Namaste! LMS Bridge/Integration for WooCommerce

Our WatuPRO Bridge for WooCommerce is used a lot so we decided to build a similar one for Namaste! LMS.

From version 2.4.6 of Namaste! LMS a bridge is no longer required. The integration is built-in. Improvements coming soon!

Accept As a Primary Payment Method

In the Namaste! LMS Settings page, Payment Settings section,  enable the following option:

The option appears only when you have WooCommerce installed and activated.

(Note: even without it you can still use the old manual connection explained below on this page.)

Enabling this option will generate a WooCommerce product selector on all “Edit course” pages where the course has a non-zero price:

Note that only products which are both virtual and downloadable will be shown here. This is required to ensure that paying for the product will immediately make the order status completed and will automatically enroll the student in the course.

If you select a product here and save the connection, all enroll buttons for this course will automatically lead to the associated WooCommerce page. The other payment options will be ignored.

You can still sell other courses the regular way – if you don’t select a WooCommerce product, the enroll button will load your standard payment options, coupon fields, etc.

The old method described below can still be used. (Internally it is used when you enable the above link). There are two cases when this might be preferred:

  • If for some reason you don’t want the enroll buttons to automatically go to the WooCommerce page. Maybe you want to keep other payment methods along with WooCommerce on the same course, maybe you want to add some instructions, etc.
  • If you want to sell multiple courses as one WooCommerce product. In this case you have to use the manual method described below and list the multiple course IDs divided by |.

Manual (Old) Method of Linking Courses to Products

First, you need to create paid courses (non-zero price!) and/or classes (if you have Namaste! PRO). Then add them as products in your WooCommerce store. Name them any way you want, give any price you want.  The price you set in WooCommerce does not need to match the price you set in Namaste! LMS. The only important thing is to create a custom attribute with name “namaste-course” and value containing the ID of the course you want to sell, or “namaste-class” and the ID of the class you want to sell. Example:

woocommerce-namasteNote! Do not create these attributes as custom attribute type from the separate Woocommerce Attributes menu. It needs to be done like on the image above -just enter “namaste-course” or “namaste-class” (without the quotes) in the small box and the ID in the big box. The drop-down at right should be saying “Custom product attribute”. Multiple IDs can be added separated by | sign.

Note that the WooCommerce product you create should be virtual and downloadable.

That’s all, you can start selling access to courses and classes. You can add coupons, bundles, and so on -anything that you would do with your WooCommerce products.

When the payment of order is completed, the access to the course or class will be activated. Access to course will not be given until the order status is COMPLETED. If the user is not logged in and does not exist, an user account will be created on the fly.

Redirect to the Course

The bridge supports automated redirecting after the order is paid. Just add another custom attribute to the same product. The attribute must have name namaste-redirect and value the URL of the course. You can also use any other URL if for some reason you want to redirect elsewhere.

If the user purchase multiple courses or classes in one shopping cart they will be redirected to the first purchased product which has the “namaste-redirect” attribute.

InstaMojo Integration for Namaste! LMS

This is no longer functional.

Instamojo completely revamped their interface and removed the old way of working with their system without any notice so we are not willing to continue development for their platform.

Instead of this integration, Instamojo users can sell quizzes through WooCommerce, using our free WooCommerce bridge and Instamojo’s official WooCommerce integration.

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OLD INSTRUCTIONS FOR REFERENCE ONLY

This plugin will let users from India who have the Intelligence module for Namaste! LMS to sell access to courses and classes via the Instamojo payment service.

The plugin requires Namaste! LMS min. version 1.6.2. If you use PRO, the min. compatible version is 1.1.8.

Download namaste-instamojo v. 1.1 here (18 KB)

From version 1.0 the bridge also works with the Namaste! PRO shopping cart.

How To Use It

Install the plugin and activate it. A new menu item will appear under your Namaste! LMS menu. The item is called “Instamojo integration”:

Before you can proceed you need the following:

  • Your API key and Auth token. Once you have an Instamojo account you can obtain these from the Developers section.
  • A dynamic payment link. The link must have a fixed price and “Pay what you want” options selected.
  • The link must also have two custom fields added in the Advanced Settings section in your Instamojo link management page. One of the fields should be called item_id and the other field should be item_type.
  • It needs to have “Custom redirection URL” attribute also set up. You can see the URL in your “Instamojo Integration” page in Namaste! LMS.

Once all this is done, ensure a couple more things:

1. You must enter the field identifiers of the custom fields in the Instamojo Integration page. The field indentifiers are visible in the “Custom fields” section of the Instamojo link management page for the given link. You need to mouse over the field names to see the identifiers.

2. You have to enter the following code inside your “Other payment instructions” box in Namaste! LMS Settings page (exactly as you see, just copy and paste)

[namastemojo-button amount="{{amount}}" item_id="{{course-id}}" item_type="{{item-type}}"]

This will generate a payment link on your paid quizzes. It can work along with all other payment methods. The payment link has class “namastemojo-button” so feel free to style it.

Using Question Difficulty Levels

From version 4.8.3.5 the WordPress quiz plugin WatuPRO adds a new important feature: question difficulty levels.

What Does It Do?

There are several reasons to use question difficulty levels in your quiz system:

  • To limit which difficulty levels are shown in a given quiz. This can be useful if you want to try how users perform on the quiz depending on how difficult questions are shown. Alternatively you can use one quiz as question bank and show questions of different difficulty levels in different quizzes.
  • To limit what kind of questions do users access. An option lets you manually give access to certain difficulty levels to every user from the Edit user page.
  • To let users unlock difficulty levels automatically based on their performance. You can do this by defining unlock criteria as explained below.

How To Use It

To create some difficulty levels go to the WatuPRO Difficulty Levels page and write them one per line:

difflevels

Once saved, you’ll get the following new options:

  • A drop-down selector in the Edit Quiz page
    diff-selector
  • A multi-select drop-down menu in the Edit User page (from your main WP Users page):
    user-diff-levels

When you select “Apply difficulty level restrictions per user account.” checkbox on the Difficulty Levels page you’ll also get options to setup default difficulty levels for new user accounts:

default-diff-levels

And the options to create unlock criteria will also appear. Here is example of automatic unlock criteria:

unlock-criteria

This means that for each difficulty level you can add criteria for automatic unlocking. When user completes a quiz, their points and correct answers are calculated. If criteria are satisfied a new question difficulty level will be unlocked and the user will be notified about this by flash message on the “Final screeen” on the quiz they just completed.

The “Unlock log” in the admin “Difficulty levels” page will let you know who and when has unlocked a new difficulty level.