Sell Courses Online Using Stripe

By: Karmen Kendrick • November 3, 2022
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Let your learners skip the shopping cart and check out quickly with the Stripe integration for LearnDash for selling courses on WordPress sites. 

LearnDash’s Stripe integration is the perfect solution for course creators with only a few courses that need a quick and easy payment system. It’s not just another payment gateway, it comes with features like automatic user creation and enrollment, Paypal compatibility, and lightbox overlays. Plus, we’ve added a few more necessary features to make selling your courses simpler than ever. 

Benefits of Using Stripe With LearnDash

There was a time when you could only use Stripe with LearnDash if you had a third-party shopping cart, like WooCommerce. But we’re always growing and making our products better to give you and your learners the best course platform experience. We’ve added a few new features to make using Stripe more beneficial to you.

Here’s a quick look at some of the best reasons to use Stripe to sell your LearnDash courses. 

Automatic user creation and enrollment

Your learners can get started faster with the automatic user creation and enrollment feature. Once payment is complete, a user account is automatically created and your learner is enrolled in the course.

Coupon support

Coupon support is one of the latest features. You can now create coupons for checkout without using one of the four major shopping cart add-ons. 

Free trial support

Free trial offerings are a great way to increase your number of signups. Let prospective learners try now and pay later by simply checking out with the Stripe integration. 

Automatically retries and recaptures payments

Never worry about failed payments again. Stripe will automatically update saved cards, send emails after a failed payment occurs, and retry the payment at various strategic times.

Sell courses in bundles via group memberships

Now you can increase your sales by offering your learners course bundles. The Stripe integration lets you group your courses while offering a seamless checkout experience. You can add courses or access to non-LearnDash pages as well.

3D Secure V2 

3D Secure V2 are new security protocols that affect payment authorizations. If you’re super techy, you can learn more about it here.

Lightbox overlay capabilities

Keeping learners on your site is super important for their learning experience. The lightbox overlay allows learners to stay on your site while making their purchases securely through Stripe.

How To Set Up Stripe Connect for LearnDash

Follow this video or step-by-step instructions below.

  1. Navigate to LEARNDASH LMS > Settings
  2. Click on the Payments Tab
  3. Click the Stripe Connect link
  4. Click on Connect Stripe
  5. You will be redirected to Stripe’s page to sign in to your Stripe Account or create a new account.
  6. After you are returned back to your WP admin dashboard, you should see a box with further instructions on how to configure the webhook in the Stripe dashboard.

Have you tried the new Stripe integration? If not, you should try it out in our course creator demo experience.

Karmen Kendrick

Karmen Kendrick is an Atlanta, GA based creator, designer, and marketer with over 7 years of experience in helping others build websites and brand themselves in the digital world. When she’s not working, you can find her painting, roller skating, or shopping for home decor.