Sorry about the late reply; it took me some time to setup a Maple server with Ecommerce enabled. I can confirm that the LMS does require identity verification to purchase an upgrade.
As you can see in the screenshot below, the “upgrade” link points to http://mfehost/account/id-verification?course_id=…
When I click this upgrade link, I am forwarded to the account MFE, which briefly displays the identify verification form before showing this:
Thus, identity verification is effectively preventing me from testing the ecommerce functionality. I did attempt to enable the AUTOMATIC_VERIFY_STUDENT_IDENTITY_FOR_TESTING feature flag, as suggested by @Zia_Fazal in this Slack thread, but it not change anything.
I’m kind of stuck because of this issue for now…