How to Migrate from Tutor LMS to Learnomy: Step-by-Step Migration Guide

Tutor LMS’s free core on WordPress.org is genuinely usable, you can build and publish a course with it. But the moment you need content drip scheduling, prerequisites between lessons, a real certificate builder, or course bundles, you hit the Pro wall: $199/year for a single site, climbing to $799/year for an agency-scale deployment, or a $499-1,999 lifetime buy-in. Every paid tier bundles the entire add-on catalog rather than letting you buy only what you need, so a course creator who just wants prerequisites and a certificate ends up paying for AI Studio access and pro themes they will never touch.

Last updated: 6 November 2026

Learnomy takes a different position: unlimited courses and students, zero platform fees, and built-in Stripe/PayPal checkout ship in the free plan, with certificate design, auto-graded quizzes with partial credit, and an essay-grading inbox included at no cost. Pro, at $149/year, is reserved for genuinely advanced features, AI authoring, cohort-based learning paths, content drip, and payout automation via Stripe Connect, not table-stakes course mechanics. Learnomy also ships a guided import wizard that moves courses, lessons, quizzes, and questions directly from Tutor LMS, so this guide walks through using that wizard to move an existing catalog to Learnomy without losing student progress, quiz data, or completion history.

Table of Contents

• By the numbers
• Why Course Creators Leave Tutor LMS
• What You’re Actually Paying For
• What Learnomy’s Free Tier Includes Day One
• Multi-Instructor and Revenue Sharing
• Before You Start: What You Need
• Step 1: Audit Your Existing Course Catalog
• Step 2: Run the Guided Import Wizard
• Step 3: Map Quiz Question Types
• Step 4: Migrate Student Enrollment and Progress
• Step 5: Rebuild Certificates
• Step 6: Parallel-Run Before Cutover
• Realistic Timeline by Catalog Size
• Common Migration Pitfalls
• Real-World Scenario: A Cohort-Based Course Business
• FAQs
• Sources

By the numbers

• The global learning management systems market was valued at USD 28.6 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach USD 123.8 billion by 2033, a 20.2% annual growth rate from 2026, according to Grand View Research.
• Tutor LMS lists plans at $199, $399 and $799 a year, with lifetime options at $499, $999 and $1,999 per the Tutor LMS pricing page (checked 6 November 2026).

Why Course Creators Leave Tutor LMS

Tutor LMS’s free tier is a legitimate way to launch a first course, drag-and-drop lesson building, quizzes, and a working checkout flow all ship without a credit card. The friction shows up as a catalog matures. Prerequisites (requiring Lesson 2 to be unlocked only after Lesson 1 is complete) sit behind the paid tier. So does content drip, releasing lessons on a schedule rather than all at once, which is table-stakes for any cohort-based or evergreen-funnel course. Certificate design beyond a generic template, course bundles, and advanced quiz types are also gated.

None of this is unreasonable as a business model, freemium software has to draw a line somewhere. But the line Tutor LMS draws puts genuinely basic pedagogical tools (don’t let students skip ahead, release content on a schedule) behind a recurring cost, and the bundled all-pro-addons pricing means there’s no way to pay for just the one or two features you actually need. A creator who wants only prerequisites still pays for the full Business tier at $399/year, the same price as someone using every single add-on in the bundle.

The real cost of a bundled-tier pricing model isn’t the dollar figure, it’s paying for a dozen features to unlock the two you actually need. That mismatch is what drives most LMS switching decisions, not raw price alone.

What You’re Actually Paying For

A side-by-side of what each platform charges for the specific features that typically trigger a migration decision:

What Learnomy’s Free Tier Includes Day One

It’s worth being specific about what “free” actually means here, since free tiers in this software category often turn out to be demos in disguise. Learnomy’s free plan includes unlimited courses and unlimited students with no artificial cap designed to push you toward upgrading, a drag-and-drop course builder across seven content types, built-in Stripe and PayPal checkout with zero platform transaction fee (WooCommerce is not required, a real friction point some competing plugins still demand), six auto-graded quiz question types with partial credit scoring, an essay grading inbox for manually reviewed assignments, and a Canvas-based certificate designer with QR-code and Ed25519 cryptographic verification. A REST API with JWT authentication and offline sync is also included free, useful if you ever want a companion mobile experience or a custom integration down the line. None of these are trial features or time-limited, they are the permanent free tier.

