How billing works for Skyfarer Pro

Skyfarer Pro is an optional paid plan on Skyfarer. One plan covers all your eligible listings: Flight Instructors & Schools, Pilot Training Courses, Online 1:1 Instruction, Aviation Services and Pilot Supplies & Gear. It doesn't cover events, DPE checkrides, aircraft for sale, Requests, or unclaimed listings you added for a business you're not part of.

What's included

Your contact details on your listings. Add your website, phone number, and Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn links in Profile settings. They show on all your eligible listings to signed-in visitors, and to everyone on Aviation Services listings. Your website and phone number also show in your conversations about those listings.
A direct inquiry form. Visitors can send you their name, email address, an optional phone number, a message and their answers to your listing's questions, and we email it to you.
Your own questions on your Contact form. On flight instructor, flight school and aviation services listings, add up to 5 questions of your own and turn off built-in questions you don't need.
Contact details in your own conversations. As the listing's author, you can share contact details in your listing's conversations before a booking is confirmed.
A Featured badge on your listing cards, and on your listing pages once you've added a contact detail. The badge doesn't change where your listings appear in search.
100 Connects each paid month, if your account can use Connects: an instructor account, or an account that has published a flight instructor or flight school listing. Use them to reply to inquiries and to make offers on students' flight-training Requests.
No monthly limit on offers to aviation services Requests. Free accounts can send 5 a calendar month.

Price

Monthly: $29 a month.
Yearly: $228, billed once a year (that's $19 a month). The yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial.

Sales tax is added where Skyfarer collects it, currently Washington.

During the free trial you get every Pro feature except the 100 Connects. Your first yearly payment is taken when the trial ends, unless you cancel before then.

Billing and Connects

Pro renews automatically: every month on the monthly plan, every year on the yearly plan. We charge the card on your Pro plan. It's separate from any card you save for buying Connects.

Each month of your plan earns 100 Connects. Your plan's months count from the day it started, or from the day your free trial ended. Each 100 is added within a few hours of the month starting, once your current payment has gone through. Yearly members get 100 each month too, not all at once.

You don't get Connects during a free trial or while a payment is past due. If a payment fails, your other Pro features stay on while the payment is retried. If every retry fails, your plan is canceled and Pro ends.

Connects never expire, and you keep them if you cancel Pro.

Changing or canceling

Manage your plan in the billing portal: billing.stripe.com/p/login/14A28r5Eah1n8rBfn72kw00. Enter the email address you used when you joined Pro (your Skyfarer account email at the time), and Stripe emails you a sign-in link. There you can switch between monthly and yearly, add a card, see and download invoices or cancel. If you don't see your plan there, need to change the card on your plan, or need help, email support@skyfareracademy.com.

When you switch plans, the change takes effect right away, and the price is adjusted for the time left in your current billing period. If you owe more, you're charged right away. If you owe less, the difference is kept as a credit toward your next Pro payments; it isn't refunded to your card. Switching from monthly to yearly keeps your plan's original start day. You're charged right away for the time from the switch to the next anniversary of the day your plan started (or your free trial ended), less a credit for the unused part of your current month. After that, $228 is charged on each anniversary. Switching to yearly doesn't start a free trial. If you switch to monthly during the yearly plan's free trial, the trial ends and your first monthly payment is taken right away.

Deleting your Skyfarer account doesn't cancel Pro. Cancel Pro in the billing portal first. If you've already deleted your account, you can still cancel there.

When you cancel, Pro stays on until the end of the period you've already paid for, then ends. Until then you keep every Pro feature, and yearly members keep getting 100 Connects each month. If you cancel during the free trial, Pro ends when the trial ends, and you aren't charged.

When Pro ends, your contact details, inquiry form, own Contact-form questions and Featured badge come off your listings. You can no longer share contact details in conversations before a booking is confirmed, and the monthly limit on offers to aviation services Requests applies again. Your saved details and questions are kept, so they come back if you rejoin. Any Connects you have stay in your balance.

Refunds

Pro payments are generally non-refundable, except where we charged you in error or the law requires a refund. If a Pro payment is refunded or disputed, we may remove the Connects that came with it.

What changed with Connects

Before Connects, replying to inquiries was free for every account, and Pro also removed the monthly limit on offers to students' Requests. From November 12, 2026:

Your first reply to a new inquiry on a flight instructor or flight school listing uses Connects, for every account, Pro included. After that, the conversation is free.
Offers on students' flight-training Requests use Connects, Pro included.
Pro members who can use Connects get 100 Connects each paid month. If you're a paying Pro member who can use Connects on launch day, your first 100 arrive within a few hours of launch.
Offers on aviation services Requests still have no monthly limit for Pro members.

For how replies and offers use Connects, see About Connects: costs, uses and balances.