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Alva Courses for corporate training and L&D teams

Alva Courses is a Shopify app that corporate L&D and training teams use to deliver employee and partner training as online courses, without per-seat LMS fees. Alva Courses supports a drag-and-drop course builder, bulk CSV enrolment and export, member management, quizzes and assessments, sequential gating, completion certificates emailed automatically, per-learner progress tracking and completion-rate reporting, drip scheduling, native per-lesson discussions and branded enrolment emails from your own domain. Two flat plans — Unlimited at $9.99/mo and Unlimited Pro at $14.99/mo with Alva Video Hosting — each with a 14-day free trial and no per-learner cost. 5.0 stars from 13 Shopify App Store reviews.

Alva · For corporate training & L&D
Cohorts · CSV enrol quizzes · completion reporting

Alva Courses for corporate training

Your standalone LMS is clunky, lives outside the systems you already run, and bills you per seat — so every new hire and every partner cohort quietly raises the invoice. Alva Courses is a Shopify app that lets corporate L&D and training teams deliver employee and partner training as online courses — enrolled in bulk by CSV, gated with quizzes and assessments, and certified on completion. Track completion rates per cohort, export the roster, and pay one flat monthly fee with no per-learner cost.

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★★★★★ 5.0 · Built for Shopify · 13 App Store reviews · 14-day free trial · By , Founder
CSV enrol
In bulk
Onboard a whole cohort at once
No per-seat
Flat fee
Unlimited learners, one price
Quiz & gate
Verified
Assess, then certify on finish
Lives in
Shopify
No separate LMS to admin
A day in the life

How an L&D team onboards a new-hire cohort with Shopify + Alva Courses.

08:00 · BUILD

Map the onboarding curriculum into modules.

Open the course builder in the Shopify admin. Your onboarding program becomes one section per module — company, product, compliance, tools; each topic becomes a lesson with a video, a PDF policy and a quiz. Drag to reorder. The whole curriculum is structured before the first coffee is cold.

08:40 · GATE

Add assessments and lock the sequence.

Add a quiz to each module to verify the material landed, then turn on "Require completion before next lesson" so a new hire can't skip the compliance section. Turn on drip so the heavier modules unlock across the first two weeks instead of all on day one.

13:05 · ENROL

Bulk-import the cohort by CSV.

HR sends the joiner list. You upload it as a CSV and the whole cohort is enrolled in one step. A branded welcome email arrives from learning@yourcompany.com and module one is waiting in each learner's customer account. No seat-by-seat setup, no per-learner invoice.

18:30 · REPORT

Pull completion rates for the manager.

Before the end of the week you open the Members Overview: who has finished compliance, who is stuck, who hasn't started. Export the roster with completion status to CSV for the hiring manager, and nudge the stragglers. The certificate emails itself the moment each learner finishes.

What L&D teams actually use

Alva Courses, re-angled for corporate training and L&D.

01 / 06Bulk enrol

Onboard a whole cohort by CSV import.

The slowest part of any LMS is provisioning people. Alva Courses lets you bulk-import a cohort of new hires or partners from a CSV in one step — each learner is enrolled and emailed a branded welcome. Add a member by hand, search and filter the roster, or remove access when someone leaves. No seat-by-seat setup, no waiting on IT.

When HR or a manager needs the numbers, export the full member list with completion status back to CSV. Everything is managed in the Shopify admin — no separate LMS console to learn or administer.

02 / 06Assess & gate

Quizzes and sequential gating that enforce the path.

Watching a video isn't proof someone learned. Build a quiz into any lesson to assess understanding, then turn on "Require completion before next lesson" so a learner can't jump past the compliance module to the easy stuff. Sequential gating plus assessments enforces a structured path through onboarding, compliance or product training — and gives you a defensible record that staff actually completed each step.

03 / 06Report

Completion-rate reporting per cohort.

