Getting Started with LifterLMS Notifications
LifterLMS notifications are either email, Popup, or SMS (text messaging) messages that happen when a certain event happens in your LifterLMS-powered site.
Notifications can go to course authors, students, and others.
The LifterLMS notifications system is part of the free core LifterLMS plugin
Notifications of all types have stock messages, with personalized data merged in, and these messages can be modified from the defaults.
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Open your WordPress dashboard and navigate to LifterLMS > Settings > Notifications
These are the engagement types:
- Achievement Earned
- Certificate Earned
- Course Complete
- Course Track Complete
- Enrollment
- Gateway: Manual – Payment Due
- Lesson Complete
- Payment Retry Scheduled
- Purchase Receipt
- Quiz Failed
- Quiz Passed
- Quiz Graded
- Section Complete
- Student Welcome
- Subscription Cancellation Notice
- Upcoming Payment Reminder

To customize the default notification content, click the “Popup”, “Email”, or “SMS” links in the configure column.
Note that SMS (text messaging) notifications are only available if you have the LifterLMS Twilio add-on.
To enable or disable a notification or customize who receives it, view these instructions.

Some basic notifications (such as course enrollment, lesson completion, and more) allow you to upload a custom icon to display next to the image.
To upload a custom image, navigate to the notification settings and click “Popup” for the notification you’d like to customize.
From here, you can use the “Upload” button to upload a new image to your media library for use as the notification’s icon.
You can also disable the icon completely by checking the “Disable Icon” checkbox.

Check out our blog post for more info and screenshots about the LifterLMS Notification system.


