About Course Merchant
Learn more about Course Merchant for course enrollment, registration, and e-commerce.
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Course Merchant is a shopping cart capable of integration into Brightspace™ by D2L.
Course Merchant supports user registration, SSO through to Brightspace, custom catalogs, multiple language, and currency support. Course Merchant can also be customized to support UI themes that match a customer’s public site.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What Course Merchant editions are available?
There are two editions available. Further customizations are available too.
Lite Edition
- Supply of a standard out-the-box version of Course Merchant
- 'Daylight' theme to match Brightspace standard theme
- Staging and live server set-up with appropriate backup and specification
- Integration with a currently supported payment gateway
- Project Management for deployment
- SSO into Brightspace (Note: SSO into any other platform, such as SAML or Shibboleth, has an additional cost)
Standard Edition
- Everything in Lite edition
- Store theme design to match Customer website or other reference
- Project Management for Store design match and deployment
- CRM reporting layer
Customizations include functionality beyond the Lite and Standard editions. These can include additional SSO options, different user-interface workflows, different bundling and payment options and integrations beyond Brightspace. Please contact your D2L representative to discuss.
How is Course Merchant deployed/enabled?
Course Merchant live environments are a complete ecommerce store for the Brightspace LMS. A customer has a live environment and may have a staging environment too depending on the integration requirements. The environments are deployed to the same region as the Brightspace environment and ‘connect’ to Brightspace through Valence APIs.
Custom work or “design match” consulting for the Standard edition is developed on a client’s staging environment. When a client has signed off the content of the store, the changes are then deployed into the live environment.
What is included in the training?
In person training for 12 participants that covers all the following topics: An introduction to Course Merchant, Discounts and Coupon (Voucher) Codes, Accessing Sales Order Data and Data Export, an Introduction to the CRM Reporting Layer, Building CRM Reports.
Lite Edition example agenda
- Catalog Introduction
- Essential Admin Access
- Single Seat Test Purchase & Review Sales Order Data in Store
- Browse Product List in Store
- Create Product in Catalog
- Create Voucher in Catalog
- Buy Now Links and Voucher Codes
Standard Edition example agenda
- Catalog & CRM Relationship - Overview
- Essential Admin Access
- Single Seat Test Purchase & Review Sales Order Data in CRM
- Browse Product List in Store
- Create Product in Catalog
- Create Voucher in Catalog
- Buy Now Links and Voucher Codes
- Review Reports in CRM
Customers should discuss any customizations with their D2L representative.
What payment options exist?
Course Merchant supports numerous PCI compliant payment gateways and can support additional through the payment gateway interface. Course Merchant adheres to PCI best practices and does not store user payment details (such as credit card number).
If payments are managed through internal transfers Course Merchant can also generate invoices for corporate ERP systems.