Selling memberships and individual courses

Superconhecimento is a value-added service (VAS) for internet providers, working as an education platform with more than 300 courses.

Problem:

Because it is a value-added service for internet providers, Superconhecimento did not sell courses individually. Wanting to change that, they hired us to build a three-pronged system: unrestricted access through partners (the providers), monthly and annual memberships (access to all courses) and individual course sales.

Solution:

We used WooCommerce to manage subscriptions and payments. The VAS integration was already built with custom code. So our biggest job was managing these multiple extra access paths and writing the logic behind them, in code, to make sure students always get the right access.

Technologies used:

• WooCommerce
• WooCommerce Subscriptions
• Loops & Logic

Multiple access control in one box.

Our big idea was to simplify the process radically. We wrote a series of logical conditions inside a single piece of code so we could reuse them across different areas. This central code checked whether the user was enrolled in the course, whether they were paying for the subscription or whether they were already a VAS student. Based on that, we could show different items, such as the course access button, the purchase button and/or the subscription button.