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Ecommerce for Moodle: Sell Moodle Courses Online
Course Merchant is a fully featured e-commerce system that allows you to sell access to Moodle courses. A wide range of online payment processors may be used. Successful payment results in the automated enrollment of a student in their chosen course or courses.
Course Merchant is fully integrated with Moodle. Course purchasers will receive an automated email with their user account details and a link to login to Moodle.
The advantage of using Course Merchant is that you can set up a completely self contained and browsable ecommerce website away from Moodle. Course Merchant supports a full range of features that you'd expect to see on any ecommerce website system - e.g. product search, product browse, price search, related items, featured items, sale items, inventory (spaces available), etc. A full range of options may be set - for example, Course with Book, Course without Book, Summer Workshops, Campus Location - you name it!
If you wish, you can paste "Buy Now" buttons into Moodle. These buttons may also be placed into emails and other web pages. They allow students to register and pay for Moodle courses from any web location you choose. For example, you could put the "Buy Now" code into a marketing email or monthly newsletter.
Course Merchant design is entirely customisable - it can be built to mirror your corporate site, your Moodle site, or any other design you require.
Full reporting is possible - the storeadmin area allows access to sales and order reports, and there is even an offline invoicing utility.
Course Merchant incorporates a remarkably easy to use Content Management System. This allows you to add unlimited non-product pages, articles, FAQs, calendar entries and web links. All items within Course Merchant may be enhanced with Meta tag keywords and description - Course Merchant is very search engine friendly.
In short, Course Merchant is a sophisticated yet easy to use ecommerce system that has been built to be used with the Moodle elearning system. If you are serious about selling courses online, then Course Merchant is the product for you.