You're almost ready to launch your LearnWorlds school! Before welcoming your first learners, take a few minutes to review your payment settings, course content, website pages, registration options, and learner experience.
This launch checklist will help you confirm that everything is configured correctly and your school is ready to go live.
Make sure to upgrade to a paid plan before you start selling your products.Step 1: Review your payment settings
Before accepting real purchases, make sure your preferred payment method is configured correctly.
Navigate to Settings → Financial → Payment Gateway.
What to do:
- Deactivate Sandbox Mode.
- Connect your preferred payment gateway (e.g., Stripe, PayPal) to accept real payments for your products.
- If you're accepting bank transfers or other external payments, make sure the payment instructions and terms are correct.
Advanced Tip: Complete a test purchase using the supported testing method for your payment gateway before switching to live payments.How to Make a Test Purchase (Sandbox Mode) »
Step 2: Review your product settings
Make sure your courses and learning programs are ready for learners to access. Navigate to Courses & Programs and open each product you plan to launch.
What to check:
- Product status: Make sure your courses and learning programs have the appropriate status and are no longer in Draft if you want them publicly available.
- Course content: Check that the sections and activities you want learners to access are published.
- Pricing options: Review your product's pricing and confirm that the correct options are available to learners.
- Enrollment and visibility: Check that learners can discover and enroll in your products as intended.
- Course Player: Preview your course to make sure videos, ebooks, assessments, and other activities work correctly.
General Overview: Creating Courses »
How to Create Learning Programs in LearnWorlds »
How to use Sections to Organize your Course Content »
How to Preview your Course and Program Player »
Step 3: Finalize your website pages
Before launching, review your website to make sure visitors see the correct information and can easily navigate your school.
Navigate to: Website → Design → Edit Website.
What to do:
- Homepage: Make sure your branding, images, text, and call-to-action buttons are up to date.
- Website pages: Publish the pages you want visitors and learners to access.
- Prelaunch content: Remove or update temporary announcements, countdown timers, and prelaunch sections that are no longer needed
Navigation: Check that your topbar, Learner Bar, and other navigation elements direct users to the correct destinations.
Hello Bar: Update or remove any temporary promotional messages
How to Add and Customize the Prelaunch Section »
How to Publish and Un-Publish your Pages »
How to Add a CountingDown Clock to your Pages »
Step 4: Review registration and school navigation
Make sure learners can register, log in, and access your school according to your enrollment model. Where to go:
- Go to Website → Website Settings → Authentication → LearnWorlds and ensure that you have enabled the Login & Sign-up process for your users (unless you want to add all of your users manually ).
- Navigate to Website → Navigation and make sure you have selected the option Un-enrolled users can navigate through your school's pages, apps, and free course contents , in case you have free courses in your school (otherwise, your users will not be able to register).
How to Manage your Sign in/up Settings »
How to Add a New User - Search Users »
Site Navigation: How to Manage the Non-Paying Users & Payment Flow »
Step 5: Review your email notifications
Navigate to Communication → School Emails → Admin settings and add your email to receive email notifications upon certain events, and keep track of your school's activities.
How to edit your admin notification email settings »
Step 6: Connect your custom domain (Optional)
Navigate to Settings → Site Domain & Email.
What to do:
Link your custom domain (e.g., www.yourschool.com) to improve SEO and give your school a professional look.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Recommendations »
Step 7: Complete a final learner experience test
What to do:
- Create a test user account.
- Log in as the test user to:
1. Navigate through the school.
2. Purchase a product.
3. Access course content as a learner.
This ensures everything works before your real users join.
How to Create a Test User Account »
Quick recap checklist
| Setup Tasks | |
| Review payment methods and disable Sandbox mode for live payments | ✔️ |
| Check course status, content, pricing, and access | ✔️ |
| Finalize and publish your website pages | ✔️ |
| Review registration and navigation settings | ✔️ |
| Verify school email notifications | ✔️ |
| Connect and verify your custom domain (optional) | ✔️ |
| Complete a final learner experience test | ✔️ |
What’s next?
Congratulations! Your school is ready to launch.
Up next: Quick start guide 8: Understand your dashboard & reports, learn how to track sales, sign-ups, and learner activity in real-time.