Multi-Instructor and Revenue Sharing

If your Tutor LMS catalog includes courses from more than one instructor, this is a specific area worth planning for separately during migration. Learnomy supports multi-instructor setups with automatic commission splits built into its payout system, meaning revenue from a course sale can route to the instructor’s share automatically rather than requiring manual calculation and separate payout each month. Combined with Stripe Connect payouts on the Pro tier, this makes Learnomy a genuine option for an instructor-marketplace model, not just a single-creator course site. When migrating a multi-instructor catalog specifically, map out each instructor’s current commission arrangement before running the import, since commission rules (like quiz structures and drip schedules) are configured per instructor inside Learnomy after the import wizard brings the course content across.

Before You Start: What You Need

A current list of enrolled students and their progress as a backup reference (export this as a CSV from Tutor LMS’s reporting, useful for verification even though the import wizard’s people step handles the actual transfer), a staging copy of your site to test the migration on before touching production, and Learnomy installed alongside Tutor LMS so the import wizard can read the existing Tutor LMS data directly.

Also worth doing before you touch anything: screenshot or document your current quiz structure, prerequisite chains, and drip schedules as they exist today. The import wizard moves courses, lessons, quizzes, and questions, but prerequisite chains and drip timing are Learnomy Pro features configured inside Learnomy itself after import, so a visual record (even just a spreadsheet you fill in by clicking through each course) is the most reliable way to make sure nothing gets forgotten when you reconfigure those settings on the new platform. Treat this audit document as your migration checklist, you’ll refer back to it constantly through Steps 2 through 5.

Step 1: Audit Your Existing Course Catalog

Before running the import, list every course, its lesson/topic structure, which quizzes belong to which lessons, and which courses have prerequisites or drip schedules configured, since those specific configurations need to be reapplied inside Learnomy after the wizard brings the content across (prerequisite and drip settings are Learnomy Pro features you configure natively, not something any cross-platform importer carries over automatically). Note any course bundles, since Tutor LMS’s bundle structure and Learnomy’s course organization are not identical and bundles typically need to be rebuilt as Learnomy course groupings after the base content imports.

Step 2: Run the Guided Import Wizard

Learnomy ships a guided import wizard built specifically to move courses, lessons, quizzes, and questions across from Tutor LMS (it also supports LearnDash and LifterLMS, if you’re consolidating from more than one source). Launch the wizard from Learnomy’s admin, point it at your existing Tutor LMS installation, and it reads the course/lesson/topic hierarchy, quiz questions, and media references directly, recreating the equivalent structure inside Learnomy’s course builder. An optional “people” step in the same wizard brings enrollments and progress data across in the same pass, which is the step covered in more detail under Step 4. For larger catalogs or a scripted/staged rollout, Learnomy also exposes a wp learnomy enroll WP-CLI command that can script the enrollment side of the migration instead of running it through the wizard’s UI. Review the imported course structure carefully against your Step 1 audit afterward, the wizard handles the heavy lifting, but verifying every lesson and quiz landed correctly before you rely on it for paying students is still worth the time.

Step 3: Map Quiz Question Types

Learnomy supports six auto-graded question types plus an essay-grading inbox for manual scoring, with partial credit support. The import wizard carries quiz questions across automatically, but go through each imported quiz and confirm the question type mapped to the closest equivalent in Learnomy, most standard formats (multiple choice, true/false, short answer) map directly; essay-style questions move into Learnomy’s grading inbox workflow, which did not exist in the same form in Tutor LMS’s free tier, so double-check those specifically.

Step 4: Migrate Student Enrollment and Progress

This is the step with the real stakes, students who paid for a course and are partway through it need their access and progress preserved, not reset to zero. The import wizard’s optional “people” step is built for exactly this, run it alongside the course import (or afterward, pointed at the same Tutor LMS source) to bring enrollment records and completion progress across in the same pass, rather than rebuilding it by hand. For a scripted or phased rollout, the wp learnomy enroll WP-CLI command can enroll specific student batches programmatically, useful if you want to migrate students course-by-course rather than all at once. Either way, export your enrolled-student list with completion percentages from Tutor LMS’s reporting dashboard first as a verification reference, then confirm post-import that progress matches before you consider a course fully migrated. For a large catalog, a phased rollout by course is still worth doing even with the wizard handling the data transfer, since it limits how many students are affected if something needs a second look.

