Yes, it’s exactly as you expect but let’s explain in detail and describe some basic terms we use in Training-Online.eu LMS.
Enrollment is the internal LMS action that happens always to assign the course to user(s), doesn’t matter if it’s done by admin / teacher via Users module, user enrolls himself via Course catalog or user enrolls himself via eShop. The enroll entry keeps all the data, such as start date, due date,
monitors course version and starts all the related notifications.
Each
enrollment has its price based on the
Course type, there is also the FREE plan available for the Course FREE type.
Therefore you should consider the structure of courses you offer for enroll, especially via LMS Catalog or eShop. There might be also scenarios where you sell the course in eShop for lower price than is the internal enroll price, this is given by the fact that you
set the price for eShop in the Course entry. We recommend to keep an eye on that! My personal opinion is that there should be a positive profit from selling courses but if you like to sell with a loss there is just the chance to do that.
For cases of the FREE courses offered through the eShop there is no enrollment fee as stated above. The user in the eShop places his courses into his Shopping Cart and if the amount is 0, the enrollment is done immediately when he proceeds to checkout. The user will be enrolled immediately also in the case you sell courses where enrollment fee is not for free but you set the price for eShop as 0.
There are also options to sell FREE courses for some amounts. In that case is the customer redirected to the PayPal gateway to proceed the payment. Your enrollment fee is still 0 and you get the profits from the transaction.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/16/2017 08:11PM by admin_admin.