How much does custom LMS development cost?
A course platform MVP — courses, quizzes, payments and an admin console — starts around $8,000 and takes four to six weeks. A full learning product with cohorts, certificates, an instructor marketplace, community and analytics runs $15,000 to $50,000 across eight to fourteen weeks. The scope call turns that range into a fixed number.
How long does it take?
Four to six weeks for an MVP, eight to fourteen for a full product. The variable is rarely engineering: it is how quickly decisions get made about curriculum structure, pricing logic and who can see what.
Can you migrate our courses and learners from Thinkific or Kajabi?
Yes. Course content, learners, enrolments and completion history export from most course platforms and import into the new one. Video usually moves to your own Mux or Bunny account. Active subscriptions need a plan — either they move to your Stripe or they run out on the old platform while new signups start on the new one.
Do you support SCORM?
SCORM and xAPI import on request, which matters when you are bringing across content authored in Articulate or Captivate, or selling into organizations whose procurement asks for it. If all your content is native video and text, you do not need either and we will say so.
Can instructors sell their own courses on our platform?
Yes — that is the instructor marketplace: instructor dashboards, their own course creation, revenue share and Stripe Connect payouts. It is the difference between a catalogue you have to fill yourself and a supply side that grows without you.
Can learners get verifiable certificates?
Yes, with public verification pages, expiry and renewal. For safety-critical or regulated training the expiry and renewal logic is usually the point — a credential that never lapses tells an employer nothing.
Is it mobile-friendly, or do we need an app?
Everything we build is mobile-first and installs to the home screen, which covers most learning products. A native app earns its cost when you need push-driven engagement or offline lessons — then we build it on the same backend rather than rebuilding the platform.
Who owns the code and the data?
You do. Your repository, your cloud accounts, your Stripe, learner data in your own Postgres, and IP assigned in the contract. You can move it to another developer the day after launch.