The Music Therapy Exchange — Product Overview

The brief

Your vision, turned into a working platform

You shared a clear picture: a community-based home for music therapists to find resources, grow professionally, and support one another. We rebuilt the marketplace around exactly that — your logo, your language, and your feature list.

The mission it's built around

“Empower music therapists worldwide by delivering accessible resources, continuing education, and a supportive community through an engaging, community-based platform.”

— The Music Therapy Exchange

What it does today

The platform, end to end

Every part of the buy / sell loop works right now — a therapist can open a store, list a resource, and another therapist can find it, buy it, and download it.

Discover

Find the right resource fast

Browse and search the full catalogue of resources
Filter by population — pediatrics, autism & IDD, older adults, medical & rehab, hospice, and more
Filter by intervention — songwriting, lyric analysis, NMT techniques, movement, and more
Filter by language, plus six resource types
Sort by best-selling, top-rated, newest, or price

Buy

A simple, trusted checkout

Add resources to a cart and check out securely with Stripe
Instant download the moment payment clears
A permanent personal library — re-download any time, forever
Email sign-in only — no passwords to manage

Sell & profile

Setting up is not rocket science

Open a store in a couple of minutes
An easy-to-fill therapist profile: headline, credentials, location, years of experience, populations served, and bio
List a resource with a cover, files, price, and clinical tags
Draft and publish on your own schedule; a clear vendor dashboard

Get paid

Earnings that reach your bank

Stripe Connect payouts — earnings transfer automatically
A clear, transparent platform fee on each sale
Live earnings and payout status in the dashboard

Trust & community

Built on real experience

Reviews and ratings from verified buyers only
Public sales counts and aggregate store ratings
Therapist profiles that show credentials and expertise

Made for the work

Spoken in your language

A taxonomy built for music therapy, not generic music
Six resource types — session plans, songs & sheet music, visual aids, recordings, assessment forms, curricula
Warm, accessible design drawn from your logo

Your wishlist

Everything you asked for, mapped

Here is your feature list, point by point, with where each one stands today.

What you asked for	Status	Detail
Wanted in the platform
Buy / sell music therapy resources	Built	Full marketplace — listing, cart, checkout, downloads.
Filter by population, language, intervention	Built	A faceted filter sidebar on every browse page.
Easy-to-fill therapist biography	Built	Headline, credentials, experience, populations, bio.
Easy buying & selling experience	Built	Stripe checkout for buyers; a guided flow for vendors.
Profile setup that isn't rocket science	Built	A short create-store form; the richer profile is optional.
A hub for Continuing Music Therapy Education (CMTE)	Next up	The next phase — see the roadmap below.
Would be incredible to have
Export sheet music to OnSong / GarageBand	Planned	A format-export step on download. On the roadmap.
Digital newsletter of new courses & sponsors	Planned	Email capture plus a curated send. On the roadmap.

A look at it

The platform, in its own colours

The whole experience is illustrated and on-brand — no stock photos, no placeholders. The home page, and a few of the resource covers:

What comes next

The roadmap

The foundation is in place. Here is the order we'd suggest building from here — your CMTE hub leads.

Next phase

The CMTE hub

A home for Continuing Music Therapy Education: courses that award CMTE credits, completion tracking, and downloadable certificates — so recertification lives right alongside the resources.

After that

Music-app export

Let buyers send purchased sheet music straight into OnSong, GarageBand, or another reader, in the right format.

After that

Digital newsletter

A digital newsletter featuring new courses, standout resources, and key sponsors of the platform.

Ongoing

Community & growth

Bundles, wishlists, following favourite therapists, and tailored recommendations — the touches that make it feel like a community.

Under the hood

Built on dependable, modern tools

Next.js 16 Convex backend Clerk — email sign-in Stripe — payments & payouts Cloudflare — hosting & file storage

Honest status — what to know before a wider look:

This is a working prototype. Payments run in Stripe test mode — no real money moves yet; switching to live is a configuration step.
The 6 therapist practices and 20 resources are realistic sample data to demonstrate the experience. They would be cleared before a real launch.
A short pre-launch checklist remains: live payment keys, a production sign-in setup, and legal review of the Terms.