Paypal enrolment: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 21:50, 3 October 2011

Location: PayPal edit settings link in Site administration > Plugins > Enrolments > Manage enrol plugins

The PayPal enrolment plugin allows you to set up paid courses. The plugin has to be enabled by the site administrator (see Enrolment plugins)and then added to the course by an administrator or manager. You can then set an individual price for your course if needed.

Course settings for Paypal

Checking you have Paypal in your course

In a course, go to Settings>users>enrolment methods
Make sure PayPal has its "eye" opened:

Setting a price for your course

In Settings>users>enrolment methods, click the edit/hand/pen icon to the right of the Paypal option.
Give a name to this enrolment method if you wish. (You don't have to!)
Ensure that "allow Paypal enrolments" is set to "yes"
In "Enrol cost", type in the cost of your course and in "Currency" choose your currency.
Usually you would leave the "Assign role" as "student" unless you have a very special reason for allowing your users to enrol as, say, editing teachers etc
Choose an enrolmet period and/or start/end dates if desired.
Click the "Save changes" button.

What the new user sees

When a new user clicks on your course link, having made a login to your Moodle, they will see the following screen, inviting them to go to PayPal to purchase access to your course:

Admin settings

If you wish to allow users to make their own accounts on your site then set up Email based self registration
Go to Settings>Site Administration>Plugins>Enrolments>Manage enrol plugins and enable (open the "eye" of Paypal)
Click the blue Settings link to the right of the PayPal enrolment link. Here are the default settings and default settings for new instances in a course:
1. Add the email of your Business PayPal account
2. Choose whether to notify students/teachers/admin.
3. Choose whether (or not) to allow the Paypal enrolment plugin by default in new courses
4. Choose a default cost and currency. (This may be overridden in individual courses)
5. Choose a default role assignment. (This means the role that a new user will automatically be given in a course when they purchase access. Usually this would be "student" unless you have a special reason for choosing another role.) This may be overridden in individual courses.
6. Choose the default enrolment period. This may be overridden in individual courses.

What to set up in Paypal

Setup your PayPal account at paypal.com

Create a Paypal account
Not required but recommended for selling: Upgrade your account to "Premier" status and get "Verified"
Setup IPN in Paypal to interact with Moodle. Log into Paypal, go to "Profile > Instant Payment Notifications (IPN)”, click "Turn On IPN", click the "Edit settings" and enter a URL that references your IPN file in your Moodle installation (for example: http://<domain name>/moodle/enrol/paypal/ipn.php)
Set the Encoding to UFT-8. In Paypal, go to "Profile > Language Encoding" (under the Selling Preferences column) and set your website's language (like select "Western European Languages (including English)" as it is the only English version). Then click on the "More Options" button and set the Encoding to "UTF-8", select "Yes" to use the same encoding for data sent from Paypay to you, and save.

What the user sees

If you have allowed users to create their own accounts then when they click to login, they will be presented with a screen Is this your first time here? It will give them instructions for making an account (which may be customised in Common authentication settings) and once their account is confirmed via email they can click on a course which can be purchased and pay for it via Paypal. PayPal courses will have a dollar sign icon next to them:

Once payment is made both the user/student and the teacher/admin should have received emails from Paypal confirming the purchase.

