Hi, I’m currently evaluating Open edX to hopefully take over a different solution I’ve been using, but have the following questions about ecommerce that I couldn’t find in the docs:
Is there a support (even via an addon) that can handle a Netflix-style monthly subscription for a bundle of courses or role that can give access to courses?
What are some examples of sites selling professional development training courses? Maybe one will inspire me with a different way to sell 
Hi @ricsmo! Welcome to Open edX 
Not that I know of, currently. This is a frequently requested feature though, so if you were to develop it, or fund its development, there would definitely be interest & help for it within the community.
You can have a look at the way edX sells professional certificates, for example:
Another option is to handle the registration/enrollment outside of Open edX, and then upload a list of users to enroll in each individual course, similarly to what is described in How to control user enrollment acceptance? - #2 by antoviaque - and potentially automate those steps if there are many courses/students registrations.
@antoviaque we have requirements for subscription and other bundling services and are consider options, including assessing the funding the development. Could you pop me an email for discussion?
There is an edX developed service for providing subscription access to content called License Manager:
This service used at edX and is available under AGPL. The current status is “source available” and documentation is scant.
If there’s community energy to develop how-tos and documentation, let me know and we can talk about next steps.
thanks @e0d . Silly question: the link to readthedocs in the README is broken. it points to https://license-manager.readthedocs.io/. Any idea of the correct URL? i tried google but couldn’t find anything.
Probably the orginal doc live /docs license-manager/docs at master · openedx/license-manager · GitHub Typically repo based docs are extracted from its /docs directory
@ghassan is correct. However the docs are currently purely technical and don’t discuss the features use. I had no issues building them as expected.
git clone git@github.com:openedx/license-manager.git
cd license-manager/
mkvirtualenv license-manager
make requirements
make doc_requirements
cd docs/
make html
I created a tutor plugin for License Manager that automates build and deploy for both Ubuntu Linux environments as well as Kubernetes.
For Github users: i created these two Github Actions
Lastly, License Manager is now fully integrated into Cookiecutter Tutor Open edX Production Devops Tools