Modern Commerce — Overview
What it is
Modern Commerce (local_moderncommerce) is a Moodle local plugin that runs a complete ecommerce storefront inside your Moodle site. Instead of bolting a shopping cart onto an external system, it sells your Moodle courses directly: a public catalog, product and detail pages, cart and checkout, real payment gateways, and automatic enrolment the moment a payment succeeds.
On that foundation it adds bundles and programs, subscription plans, coupons and prepaid enrolment keys, invoices and refunds, a branded, widget-driven storefront, transactional and marketing notifications, and a dashboard with sales analytics — all backed by Moodle's own roles, enrolment, messaging, and cron. There is no external service to host.
Modern Commerce is open-source software licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later. You can inspect, run, modify, and redistribute it under the terms of that licence. Agunfon Interactivity LLC, USA also provides optional implementation and enterprise support services. See Requirements and Installation.
For a consolidated inventory of every product capability, administration surface, primary capability and operating boundary, see the Complete Feature Reference.
Who it's for
- Course sellers & training providers who want to sell Moodle courses directly, without a separate WordPress/WooCommerce or Shopify front end.
- Store managers who create products, bundles, coupons, and subscription plans and arrange the storefront visually.
- Finance & operations teams who need invoices, refunds, an audit trail, and reconciled payment/webhook ledgers.
- Administrators who want payments, enrolment, and notifications to happen automatically on cron, inside Moodle.
How the store works
A purchase flows through the same pipeline every time:
- Catalog — buyers browse the storefront catalog and open a course, bundle, or program detail page.
- Cart — they add a product and go to checkout; a coupon can be applied here.
- Checkout — an order is created and the buyer is sent to their chosen payment gateway. Card details are captured on the gateway, never in Moodle.
- Gateway — Stripe, PayPal, Paystack, or Flutterwave processes the payment and returns a callback; a signed webhook confirms it asynchronously.
- Fulfilment — on a confirmed payment, Modern Commerce grants the purchased entitlement and enrols the buyer into the linked Moodle course(s). A separate key-redemption path grants its configured course, bundle, or subscription access.
- Invoice & notify — an invoice/receipt is generated, and order, payment, and enrolment emails are queued. The order and entitlements appear in the learner dashboard.
Subscriptions, key expiry, abandoned-cart recovery, payment reminders, report snapshots, and the notification queue all run as scheduled tasks on Moodle cron — so nothing critical is left to a page load.
Because access is granted through Moodle's own enrolment and roles, learners land in exactly the courses they bought with no manual steps.