Your members already buy training. They could be buying it from you.
Flat dues, a board asking about revenue, and a certification attached to a membership. The training operation you would need to build to serve all three properly is not a small thing, and most associations we talk to have looked at it and put it down again.
Member training
Run a training business without becoming one.
A branded storefront on your own domain, selling your programs to your members, with enrolment, payment, delivery and credentials all in one place. Reporting goes to your board without anyone on your team assembling it by hand the week before.
How the storefront runs on RapidLMS™- 01
Enrolment
- 02
Payment
- 03
Delivery
- 04
Credentials
- 05
Board reporting
Where the training comes from
You do not need to already have courses.
The usual reason an association has not built a training program is that building one means building courses. There are three ways in, and they combine.
You earn on everything you sell. What that share looks like depends on how much of the course is yours, so it is worked out program by program rather than read off a rate card.
How the reseller program worksMember value
A member credential worth carrying.
A credential on an open standard follows a member to every employer who asks about it, which is worth considerably more to them than a PDF. It also puts your name in front of every one of those employers.
How an employer checks the credential- Member credentialOpen standardMember
- Employer
Continuing education
The obligation you already carry, off the spreadsheet.
Most associations are already tracking continuing education and renewals by hand. This is usually the easier place to start, because it is work you are doing anyway rather than a new program to launch.
Automated tracking
Who is current, who is lapsing, who has let it go, without a spreadsheet.
Renewal reminders
Configurable on every credential, sent whether or not anyone remembered.
A member registry
One place your members, and the employers who hire them, can check standing.
Verifiable on expiry
A credential that has lapsed says so. Confirming one once existed is not the same as confirming it is current.
Case study
Hunting for a one-stop solution.
An association balancing multiple facilities, several training modalities, events, fundraisers and children’s programming, with training as one obligation among many rather than the main event.
Read the case study
Who runs what
You keep the members. We run the operation.
Most associations come to us without a training operation, and without wanting to build one. That is the arrangement, stated plainly.
The relationship.
- Your brand
- Your members
- Your standard
None. That is the point.
All seven steps.
Enrolment through verification, plus learner support, reporting and renewals, as an extension of your team.
- Enrolment
- Identity
- Training
- Attendance
- Assessment
- Issuance
- Verification
Wherever the line falls, both sides run on the same infrastructure. The steps you keep are not a separate system bolted on, which is what keeps the chain unbroken across the handover.
Getting started
What this actually takes from your team.
The reason most associations stop at the idea is capacity. So it is worth being clear about how much of your team this needs, and when.
- 01
Discovery call
We learn your members, your programs and where training fits your strategy. An hour of your time.
- 02
Scope and plan
We map the content, the stack and the commercial model. You review it before anything is committed.
- 03
Tailored demo
Your branded storefront and credential flow, built around your programs rather than a generic walkthrough.
- 04
Launch and support
We build it, migrate what exists, and run it alongside your team rather than handing you a login.
Your heaviest involvement is the first two steps, and it is measured in meetings rather than months.