LifterLMS development services for courses and memberships that sell

What a LifterLMS project with us looks like

LifterLMS gives you a lot out of the box: a drag-and-drop course builder, access plans, memberships, quizzes and an engagement system for certificates, achievements and emails. The work is in making those parts fit your business. A coach selling one program needs different access plans than an association issuing credits to thousands of members, and the defaults rarely match either.

We start by looking at how you sell and how learners move through your content. Then we set up or fix the pieces that decide whether someone pays, gets enrolled and finishes.

Where LifterLMS sites usually go wrong

After years of repairing other people's builds, we see the same problems again and again:

• Access plans that don't match the sales page, so buyers see one price and pay another.
• Memberships that auto-enroll members into the wrong courses after a product change.
• Certificates tied to 'Student completes a lesson' when they should follow 'Student passes a quiz'.
• Template files edited inside the plugin, so the next update erases the changes.
• Page caching that shows one learner's progress bar to another.
• Recurring payments that stop renewing after a gateway change.

Each of these is fixable, and most can be fixed without rebuilding the site.

How we extend LifterLMS without breaking updates

LifterLMS is built to be extended. We use its hooks and filters for logic, copy templates into a lifterlms folder in a child theme for layout changes, and call the REST API or register webhooks when another system needs to hear about an enrollment or an order. Custom features ship as their own small plugin, documented and handed to you with the source. When LifterLMS releases a major version, such as the 10.0 update that added Focus Mode and the 'Any' engagement trigger, your customizations keep working because they never touched core files.

Add-ons we configure most often

Advanced Quizzes, Assignments, Groups, Course Cohorts, Custom Fields, Social Learning, Private Areas, Events, Continuing Education, Advanced Coupons and Cart Abandonment Recovery. We tell you which ones you actually need before you buy them, and when a few lines of custom code would do the job for less.

Payments, memberships and marketing

Revenue problems are the most urgent ones we see. We set up Stripe, PayPal and Authorize.Net for one-time and recurring payments, or connect WooCommerce when courses sell alongside physical products. For gateways LifterLMS doesn't cover directly, such as Razorpay, we route checkout through WooCommerce. On the marketing side we connect Kit, Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign or HubSpot so tags and lists follow each learner's status without manual exports.

When LifterLMS stops being the right tool

Some organizations outgrow a WordPress LMS because they need proctored exams, SSO with user provisioning or audit evidence for compliance training. In that case we'll say so, and our own platform, LMS Advisor, can import LifterLMS courses. For most course businesses, though, a well-built LifterLMS site is the right answer, and that is what we'll help you build.

What you get at handover

• Source code for every custom plugin and template, owned by you.
• A short admin guide covering your access plans, engagements and add-on settings.
• Test results for each checkout path and engagement trigger.
• An optional monthly plan for updates, backups and fixes.