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Connecting CopeCart

Create the IPN connection at CopeCart, enter the password, map products in the course, check the test purchase.

Create the connection

Connecting CopeCart on film: the guide, the password and mapping the product in the course – with sound and captions.

Under “Sales” → CopeCart “Set up”, a guide walks you through every step, with the field names as CopeCart shows them. This page explains the same steps in detail. Best keep CopeCart open in a second tab.

The sketch beside the CopeCart guide: CopeCart's form as you will see it, its numbers belong to the guide's steps.
  1. Sign in to CopeCart, click your name at the top right (in some views “Settings” at the bottom left) → “IPN Anbindungen” → “IPN Anbindung hinzufügen”.
  2. Choose “Generisch” in the selection – not Coachy, Memberspot or another platform.
  3. “Name der Anbindung”: CourseKit. “IPN Benachrichtigungs-URL”: the address from CourseKit (copy button).
  4. “IPN-Kennwort”: click “Create password” in CourseKit and copy the password to CopeCart. CopeCart does not issue a password – it is a free field.
  5. “Integrationstyp”: “Integration zur Vertragserfüllung” – not “Newsletter”.
  6. Switch the toggle at the top right to “aktiv” and save.

CopeCart signs every message with the password. CourseKit checks the signature and only unlocks when it matches. It is stored encrypted; afterwards CourseKit only shows its last characters. If it gets lost, create a new one and replace it at CopeCart.

Note: With “Newsletter”, CopeCart only sends the buyer's email address if she ticks a box during the purchase. Without an email address CourseKit cannot create the access.

Note: A new connection starts out inactive at CopeCart – and an inactive connection sends nothing, without an error. This is the most common reason a test purchase does not arrive.

Map products

Every product that should unlock a course needs two things:

The course's “Sales” tab: which product sells this course and how long a purchase unlocks it.
  1. At CopeCart open the product → “Integrationen” → activate “CourseKit” and save. Without this switch CopeCart does not report purchases of the product.
  2. In CourseKit open the course → “Sales” → enter the product ID. It is in the product's settings at CopeCart and in your browser's address bar when you open the product.

Several products can unlock the same course, for example a one-off payment and instalments. A duration set on the product takes precedence over the course default. Under “Sales”, in the “Courses & products” tab, you see which course has no product yet.

Test purchase and checking purchases

Buy your product once, preferably with a second email address. As soon as CopeCart reports the purchase, the guide marks the “Test purchase” as “arrived” and the start card ticks off “Connect sales”. A test purchase is marked “Test” in the member list and does not count towards your plan.

Under “Sales”, in the “Purchases” tab, you see every message from CopeCart with its status. “Unmapped” means: someone bought, but there is no mapping for this product ID. Click “Map and unlock” on the purchase and choose the course – the waiting purchases are unlocked, without you creating access by hand. A failed message can be caught up after the fix with “Reprocess”.

Note: At CopeCart, a failed payment does not lock immediately but gives 7 days of grace.