one school. iSpeak is the platform the school runs on, and it collects the payment on the school’s behalf — you do not pay the school and iSpeak separately.
What you are charged
- The price of the tier you joined at, in the currency the school prices in.
- Monthly or yearly, depending on what you chose.
- Nothing at all while a free trial is running.
When you are charged
- Immediately when you join, unless there is a trial.
- On the same day each period after that, until you cancel.
- If a payment fails, iSpeak retries and tells you; your access continues for a short grace period.
Your price is locked to what you agreed at the moment you joined. A school raising its price does not change what you pay.
Where to see it
Memberships & billing lists every school you pay for, its status, the price, and the date of the next charge. Payment history holds the receipts.
Open memberships & billingiSpeak keeps a platform fee from each payment; the rest goes to the school. That split is between the school and iSpeak and does not change what you are charged.