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-The PayPal [[Enrolment plugins|enrolment plugin]] allows you to set up paid courses.
-==Course costs==
+{{Enrolment}}
-If the cost for any course is zero, then students are not asked to pay for entry. There is a site-wide cost that you set here as a default for the whole site and then a course cost setting that you can set for each course individually. The course cost overrides the site cost.
+Location: PayPal edit settings link in ''Site administration > Plugins > Enrolments > Manage enrol plugins''
-If the course cost field is not empty, then students trying to enrol will be presented with the option of making a payment to enter.
+The PayPal enrolment plugin allows you to set up paid courses. The plugin has to be enabled by the site administrator (see [[Enrolment_plugins|Enrolment plugins]])and then added to the course by an administrator or manager. You can then set an individual price for your course if needed.
-If you ALSO enter an [[Enrolment key|enrolment key]] in the course settings, then students will also have the option to enrol using a key. This is useful if you have a mixture of paying and non-paying students.
+==Course settings for Paypal==
+===Checking you have Paypal in your course===
+*In a course, go to Settings>users>enrolment methods
+*Make sure PayPal has its "eye" opened:
+[[File:Paypalenrolmentmethod.png]]
+===Setting a price for your course===
+*In Settings>users>enrolment methods, click the edit/hand/pen icon to the right of the Paypal option.
+*Give a name to this enrolment method if you wish. (You don't have to!)
+*Ensure that "allow Paypal enrolments" is set to "yes"
+*In "Enrol cost", type in the cost of your course and in "Currency" choose your currency.
+*Usually you would leave the "Assign role" as "student" unless you have a very special reason for allowing your users to enrol as, say, editing teachers etc
+*Choose an enrolmet period and/or start/end dates if desired.
+*Click the "Save changes" button.
+[[File:Paypalcoursesettings.png]]
+===What the new user sees===
+*When a new user clicks on  your course link, having made a login to your Moodle, they will see the following screen, inviting them to go to PayPal to purchase access to your course:
+[[File:Paypaluserview.png]]
+==Admin settings==
+#If you wish to allow users to make their own accounts on your site then set up [[Email-based_self-registration|Email based self registration]]
+#Go to ''Settings>Site Administration>Plugins>Enrolments>Manage enrol plugins'' and enable (open the "eye" of Paypal)
+#Click the blue Settings link to the right of the PayPal enrolment link. Here are the default settings and default settings for new instances in a course:
+##Add the email of your Business PayPal account
+##Choose whether to notify students/teachers/admin.
+##Choose whether (or not) to allow the Paypal enrolment plugin by default in new courses
+##Choose a default cost and currency. (This may  be overridden in individual courses)
+##Choose a default role assignment. (This means the role that a new user will automatically be given in a course when they purchase access. Usually this would be "student" unless you have a special reason for choosing another role.) This may be overridden in individual courses.
+##Choose the default enrolment period. This may be overridden in individual courses.
+==What to set up in Paypal==
+* Setup your PayPal account at paypal.com
+# Create a Paypal account
+# Not required but recommended for selling: Upgrade your account to "Premier" status and get "Verified"
+# Setup IPN in Paypal to interact with Moodle.  Log into Paypal, go to "Profile > Instant Payment Notifications (IPN)”, click "Turn On IPN", click the "Edit settings" and enter a URL that references your IPN file in your Moodle installation (for example: http://<domain name>/moodle/enrol/paypal/ipn.php)
+# Set the Encoding to UFT-8.  In Paypal, go to "Profile > Language Encoding" (under the Selling Preferences column) and set your website's language (like select "Western European Languages (including English)" as it is the only English version).  Then click on the "More Options" button and set the Encoding to "UTF-8", select "Yes" to use the same encoding for data sent from Paypay to you, and save.
+==What the user sees==
+*If you have allowed users to create their own accounts then when they click to login, they will be presented with a screen'' Is this your first time here?'' It will give them instructions for making an account (which may be customised in [[Common_authentication_settings|Common authentication settings]]) and once their account is confirmed via email they can click on a course which can be purchased and pay for it via Paypal. PayPal courses will have a dollar sign icon next to them:
+[[File:Paypalicon.png]]
+*Once payment is made both the user/student and the teacher/admin should have received emails from Paypal confirming the purchase.
-==Verifying the default encoding==
-{{Moodle 1.8}}If you are using Moodle 1.8 or later, you need to verify the default encoding in your PayPal business account as follows:
-#Login go to your PayPal account, select "My Account" tab, then Profile tab.
-#Click on "Language Encoding" in the right column Selling Preferences.
-#Click on "More Options" button and select UTF-8 encoding for both cases. If you are using other software with IPN please check that it is compatible with UTF-8 encoding.
-[[Category:Enrolment]]
 [[fr:Inscription par Paypal]]

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