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Joomdle lets you sell Moodle courses through Joomla, either by using Moodle's Paypal features or by integrating any of the supported e-commerce Joomla extensions.
Also, you can sell them associatted to subscription plans, using AEC.

Using an e-commerce extensions has the added benefit of being able to purchase multiple courses at once, thus:
* You can give your users a better shopping experience
* You can reduce transaction fees

You can also use other payment methods aside from Paypal.


==Selling courses through e-commerce extensions==

Currently, supported extensions are:
* Virtuemart
* Tienda

First you need to ensure that the one you choose is working for normal products.

Then, configure Joomdle to integrate either [[VirtueMart]], [[Tienda]] or [[Hikashop]]

Once configured, you can acces the Shop section in Joomdle admin panel, to enable the courses you want to sell.

[[File:shop.png]]

The listing shows all Moodle courses. You just need to publish them to get the products automatically created in your shop.
Details are taken from Moodle: name, description, price.

You can also use the controls available to:
* Unpublish. Sets the product as unpublished in shop
* Reload from Moodle. Reloads the info (name, description, price) from Moodle
* Trash. Deletes the products from shop

==Selling courses through Moodle's Paypal==

First, make sure Paypal payments are working from Moodle.  Refer to Moodle docs for more details http://docs.moodle.org/en/Paypal

Then, enable the Paypal button in the Detail View settings in Joomdle configuration.
This will show a Paypal button in Course Detail View.

When the user clicks, he will be redirected to Paypal to complete payment.

==Selling courses with AEC==

Joomdle integration with AEC lets you 'include' Moodle courses in subscription plans.

Read [[AEC]] page for more info on how to set this up.