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MemberPress Courses
What MemberPress Courses is
MemberPress Courses is a WordPress LMS add-on for creating, protecting, and selling online courses. Its visual builder organizes lessons into structured curricula, and it tracks student progress across lessons. Course content can include lessons, quizzes, assignments, videos, blog posts, digital downloads, links, and custom HTML. Access can be controlled with MemberPress rules, while courses can be sold through memberships or one-time purchases. Launch lists Stripe payments; Growth and Scale add PayPal and Square. Growth also connects with ActiveCampaign, ConvertKit, Drip, and MailPoet. Growth and Scale include completion certificates, while Launch excludes certificates, quizzes, and assignments. Scale adds a gradebook. Security listings include Cloudflare Turnstile, Math Captcha, and forced SSL on registration pages. The add-on is activated from the MemberPress dashboard and is included with MemberPress plans. Listed introductory pricing is $199.50 a year for Launch, $349.50 a year for Growth, and $499.50 a year for Scale; renewals use the stated full prices. Launch carries a 4.9% transaction fee.
Who it suits
It suits creators who want to build and sell paid courses within WordPress. Organizations needing memberships, integrated payments, email marketing, or branded mobile app support can choose among its plans.
What it does well
- Visual drag-and-drop curriculum builder
- Tracks student progress automatically
- Supports varied course content formats
- Membership and one-time course sales
- Growth includes email marketing integrations
What to know first
- No free plan or free trial
- Launch excludes quizzes, assignments, and certificates
- Launch has a 4.9% transaction fee
- Higher plans cost more annually
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Launch | annual; renewals at full price · unlimited members, memberships, subscriptions, courses and lessons · Stripe payments only · 4.9% transaction fee · 25,000 AI credits · standard support | $199.50 a year |
| Growth | annual; renewals at full price · everything in Launch · 0% transaction fees · 50,000 AI credits · unlimited quizzes and assignments · certificates · PayPal, Square and manual payments · CoachKit · priority support | $349.50 a year |
| Scale | annual; renewals at full price · everything in Growth · 0% transaction fees · 100,000 AI credits · REST API and webhooks · Easy Affiliate · gradebook · corporate accounts · Amazon S3 · Authorize.net · VIP support | $499.50 a year |
As memberpress.com lists them, read 15 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Verdict
MemberPress Courses keeps course creation, access rules, sales, and student tracking inside a MemberPress WordPress site. Plan differences matter for assessments, certificates, gradebook, payment options, and transaction fees.
Facts from MemberPress Courses's own pages
- Access and sales
- Courses can be protected with MemberPress access rules and sold through memberships or one-time purchases. · memberpress.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Access control
- MemberPress access rules protect individual lessons and course content. · memberpress.com, 15 Oct 2026
- API and webhooks
- The Developer Tools add-on supplies a REST API and webhook events; the interface exposes routes, arguments, examples and testing tools. · memberpress.com, 15 Oct 2026
- API plan limit
- Developer Tools is available to Scale plan members and the REST API requires WordPress 4.7 or newer. · memberpress.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Assessments
- Quizzes and assignments are available as course features, with quizzes and assignments included in Growth and Scale plans. · memberpress.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Certificates
- Completion certificates can be resettable, expirable and shareable, with the certificate feature limited to Growth and Scale plans. · memberpress.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Changelog
- Version 1.5.2 dated September 30, 2026 fixed curriculum-save, lesson-ordering, certificate-sharing, escaping and newer-PHP compatibility issues. · memberpress.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company
- MemberPress is operated by Caseproof, LLC, which its maker says was formed in 2004 as a Utah limited liability company. · memberpress.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Company identity
- LinkedIn lists MemberPress as a privately held software-development company founded in 2012. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists 11–50 employees. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Course builder
- The add-on provides a visual drag-and-drop builder for arranging course sections and lessons. · memberpress.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Course building
- The course builder supports structured lessons and visual drag-and-drop curriculum building. · memberpress.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The knowledge base lists 34 Courses articles, 55 advanced-topic articles and five developer-documentation articles. · memberpress.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2004 · memberpress.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Gradebook
- A built-in gradebook records quiz and assignment results on eligible plans. · memberpress.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Cedar City, Utah, United States · memberpress.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Installation
- MemberPress is installed as a WordPress ZIP upload or manually through FTP, then activated with a license key. · memberpress.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Official integrations include Stripe, PayPal, Zapier, ActiveCampaign, ConvertKit, Drip, MailPoet, Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder and WPBakery. · memberpress.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- MemberPress describes Courses as aimed at creators who want to turn their expertise into paid courses while keeping the setup inside WordPress. · memberpress.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Licence
- The MemberPress WordPress plugin is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or later. · memberpress.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: G2 complexity and price
- G2 summaries repeatedly mention overwhelming complexity, difficult settings, high pricing and steep transaction fees. · g2.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: GetApp users
- GetApp reviewers report organizational memberships can be difficult to administer, Mailchimp email changes may not synchronize, menus can be hard to read and there is no 24/7 chat. · getapp.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: Trustpilot pricing and reporting
- Trustpilot reviews mention price increases, and one reviewer says reporting, debugging and third-party integration visibility need improvement. · trustpilot.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Marketing integrations
- Growth includes integrations with email marketing services including ActiveCampaign, ConvertKit, Drip, and MailPoet. · memberpress.com, 11 Oct 2026
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