Courstore — the 1Study alternative for growing schools
Lessons in Telegram, the browser and the mobile app, your school’s official WhatsApp, Kaspi and receipts out of the box. And your own school app is a one-time purchase, not a separate plan.
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At a glance: what’s different
- Kaspi, instalments, cards and fiscal receipts — no bank contracts of your own
- Option to sell without a sole-proprietor or LLP registration — we work with legal entities too
- Your school’s official WhatsApp and lessons right in Telegram
- Your own school app — one-time, on your school’s own account
- School subdomain free, your own domain on Pro
- Claude: answers about your school, quizzes and assignment checking
- AI teacher: answers students around the clock and relieves curators
- Challenges: assignment marathons with a feed of students’ work
- Guest checkout: students pay without signing up
- iOS and Android student app with push notifications; White label for your own school app
- 14-day trial without a card
- Free migration by their team — usually 1–2 days
Why schools choose Courstore
Students learn where it suits them
Lessons open right in Telegram, in the browser and in the mobile app. Students have nothing new to learn — teaching comes to where they already spend their day, and automatic reminders help them finish.
Your school’s official WhatsApp
Students get login codes, course access after payment and broadcasts from your school’s number. Courstore is a Meta Tech Provider: we connect the official WhatsApp Business with no third-party services.
Your own app — one-time and on your account
The branded app is bought once with any Pro term; after that you pay only the subscription. It is published in the App Store and Google Play on your own developer account, not on a Courstore account: the name, reviews and rating are yours.
Claude knows every number in your school
Connect your school to Claude and ask in plain words: “Compare October and September sales”, “Which students are below 30% progress?” On Pro, Claude also does the work for you: builds a quiz with correct answers from the lesson material, reviews submitted assignments and drafts a grade and feedback for each student, creates courses and opens modules on a schedule.
Feature comparison
As with 1Study: learning in the browser and the app, push notifications, quizzes and assignments, Kaspi and instalments, card payments, your own domain, protected video, free migration.
Feature |
Courstore |
1Study |
|---|---|---|
| Only in Courstore | ||
| Learning and staying in touch | ||
| Lessons right inside Telegram | ||
| Automatic reminders to students in Telegram | ||
| Your school’s official WhatsApp Business | ||
| Sales and money | ||
| Option to sell without a sole-proprietor or LLP registration | ||
| Lifetime: one payment, no renewals | ||
| Your own school app — a one-time purchase, no monthly plan | ||
| School and management | ||
| School subdomain: your-school.courstore.com | ||
| School’s own pixels and counters: Meta Pixel, Google Analytics and GTM, Yandex Metrika | ||
| School interface in 4 languages | ||
| Claude: answers about sales and students in plain words | ||
| Claude: builds quizzes and grades assignments (Pro) | ||
Who each platform suits
Both are strong platforms for schools in Kazakhstan. The choice depends on how you want to take payments and teach.
1Study suits schools that need an AI teacher answering students around the clock, like challenges — assignment marathons with a feed of students’ work — and a ready-made student app. The 14-day trial without a card lets you look around calmly.
Courstore suits those who need more around payments and learning: Kaspi, instalments, cards and receipts without your own contracts, the option to sell without a sole-proprietor or LLP registration, an official school WhatsApp, lessons in Telegram and Claude. A school-branded app is bought once and published on the school’s own account. A till for your own sole-proprietor or LLP account is connected individually.
Moving without the headache
We move your courses and materials for free — given access and exports from your current platform. We plan the move around your school so teaching doesn’t stop.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I move a school from 1Study to Courstore?
Leave a request — we’ll move your courses and materials for free and plan the move. Migration is possible given access and exports from your current platform.
How much does the school’s own app cost?
A branded app is 499 000 ₸ one-time with any Pro term; after that you pay only for Pro. Kaspi instalments are available. On Lifetime the app is optional too: 499 000 ₸ one-time plus 99 990 ₸ a year for app support. According to 1Study’s pricing page as of 27 October 2026, an app under your own brand is a separate White label plan there: 99,900 ₸ a month (79,920 ₸ a month when paid yearly). With us the app is bought once, with no monthly fee for it.
Why is the app published on the school’s account?
