Ecommerce And Moodle - Add A Shopping Cart
If you looking to make a pay-to-learn website, you have no doubt looked at the various web-based open-source LMS (Learning Management Systems) or sometimes called CMS (Course Management Systems). These programs were designed by educators, not marketers, so they don’t contain the payment solutions that marketers want to cash in on the ‘Boom’ in pay-to-learn web sites. For most marketers, this means ecommerce and Moodle integration.
You need the flexibility of the LMS, but you also want:
-A professional-looking cart and checkout system
-The ability to use any payment processor, not just PayPal
-A pro-grade affiliate management system
-Ability to track payments
-A system that integrates with popular 3rd party systems such as autoresponders
-Professional design and a reliable system
The sad fact is, that the open-source LMS products today just do not have robust ecommerce support. It is possible to add a Moodle shopping cart. With a little set of hacks and the E-Junkie shopping cart system, it’s really quite easy to do, even if you have basic to moderate coding skills.
They key to doing this in Moodle is by using the remote enrollment database feature. You ‘intercept’ the enrollment code within Moodle, and replace it with your shopping cart buttons. Then the remote callback feature of the EJunkie shopping cart populates your external enrollment database.
Creating a membership site with Moodle or other open source LMS’ can be done- it just takes a little work and some great features from the EJunkie Shopping cart. Don’t be afraid to install a test version of Moodle and give these techniques a try.
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