Ecommerce for Moodle elearning

Course Merchant is a fully featured e-commerce application which seamlessly integrates with the Moodle elearning system (VLE / LMS) to provide automated student enrollment upon successful online payment and/or registration.

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Vizucate

Based in South Africa, Vizucate have been in the educational sector for 10 years and Vizucate was born out of a need to use visually interesting characters to build educational content and use visual language to explain concepts in our sector. Vizucate use Course Merchant to showcase their 3d designs and graphics.

Endeavour - College of Natural Health

Endeavour College of Natural Health is a multi-site institution based in New Zealand and Australia. They are using Course Merchant with our eWay integration to sell a range of face-to-face and online short courses.

Woundeducators

Wound care is the fastest growing area in the field of health care, providing exceptional opportunities for job growth. WoundEducator's comprehensive online training programs are now being sold online using Course Merchant for Moodle.

Globish

Globish is a way to learn English using just 1500 words. The team behind Globish have chosen to use Course Merchant as the means to sell their online courses and downloadable ebooks. The Globish team run two Course Merchant stores - one in English, the other in Spanish.

Pilot Training - Online Ground School

PilotTraining.ca provides online instruction and preparation for aviation written examinations. Their courses can be used as credit toward the Transport Canada requirement for ground school. They have been using Course Merchant for their online theory courses.

Training & Conditioning

Training & Conditioning provides NATA and NSCA members with the opportunity to earn continuing education units. By satisfactorily completing one of the T&C CEU quizzes, readers earn 2.0 BOC Athletic Training and 0.2 NSCA (two hours) continuing education units. All powered by Moodle with Course Merchant.

Sheilds - Safety Health Environment

Established in 1995 by its founder Mike Shields, SHEilds concentrates on offering a quality Health and Safety consultancy service, developing solutions for the local commerce. They have chosen Course Merchant to sell their online NEBOSH and OCR courses.

Darnell Training Academy

Established in 1998, Darnell Training provides CeMAP, CeFA, DipDEA and similar courses via their Moodle installation. They have chosen Course Merchant to help sell these courses.

Net Institute

Net Addiction Training provides a wide range of online, downloadable and also physical courses and resources for those affected by addictions of one type or another. Recovery Programs and Counseling issues are also covered.

NSAFS

The UK National Skills Academy for Financial Services is currently developing a range of online courses aimed at providing professional development for those in the Financial Services industry. The NSAFS have chosen Course Merchant as the mechanism by which they will allow online payment and enrollment into these courses.

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Course Merchant - E-commerce for Moodle - Latest Features

The following have been added recently:

1. XML feed of latest products

This was in response to the needs of a client who wanted to pull through an automatic feed of courses directly into their corporate website and Moodle. This is now part of the core build.

2. Automated VAT Invoicing Linked to HMRC Exchange Rates

One recent customer prices in US dollars though they are UK-based and registered for VAT in the UK. They needed to automatically send a VAT invoice in sterling to all UK registered customers and a non-VAT invoice in dollars to all other non-EU customers. They also needed to be able to request the tax id for EU (but not UK) registered companies so that VAT was not charged. All this had to be linked to the current HMRC exchange rates to ensure the dollar to sterling conversion was correct. This feature is now available as part of the core build.

3. Face-to-Face Booking Module

A recent customer requested a better interface for booking face-to-face, offline workshops. This is scheduled for release in January 2010. It will then become part of the core build.

4. Line Manager Authorisation

A recent corporate customer requested a payment method for their vertical supply chain and internal training needs. This meant that students would not be paying for the courses directly using their credit card, but would need Line Manager authorisation to approve the budget spend. This is being built and will be available for the core build in January 2010.

5. Affiliate Systems - Idevaffiliate for Moodle using Course Merchant

Course Merchant allows Moodle course vendors to set up and manage an affiliate system. This is an essential method for creating a distributed sales channel - allowing you to maximise elearning course sales.

More information regarding affiliate systems in general is available on our blog at http://www.eshopsfables.com/?p=40. Information below is regarding how Course Merchant functions with its internal affiliate system, or with idevaffiliate.

Stage 1: Set-up Affiliate System for Course Merchant (for Moodle)

1. Enable the affiliate system.
2. Create any number of text or image links within the master affiliate control panel.
3. Configure settings (commission rate, enable 2nd tier, etc).

Stage 2: Moodle Affiliate Sign Up

4. Advertise for affiliates, or approach appropriate sites, blogs, etc.
5. Potential affiliates sign up (there is a create account script).
6. Course Merchant store owner accepts or declines affiliate.
7. If affiliate accepted, they gain access to their own control panel.
8. Affiliate browses the text and image links the Moodle store owner created.
9. Affiliate cuts and pastes html for these links into their website, emails, etc.

Stage 3: Tracking Moodle Affiliate System (for Course Merchant)

10. Customer clicks image or text link on affiliate website or email.
11. Customer lands on Course Merchant store.
12. Cookie now in place.
13. A purchase results in auto tracking of who referring site (affiliate) was.
14. Affiliate purchase logged in affiliate master control panel.

Stage 4: Payout

15. Course Merchant store owner verifies sale in control panel.
16. If confirmed, commission amount calculated automatically. May be over-ridden.
17. Month end payment may be run that calculates each affiliate pay out.

Idevaffiliate

Please note that this is an overview of the Course Merchant for Moodle affiliate system. Also supported is idevaffiliate. This is a more sophisticated affiliate system that will work with Course Merchant, and therefore Moodle. It allows multiple marketing gateways, multiple tiers, multiple payout settings, page peels, lightboxes, and more. It is the industry leading affiliate system for independent store owners.