Partner briefing
A walk-through of the pipeline that turns a visitor into a paying, verified, actively learning student — from first click to a graded capstone.
Overview
Paleon Training sells five project-based courses — cyber security, digital marketing, social media, renewable energy, and GIS & drone mapping — directly through its own portal, no marketplace in between.
Every student moves through the same pipeline: an enrolment record is created the moment someone picks a course, but the lesson content itself stays locked behind a single flag — paymentConfirmed — until payment is verified. That verification happens two different ways depending on where the student is billing from: instantly for a card charge, by a member of staff for a Nigerian bank transfer. That fork, and the flag it sets, is the mechanism worth understanding before anything else — it's the diagram below.
The pipeline
paymentConfirmed flag, and it's the only thing standing between an enrolled student and their first lesson — checked again on the server on every request, not just hidden in the interface.Stage by stage
Paleon's marketing pages capture interest as a lead — name, email, course of interest — before anyone creates an account. This is the top of the funnel, separate from the portal itself.
A prospective student creates an account on the portal directly. This is the first point they exist as a real user, not just a lead record.
Choosing a course creates an enrolment record immediately — progress tracking starts here. But nothing in the course is visible yet; every lesson stays locked until payment clears.
Billing country decides the route. Outside Nigeria, a card charge in GBP confirms the enrolment in one automatic step. Inside Nigeria, a student submits an NGN bank transfer reference instead — nothing confirms automatically.
card payments run on a placeholder gateway todayA member of staff checks the transfer against Paleon's real bank account from the admin dashboard, then confirms it by hand. It's the one manual step in the pipeline, and the only place a payment can take hours or days rather than seconds.
Both paths converge on the same flag. The moment it flips true, lesson content unlocks — enforced on the server on every request, not just hidden in the interface.
Students move through weekly modules — each with video, reading, and an in-lesson checkpoint quiz — plus assignments and module quizzes, finishing with a graded capstone project. Progress is tracked throughout and visible to both the student and Paleon's admin team.
Live today
| Course | Weeks | Lessons | Price (₦) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyber Security Fundamentals | 12 | 24 | 200,000 |
| Renewable Energy & Digital Systems | 8 | 16 | 250,000 |
| GIS & Drone Mapping | 8 | 16 | 200,000 |
| Digital Marketing | 8 | 16 | 150,000 |
| Social Media Management & Content | 8 | 16 | 150,000 |
| All five courses | 44 | 88 | — |