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1. recurring payments | 1. recurring payments | ||
2. ability to track trial | 2. ability to track trial subscription and then add to recurring subscription after conversion | ||
3. ability to have one subscription enroll multiple classes | 3. ability to have one subscription enroll multiple classes | ||
4. ability to have several subscriptions for one | 4. ability to have several subscriptions for one class like, trial, 1-month, 3-month, annual | ||
5. ability to group courses together to | 5. ability to group courses together to have subscribe pages for specific groups of classes. | ||
6. affiliate program | 6. affiliate program | ||
7. ability to e-mail | 7. ability to e-mail subscribers at regular intervals after subscribing. | ||
1-7 are available in Amember now. | 1-7 are all available in Amember now. | ||
==Links to Previous Discussions== | ==Links to Previous Discussions== | ||
Revision as of 03:09, 28 June 2006
This page is for brainstorming ideas for an improved payment plugin that allows for a variety of enrolment scenarios.
Rationale
The current Paypal integration for Moodle is limited in its ability to accepting fixed price payments for a particular course and time period. There are many other subscription options that Moodle business site owners would like to implement but currently have no way to do so except manually. This page is for us to pool our minds and talents towards coming up with a blueprint for an improved paid enrolment architecture that will serve a wide range of needs. Once we have a blueprint, we can get a price quote from developers and then raise money to implement this. By integrating a full featured payment system into the core Moodle, we will ensure that it will not break when Moodle is upgraded in the future, which would not be the case with other external integrations.
Desired Features
Please add features you would like to see here.
1. recurring payments 2. ability to track trial subscription and then add to recurring subscription after conversion 3. ability to have one subscription enroll multiple classes 4. ability to have several subscriptions for one class like, trial, 1-month, 3-month, annual 5. ability to group courses together to have subscribe pages for specific groups of classes. 6. affiliate program 7. ability to e-mail subscribers at regular intervals after subscribing.
1-7 are all available in Amember now.
Links to Previous Discussions
Here are some discussions that have occurred in the Business Users forums regarding desired features. Some of these discussions regard integrations with other open source packages and or commercial packages, but still deal with the kind of features that might be included in a fully integrated Moodle plugin. We should review these to see what the most requested features are:
Moodle suitability and setup advice for paid, recurrent, courses
Problem related to sign ons and discontinuing memberships
PayPal use for course payments
The Ultimate Moodle-What is Yours?-Part 1
The Ultimate Moodle-What is Yours?-Part 2
Moodle integration with OSCommerce?
Accepting Payments Internationally
using 3rd party subscription programs
