Kajabi and Teachable Alternative on WordPress

Looking for a Kajabi alternative or a Teachable alternative? This video shows the four things a course business needs, lessons, a checkout, a membership plan and a student community, running on a WordPress site you own.

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Looking for a Kajabi alternative, or a Teachable alternative? Both are hosted platforms. You rent a place to sell your courses, and it runs on their servers. Whichever you choose, a course business needs the same four things. Lessons. A checkout. A membership plan. And a place for students to talk. Renting is quick to start, and it comes with a trade-off. You pay a fee for as long as the school exists. Your students, their progress and their payments are stored on servers you do not control. And the day you want to leave, everything you built has to be moved. The alternative is to own the school. The same four things, as a plugin on a WordPress site that belongs to you. It runs on your hosting, under your domain, and the money is paid into your own payment account. Here it is on a real WordPress site. One, the lessons. A student opens his course and picks up where he stopped. His own page lists every course he has joined, and how far he has got in each. Two, the checkout. Stripe and PayPal are built in, so there is no shop plugin to add. The card fields sit on your own checkout page. The student never leaves your site. And you can run coupons and sale prices whenever you launch. Three, the membership plan. A student buys one course, or joins a plan that opens a whole group of them. The catalogue is your own page as well. Your courses, your prices, and nobody else's courses beside them. Four, the community. With BuddyNext on the same site, each course gets its own room, where students ask questions and answer each other. Add an events plugin, and live sessions with the teacher sit on the same site, with one button to register. Now the owner side. It is your WordPress dashboard, and you set the price of every course yourself. Every student is listed there, with their courses, their progress and their certificates. And every payment is recorded on your own site. You can export the list as a spreadsheet any day you like. Side by side. A hosted platform runs on their servers. Your school runs on your hosting. A fee every month, or a free plugin to start with. Students in their system, or students in your own dashboard. Every lesson and every student you add to a rented platform is one more thing to move later. Start on your own site, and there is nothing to move. Learnomy is the free course plugin for WordPress. Build your school on the site you own, starting this week. Get Learnomy. The link is below.