For sellers
You already did the work. Get paid for it twice.
Three steps, about four minutes
Upload the file you already have
PDF, Word, Excel or OpenDocument — handwriting too, scanned to a PDF. We run it through a legibility and completeness check and tag it to your course code.
Set your price — or publish it free
You decide. Most sellers price between $4 and $12; free documents build a following that makes your paid ones sell.
Spend it or withdraw it
Earnings build up in your wallet. Use them on notes for your own courses, or withdraw them — paid on the 5th, no minimum, no fee.
Terms we are willing to put in writing
Most notes platforms bury the revenue share and the exclusivity clause. Ours are the first two lines of the seller agreement.
- You keep the rights. Publish elsewhere too, unpublish any time.
- No exclusivity contract and no lock-in period.
- Course-code matching means your notes reach the students who need them.
- Sales keep running for as long as the module does — typically 2 to 4 years.
- Transparent 70% revenue share, stated up front and never renegotiated downward.
Revenue share
70%
of every sale goes to you. On an $8.99 summary that is $6.29 per unlock — spend it on CramShare or withdraw it monthly, with no threshold and no withdrawal fee.
Questions sellers ask first
- How much do students actually earn selling notes?
- Honestly: nobody can tell you yet. CramShare opened this year, so we have no sales history to quote, and a figure invented to sound encouraging would be worth nothing to you. What is fixed is the arithmetic — you keep 70% of the price you set, on every unlock, for as long as the module runs. The calculator lets you put your own course size and price into that.
- What percentage does CramShare take?
- Sellers keep 70% of every sale. The remaining 30% covers payment processing, the review process, hosting and support. There is no listing fee, no subscription and no withdrawal fee.
- Can I sell notes if I have already graduated?
- Yes. Notes stay relevant for as long as the module and its reading list do, which is usually two to four years. Plenty of the highest-earning documents were uploaded by people who had already finished their degree.
- Is selling my own notes allowed by my university?
- Your own original notes are your work and yours to publish. Copying lecture slides, textbook pages or another student's work is not, and will be rejected in review. Check your institution's academic policy if you are unsure — our academic integrity page explains where the line sits.
More detail in the upload guidelines and payout terms.
The notes are already on your laptop.
Publishing them takes about four minutes. After that they earn without you doing anything else.