Pricing
One price. One time. The whole universe.
Two things are sold here. The book, below. And The Aspiring Bartender Course, which is sold by the seat to bartenders and venues.
The Home Bartender's Cheat Code Universe costs 29 USD. That is a one-time payment. There is no subscription, no auto-renewal, no upsell inside the pages you buy.
What 29 USD gets you.
- The full book, all pages, in the reader that turns like water.
- All nine worlds, unlocked. Every tutorial, every guide conversation, every coaster round.
- Your place across devices, once you sign in.
- Every future update to the universe you already own. If we add pages, worlds, films or techniques, they land in the same door.
The free taste, alongside
You can read chapter one and make your first Gin and Tonic, done properly, with the guide, without paying anything. No account, no card. It exists so you can feel the tone of the book and the shape of a world before you decide.
Once you have made that first drink, the paid path opens the other eight worlds, the Daiquiri included.
Currency
The base price is 29 USD. Paddle, our checkout, will show the price in your local currency at the moment of purchase and handle any tax that applies in your country. What you see on the checkout is what you pay.
Taxes
Paddle acts as the merchant of record for this sale. That means Paddle collects, files and remits VAT, GST or sales tax where the law requires it, including in the EU and EEA. The receipt Paddle sends you is the receipt for tax purposes.
Digital only, nothing shipped
The Cheat Code is digital content you open online, through your account. It is not a physical product, and nothing is posted or delivered to you. The price is for that online access alone. It does not cover the ingredients or equipment you make drinks with, which you supply yourself, and it does not include any live or in-person session.
The Aspiring Bartender Course
A separate product, sold by the seat. A seat is one named enrolment: six mini-courses, a quiz at the end of each, a supervised final examination, and a credential issued in that person's name with a verification link anyone can check.
What a seat costs.
- 129 USD a seat, whatever the quantity, tax included.
One payment, no subscription and no auto-renewal. There is no volume rate: a seat costs the same whether one bartender takes it or thirty do. A venue that would rather be invoiced than pay by card asks through the form on the course page, at the same price.
The rate changed on 10 August 2026, from 39 EUR a seat with volume tiers at 29 and 24, and the base currency changed to USD on 11 August 2026. A seat bought before either date was bought at the price shown at the time and is not repriced.
Prices include tax. The figure you see is the figure you pay. Any VAT or sales tax due in your country is contained in it and is remitted by Paddle, our merchant of record, not added at the last step.
The base currency for the course is USD, the same as the book. Venues in the eurozone are charged 129 EUR rather than a converted figure. Everywhere else, Paddle converts to your local currency at the moment of purchase and shows you that number before you pay.
A seat belongs to one person
A venue buys seats and hands out one link per seat. The first person to open a seat puts their name to it, and it stays theirs. Seats are not shareable and cannot be moved to somebody else afterwards, because the credential at the end carries that name. Buy three seats and train twenty people and you have three credentials, not twenty.
The certificate itself is shareable. That is the point of it.
What a seat does not include
The course is digital content you open online. Nothing is posted or delivered. It does not include the book, which is sold separately, and it does not include any live or in-person session, ingredients or equipment.
Invoices
Venues that would rather be invoiced than pay by card can ask through the form on the course page. The price is the same.
Price changes
If the price of the universe changes later, your one-time purchase remains valid at the price you paid. You do not pay again for the same universe. The same holds for a course seat: a seat you have already bought is not repriced, and a credential already issued is not withdrawn because a rate moved.
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