Why we started
Teachers make some of the best learning materials in the world, often late at night and on their own time. They deserve a place to sell them that respects their work and treats them fairly.
Who we are
Classwares™ is built by a family, not a giant company.
Jeff’s wife taught in the classroom for 18 years. The resources she made for her own students were so good that other teachers kept asking to use them. So she started selling them, and she has been a teacher-seller for 14 years now. She tells us what teachers really need, and she tests everything first.
All those years, Jeff listened to her and other sellers talk about what was hard about selling their work. Recent changes made it clear that teachers needed a place that respects them and cares about them. So Jeff dusted off his ideas for Classwares and built it, giving it every free waking moment.
Jeff taught himself to program at age 7. He has spent 40 years in the software industry and has written software for Fortune 500 companies. He architected, designed and led the team that built the software that took a startup to a billion-dollar valuation in five years. He specializes in highly secure systems that serve thousands to millions of users, and he holds 11 patents in identity protection. Security is what he knows best.
We are a small family team. When you email us, it comes straight to Jeff, and he answers it himself.
Our promises to sellers
- Your files are yours. You own what you make.
- Sell anywhere. Sell your resources anywhere else you like.
- A fair share. Free accounts keep 75% of each sale. Paid accounts ($5/month or $50/year) keep 85%, or 90% when the sale comes through the Classwares plugin. Classwares pays the card fees, and there is no listing fee.
- No surprises. No processing fee charged to you. Carts under $5 have one small-cart charge of $0.36, split evenly across the resources in the cart, and we publish it everywhere.
- A founding price. Start a Paid account before January 1, 2027, and you become a founding seller. Your founding price of $5/month or $50/year is locked in for as long as your account stays actively paid. If it lapses or you cancel, the founding price ends.
- Your voice. Sellers help shape how Classwares grows, and our Terms say plainly how things work.
How we’re building it
Come and join us on the journey to build a place where teachers come first and corporate profits come last, where your resources are always yours and we not only let you sell them in different places, we’ll help you set up your own store instantly.