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 four project-based courses — cyber security, digital marketing, GIS & drone mapping, and HSE fundamentals — 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. Students pay by card in Naira on Paystack, and a member of staff verifies the money arrived before setting the flag. That check, 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.
The student pays by card, in Naira, on the course's Paystack page, using the email on their Paleon account. Payment doesn't confirm automatically.
card payments go through Paystack payment pagesA member of staff finds the payment in the Paystack dashboard by the student's email, then confirms it by hand in the admin dashboard. 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 daily 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 | Days | Lessons | Price (₦) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyber Security Fundamentals | 18 | 36 | 200,000 |
| GIS & Drone Mapping | 8 | 16 | 200,000 |
| Digital Marketing | 8 | 16 | 150,000 |
| HSE Fundamentals | 8 | 16 | 100,000 |
| All four courses | 42 | 84 | — |