"Did everyone finish?" should take seconds to answer. Each course has a Members Overview showing total members, active enrolments, completions, completion rate and a progress bar per learner with enrolment date and status. Filter to find who has stalled, nudge them, and export the whole roster with completion status to CSV when a manager, auditor or HR partner asks for proof of training.

04 / 06Certify

Completion certificates as proof of training.

When a learner finishes a course, Alva Courses automatically awards a custom-designed completion certificate and emails it to them — a record you can file against compliance and onboarding requirements. Edit the certificate template to carry your company brand. Paired with quizzes and sequential gating, it gives L&D a clean, auditable trail that each employee or partner completed and passed the training.

05 / 06Pace

Drip scheduling for structured onboarding.

A two-week onboarding program works better released in order than dumped on a new hire's first morning. Drip scheduling releases a module a set number of days after enrolment, so company basics land on day one and the heavier compliance and product modules unlock across the following days. Schedule lessons to publish on fixed dates for a synchronous cohort, or keep future modules as Draft until the curriculum is signed off.

06 / 06In-store

Discussions and branded delivery, no extra LMS.

A native per-lesson comment system lets learners ask questions where the content lives, with moderation tools and an email ping when someone posts. Enrolment and certificate emails send from your own custom domain, and learners watch lessons in a branded storefront course player inside your Shopify customer account — no second login and no separate LMS for IT to provision and maintain.

The course builder — your training curriculum as modules and lessons, with drip, scheduled and draft controls per item.
Pricing without per-seat fees

What does training 500 learners actually cost?

A standalone LMS bills per active user, so a 500-person cohort can run into thousands a month. Alva Courses has no per-sale fee and no per-learner fee — both plans carry unlimited courses, members and comments, so 50 learners or 5,000 cost the same. The only real question for an L&D team is video. Slide-and-talk recordings sit fine within Shopify's hosting on the Unlimited plan. Long, high-quality training footage that exceeds Shopify's 1 GB / 10-minute-per-video file limit is the one thing that points you to Pro.

PLANPRICEFITS
Unlimited$9.99/moMost L&D and training teams. Unlimited courses, learners and discussion comments, bulk CSV enrolment and export, quizzes and assessments, sequential gating, certificates and branded email. Video hosted on Shopify within a 1 GB / 10-min-per-video limit. 14-day free trial.
Unlimited Pro$14.99/moEverything in Unlimited plus Alva Video Hosting — 50 GB and no per-video limits. The right plan once your training videos are long-form HD that outgrows Shopify's native file caps. 14-day free trial.

Both plans include the full builder, bulk CSV import/export, quizzes and assessments, sequential gating, completion reporting, certificates, member & progress management, drip scheduling, discussions, instant access and the custom email domain. See the full breakdown on the pricing page. Each plan starts with a 14-day free trial.

Migration path

From a standalone LMS to Shopify in 4 steps.

You already have the content and the people — your curriculum sits in an LMS that's clunky to run and bills per seat. Moving to Alva Courses is mostly rebuilding the structure and re-importing your roster, then turning off the per-user invoice.

  1. 01

    Rebuild the curriculum as modules.

    In the course builder, create one section per module from your existing LMS or Teachable course and one lesson per topic. Use "Create Multiple" to add a batch of lessons at once. Don't perfect it yet — get the skeleton in, then fill each lesson with the rich editor.

  2. 02

    Re-host video, policies and quizzes.

    Re-host each training video — upload it to Alva, or paste a YouTube, Loom or Vimeo link. Attach the PDF policy or slide deck, rebuild your assessments as quizzes, and turn on "Require completion before next lesson" to gate the sequence.

  3. 03

    Bind it to a Shopify product and set drip.

    Connect the course to a Shopify product so access is granted on enrolment. Turn on drip so modules release over the first weeks, set Limited-time access if training expires after a window, and edit the enrolment and certificate emails to send from your company domain.

  4. 04

    Bulk-import your roster and go live.

