Questions, answered

A marketplace for study notes written by students. Every document is tagged to the course, exam or textbook it was written for, so you can search by course code and find notes that match what you are actually being taught.

• Browse notes

Every listing shows its first pages in full, so you can judge the writing, the layout and the level before buying. It also shows the course or exam it was written for, what it covers, its page count and ratings from people who bought it. Every document is checked by our team before it goes on sale.

By card, through Stripe's secure checkout — we never see or store your card number. If you sell on CramShare and your wallet balance covers the price, you can pay from your wallet instead. Every purchase is a one-time payment; there are no subscriptions.

Sellers set their own prices, between $1 and $50. Many documents are free — you only need a free account to download those.

Yes, within 7 days of purchase, if a document does not match its preview, its description or the course it is tagged to, or if it is incomplete or unreadable. Ask from your Purchases page and tell us what is wrong. Card payments are refunded to your card, and wallet payments go back to your wallet. Access to the document ends when it is refunded.

• Your purchases
• Refund terms

So the document stays in your library and you can come back to it on any device. It also lets you rate it and follow its course for new notes. An account is free and takes a few seconds with Google.

• Create a free account

Search by course code as well as by name, and try the exam or textbook your course uses. If there is still nothing, follow the course from your dashboard: we email you as soon as notes for it are published.

• All course codes

In My library on your dashboard, straight after payment. Receipts are on the Purchases page.

• My library

For good. A purchase is a one-time payment for permanent access, with no subscription to keep up. A refund ends access to that document.

Both. Read in the browser on any device, including full screen on a phone, or download a PDF to keep. Downloads are for your own study — sharing or reselling a document you bought is not allowed.

Yes, once it is in your library. Only people who have the document can rate it, so every rating comes from someone who has read it. Sellers cannot edit or remove ratings on their own documents.

Anyone aged 16 or over with notes they wrote themselves, including graduates. Selling is free: there is no listing fee and no subscription.

• Start selling

Your own summaries, lecture notes, study guides, flashcards, worked solutions and similar material, as PDF, Word or images of your handwriting, up to 50 MB. Lecture slides, textbook pages, exam papers you did not write and anyone else's work are not allowed.

• Upload guidelines

70% of the price, on every sale. The other 30% covers payment processing, review, hosting and support.

• Earnings calculator

Usually within one working day. A document for a course we have not seen before can take a little longer, because we check the course exists. If we need changes, we tell you exactly what and why, and you can resubmit as many times as you need.

Anywhere from $1 to $50, or free. Most sellers price between $4 and $12. Free documents are a good way to build a following that makes your paid ones sell, and you can change a price whenever you like.

Yes. You keep ownership and copyright, and nothing is exclusive — you can publish the same notes elsewhere and take them off sale at any time.

• Seller terms

Your own original notes are your work. What you cannot sell is material that belongs to someone else, such as your lecturer's slides. Some institutions have their own rules, so check yours if you are unsure.

• Academic integrity

Into your CramShare wallet. It shows as pending for 7 days, while the buyer can still ask for a refund, and then becomes available to spend or withdraw.

• Your wallet

Yes. When your available balance covers the price of a document, you can pay from your wallet instead of by card. It is instant and there is no fee.

Add your payout details, then choose Withdraw in your wallet and pick an amount. Withdrawals are paid on the 5th of each month, or the next working day. Until the monthly payout run picks it up, you can cancel a withdrawal and the money goes straight back to your wallet.

• Payout details

No. You can withdraw any available amount, and withdrawing is free.

PayPal, or a bank transfer to an IBAN account. In India, you can be paid to a UPI ID or to an account number with IFSC. Your details are stored only to pay you and are never shown to anyone else.

Your share of that sale comes back out of your wallet. If you have already spent or withdrawn it, we cover the difference — we never invoice you for it.

• Payout terms

If a transfer is rejected, for example because of a wrong account number, the money returns to your wallet and we tell you what went wrong. Fix your payout details and withdraw again.

Probably. Earnings from selling notes are usually taxable, even for students, but it depends on where you live and your total income. Your wallet lists every sale and withdrawal. We cannot give tax advice.

With your Google account, or with an email address and password. If you forget your password, reset it from the sign-in page.

• Reset your password

Your security settings list the devices you are signed in on, and let you sign out of all of them except the one you are using.

• Security settings

From your security settings. If you sell, withdraw your wallet balance before you close it. Order records are kept for as long as the law requires, and the rest of your personal data is handled as our privacy policy describes.

• Privacy policy

Yes. Notification settings let you turn course alerts, sales emails and product news on or off. Receipts, payout confirmations, review decisions and account notices are always sent.

• Notification settings

No. Notes help you understand and revise a course, the same way a study group or a textbook does. Submitting someone else's work as your own is misconduct, and so is using notes where your course forbids them — both are your responsibility.

• Academic integrity

Sign in and use Report on the document's page. We review reports within one working day and remove anything that breaks our rules. If the problem is that it copies your work, file a copyright notice instead — that needs no account.

File a copyright notice. The form asks for everything a valid notice needs, and no account is required. We acknowledge notices within one working day and act on clearly valid ones straight away.

• File a takedown notice

No. There are no promoted listings or paid placements. Documents surface on how useful students find them.