Buying guide

Plan annual learner capacity without inventing a traffic forecast

Last materially reviewed 2026-10-02

Quick answerCount a bounded audience assumption and leave uncertainty explicit; visits, learners and completions are not interchangeable.
Likely to work well when

✓ Ordinary operating instructions

✓ Lean training-author workflows

✓ Fictional prototype cases

✓ Source and revision planning

Important limitations

— Safety-critical or regulated certification

— Clinical or legal instruction

— Employment screening

— General online-school commerce

What to know

Start with a planning audience

Write the number of people you expect to reach during the billing year, using aggregate assumptions only. Separate a known internal group from speculative public visitors. Our calculator accepts current learners, anticipated new learners and a percentage cushion. It adds and rounds those inputs; it does not predict demand, identify people or connect to Mini Course Generator. An unknown input should not be entered as zero just to obtain a result.

What to know

Use the current plan definition

The observed Creator limits were 500 and 1,000 learners per year on Plus and Pro. Confirm the merchant’s definition of a counted learner, repeat access and renewal period when those details affect your decision. A course view is not necessarily a unique learner, and an annual allowance is not a monthly allowance. The worksheet deliberately avoids labeling its result as an exact billable count.

What to know

Read the fictional example

Suppose a planning group has 120 existing people and expects 80 additional people, with a 25% cushion. The arithmetic is (120 + 80) × 1.25 = 250. This describes an assumed capacity requirement, not observed usage or a recommendation to buy a particular plan. A plan may still be unsuitable because access, reporting or content behavior fails a separate requirement.

What to know

Keep a decision-changing check

Record the date, assumptions and person responsible for updating them. Revisit the estimate when the audience or merchant definition changes, not every time an incidental visit occurs. Use the cost guide to include review and maintenance work alongside subscription charges. Choose the smallest adequate arrangement only after both capability and capacity fit; unused allowance is not a benefit by itself.

What to know

Do not silently merge audiences

An internal group and a public lead-generation lesson may have different uncertainty and access needs. Keep their planning assumptions separate even if the merchant ultimately counts them under one allowance. Combining them too early can hide the reason a capacity estimate changed.

Source boundary

The evidence behind this buying guidance

This guide draws on Mini Course Generator pricing. Merchant-controlled records describe the provider’s own capabilities, terms or standards; they do not independently validate those claims. These records do not establish independent confirmation of the product claims.

Verify any current price, plan limit, label direction, compatibility rule, or commercial term that would materially change the decision. The dated source ledger shows the underlying records so this conclusion can be checked and updated.

Sources used for this page

These records support the facts and comparisons above. Merchant-controlled records are labelled so you can separate product claims from independent evidence.

  1. Mini Course Generator pricing — Merchant documentation · minicoursegenerator.com · Merchant-controlled · checked 2026-10-02
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What annual capacity are you assuming?

(Current + anticipated additional learners) × (1 + cushion / 100), rounded up. Confirm merchant counting rules independently.

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