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Booking Engine Advice

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  • 27-04-2016 3:48pm
    #1
    MD training
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭


    Hi

    We want to develop an online booking and payment facility on our website and need advice on booking engines. We are a training organisation and want to have our courses availiable on line and for our customers to be able to pay online.

    Can anyone recommend any tried and tested ones? Bookeo? Checkfront?

    Thanks!


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    yoyo
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    Trojan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,413 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    I don't think that a booking system like Bookeo or Checkfront is right for you here. This is quite specialised - there are hundreds of different LMS (Learning Management Systems) available, as well as a bunch of other variables: the type of training content (video, text, slideshow, etc), do you require end of module quiz before proceeding, final exam, certificate generation.

    There are some general membership payment and mangement systems, there's options that sit on top of existing Content Management Systems (CMS) like WordPress and Joomla. There's also the issue of hosted vs self-hosted, etc.

    So, to help sort through that and give you a decent recommendation we need a bit more detail about what type of training content and how you imagine it might work.

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    EIREHotspur
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    I have a friend who wants me to build him one later in the year for his Autocad Courses.

    I looked at moodle and while it is used a lot, it really is long in the tooth and isn't the best for mobile devices which is where people should be looking.

    The thing is not to pay a few thousand to discover it isn't selling well to start off.

    Better to split your budget between Website & Marketing.


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    Trojan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,413 ✭✭✭✭Trojan


    EIREHotspur wrote: »
    I have a friend who wants me to build him one later in the year for his Autocad Courses.

    I looked at moodle and while it is used a lot, it really is long in the tooth and isn't the best for mobile devices which is where people should be looking.

    The thing is not to pay a few thousand to discover it isn't selling well to start off.

    Better to split your budget between Website & Marketing.

    +1

    If I was starting off, after doing some validation on Udemy or somewhere like that, I'd get a $150 LearnDash licence and put that up on WordPress. That would be sufficient for 80-90% of online training needs and would be quick and fairly simple to manage. (Also, I'd install the LMS on a subdomain, rather than the marketing site)

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