That way the app belongs to you: it is published in the App Store and Google Play on your own Apple and Google developer accounts, set up in the school’s name — not on a Courstore account. The name, reviews and rating build up for you, and students get push notifications from your name. There is another practice: a platform publishes the apps of many schools from its own single developer account. With us the app is published on the school’s own account, and the school controls that account; every app goes through the store review. The shared Courstore app is a single platform app with all schools inside: it is included in every plan and is a convenient place to start.
What does connecting to Claude give me?
Claude is the AI assistant by Anthropic. Connect your school and it becomes an assistant who knows all your numbers: “Compare October and September sales”, “Which students are below 30% progress?”, “How did students do on the final test?”, “How many people visited the course page this week?” — Claude gathers the data and shows the takeaways. This is available on every plan. On Pro, Claude also does the work for you: builds a quiz with correct answers from the lesson material and adds it to the course, reviews submitted assignments and drafts a grade and feedback for each student, creates a course draft, updates prices and settings, opens modules on a schedule or N days after purchase, pauses and resumes sales. Before every change it shows what it will do and waits for your confirmation.
How can I accept payments — two options
Option 1 — through Courstore. We work like Kaspi: we accept payment from students and transfer the money to you on the next business day. Official Kaspi, installments, cards, international payments and fiscal receipts are already connected, no bank contracts needed. The platform fee is symbolic — 0.1% (0.01% for Kaspi Gold). That is 1 ₸ for every 1 000 ₸, and 1 ₸ for every 10 000 ₸ for Kaspi Gold.
Option 2 — your own acquiring. You pay the platform 0%, while bank contracts and opening the countries you need stay on your side, so there may be fewer payment countries. We will connect your own Kaspi directly, free of charge.
When does the money from sales arrive?
Payments from Kazakhstan and other countries — the next business day, from the Russian Federation — the day after.
What do I need to start accepting payments?
An account at any bank in Kazakhstan — an individual, a sole proprietor or an LLP. No Kaspi Pay, acquiring, bank contracts or compliance needed: payments are built in, receipts are issued automatically.
Which countries can pay by card?
Students can pay by card from: Kazakhstan, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Malaysia, Moldova, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, USA, Uzbekistan and the Russian Federation. No acquirer opens every country in the world at once: each one works through an operator bank, and the bank decides whether adding a country is justified — by default these are mainly CIS countries. If the country you need is not on the list, we will ask the operator bank to add it.
What language is the school interface in?
The school’s interface language is chosen by the author: Russian, Kazakh, English or Uzbek.
What is a deferred start?
Your paid term starts not at purchase, but when you publish your first course: up to 1 month to prepare on the 3-month plan, up to 2 months on the 6-month plan and up to 3 months on the annual one. Prepare at your own pace — the plan does not tick.
What terms are available and how is the price calculated?
Three terms: 3, 6 or 12 months. The monthly price depends on the term: for 6 months it is 12% lower than the 3-month price, for a year 25% lower. The plan card shows how much you save over the whole term compared with the 3-month price.
How does Pro differ from Start?
Courses, students and storage are unlimited on both Start and Pro; staff accounts — up to 5 on Start, unlimited on Pro. Pro adds your own domain and white label (no Courstore logo), your school’s own WhatsApp — login codes, access and broadcasts reach students from your number — the school API and webhooks for automatic enrolment from your website or CRM, Claude that not only shows data but also builds quizzes, grades assignments and makes changes, your own certificate design and a personal manager. Start is for launching on a Courstore subdomain with your logo; Pro is for a school with its own brand and automation.
Can I try Courstore without leaving 1Study?
Yes. 7 days of full access with no card — create a test course and compare for yourself without switching anything off on your current platform.
School address: a subdomain or a path on the platform’s site?
Every Courstore school has its own address, your-school.courstore.com — a separate site. Why it matters: the school’s own counters and pixels run on it (Yandex Metrika, Google Analytics and GTM, Meta Pixel — you add them in settings), it has its own address in search, its own cookies and its own student login; later the school can move to your own domain without changing its structure. At 1Study, according to their documentation, a school opens by default at an address like 1study.kz/your-username — on the platform’s shared domain, where the address, cookies and login are shared with the platform. A custom domain is connected manually there: an A record at the registrar, then the 1Study team enables the certificate, and until then the school works on the platform’s address. The 1Study documentation also has no way to connect pixels and counters to a school.