NZ LMS Platform Costs for Corporates and PTEs

Q: Can you move our existing courses?

Yes. Capability Solutions brings existing courses across with their learners and completion records, and hosts them in the new LMS.

Q: Do you build new courses as well?

Yes. Capability Solutions builds interactive courses for New Zealand workplaces and hosts them in the same LMS.

The short answer

On the published price lists, a hosted LMS platform for 100 to 500 learners costs a New Zealand organisation somewhere between $4,900 and $42,380 a year. Totara, set up by a partner, can cost $50,000 in the first year. Having a developer build an LMS from nothing starts at about $89,000 before it is hosted anywhere.

We set up an LMS for $500 and host it for $160 a month plus GST. The monthly fee covers full hosting and all the emails the system sends, including sign in links and reminders. That is $2,420 in the first year and $1,920 a year after that.

Corporates

A corporate needs to see who has completed each course, who is due to renew, and a certificate it can show an auditor or a client. We give it its own branded LMS with every staff member's completions, certificates and renewal dates in one place.

Staff are enrolled in bulk from a spreadsheet and sign in by an emailed link. Managers download progress for any course, and reminder emails go out before training lapses. If you use SiteKey for site access, SiteKey checks that training before anyone signs in at the gate.

Private training establishments

A PTE gets a platform under its own name, holding its learners' completions and certificates, with a certificate link an employer can check.

Published LMS platform prices in New Zealand dollars

Each price comes from the vendor's own pricing page on 9 October 2026. The vendors quote in US dollars, and we converted at US$1 = NZ$1.78, the rate on that day. All prices in the table exclude GST.

Platform	Published price	Per year, NZD
TalentLMS Grow	US$229 a month, paid monthly, up to 500 users	$4,900
iSpring LMS Business	US$8,286 a year for 100 users	$14,760
iSpring LMS Business	US$16,050 a year for 300 users	$28,590
iSpring LMS Business	US$23,790 a year for 500 users	$42,380
Totara, through a partner	Licence US$3,500 to US$18,500 a year, plus onboarding of US$2,000 to US$10,000	$9,800 to $50,800 in year one
Custom build	US$50,000 to US$80,000 for a first version	$89,000 to $142,500 to build
Capability Solutions	$500 setup, $160 a month plus GST	$2,420 in year one, then $1,920

Totara publishes no prices. Its figures come from an August 2026 article by EducateMe, another LMS vendor, quoting an analyst. The custom build range comes from Cleveroad, a software developer, in June 2026. TalentLMS sells smaller plans for less, with fewer users or features.

What pushes the price up

Most platforms price by the number of learners. TalentLMS steps up at 100 users and again at 500, and its Pro plan adds US$6 for each user over 500. iSpring charges per user on every plan it publishes, so its bill roughly doubles between 100 and 300 learners.

Setup can sit outside the headline price. The Totara onboarding figure above sits on top of the licence, and a partner adds hosting to its own quote.

The Capability Solutions LMS course catalogue showing course cards with View course buttons — Our own course catalogue, on the same LMS we set up for corporates and PTEs.

What we build into every LMS platform

We built our own LMS for Capability Solutions training, and we set the same system up for corporates and PTEs. Each one gets:

its own web address and branding, with an admin login that sees only its own learners
sign in by an emailed link, so learners have no password to forget
progress on every course, with a spreadsheet export
a report of whose training is due to expire, and reminder emails before it lapses
a certificate for each completion at a permanent link anyone can check
a fresh enrolment when training expires, with the earlier completion kept on record
bulk enrolment from a spreadsheet

We build it to your requirements, so the reports, emails and screens follow the way you train your people.

Capability Solutions LMS

$500 to set up and $160 a month plus GST.

Full hosting and all system emails included. $2,420 in the first year and $1,920 a year after that, plus GST.

Existing courses and new ones

We bring existing courses across with their learners and completion records, and host them. Courses built as HTML load as they are.

We also build new interactive courses for New Zealand workplaces and host them in the same LMS.

Common questions

How much does an LMS platform cost in New Zealand?

On published October 2026 prices converted to New Zealand dollars, TalentLMS Grow costs about $4,900 a year paid monthly, and iSpring LMS between about $14,760 and $42,380 a year for 100 to 500 users. Totara through a partner costs about $9,800 to $50,800 in the first year. Capability Solutions charges $500 to set up and $160 a month plus GST.

Can you move our existing courses?

Yes. We bring existing courses across with their learners and completion records, and host them in the new LMS.

Can the LMS use our own name and web address?

Yes. Each organisation has its own web address and branding, and its admin login sees only its own learners.

Do you build new courses as well?

Yes. We build interactive courses for New Zealand workplaces and host them in the same LMS.

Sources

Prices read from each vendor's pricing page on 9 October 2026 and converted at US$1 = NZ$1.78. Vendors change their prices, so check the current page before you compare.

Talk to us about your LMS

Tell us how many learners you have and where your courses sit now, and we will set out what the move involves.

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