Step 5: Rebuild Certificates

Learnomy’s certificate system uses a Canvas-based designer with QR-code verification and Ed25519 cryptographic signatures, meaning a completed certificate can be independently verified as genuine, not just a static PDF anyone could recreate. This is a meaningfully different (and stronger) system than Tutor LMS’s certificate approach, and certificate designs themselves aren’t part of what the import wizard carries over, so they need to be built in Learnomy’s certificate tool directly; use this as an opportunity to add verifiable credentials if your course graduates ever need to prove completion to an employer or licensing body.

Step 6: Parallel-Run Before Cutover

Keep Tutor LMS active and accessible (even if just for existing enrolled students) while Learnomy runs the imported catalog for new signups. Test the full student journey end to end on Learnomy, enrollment, checkout via Stripe/PayPal, lesson progression, quiz submission, certificate issuance, before pointing all new traffic there. Once you’re confident the Learnomy version is solid, run the people-step import for any remaining active students (per Step 4), announce the cutover date in advance, and only then deactivate Tutor LMS.

Realistic Timeline by Catalog Size

Common Migration Pitfalls

• Skipping verification after the wizard runs. The import wizard handles the heavy lifting, but it’s still worth checking every lesson, quiz, and student record against your Step 1 audit before relying on it for paying students.
• Forgetting drip/prerequisite logic isn’t imported. These are Learnomy Pro features configured natively, not data the wizard carries over, document your current settings in a spreadsheet before you start so nothing gets forgotten when you reapply them.
• Forgetting payment/subscription continuity. If students are on a recurring payment plan through Tutor LMS’s checkout, that billing relationship needs its own migration plan via Stripe/PayPal directly, not just a content move.
• Skipping the parallel-run step to save time. This is where migrations that look fine in testing fail quietly in production, with a live course and paying students, not a sandbox.
• Not communicating the cutover date to students in advance. A silent platform switch generates far more support tickets than one announced a week ahead with clear instructions.
• Forgetting to test mobile checkout specifically. A meaningful share of course purchases happen on phones; verify the Stripe/PayPal flow on mobile before cutover, not just desktop.
• Not planning for multi-instructor commission rules. If multiple instructors sell through your catalog, commission structures need to be configured per instructor inside Learnomy after import, not assumed to carry over automatically.

Real-World Scenario: A Cohort-Based Course Business

Picture a course creator running a 6-week cohort program on Tutor LMS, paying the $399/year Business tier specifically for content drip (releasing one module per week) and prerequisites (students can’t jump ahead). Moving to Learnomy, the same drip scheduling and prerequisite logic live in Learnomy’s $149/year Pro tier, a genuine cost reduction, plus the cohort-specific learning-path feature Learnomy’s Pro tier adds natively, designed around exactly this cohort-based structure rather than repurposing generic drip settings. The migration itself, running the guided import wizard for the 6 weeks of content and quizzes, using the people step for the active cohort’s enrollment and progress, then reconfiguring drip timing and prerequisites inside Learnomy, is realistically an afternoon of wizard time plus a day of verification and reconfiguration for a catalog this size, done between cohort sessions to avoid disrupting students mid-course.

The creator in this scenario also gains something Tutor LMS’s Business tier didn’t offer at any price: Ed25519-signed, QR-verifiable certificates. For a cohort program where graduates list the credential on LinkedIn or a resume, a certificate that can be independently verified as authentic (rather than a PDF anyone could edit) is a genuine differentiator for the program itself, not just a cost savings on the LMS bill. Over a three-year horizon, the switch saves roughly $150 in direct subscription cost while adding a feature set, verifiable credentials, that wasn’t available on Tutor LMS at any tier. If this same creator later brings on a second instructor to run a complementary cohort track, Learnomy’s multi-instructor commission splitting handles that expansion without requiring a separate marketplace plugin or manual monthly payout spreadsheet.

