Starter
From$50
A first course or a simple gated member area.
- ✓LearnDash or membership setup
- ✓Up to 3 courses / tiers
- ✓Member area & login flow
- ✓Payment gateway integration
- ✓Elementor Pro included, 1 year
- ✓15 days post-launch support
Custom WordPress LMS and membership builds — gated content, member areas, recurring payments and a student journey that actually gets finished. Built on LearnDash or Tutor LMS, owned entirely by you.
No. 01 — The Difference
A membership site isn't a plugin slapped onto a blog. It's a student journey engineered to be joined, finished and renewed.
Most course and membership sites are built by activating a plugin and hoping for the best — a confusing dashboard, a course flow that loses people by lesson two, slow video pages, and no sense of progress. Members sign up, get lost, and quietly cancel. And in a recurring-revenue business, churn is the whole ballgame.
A custom LMS build is designed around the member's journey: a clean dashboard that makes the next step obvious, gated and dripped content that keeps people coming back, recurring payments that just work, and progress tracking and certificates that give members a reason to finish. Built on LearnDash or Tutor LMS, tuned for speed, and fully owned by you — so your income isn't renting space on someone else's platform.
No. 02 — The Reality
A course nobody finishes doesn't sell twice.
Recurring revenue lives and dies on the dashboard.
A confused member is a cancelled member.
No. 03 — The Moving Parts
Nine parts, engineered around getting members to join, finish and renew.
Tiers, access and pricing planned around retention.
Lessons and modules sequenced so people actually finish.
LearnDash or Tutor LMS configured properly, not just switched on.
Access controlled and content released to keep members engaged.
A clean home base that makes the next step obvious.
Recurring billing that works and holds up at scale.
Tracking and rewards that give members a reason to return.
Fast lesson and video pages that don't frustrate.
Insight into where members drop off so you can fix it.
No. 04 — Pricing
No per-member fees, no revenue share, no platform holding your course library hostage. Fixed scope, fixed price, agreed before we start — and we custom-quote anything in between within 24 hours.
A first course or a simple gated member area.
A proper course platform with drip, quizzes and progress tracking.
Large libraries, custom dashboards, or migrating off Kajabi.
✓ Every package — no per-member fees, your member list stays yours.
Elementor Pro is activated under our agency licence for the period stated. LMS plugin licences and video hosting are billed separately by those providers.
No. 05 — Why Members Churn
Recurring revenue leaks in the same predictable places. Close these and members stay.
If members can't find the next lesson in seconds, they stop looking.
A course that loses people by lesson two never gets finished — or renewed.
Buffering and lag turn a paid experience into a frustrating one.
Without milestones and wins, motivation fades and cancellations rise.
No. 06 — Custom vs Plugin
| CompareFeatures | RecommendedCustom LMS Build | DIYPlugin Defaults | HostedKajabi / Teachable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built around | ✓The member's journey | Whatever the plugin ships with | Their template, not yours |
| Member dashboard | ✓Designed for your courses | ✕ Generic and cluttered | Polished but fixed |
| Look and branding | ✓Fully yours | Theme-limited | ✕ Theirs, with your logo |
| Page speed | ✓Hand-tuned, 90+ | Slow lesson pages | Out of your control |
| Who owns the member list | ✓You do, entirely | ✓You do | ✕ On their platform |
| Ongoing cost | ✓Hosting only | ✓Plugin licence | ✕ Monthly, rising with members |
| Revenue share | ✓None | ✓None | ✕ Transaction fees apply |
| As you grow | ✓Scales with you | Starts to strain | You move up a tier |
| Cost to start | One fixed build price | ✓Cheapest up front | ✓Low monthly to begin |
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No. 07 — The Stakes
A member who doesn't finish lesson one rarely stays for month two.
That first session is everything. If a new member logs in and immediately feels lost — a cluttered dashboard, an unclear next step, a slow page — the doubt creeps in and the cancellation follows. Retention isn't a marketing problem you fix later; it's built into the experience from the first click. Get the journey right and members finish, renew and refer. Get it wrong and no amount of new sign-ups fills a leaking bucket.
If a new member logged in today, would they finish lesson one — or never come back?
No. 08 — How We Work
Six stages from structure to scale, built around members who join and stay.
We map your content, tiers and how members should move through it.
Platform, dashboard and payment flow planned and quoted.
Custom member area, courses and dashboard, hand-built.
Subscriptions, drip and gating configured and loaded.
Go-live with real test enrolments before members arrive.
30 days of free fixes, then support as you add courses.
No. 09 — Words to Build By
Members don't quit courses — they quit confusion.
Recurring revenue lives and dies on the dashboard.
Gate the content, not the experience.
Selling the join is easy; earning the renewal is the work.
Drip keeps them; dumping everything loses them.
Own your platform, or rent your income.
No. 10 — By Industry
Different audiences, one standard. Whatever you teach or sell access to, the build gets shaped to fit.
Course creators and schools running cohorts, enrolments and certificates.
View ↗ 02 / CommerceBrands adding subscriptions, VIP tiers or paid content to a store.
View ↗ 03 / LocalTrades and operators packaging their know-how into paid training.
View ↗ 04 / ProFirms monetising expertise through memberships and client portals.
View ↗ 05 / HealthCoaches and studios running programmes, plans and member content.
View ↗ 06 / StartupFounders building communities, academies and gated product content.
View ↗No. 11 — Picture This
Members aren't buying somewhere to store content. They're buying the ongoing experience and the sense of getting somewhere.
A good front desk tells you exactly where to go. A bad one leaves you standing in the lobby, wondering.
Releasing content over time turns a one-off download into a habit — and a habit is what renews.
No. 12 — The Payoff
Figures are representative and vary by project, industry and starting point.
No. 13 — Client Voices · 4.9★
No. 14 — Why Us
We do one platform, deeply. Four years of WordPress and nothing but.
↗Your platform, content and member list. No revenue share, no per-member fees.
↗Green Core Web Vitals and clean schema on every build, never an upsell.
↗No account-manager telephone game. You talk to who builds it.
↗One quote, agreed before we start. No hourly meter, no surprises.
↗30 days of free fixes, then an affordable monthly maintenance plan. We don't ghost you.
↗No. 15 — More Ways We Help
A membership site is where many projects start. Here's everything else we build and look after under the same roof.
Brand-aligned WordPress sites built from a blank canvas.
Outdated site reborn with SEO equity preserved.
Custom stores architected around the buying flow.
High-converting pages tuned for course launches and ad spend.
Structure, schema and on-page work that earns rankings.
Core Web Vitals tuned into the green without a rebuild.
Hosting, security, backups and updates handled monthly.
Firewall, logins and hardening set up properly from day one.
Hacked site cleaned, hardened and back online.
Something already broken? Diagnosed and fixed at the root.
Tell us how many courses and members you have. We'll tell you straight what the migration involves, what carries across, and what it costs.
Message us on WhatsApp ↗No. 16 — FAQs
Straight answers, no sales fog.