Memberships and Online Courses

Sell members-only content, recurring memberships, or online courses on your own website, with payments, lessons, and member accounts in one place, without a course platform taking a share of each sale.

Memberships and online courses are part of a WordPress website project from $3,500; you pay for plugins and video hosting, not a share of each sale. A typical project takes 5–7 weeks; moving an existing course or a large lesson library takes longer.

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What Your Customers Can Do

Join or subscribe

Pay once or monthly and get access straight away.

Take lessons

Lessons with video, text, and downloads, in order, with progress saved.

Manage their membership

Update payment details, change the plan, or cancel from their account.

Open members-only content

Articles, recordings, and resources available only to members.

What Your Team Gets

Recurring revenue

Subscriptions renew automatically, and the payment provider retries failed payments.

Your content, your website

Courses and members live on your website, not on a rented platform.

Member list

See who joined, which plan they are on, and how far they are in a course.

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Add lessons, change prices, and open new courses in the WordPress dashboard.

Where Memberships and Courses Help Most

Coaches and consultants turn programs into courses and paid communities. Photography studios and salons sell workshops and training. Any business with expertise can offer a members-only library of guides and recordings.

How It Is Built

Memberships and courses are built on WooCommerce with a proven membership or learning plugin, chosen for your format: recurring access, one-time courses, or both. Videos are hosted on a service built for streaming and embedded in the lessons.

Price

This feature is part of a WordPress website project, not a separate subscription. A complete WordPress website starts at $3,500, and the written proposal lists the feature in your scope with one fixed price. Third-party charges, such as payment processing, plugin licenses, or AI usage, are paid directly to the providers. See Pricing.

Who Does the Work

I handle every project myself: research, writing, design, development, and the server. I have worked on websites, servers, and search for over 20 years, and I work in writing during US business hours. There is no account manager between you and the person doing the work. More about me.

How Long It Takes

The feature is built as part of the website project, which typically takes 5–7 weeks from the first payment to launch. The written proposal, sent within two business days of your brief, states the schedule and the launch date. The schedule assumes you answer questions and review pages within two business days. You receive a written report every week. Moving an existing course from another platform, or a large lesson library, can extend it; the proposal states the date.

How Payment Works

Projects under $5,000 are paid in two parts: 50% when the project is agreed, before research begins, and 50% when the agreed site is ready for final review and corrections are complete, before public launch. From $5,000 there are three payments: 40% at the start, 40% after the structure, content plan, and one representative page are approved, and 20% before public launch. Provider charges, such as payment processing or plugin licenses, are paid directly to the providers.

What You Receive at Handover

The website, hosting, and business accounts, registered in your name
Administrator access to WordPress
Membership plans, prices, and access rules
Your first course or members-only library set up, with a tested purchase and access
Video hosting account in your name
Written instructions for adding lessons and managing members
A working backup process

Sell Your Expertise on Your Own Website

Describe your business in the brief and receive a written proposal with a fixed price.