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The power of Outschool. Without handing over 30% of every class.
Everything you run your classes on, on Famlo's free plan. Built for homeschool co-ops, classes and microschools.
With Famlo, you can:
Yes Get found by homeschool families nearby, who search for classes by age and date Yes Keep your own roster, with allergies, pickup and attendance, and export it any time Yes Get paid by card or Step Up at the price you set, under refund rules you chooseNo card. Listing stays free whether or not you ever collect a penny through us.
Outschool brings the families, then keeps 30% of every class.
Outschool: a national marketplace for classes taught on Zoom
Outschool
Educator take rate
30%
Marketplace fee paid by the family
not published
Famlo
To list and to run
$0
Paid by the family when they book, unless you cover it
3.7% + $1.79 a ticket
On scholarship money
nothing
Famlo: families nearby find you, and the price stays yours
You’re ready for Famlo if any of these sound like you
Outschool keeps 30% of every class price, from the first family to the last
Families pay a further fee on top that Outschool doesn’t publish
Nothing that meets in a room can be sold on Outschool
Your families’ details have to stay on Outschool
You’re paid 70% through PayPal, a week or more after class
Get found by the families who live near you
Outschool brings a national audience to classes taught on Zoom. Famlo puts your classes, in a room, online or both, on a map homeschool parents near you search by their kids’ ages and the dates they’re free, and Local insights shows you what they want that nobody nearby offers yet.
No card. Listing stays free whether or not you ever collect a penny through us.
Keep your own roster, with allergies and pickup on it
Outschool’s teacher policies forbid keeping families’ information outside Outschool, and every message stays on the platform. On Famlo the roster is yours: families add each child once, allergies and pickup arrive with the registration, teachers take attendance from their phone, and you can export it whenever you like.
No card. Listing stays free whether or not you ever collect a penny through us.
Keep the price you set, and your own refund rules
Outschool keeps 30% of the class price, adds a fee for the family it doesn’t publish, and sets one refund policy for every class. Famlo’s free plan takes nothing from your price; families pay a booking fee when they book, unless you cover it. You set the refund terms, and on the Scholarship plan Step Up families choose “my scholarship pays” and Famlo writes the invoice.
No card. Listing stays free whether or not you ever collect a penny through us.
The complete homeschool platform
Everything a co-op, class or microschool runs on, and everything the families on the other side see.
famlo.co · Find
Riverbend Co-op · Local insights
famlo.co · Creek Day
Riverbend Co-op · Console
Riverbend Co-op · Check-in
Riverbend Co-op · Messages
Riverbend Co-op · Money
Riverbend Co-op · Scholarships
Your family · Records
Riverbend Co-op · Testimonials
“Ivy came home from science lab every Thursday with something new to show us. Lena makes it feel like a real lab.”
June Marsh · Science lab, fall term
“Registration took two minutes, and I never had to retype the allergy list. That alone sold me.”
Maria Reyes · Membership, 60 days in
A platform that moves as fast as your group
757 updates shipped since Famlo was rebuilt on July 18, 2026. About 60 a week.
Merged pull requests to Famlo's web and app codebases, with dependency and version bumps left out. Milestones are the dates each feature first shipped. Counted October 14, 2026.
Upgrade from Outschool to Famlo in three steps
Start your own list in an afternoon, and keep teaching on Outschool while it grows.
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Start with the families you know
Outschool’s policies keep the families you met there on Outschool, so build your list from your own: past families, your newsletter, your co-op. Famlo needs:
- Each family's email
- A role for anyone on your team, if you want one
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Invite them in one go
Upload the file under People. Families already on Famlo join your group; everyone else gets an email to sign up and add their children once.
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Publish next term
List your classes free. They go on the map and your public page, and you send families one link. Stuck on a step? famlo.co/support opens a ticket with the team.
Questions about switching from Outschool
We teach online. Is Outschool the better choice?
For live online classes to families across the country, Outschool brings demand Famlo doesn’t, and it handles Zoom, refunds and teacher background checks for you. Famlo is built for groups families can find near home: classes in a room, online or both, with the price, the roster and the refund rules yours.
Can we keep Outschool for online classes and run the rest on Famlo?
Yes. Outschool allows an organization to run classes outside Outschool. Its policies keep the families you met there on Outschool, though, so invite the families you already know, not the ones Outschool sent you.
Is Famlo cheaper than Outschool’s 30%?
On Famlo’s free plan your group keeps the full price you set. Families pay a booking fee when they book, unless you cover it, and scholarship money carries none. Outschool keeps 30% of every class price, and families pay a marketplace fee on top.
Outschool takes Step Up money. Does Famlo?
Yes, on the Scholarship plan: Step Up families choose “my scholarship pays” at checkout and Famlo writes the invoice. Outschool is itself an approved vendor for Step Up and other state programs, so it bills them for you.
Does Famlo vet teachers the way Outschool does?
No. Outschool reviews every listing and pays for each teacher’s yearly background check. On Famlo your group decides who teaches, and staff roles decide what each person can see.
What if we leave Famlo?
Export your registrations, rosters and attendance as CSV, then delete your group. There is no exit fee.
Where Outschool’s figures come from
Each one is Outschool’s own published number or wording, linked to the page it came from. Our build fails if any of them goes six months without being checked again.
Educator take rate
30%
Outschool's own wording: “Outschool's take rate of 30% of the Parent's payment of a Class Price.” The teacher, or the organization, receives 70%.
Source checked 14 October 2026
Marketplace fee paid by the family
not published
A percentage of the class price, shown only at checkout. Families on an Outschool membership don't pay it.
Source checked 14 October 2026
Payouts go through PayPal, in US dollars, a week or more after class.
Source checked 14 October 2026
Live classes meet on Zoom, and teachers may not meet Outschool learners in person except at Outschool-sponsored events. Nothing that meets in a room can be sold on Outschool.
Source checked 14 October 2026
All payments for Outschool classes go through Outschool, all communication stays on the platform, and teachers may not store families' information outside Outschool.
Source checked 14 October 2026
Outschool sets one refund policy for every class and can refund a family on its own; the teacher returns their 70% share of any refund.
Source checked 14 October 2026
Outschool is the approved vendor for state programs including Florida's Step Up and takes the payment itself; a Florida teacher must apply to Step Up separately for live classes to appear there.
Source checked 14 October 2026
Outschool reviews every listing before it goes live and pays for each teacher's background check, renewed every year.
Source checked 14 October 2026
An organization on Outschool needs a business entity and at least two adult teachers, and receives 70% of each enrollment.
Source checked 14 October 2026
Keep the price you set. Drop the 30%.
Set up next term on Famlo while this one finishes on Outschool. No credit card, no setup fee, no demo call.
No card. Listing stays free whether or not you ever collect a penny through us.
Outschool’s plans, prices and features are from its own website and help center, linked above with the date each was checked. Outschool is a trademark of its owner; Famlo is not affiliated with or endorsed by it, nor by Step Up For Students.