Vol. 01 · Issue 24Tue, Jun 9

§ About

The student journal

A marketplace for the notes that worked.

Doczaar is the simplest way to find the lecture notes, exam guides, and study briefs that other students wrote, used, and passed with — and to get paid for the ones you write yourself.

§ 01

What we do

Doczaar is a marketplace for student-written study materials — lecture notes, exam guides, condensed summaries, problem sets, and revision flashcards. Students upload what they wrote; other students search, preview, and buy what they need. Sellers keep up to 80% of every sale, paid daily via Stripe.

We don't generate content. We don't grade anyone. We give the notes a shelf, a price tag, and an honest review system, and then we get out of the way.

§ 02

Why we built it

Every semester, somewhere on every campus, the same two things are true: a few students take exceptional notes, and a few hundred students go looking for them at 11pm the night before a final. The existing fixes — group chats, Discords, pirated PDFs in shared Drives — are unreliable, untracked, and don't pay the people doing the work.

We thought a small, focused marketplace could do better. Pay the authors. Show real previews. Let the community filter for quality. Stay out of the academic process itself.

§ 03

What we believe

  • i.Students should be paid for the work they've already done. Sharing is generous; selling is sustainable.
  • ii.Previews aren't optional. You should be able to see what you're buying before you buy it.
  • iii.The community knows which notes are worth it. The platform shouldn't pretend it does.
  • iv.Subscriptions are a tax on people who don't need them. Pay per-document, full stop.
  • v.Academic integrity belongs to your institution, not us. We provide study aids — what you do with them is your responsibility.
§ 04

How sellers earn

Open a seller account, connect Stripe in about three minutes, upload a PDF, and set a price. From there it runs by itself — buyers download, Stripe takes its cut, you keep up to 80% of what's left, and we settle to your bank account daily. No minimum-payout threshold dance, no months-long holds.

Commission rates start at 70% for new sellers and rise to 80% as your sales volume grows. The full schedule lives in your earnings dashboard once you're set up.

§ 05

How we keep quality up

Three mechanisms, in order of strength: previews (you see the first pages of every document before buying), buyer reviews (any buyer can rate and write a review after download), and our moderation queue (we remove anything that breaks the rules — see our Terms).

We don't pre-screen documents. We respond to copyright takedowns fast, and repeat infringers lose their accounts.

§ 06

By the numbers

  • 47,000+

    Documents on file

  • 500+

    Universities covered

  • 80%

    Maximum seller share

  • Daily

    Payout cadence

  • 4.9 ★

    Average buyer rating

  • < 24h

    Average support reply

§ 07

Get in touch

General questions or partnership pitches: hello@doczaar.com. Platform support, refunds, payout questions: the support desk. Press: press@doczaar.com.