When it comes to selling online courses and memberships, LearnDash and MemberDash are the most straightforward solutions. They each have distinct roles in their respective areas, so let’s explore what sets them apart.

LearnDash is your go-to Learning Management System (LMS). It helps course creators deliver educational content with all the features needed to ensure your student’s success. Whether you’re an educational institution, business, or organization, LearnDash is the backbone for creating, administering, and tracking online courses and training programs. It covers everything from course creation to enrollment, assessment, grading, and robust reporting features, making it ideal for those focused on learning and development.

On the other side of the spectrum, MemberDash functions as a Membership System. It’s the perfect tool for content creators to manage members’ subscriptions and access rights in various online settings. Think of it as the behind-the-scenes infrastructure handling registrations, renewals, payments, access controls, and member engagement. Online communities, organizations, forums, and subscription-based services count on MemberDash to foster and regulate their member base.

Now, let’s look at their core feature differences:

Feature	LearnDash	MemberDash
Create and sell courses	Create professional, engaging courses in just a few clicks	Integrate with LearnDash to sell courses as a part of your membership
Add any content behind a paywall	You can paywall any content using the Groups feature in LearnDash	You can paywall any type of content
Upgrade or downgrade memberships	Not available	Enable your members to upgrade or downgrade their memberships
Free trials	Offer free trials with recurring payments, sample course content, and trial pricing	Offer free trials with recurring payments
Integrate with 3rd party email marketing software	Use the Zapier add-on to integrate with your email marketing software	MemberDash integrates with MailPoet and Mailchimp
Allow search engines to display an “excerpt” of protected content	Not available	Increase your membership sales by making an excerpt of your protected content indexable by search engine
Pricing	$199/year for plugin only**Additional license tiers available	$199/year for plugin only**Additional license tiers available

Both solutions integrate seamlessly when courses or training programs are bundled within memberships. This synergy allows members to access courses through LearnDash while MemberDash manages their entry rights to courses and any other content included in their membership.

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