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E-Commerce solution for Moodle/Totara

Hi Guys,

I am doing some research and trying to find some good solutions for providing an e commerce front end to purchase and/or subscribe to content housed on Moodle/Totara.

I have spoken to Matt Lee from Envisiontel who is a Totara Partner and also on this forum, he has something really cool in the making, but I want to do some more due diligence and see if anything else exists, before making recommendations to my clients.

The basic requirements are:

Needs to be able to display moodle/totara courses in a catalog for users to be able to choose from.
Should have shopping cart function for multiple purchases.
Should have discount code functionality
Should have recurring payment functionality (For subscription type purchases)
Should be embeddable into a website.
Does not need to be a moodle plugin, in-fact its probably better that its not.

Regards

Bodo

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Hi Bodo

I too am interested in this so look forward to any responses.

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Bodo, there are a range of options that other partners have suggested - off the shelf and costom made https://totara.community/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1941 which may be worth exploring too.

Andy

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Thank you Andy, I did not look under the partner section for previous posts about this, so its good you sent the link!

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Andy

I am not a partner so cannot access this link, we do have a subscription with Kineo so does my Named Site Administrator have access to this area?

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Hi William,

It is only accessible for partners, but I am sure Kineo will be able to advise on solutions they have used.

Some highlights of the discussion in the partner thread:

Paypal which comes with Moodle/Totara is fine but limited, so partners have explored third party plugins or even built their own

Coursemerchant is used by some partners

Magento was recommended in this blog post

A custom solution, "We have built a Moodle e-commerce solution by integrating the Drupal CMS and Moodle. The advance to this approach was that we were able to use the Drupal Ubercart e-commerce module which is sophisticated and mature in terms of its ability to manage purchase logic."

Andy

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