Alva Courses is a Shopify app that lets you build, sell and deliver online courses natively inside your store — with videos, quizzes, PDFs, certificates, member management and discussions. Different teachers face different course-building problems — these pages cover fifteen of the most common shapes in detail.
Productize your framework into a structured course with video lessons, workbooks and a completion certificate — sold through your own Shopify checkout.
Sell workout programs and training plans as drip-scheduled video courses with progress tracking and a branded learner experience.
Build multi-module courses with video, PDFs, quizzes and certificates, and teach students inside your Shopify customer account.
Turn your audience into students. Sell premium courses with YouTube, Vimeo and Alva-hosted video, gated lessons and discussions.
Sell yoga programs and class libraries as on-demand video courses with audio meditations and a calm, branded course player.
Deliver structured language courses with video lessons, audio practice, quizzes for vocabulary and grammar, and level certificates.
Sell recipe courses and cooking masterclasses with high-quality video, downloadable PDF recipe cards and drip-released modules.
Run professional training programs with quizzes, completion certificates, member management and progress analytics inside Shopify.
Package graded lessons into paid courses with video and audio in one lesson, sheet-music PDFs attached and drip-released weekly practice.
Sell project-based art and craft courses with HD demo video, downloadable patterns and templates, drip-released steps and a shareable certificate.
Deliver structured exam-prep, licensing and professional-development training with quizzes, assessments, drip scheduling and completion certificates.
Deliver employee and partner training as online courses — bulk-enrolled by CSV, gated with quizzes and assessments, certified on completion and billed at one flat monthly fee with no per-learner cost.
Run a drip membership inside your own store — release lessons week by week, host per-lesson discussions with moderation, and keep every member in one native portal. Replace Kajabi, Skool and Patreon.
Deliver member training, education and certification as online courses for one flat monthly price with no per-seat fees — bulk-enrol your whole roster, track completion, and award a credential certificate.
Sell structured exam-prep and subject courses built as sections and lessons — with quizzes after each topic, drip scheduling to pace a term, per-student progress tracking and access inside the Shopify customer account.
Side-by-side feature, pricing and limits matrices for every alternative.
Same Unlimited and Unlimited Pro tiers across every use case. Pro adds 50 GB of Alva Video Hosting.
Niche-specific tactics, setup walkthroughs and course-launch playbooks.
Alva Courses is a Shopify app that lets you build courses out of any lesson content — video, images, audio, PDFs, ePub, MS Office docs, quizzes, Zoom links and buttons — delivered the moment a Shopify order is paid. The fifteen use-case pages above are the most-searched shapes; the underlying builder, lesson editor, drip scheduling, certificates and member management are identical across every niche.
Photography educators, music teachers, craft and DIY instructors, professional-skills mentors, art and design tutors — all run Alva Courses today without a dedicated landing page. 5.0 stars across 13 Shopify merchant reviews. Install on Shopify and the same builder starts powering whatever you teach.
The underlying engine is identical — drag-and-drop builder, lesson content blocks, drip scheduling, certificates and member management. The difference is shape. Fitness instructors lean on long-form workout video (often Alva Video Hosting to bypass Shopify's 1 GB / 10-minute file limit) and weekly drip releases. Language tutors lean on audio practice, vocabulary and grammar quizzes, and certificates that mark each level complete. Same Alva Courses, two use-case pages.
Plan choice depends on your video, not on your niche. The Unlimited plan at $9.99/mo covers unlimited courses, members and comments, and hosts video on Shopify within a 1 GB / 10-minute-per-video limit. If your modules exceed that, Unlimited Pro at $14.99/mo adds Alva Video Hosting with 50 GB of storage and no per-video limits. Both plans include a 14-day free trial.
Yes. Many Alva Courses merchants teach across two or three of the use-case shapes — a coach also runs a business-training program, a yoga teacher adds a nutrition course, a content creator launches a beginner and an advanced track. Each course has its own sections, lessons, drip schedule and certificate. Members and progress are managed per course and across all courses from one Members view, with no surcharge for teaching multiple subjects.
Alva Courses does not depend on a specific theme. Students access courses through the Shopify customer account, the checkout thank-you page and the order status page — none of which the storefront theme controls. Alva Courses ships customer-account, thank-you-page and order-status extensions that load on top of any current Online Store 2.0 theme. Dawn, Sense, Refresh, Studio and most Shopify Theme Store themes work without configuration.
Alva Courses keeps everything inside the store you already run. Students buy through your Shopify checkout, log in once to their customer account, and watch lessons in a branded storefront player — no second platform, no separate subdomain, no second login. You own the customer data and pay a flat $9.99 or $14.99 per month with no per-sale fees. The dedicated use-case pages cover the setup that matters for each kind of teacher.