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Hire Academy LMS developers

Senior WordPress LMS engineers with 10+ years of experience. We customize Academy LMS, connect it to your CRM and tools with webhooks, sell courses through WooCommerce and keep your academy fast and secure.

  • 10+ years in WordPress LMS
  • Webhook integrations
  • WooCommerce course sales
  • Reply within 1 business day

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  • 10+Years in LMS engineering
  • 500+LMS projects delivered
  • 150+Clients served
  • 30+Countries
  • 4.9/5Average client rating
  • NDA before accessWe sign your NDA before you share code, data or credentials.
  • You own 100% of the codeCode, documentation and credentials are yours. No lock-in.
  • Talk to the engineerYou speak with the person doing the work, not a salesperson.
  • Reply within 1 business dayEvery request is read by a senior LMS engineer.

Common Academy LMS problems we fix

Sound familiar?

Academy LMS includes a lot out of the box, from quizzes to Zoom and course bundles through add-ons. The work starts when it has to fit the rest of your business.

Course events do not reach your CRM or email tool

Academy LMS outgoing webhooks (new enrolment, course completed, quiz attempts and more) delivered to your tools reliably.

Add-ons overlap or conflict

We review which add-ons you really use, remove overlaps and test the rest together on staging.

Selling courses and bundles is messy

WooCommerce products, bundles and coupons set up so every order enrols the right student.

You need a feature Academy LMS does not have

A separate, documented plugin, so Academy LMS can still be updated.

Course pages and dashboards are slow

Query profiling, object caching and leaner layouts for logged-in students.

You are moving to or from Academy LMS

Courses, lessons, quizzes and students migrated between Academy LMS and other platforms.

What our Academy LMS developers do

Academy LMS development services

Webhook integrations

Outgoing and incoming webhooks connected to your CRM and tools.

Custom features

Separate, updatable plugins for what the settings cannot do.

WooCommerce and bundles

Course products, bundles and coupons tied to enrolment.

Design and UX

Course, lesson and dashboard styling that stays update-safe.

Live classes

Zoom and live-class add-ons configured and connected.

Speed tuning

Faster course pages and student dashboards.

Security

Staged updates, role reviews, a WAF and monitoring.

Migrations

Into or out of Academy LMS, including its own migration tool where it fits.

Maintenance plans

Monthly updates, backups and a developer on call.

Code-level expertise

Webhooks your business can rely on

Academy LMS has a Webhooks add-on that sends events such as new enrolment, course completed, lesson completed and quiz attempt status to a URL you choose. We build the receiving side as a small service that authenticates every call, never processes the same delivery twice and queues work so your CRM can be slow without losing data.

  • Secret checked first. Calls without your token are rejected.
  • Deduplicated. Each delivery is stored once, even if it is retried.
  • Queued. Mapping to your CRM happens in a worker, with retries.

This is the receiver we deploy, here written for Node.js.

// Node 20+. Delivery URL in Academy LMS: https://bridge.example.com/academy?token=...
import express from 'express';
import crypto from 'node:crypto';
import { queue } from './queue.js';     // e.g. BullMQ, SQS or a database table

const app = express();
app.use(express.json({ limit: '1mb' }));

const seen = new Set();                  // swap for Redis or a unique DB key in production

app.post('/academy', async (req, res) => {
  const token = String(req.query.token ?? '');
  const expected = process.env.ACADEMY_HOOK_TOKEN ?? '';
  if (!expected || token.length !== expected.length ||
      !crypto.timingSafeEqual(Buffer.from(token), Buffer.from(expected))) {
    return res.sendStatus(403);
  }
  const id = crypto.createHash('sha256').update(JSON.stringify(req.body)).digest('hex');
  if (!seen.has(id)) {
    seen.add(id);
    await queue.add('academy-event', { id, event: req.body });   // mapped to the CRM by a worker
  }
  res.sendStatus(202);
});

app.listen(Number(process.env.PORT ?? 8080));
The token is compared in constant time. Events are acknowledged quickly and processed in the background, so Academy LMS never waits on your CRM.

Skills

The Academy LMS stack we work with every day

Academy LMS and WordPress

  • Academy LMS
  • Academy LMS Pro add-ons
  • Course builder
  • Quizzes
  • Certificates
  • Course bundles
  • Webhooks add-on
  • Migration tool

Commerce and integrations

  • WooCommerce
  • Stripe
  • PayPal
  • Zoom
  • Mailchimp
  • FluentCRM
  • Zapier

Engineering and operations

  • PHP 8
  • Node.js
  • MySQL tuning
  • Redis object cache
  • Queues and workers
  • Staging workflows
  • Git and CI

Engagement models

Hire Academy LMS developers your way

Pick the model that fits today and switch when your needs change. Every model includes a senior engineer, code review and a staging site.

