If you want to deliver online courses and have your study material contents ready, then you can start immediately. Of course, you may take around 30 minutes to 2 hours initially to learn how to use Quampus. New content development may take few days to months. You can even purchase good quality content.

If your goal is just to start with online tests, then you need to have your question bank data to start immediately. Again, the starting investment time is as mentioned in the preceding paragraph.

Following are the types of pricing models prevalent in the industry:

• User License Model: In this model, you purchase a certain number of user licenses in advance. Every license allows a user to access a course for the calendar month. So, more learners mean more licenses and longer access means more licenses. Licenses are always sold in slabs. Higher off-take means lower rate. If you over-estimate your requirement, you will have unused licenses and if you under-estimate the requirement, you purchase at higher price slab. If yours is a business situation, you know that it is impossible to get correct demand estimate. Users getting enrolled for partial period of a month do not give you any advantage.

  This model has similarity with retail discount sale situations where the item you want to buy has no discount, but you buy unnecessary items which are being sold at higher discounts. In personal purchase situations, it may look fine; but in business situation it is not. Quampus has no concept of advance license purchase.

• Revenue Share Model: This works for priced courses. Those who offer this also have user-license model on the side for delivering course which are not priced. Some platforms charge very high revenue share if the course gets sold through them and less revenue share if you yourself sell the course. But remember, most learners end up buying your course through the platform than through you (because the platform generally gets higher visibility and higher SEO ranking when learners search for courses) and you end up sacrificing higher revenue share. Also, if your course commands higher price, you lose more revenue share in absolute terms. This model works good for very low-priced courses.
• Fixed Monthly Charge Model: While the previous two models are genuine having their pluses and minuses, this model can get an award for its sheer ability to obfuscate while looking like the best one. This model gives the impression that whether you have one or thousands of learners, you just pay a flat monthly charge. But, most platforms who operate on this philosophy keep a data download limit (called bandwidth by some) beyond which you are charged.

  Because most course providers use videos as the main content and a 10-minute HD video can be easily 800MB to 1 GB size, you will easily cross download limits many times over just with very few learners. Since you do not control how many times the videos are seen by the learners (you can set limits here but that will create another problem – either learner dissatisfaction or calls from learners to remove limits), your cost becomes unpredictable and very high. This pricing model has the potential of putting your business at severe risk.

Quampus pricing model is based on the philosophy of cost predictability, price stability, and implemented through the Pay-when-you-Earn approach. You know the cost upfront, price remains firm (theoretically till you renew your agreement with Quampus, but practically for very long time unless some unforeseen input cost escalation forces us for price revision), and you do not have to commit a volume of use to get better usage rate. And, when you deliver free courses or services to any number of learners, there are no extra charges (no bandwidth or data limits whatsoever). So, you pay us only when you earn through priced or internal courses or services.

Quampus is affordable, its pricing is transparent, and it has no hidden costs. You get lower rates on actual higher usage. Our pricing is straight-forward. When you earn, we earn. When you do not, we do not. We have been calling it Pay-when-you-Earn. If you get a platform having a better pricing philosophy, they deserve to get you as a customer, not us.

First, let us be clear what we mean by Quampus services. When your learners enroll in your courses or your other learning services, you use Quampus services. Similarly, when you enhance your storage limits or you renew/extend your Knowledge Partner Membership, you use Quampus services.

To use Quampus services, either you should have a credit balance with us, or you should have a credit limit from us. You create a credit balance by paying us in advance.

If you want to use Quampus services without making advance payments, you need to take a credit limit approval from us. After a credit limit has been set for you, you can avail Quampus services up to that limit. We generate our invoices in the beginning of a calendar month for services delivered in the previous calendar month. You will have to pay on or within the payment due date to settle the invoice and to continue using the credit limit. Please note that granting a credit limit is completely under the discretion of Quampus.

If you do not get a credit limit approval from us, you need to pay us in advance to use Quampus services.

Quampus is content agnostic i.e. it can accept any/most types of e-content or e-learning content. In addition to accepting pdf, swf, doc, xls, ppt, docx, xlsx, pptx, avi, wav, jpg, flv, mp3, mp4, html Quampus also accepts packaged contents created through Authoring Tools like Articulate, Captivate, and Camtasia etc. If your contents are not in these formats, you need to convert them. Conversion is not difficult. You can contact your local IT service providers for the same or you can contact us for all your content related work. We can train your people to create in-house contents or we can take up content development as an outsourced activity at reasonable rates.

Yes. We have a content development group which helps our customers in preparing SCORM compliant as well as non-SCORM compliant e-learning content. This service is competitively priced.

This question and its answer are meant for our customers from India only. And the answer is ‘No’. If you want to use a different GST Number, you will have to contact us.

Currently no. We plan to introduce this feature in future.

Yes. Please select and sign up for the Free Plan which does not ask you for any future financial commitment. It has all the features of the complete cloud LMS platform, the only restrictions being the number of courses and number of learners - more than sufficient for any moderate user. You may continue using this plan or change to a priced plan whenever the need arises.

Yes, our cloud service provider has elaborate scheme for providing high level of fault tolerance.

You can use 'Help' links for feature related help. You can raise a customer care query through the 'Customer Care' link. We normally respond within 24 hours. We provide unlimited web based support.