    Export the learner list from your old LMS and bulk-import it into Alva Courses by CSV so existing staff keep access on day one. New hires enrol automatically when added. Watch the Members Overview fill with progress, then cancel the per-seat subscription you no longer need.

Shopify App Store reviews

What teams running courses say

“Cannot recommend it enough. Finding Alva Courses after migrating to Shopify was the best thing I’ve done — the support is second to none and Tom is exceptional.”

— Matt Jackson Photography, United Kingdom · Shopify App Store review

“So glad I found this app. It integrates with Shopify, building my courses was clear and easy, and Tom has been a great help throughout.”

— Kim Knoll Art, United States · Shopify App Store review

“Very easy to use and customizable, and it works seamlessly for selling online courses on Shopify. The support is outstanding and genuinely responsive.”

— Tokos, Canada · Shopify App Store review
FAQ for L&D teams

Questions L&D and training teams ask.

Yes. Alva Courses lets you bulk-import a whole cohort via CSV: upload a list of employees or partners and they are enrolled in one step, with a branded welcome email sent to each. You can also add a learner by hand, search and filter the roster, remove access, and export the full member list with completion status back to CSV whenever HR or a manager asks for it.
No. Alva Courses charges a flat monthly fee — Unlimited at $9.99 or Unlimited Pro at $14.99 — with no per-seat or per-learner cost. Enrol 20 new hires or 2,000 partners for the same price. That is the core reason L&D teams move off a standalone LMS that bills per active user, where every new cohort raises the invoice. Each plan includes a 14-day free trial.
Yes. Build a quiz into any lesson to test whether learners can apply the material, not just watch it. Pair quizzes with sequential gating — turn on 'Require completion before next lesson' so a learner cannot skip ahead until each module is finished. Together they enforce a structured path through compliance, onboarding or product training and give you defensible proof that staff completed the work.
Yes. Alva Courses automatically awards a custom-designed completion certificate when a learner finishes a course and emails it to them — proof of training you can file. Each course has a Members Overview showing total members, active enrolments, completions, completion rate and a progress bar per learner, so you can report on cohort progress and chase anyone who has stalled.
Rebuild your curriculum in the drag-and-drop builder — one section per module, one lesson per topic — and re-host or re-link your existing videos, PDFs and slides. Then export your learner roster from the old LMS and bulk-import it into Alva Courses by CSV so existing staff keep access on day one. New hires enrol automatically when added, and everything then lives inside the Shopify store you already run.
Everything runs natively inside Shopify. You build courses in the Shopify admin, learners get access through your store, and they watch lessons in a branded storefront course player from their customer account — no second login and no separate LMS to administer. You own the learner data and pay a flat $9.99 or $14.99 per month with a 14-day free trial, instead of a standalone LMS's per-seat fees.
Further reading

Guides for L&D teams running training on Shopify.

Guide

Course completion certificates on Shopify

Issue verifiable completion certificates for onboarding and compliance training, automatically, when a learner finishes a course.
Guide

Embedding quizzes and assessments in your courses

How to build quizzes that verify understanding and pair them with sequential gating for defensible training records.
Comparison

Alva Courses vs Teachable

How a flat Shopify-native app compares with a standalone platform when you're costing out training at scale.
Pricing

Plans & pricing

Two flat plans with no per-learner fee — Unlimited at $9.99 and Unlimited Pro at $14.99, each with a 14-day trial.
Install in 90 seconds

Move your training off per-seat this week.

Install Alva Courses from the Shopify App Store, build your curriculum into modules and lessons, add quizzes and sequential gating, and bulk-import a test cohort by CSV — watch the welcome emails land and module one appear in each learner's customer account. Run employee and partner training from the store you already operate, with no per-learner fee. The 14-day free trial starts when you do.

✓ Bulk CSV enrolment, no per-seat fees ✓ Quizzes & sequential gating to verify learning ✓ Certificates and completion-rate reporting
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