Preply: Pros and Cons

Preply Review

Author

David Skaife
April 16, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes

Editorial

✍️🃏Preply: Pros and Cons

Some Pros and Cons about teaching on Preply:

Pros:

  • Set my own schedule.

  • Set my own price.

  • Easy to set more time off.

  • Relatively easy to change your profile, with approval.

  • Preply calendar links with my other calendars.

  • Preply mobile app notifies me of activity on my profile.

  • Make my own lessons.

  • Free Educational webinars.

  • Students from all time zones.

  • Can use Koala Go for regular classes.

Cons:

  • Students pay for Demo classes.

  • 100% commission on Demo classes.

  • Commission percentage high to start.

  • Make my own lessons.

  • Cannot use Koala Go for Demo classes.

  • Strict rules.

  • Over 27000 English teachers.

  • Race to the bottom pricing.

I realize that make my own lessons is in both columns, and that’s the way I feel about it. I get to make the lessons the way I like, but I do have to actually make them, so it takes a bit of time. I’m still not completely caught up with lesson building.

So far for me, Preply has been a good experience, I am starting to get a few new students at my new rate. I’m not going to get rich at these rates but I am working and learning and even earning. The students have been great, fun to get to know and they have been enjoying the classes.

Yesterday I decided to cash out the amount I had earned and it was pretty smooth. I needed to update the info in my old Wise account and then the transfer happened overnight.

With the way this industry is, the horror stories I have heard, my own experiences and just common sense, I’m trying not to put all my eggs in one basket by seeking other ways to earn online.

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