Market, Sell and Deliver your Courses Online with the Shopify LMS Integration

You must’ve probably heard about Shopify at some point or the other in your professional wayfaring. And if you haven’t, we’re here to shed some light on what Shopify is all about! At the outset, Shopify is an open source e-commerce platform that allows setting up of stores for selling of goods online. They claim to be giving you ‘More ways to sell than ever before’! That’s what they say, and we, at Paradiso Solutions, completely agree with them, because it just takes you minutes to turn your website/blog into an online store.

While being the complete e-commerce solution that it is, Shopify allows customization of your store to reflect your brand image. It also accepts secure payment via cards or net banking modes – and all this happens with no more than a few mouse clicks! Isn’t Shopify amazing? It certainly is… and so is our best LMS! Further into the blog, let’s find out what happens when these two amazingly amazing platforms, i.e. Shopify LMS blend into unison.

Once Shopify LMS come together, you get the power to market and sell your products online through Shopify and then deliver them using our LMS. Let’s understand a bit more about the marketing and sales platform inbred due to the Shopify LMS integration. To make aspects easier to understand, let us take you to the panorama of a live marketplace. You’ve to imagine Shopify as your platform for selling courses and the courses are the material that you want to trade.

The LMS would be the repository where you’d be keeping the inventory of the courses. So, in the marketplace scenario, whenever there would be a need for a particular course, it would be initiated through Shopify, paid for through Shopify and delivered from the repository i.e. the LMS. It’s that simple! However, sometimes the native integrations don’t do what you want them to do. To handle such instances with the Shopify LMS, we pitch in with Zapier!

Zapier is basically a tool that connects two web apps together seamlessly, in this case Shopify LMS. We, at Paradiso Solutions, have teamed up with Zapier for bringing about flawless integration of Shopify LMS. What Zapier basically does is it creates zaps between the two platforms i.e. Shopify LMS. These zaps eventually do the servitude for you. Zaps are nothing but triggers that set off an action.

zapier logoTo explain it simply, triggers (“when this happens”) lead to actions (“do that”). So, whenever a new account gets created in Shopify (trigger), it gets piped in the LMS instance to create a new account (action). Whatever data comes out of Shopify, goes into the LMS for creation of a new user account in the LMS. In the same way, setting up an inverse procedure is also easy. You just have to connect the ‘new user’ in the LMS instance to the ‘new account’ in Shopify. In such cases, if the information gets filled in the LMS (trigger), it gets piped into Shopify and a new account gets created in Shopify (action). Hope that explains the Shopify LMS pairing!