Teachable and Thinkific rent you a finished course school for a monthly fee. WordPress gives you a site you own, but you put the course school together yourself from a plugin, hosting and a payment gateway. All three can sell a course well. The differences are in the fine print: a fee per sale on…
A coaching business isn’t a course business. You sell a program that runs for weeks, often paid in installments, with 1:1 calls in between and worksheets to check. So the questions that matter are different: can a client pay in three parts, what happens when a payment is late, and how do they book their…
A small school needs less from an LMS than a university does, but more than a course creator selling to strangers. You need to put a whole class into a course at once, let teachers follow their own pupils, tell the class when the quiz moves, and keep children’s data where you can account for…
WordPress lets you sell courses from a site you own, without a monthly platform fee or a cut of every sale. The price is that you assemble and look after the pieces yourself: hosting, an LMS plugin, a theme and a payment method. This guide walks through the whole job in eight steps, using what…
Choosing how to get paid is the part of a course site most people leave until last, and it’s where Tutor LMS, LifterLMS and LearnDash differ most. This guide covers the three ways to take payments, what each plugin supports for free, what Stripe and PayPal charge, and a route to free card payments that…
These are the three LMS plugins most people end up choosing between. LearnDash is the long-standing paid option. LifterLMS and Tutor LMS both have free versions with paid upgrades. This comparison is built on our hands-on tests of LifterLMS and Tutor LMS, and on LearnDash’s own pricing page and documentation. The short answer On this…
We installed the free LifterLMS plugin on a clean WordPress site, built a paid course with a certificate, bought it as a student, approved the payment and finished the course. This review covers what the free core does well, what costs extra, and the details that would catch you out on a real site. The…
We installed the free version of Tutor LMS on a clean WordPress site, built a paid course, bought it as a student, approved the payment and finished the course. This review is what we found: what the free plugin does well, what is locked behind Pro, and the small things that would trip you up…