Your child can run this one themselves

Why it works differently here

We take no payment at all. There is no merchant account, so there is nothing your child is too young to sign.

Somebody backs your child, or buys what they made, and pays them the way your family already moves money. Hatchable keeps the record straight and never touches a penny of it.

What your child actually does

1. Step 1

   They work out the idea

   Who has the problem, what the answer is, what it costs to make. It builds up over the course rather than being written in one go.

2. Step 2

   They pitch it to people who know them

   A page with their idea and what they are asking for. It has a private link. Family and friends can pledge support, and your child writes down what arrives.

3. Step 3

   They sell something real

   A simple shop page. Customers reserve what they want and pay your child in person when they collect it. No card is entered anywhere.

4. Step 4

   They report back

   What happened, what they learned, what is next. Everyone who backed them sees it. This is the part most young people remember.

What we have not done

The list above is what we have built. This is the other half, and it is here because you are the person most entitled to it.

• No independent accessibility audit

  We have not had one. We have done the work we know how to do and written down what we have not checked.

  What we have done, and what we have not

• The video captions are machine-made

  The course videos carry only YouTube's automatic captions, which nobody has checked or corrected. Machine captions are not accurate enough to meet the guidelines, and of everything on this list it is the one we consider most serious.

  Read the full accessibility note

• Not mapped to a provincial curriculum

  We have not published a mapping between our modules and any provincial course document. If your child's school needs that reading done, it is currently yours or their teacher's to do.

  What schools should know

• No school account, and no classroom integrations

  There is no school or district account: each teacher has their own class list. There is no Google Classroom or Clever integration either, so a teacher invites a class by email, or with one shared link they approve students through, by hand.

  The rest of what is missing

Questions parents ask

How old does my child need to be?

Twelve. The course is written for students aged 12 and up. We ask for an age when a student signs up, but it is optional.

What do you store about my child?

Their name, their email address, and their age if they chose to give it. Then the work they do on the course: which lessons they have finished, what they have handed in, and anything they write into their own plan, shop or report. No home address, no phone number, no date of birth, and no payment details, because there is nowhere to enter any of those.

Does my child owe tax on what they earn?

We cannot give tax advice. At this scale it is unlikely to matter, and the Canada Revenue Agency exempts income below the basic personal amount ($16,129 for 2025). If your child's project grows substantially, speak to an accountant.

Why can my child not just use Shopify or Etsy?

They can, but you have to hold the account. An adult signature is required, so the earnings sit in your name and the business is legally yours. Here there is no merchant account to open, so your child owns it outright.

Is somebody supposed to be supervising this?

A teacher can be, and if your child joined through a class then their teacher sees their progress and reads their work. A student can also do the whole course on their own. Either way you are welcome to sit with them, and the whole course is readable without an account if you want to look first.