Integrating WooCommerce WordPress Plugin (Quince)#
Earlier this year, we began discovery work on the possibility of integrating the Open edX platform directly with a 3rd party ecommerce platform that we would not need to maintain. The big catalysts for this project were the deprecation of the ecommerce repo, and the need for a replacement that would be accessible across technical capabilities. We wanted to find out if a simple implementation could not only work for smaller deployments, but that would also complement commerce-coordinator for larger deployments.
We’re happy to announce that we just successfully completed a funded contribution project with eduNEXT to integrate WooCommerce as an e-commerce service, through which courses can be sold. The integration helps to streamline workflows and provide capabilities such as:
Ability to create Open edX course products
Ability to buy an Open edX course, which will start an enrollment with a seat in a specific course run
Refunding an Open edX course, which will cause a soft unenrollment (
is_active=False)Checking the status of an enrollment
If you are using the Quince release, you can also create enrollment allowed
See a demo of the plugin here:
If you’re interested in the WooCommerce integration, you can now activate this plugin in your WordPress site and connect your Open edX instance with your WordPress! Additional documentation can be found here: Open edX WooCommerce Plugin
This integration can serve as a model for integrating with other ecommerce platforms in a standard and supportable way. For further details on the project work itself, you can check out:
Maintenance chart
Review Date |
Working Group Reviewer |
Release |
Test situation |
2025-04-28 |
Docs WG |
Teak |
Deprecated: This is no longer the current release |