Summary

Migrating an LMS catalog is still worth planning carefully, even with a guided import wizard doing the heavy lifting on courses, lessons, quizzes, and student progress. But for a course creator paying $199-799/year specifically for prerequisites, drip content, and a real certificate builder, Learnomy’s free tier includes all of that from day one, with Pro reserved for genuinely advanced features like AI authoring and cohort learning paths. Audit your catalog first, run the wizard, verify everything against that audit, reconfigure drip and prerequisites natively, and run both platforms in parallel before cutting over, and the one-time effort pays for itself in the recurring cost you stop paying every year after. There’s no technical reason the destination platform can’t handle everything the source one did, and in the case of certificates and multi-instructor payouts, meaningfully more.

FAQs

Is there a one-click importer from Tutor LMS to Learnomy?

Yes. Learnomy ships a guided import wizard that moves courses, lessons, quizzes, and questions directly from an existing Tutor LMS installation (it also supports LearnDash and LifterLMS as source platforms). An optional people step in the same wizard brings student enrollments and progress across too, and a wp learnomy enroll WP-CLI command is available for scripting enrollment migrations at scale.

Will my students lose their course progress during migration?

Not if you use the import wizard’s people step, which is built specifically to carry enrollment and completion progress across alongside the course content. Export completion data from Tutor LMS first as a verification reference, run the people step, then confirm the numbers match, rather than assuming a silent success.

Does Learnomy support content drip and prerequisites?

Yes, both are part of Learnomy’s Pro tier ($149/year) via its learning-paths-with-prerequisites and content-drip-scheduling features. These are configured natively inside Learnomy after the import wizard brings your course content across, they aren’t data the wizard carries over automatically.

What happens to my Tutor LMS certificates after migration?

Certificate designs aren’t part of what the import wizard transfers, they need to be rebuilt in Learnomy’s Canvas-based certificate builder, which adds QR-code and Ed25519 signature verification that Tutor LMS’s certificates don’t have.

Can I run Tutor LMS and Learnomy at the same time during migration?

Yes, and you should. Running both in parallel while you test the imported setup is the safest way to catch any issues before they affect active students.

Does Learnomy charge transaction fees on course sales?

No, Learnomy has zero platform fees on sales in both its free and Pro tiers; checkout runs through your own Stripe/PayPal account directly.

How long does a typical migration take?

It depends on catalog size, but the guided import wizard makes this faster than a fully manual rebuild. A single course with a handful of quizzes can be imported and verified in an hour or two. A multi-course catalog with hundreds of enrolled students and complex prerequisite chains should still be budgeted with a verification and reconfiguration period plus a parallel-run window before cutover, see the timeline table above for a size-based estimate.

What question types does Learnomy’s quiz system support?

Six auto-graded question types plus an essay-grading inbox for manually scored responses, with partial credit support built into the grading logic. The import wizard carries existing quiz questions across and maps them to the closest matching type automatically.

Is Learnomy’s free tier really unlimited, or are there hidden caps?

Unlimited courses and students ship in the free plan with no platform fee. Pro tier features are specifically the advanced capabilities, AI authoring, cohorts, learning paths, drip, advanced analytics, not basic usage limits.

What if I only have a small course catalog, is migrating still worth it?

For a single course with no prerequisites or drip needs, the Tutor LMS free tier and Learnomy free tier are functionally close enough that migration may not be worth the effort, even with the wizard making it quick. The case for migrating strengthens specifically once you’re paying for Tutor LMS Pro to unlock features Learnomy includes free.

Does the migration require any coding or database work?

No. The guided import wizard runs from Learnomy’s admin interface, no database work required. The wp learnomy enroll WP-CLI command is an optional, developer-oriented route for scripting enrollment at scale, but it’s not required for the standard path described in this guide.

Can I keep selling courses during the migration process?

Yes. The parallel-run approach in Step 6 is designed specifically so Tutor LMS keeps serving existing customers while you run the import wizard and verify the Learnomy version, meaning there’s no forced downtime or sales gap during the switch.

Does Learnomy support selling courses from multiple instructors?

Yes, with automatic commission splits and Stripe Connect payouts on the Pro tier, making it viable for an instructor-marketplace model rather than only a single-creator course site.

Should I back up my site before starting the migration?

Yes, a full site backup (database and files) before you begin is standard practice for any platform migration, not specific to this one. A staging environment plus a recent backup gives you a clean rollback point if anything needs a second look after the import wizard runs, and it costs nothing but a few minutes to set up compared to the hours a bad migration can cost to untangle afterward.

Sources

• Grand View Research: Learning Management System Market
• Tutor LMS: Pricing

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