Use 3rd Party Membership / WooCommerce Integration

@ideasandbox,

We moved (and significantly upgraded) our WooCommerce integration during the major 3.0 upgrade last October. This was a hard decision but we ultimately decided if we were going to continue to build and improve and support LifterLMS we had to be able to make some amount of money off the product. Our significantly improved WooCommerce integration is available at https://lifterlms.com/product/woocommerce-extension/

Please note that we cannot advise staying on 2.7. Since 3.0 release, while we did remove native (and free) WooCommerce support, we’ve actively developed and released new features on at least a monthly basis. If you review the changelogs between then and now there’s hundreds (probably thousands) of bugs we’ve resolved since then. If you decide you want to stay on 2.7 that’s your choice but we’re not going to be able to provide you with much support.

If you can’t afford a $99 plugin for WooCommerce consider applying for a scholarship: https://lifterlms.com/scholarship-request/

Hope that helps,

Thomas… thanks for your quick reply…

I don’t want/need to go back to pre-3.0 – things were working in 3.0, but some update since then has prevented me from using other plugins for membership and payment gateways…

I’m going to get the WooCommerce extension and see if that fixes anything…

Paul

@ideasandbox,

Can you give me some more information here? It sounds like you upgraded from 2.7 to the latest but if that’s not the case are you identifying a bug in a specific release? Did I break something accidentally? What version were you on that was working? What membership plugin / non LifterLMS WooCOmmerce gateway were you using?

If you wrote your own custom stuff that’s great but I’m a bit blind… If you want me to help resolve please be specific.

Thanks,

Thomas,

Yes, I’m on 3.X. I have just installed LifterLMS/WooCommerce. (If I should create a ticket instead, please let me know)

I’ve asked Chris B about this, but just recently I got an error message that “No LifterLMS Payment Gateways are currently enabled.” At the same time, users (including me as admin) were unable to access any courses.

I have been using LifterLMS only for its amazing course set-up, layout, presentation (not for payment, storefront, or membership).

Since the beginning with LifterLMS I have had content NOT in course form that needs protection so I needed to create broader membership levels above courses and beyond what LifterLMS could protect. I’ve been using:

– WooCommerce Subscriptions [create monthly payments] (by Prospress Inc.)
– WooCommerce Memberships [control access] (by SkyVerge)
– WooCommerce Order Status Control [instant process of virtual content] (by SkyVerge)

Installing the LifterLMS/WooCommerce extension hasn’t eliminated the “no payment gateway / only free access” message.

I feel like it used to be that course content was like any other custom post type. (This isn’t exactly correct but…) If I didn’t have any membership or protections, people could simply see my courses as if they were another page.

To make my courses available now, I’ve had to create a membership within LifterLMS and create enrollment rules for my courses… And, connect that membership to the product I have on WooCommerce which is actually a membership with content managed in the WooCommerce membership plugin… Very convoluted for what used to be clean and simple.

pw

@ideasandbox,

The message you’re seeing is a result of my effort to reduce support load of people saying “I CANT SELL MY COURSES” when they had no gateways installed. The message doesn’t accommodate WooCommerce users. I need to write code to dismiss the message when WC is enabled but I haven’t done so yet because it’s not high enough priority. Dismiss the message and you’re good. It’s a warning that doesn’t apply to you and I realize there’s no way for you to know that. I’m sorry.

I feel like it used to be that course content was like any other custom post type. (This isn’t exactly correct but…) If I didn’t have any membership or protections, people could simply see my courses as if they were another page.

You may feel like this but this has actually never been true… LifterLMS course content has always (even in 2.x) required a user to be created and then “enrolled” into the course. If you already have memberships functioning through a different plugin and that plugin can protect your courses in the way you want then you more than likely don’t need LifterLMS WC — use free access plans to enable enrollment into the courses which are restricted by your memberships.

Hope that helps,

Thank you for all your help, Thomas!

I’ve been using LifterLMS since the start and love the functionality… I tell everyone I can to use LifterLMS as they course system!

@ideasandbox,

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