LP ACADEMY
Loss Prevention Training for Small Business Teams
Real Training. Real Knowledge. Real Protection For Your Business.
LP Academy is the training side of My LP Portal — the loss prevention department small businesses never had. It's scenario-based retail loss prevention training for owners, managers, and staff: short courses on employee theft, cash handling, shoplifting, audits, documentation, and investigations, written from real loss prevention floor experience rather than corporate compliance material.
Train. Prove It. Protect Your Business.
More Than Training — It's A Competitive Advantage
Training Tracks
15 courses across 10 operational disciplines.
Employee Theft Awareness
Internal theft rarely starts big. It starts with small process failures and behavioral signals nobody addresses. This track teaches you to read both.
Operational Awareness
Most owners react to problems. Operationally aware owners see them forming. This is the foundational track.
Cash Handling & Register Accountability
Refunds, voids, no-sales, and till discrepancies are the most common shrink vectors in a small store. Tighten them.
Shoplifting Awareness & Deterrence
Practical deterrence based on positioning, presence, and pattern recognition — not confrontation theatrics.
Incident Documentation
How to write incident reports that work for police, insurance, civil recovery, and your own pattern analysis.
Manager Training
Coaching, accountability, and consistency across shifts. Build managers who run a tight floor without burning out staff.
Multi-Location Oversight
How to compare locations fairly, surface outliers, and run the same playbook across every store.
Audit & Compliance
Opening, shift-change, and closing audits that catch real problems instead of becoming a checkbox ritual.
Safety & Operational Reporting
Slip-and-fall, threats, workplace incidents — what to log, what to report, and how to keep your team safe.
Investigations Fundamentals
How real internal investigations are structured: timelines, evidence, interviews, and dispositions.
What You'll Learn
Practical. Real World. Results Driven.
Built from real-world Loss Prevention experience you can trust.
How It Works
1. Learn
Engaging lessons with real-world examples.
2. Practice
Hands-on exercises that build skills and confidence.
3. Prove It
Knowledge checks and course exams. 80% to pass.
4. Get Your Certificate
Pass the final exam and earn your LP Academy certificate of completion.
Who LP Academy Is For
- Owners of independent retail, convenience, and small multi-unit businessesYou are the loss prevention department. LP Academy gives you the same fundamentals a corporate LP team works from, without the corporate overhead.
- Store managers and shift leadsCash handling, till accountability, opening and closing discipline, coaching conversations, and how to document an incident properly.
- Front-line staff and new hiresShort courses on shoplifting awareness, safety procedures, and what to do — and not do — when something happens on the floor.
Why This Matters For A Small Business
Large retailers have a loss prevention department. Independent retailers, convenience stores, restaurants, and single-location operators usually have an owner doing everything at once. Loss prevention training for small businesses has to be short, practical, and immediately usable on a shift — not a week-long corporate seminar.
LP Academy teaches the habits that prevent loss in the first place: counting the till the same way every time, documenting an incident so it holds up later, recognising the behaviour that comes before employee theft, and running a store audit that actually catches something. It pairs with the incident reporting, till audit, and receiving tools inside My LP Portal, so what your team learns is what your team then does.
Related Loss Prevention Resources
Finish The Program, Earn Your Certificate
Each course ends with a knowledge check, and completing the program earns a My LP Portal LP Academy certificate of completion you can keep on file for your team's training records. It is issued by My LP Portal — it is not an accredited or state-licensed credential.
Invest In Knowledge. Protect What You've Built.
LP Academy is included with every My LP Portal account — including the free plan — alongside the incident reporting, till audit, and store audit tools your team will use after training.