Hourly

Bug fixes, small changes, audits and urgent issues.

from $45/hour

  • Billed on hours actually worked
  • Task-level time log with every invoice
  • Start with a single task
  • Senior engineer, not a junior
Hire by the hour

Part-time dedicated

Steady roadmap work and ongoing maintenance.

from $3,000/month

  • A named developer, about 4 hours a day
  • Shared task board and weekly report
  • Updates, monitoring and small features
  • Scale up or down month to month
Hire part-time

Fixed-price project

Well-defined features, migrations and new builds.

from $3,000 minimum

  • Written scope, price and timeline up front
  • Milestone-based payments
  • Staging demos before each release
  • Post-launch warranty period agreed in the proposal
Get a fixed quote

Every engagement starts with a free technical call and an NDA. Prices exclude applicable taxes.

How it works

How hiring an Academy LMS expert works

  1. Tell us what you need

    2 minutes

    Use the short form: platform, what is wrong or what you want built, and how you prefer to work. Two minutes is enough.

  2. Free technical call

    30 minutes

    A senior engineer reviews your site or requirements, asks the awkward questions early and suggests the simplest approach that will last.

  3. Proposal and NDA

    1-3 business days

    You get a written plan: fixed price and timeline, or the developer profile and monthly plan for dedicated work. NDA signed before any access.

  4. Work starts on staging

    Weekly demos

    We set up staging and version control, ship in small reviewed increments and demo every change before it reaches your live site.

Compare

An Academy LMS team vs a freelancer vs hiring in-house

CriterionAll-in-One LMSFreelance marketplaceIn-house hire
Engineers who work only on learning platformsYes Partial Partial
One team for WordPress LMS, Moodle, Open edX, Canvas and custom LMSYesNoNo
Cover when your developer is ill or on leaveYesNo Partial
Code review and QA before every releaseYes Varies Partial
NDA and IP assignment in the contractYes VariesYes
No recruitment, payroll or notice periodsYesYesNo
Scale hours up or down month to monthYes PartialNo
One accountable point of contactYesNoYes

A general comparison of how each model usually works. Individual freelancers and in-house teams vary.

Getting the most from Academy LMS add-ons

Academy LMS splits many features into add-ons: webhooks, assignments, Zoom, course bundles and more. That keeps sites light, but it also means a site can slowly collect add-ons that overlap with other plugins. Before building anything new, we recommend a short review:

  1. List every add-on and plugin that touches courses, payments, email or live classes.
  2. Remove overlaps, for example two plugins sending the same course emails.
  3. Test the remaining set together on staging, with real student journeys.
  4. Only then add custom code, in a separate plugin or an external service fed by webhooks.

How to hire the right Academy LMS developer

Ask how integrations will be built

Webhooks with a secure, queued receiver are usually more robust than custom code inside WordPress.

Ask where custom code will live

Never inside Academy LMS or its add-ons.

Check WooCommerce experience

Paid courses and bundles depend on clean product and order set-ups.

Get an honest view on fit

See our WordPress LMS plugin comparison and WordPress LMS developers.

Hiring a Academy LMS expert: FAQ

How much does it cost to hire an Academy LMS developer?

Small changes are billed hourly; integrations, custom features and migrations are usually fixed-price after we have seen the site. You get a written estimate after the free technical call.

Can you connect Academy LMS to our CRM?

Yes, using the Academy LMS Webhooks add-on for enrolments, completions and quiz results, with a secure receiver that stores and retries events.

Can you build custom Academy LMS features?

Yes. We build them as a separate, documented plugin so Academy LMS and its add-ons can be updated safely.

Can you set up course sales with WooCommerce?

Yes: course products, bundles, coupons and refunds, with enrolment kept in sync with each order.

Can you migrate us to or from Academy LMS?

Yes. Courses, lessons, quizzes and students can usually be moved. What carries over depends on the source, which we confirm before quoting.

Can Academy LMS import courses from another WordPress LMS?

Academy LMS includes a migration tool for moving content from some other WordPress LMS plugins. It is a good starting point; we use it where it fits, then check every course, quiz and student record and fix what a tool cannot move on its own.

Do you maintain Academy LMS sites?

Yes: staged updates, security monitoring, backups and development time. See LMS maintenance and support.

Free estimate

Tell us about your Academy LMS project

Share your site URL and what you need. A senior WordPress LMS engineer will reply with questions or a first estimate.

  • A senior engineer reads every request
  • Written estimate before any work starts
  • NDA signed before you share access

We reply within 1 business day.

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