Most learning platforms charge by the head, which turns every new batch into a bigger invoice. This page explains what genuinely drives an LMS quote, and why Aura Learn does not count your learners.
Aura Learn is quoted once we understand what you teach and how, because the work sits in your content, your assessments and your integrations rather than in a subscription band. The one thing we can say before any call is what matters most to a growing institute: learners are unlimited. You are not billed by the head, so a successful admission season does not arrive with its own invoice.
That is a deliberate break from how the market usually sells. Per-learner pricing suits the vendor and not you, because the moment your business works, your software cost rises in step with it.
Everything else comes from scope: how much course material has to be brought across, whether you run live classes, how heavy your assessment needs are, whether the learner app carries your branding, and what connects to payments.
Head-count billing looks reasonable on a demo call and turns into a management problem in the second year.
Consider what an institute does when learners are metered. It hesitates before enrolling a free trial batch. It shares logins between siblings. It locks last year's students out rather than paying to keep them, losing the alumni who bring the next referrals. None of those are teaching decisions, and all of them are caused by the pricing model.
The same distortion hits companies training their own staff. A compliance course that should reach every field technician reaches only the ones already licensed, which defeats the purpose of buying a training platform.
| Cost driver | Keeps the quote lean | Pushes the quote up |
|---|---|---|
| Content migration | A handful of courses you upload yourself | Years of video, notes and downloads to restructure and bring across |
| Assessments | Quizzes built from your existing papers | Large question banks with mock tests modelled on a specific exam |
| Live classes | Recorded lessons only | Live sessions and webinars with recordings published back to batches |
| Certificates and compliance | A completion certificate template | Compliance tracking for regulated training with renewal dates |
| App branding | Standard learner app | Your branding through the app and dashboard |
| Payments | Fees collected as you do today | GST payments, subscriptions and fee plans inside the platform |
Read that table as a planning tool rather than a menu. Institutes that begin with their strongest course, their existing question papers and recorded lessons are live sooner and spend less.
Compare the cost of running the platform for three years at the size you intend to be, not the cost of starting it at the size you are.
There is also the option nobody quotes for, which is carrying on with video links and message groups. It is free until it is not: results are chased by hand, material is forwarded rather than controlled, and nobody can say which learners stopped opening the lessons. Where that line falls is set out in LMS versus YouTube and WhatsApp for coaching, and if the terminology is new, start with what is an LMS.
Aura Learn is not a theory. It was proven on our own exam-prep product, an Android app on Google Play with Telegram practice bots behind it, before it was offered to anyone else.
Because the scope behind two institutes of the same size can be completely different. One uploads ten recorded courses, another needs a large question bank, live classes and a branded app. One number would mislead nearly everyone, and correcting it later wastes your time.
No. Learners are unlimited on Aura Learn, so enrolment decisions stay academic rather than technical. Adding a batch, running a free trial group or keeping last year's students on the platform does not change what you pay.
How many courses you teach and in what form, whether you run live classes, how much assessment work you need, whether the learner app should carry your branding, and how you want fees collected. That is usually one conversation.
It is scoped and itemised rather than assumed. A handful of courses is quick, while several years of video, notes and past papers that need restructuring is real work, so we look at what you have before quoting.
Yes, and most institutes should. Put your strongest course up with your existing papers as the first assessments, run one cohort through it end to end, then add live classes or certificates with evidence behind the decision.
The delivery target is live in 30 working days where the scope allows. Content volume is the usual variable, since the platform is ready long before a large back catalogue is. One course first is the fastest real launch.
Half an hour on a call covering your courses, your assessments and how you collect fees is enough for a proper quote, with content migration and app branding written as their own lines instead of buried in a monthly figure.
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