Yes, you can now vibe code an LMS in an afternoon. Congratulations, you are now responsible for: - Enrollment. - Unenrollment. - Expired versus cancelled versus deleted, and why the report cares which one. - Re-enrolling a student without wiping their progress. - Lesson progress. - Section progress. - Course progress that says 98% because of a lesson nobody can reach. - Marking a lesson incomplete for one student without touching 400 others. - Where to send a student the moment they finish the course. - Drip content. - Drip by enrollment date. - Drip by calendar date. - Drip by course start date. - Drip by "after the previous lesson." - Drip set to 9:00 a.m. in whose time zone, exactly. - Prerequisite lessons. - Prerequisite courses. - Course tracks. - Lesson A requires Lesson B. Lesson B requires Lesson A. - Quizzes. - Passing percentage. - Attempt limits. - A student on attempt 47. - Deciding whether a student who passed can retake. - Time limits. - The browser tab that closed at minute 29 of a 30 minute quiz. - Letting them resume. For 24 hours. Then not. - Randomized question order. - Multiple choice. - Multiple choice with more than one right answer. - Picture choice. - Reorder the steps. - Fill in the blank. - Fill in the blank with a typo. - Short answer. - Long answer. - Who grades the long answer. - A quiz stuck at "pending" because nobody graded the long answer. - Points per question. - Showing the correct answer afterwards, or not. - A clarification on why the right answer is the right answer. - A question bank so you stop copying questions between quizzes. - Assignments. - File upload assignments. - Task list assignments. - Essay assignments. - Grading all of the above. - Certificates. - Certificate templates. - The certificate with the student name misspelled, forever. - Updating the template without regenerating 2,000 certificates. - Regenerating the 2,000 certificates. - The student who wants their certificate as a PDF. - The student who wants their certificate public on LinkedIn. - The student who very much does not. - Achievements. - Not awarding the same achievement twice. - Engagements. - An email when they finish Lesson 3. - An email three days after they finish Lesson 3. - An email three days after they fail the quiz, worded kindly. - Notifications. - In-app notifications. - Email notifications. - Enrollment, lesson complete, section complete, course complete, quiz passed, quiz failed, quiz graded, certificate earned, achievement earned, purchase receipt, upcoming payment, payment retry, manual payment due, subscription cancelled, and the welcome one. - Checkout. - A registration form. - A checkout form. - An edit account form. - Custom fields on all three. - Access plans. - One-time price. - Recurring price. - A payment plan that ends after six payments. - A free trial. - A free trial with a trial price. - A sale price with a start and end date. - A plan only members can see. - Lifetime access. - Access for 90 days. - Access until a specific date. - Scheduling the expiration. - Running the expiration. - Unenrolling when the expiration runs. - Coupons. - Percent off. - Dollars off. - Coupons that only work on one-time plans. - Coupons that only work on recurring plans. - Coupons that also discount the trial. - Coupon expiration dates. - Coupon usage limits. - Someone finding the 100% off coupon from a 2021 webinar. - Vouchers. - Redeeming vouchers from the dashboard. - Order statuses. - Pending versus failed versus on hold, and why the difference matters at 2 a.m. - A recurring payment that fails. - Retrying it in 12 hours. Then a day. Then two. Then three. - Not emailing the student on the first retry. - Emailing them on the second. - Giving up and marking it failed. - Refunds. - Refunds that unenroll. - Refunds that should not unenroll. - Stripe webhooks. - A charge that failed in Stripe but nobody told your LMS. - PayPal. - Authorize . net. - Taking manual payments by check or bank transfer. - Someone wanting to pay with WooCommerce instead. - Someone wanting to name their own price. - Someone wanting to gift the course to their sister. - Memberships. - Memberships that auto-enroll into courses. - Removing a course from a membership. - What happens to the people already in that course. - Restricting content. - Where to send someone who hits restricted content. - A sales page for logged-out visitors. - A different sales page. - A redirect to a sales page on another site. - Groups. - A company buying 20 seats. - Seat counts. - Group invitations. - An open invite link that someone posted publicly. - Instructors. - Co-instructors. - Instructors who should not appear on the course page. - Cohorts progressing together. - Continuing education credits. - Events with calendar feeds. - The student dashboard. - My courses. My grades. My achievements. My certificates. My notifications. My orders. My favorites. Edit account. Redeem voucher. - Reporting. - Student reports. - Course reports. - Quiz reports. - The report of students who never attempted the quiz. - Exporting the report. - Time spent in each lesson. - An admin overriding the time spent in each lesson. - Video progression. - Locking the quiz until the video is watched. - On YouTube. On Vimeo. On Wistia. - Protecting uploaded media from people who are not enrolled. - One student sharing one login with their whole office. - Kicking the extra sessions. - Course reviews. - Allowing one review per student. - Student notes. - Social learning so the course is not a ghost town. - Private areas for one-on-one coaching. - Exporting a course. - Importing it on another site. - Importing it on your staging site. - Your staging site charging real cards. - Detecting the clone and switching recurring payments off. - Privacy exports. - Privacy erasure requests. - Login and logout tracking. - Being the only person on Earth who knows how any of this works. Disclaimer: This list is only about 20% of the key LMS things. Now you have two jobs. Or you install the WordPress LMS solution that has spent 12+ years learning all of this (LifterLMS).