Services · Ecommerce development · Online learning course sales sites
Codeeo delivers e-learning course selling website development Edinburgh educators, training firms and university short course teams use to sell places and paid access online. We build the catalogue, enrolment and checkout, cohort calendars, learner access and certificates, with your terms, age rules and course levels written for Scotland rather than copied from an English template. Learners in the capital, elsewhere in Scotland and overseas buy and start a course without phoning your office, and your staff run everything from one admin panel.
Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, with 80+ people in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews. We have no Edinburgh office; Scottish clients work with us remotely, and every meeting runs by video call.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the platform covers
Most off-the-shelf course platforms are written with English law and English qualifications in mind. That causes small but real problems for an Edinburgh provider. Terms refer to the courts of England and Wales. Level descriptions do not match the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework. Age rules assume eighteen is the line for contracts, when in Scotland the key age for most purchases is sixteen. Tutor vetting refers to DBS rather than the PVG scheme. None of this stops a sale, but it confuses learners and creates risk for you. The capabilities below are the ones we most often build for Edinburgh providers, and each can be configured by your team after launch as your courses change.
Checkout presents terms that your solicitor has written under Scots law, with Scottish courts named where appropriate. Consumer rights from the Consumer Contracts Regulations and the Consumer Rights Act apply across the UK, so the cancellation and refund steps are built in either way; only the contract wording changes.
Learners agree to terms that actually fit where you trade.
Under the Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991, people under sixteen generally cannot enter contracts except ordinary ones for their age. The site asks date of birth where courses suit younger learners and routes under-sixteens to a parent or guardian account that pays and accepts terms.
Course purchases for younger learners are made by someone able to agree to them.
Courses carry their SCQF level and credit points where they have them, with filters so learners can compare like with like. Where a course leads to an award from Qualifications Scotland, which replaced the SQA as the national awarding body in 2026, the catalogue says so clearly and links enrolment to your centre processes.
Learners understand what level they are buying.
For courses with learners under eighteen, the admin records when each tutor's Protecting Vulnerable Groups membership was confirmed through Disclosure Scotland. Only confirmed tutors can be assigned to those groups, and messaging with children is limited to tutor groups your safeguarding lead can review.
Safeguarding rules are enforced by the system, not by memory.
E-learning course payment integration Edinburgh learners trust: card with 3D Secure for Strong Customer Authentication, Apple Pay, Google Pay and pay by bank for larger fees. Refunds and cohort transfers update your accounting software, and VAT is applied per product according to your accountant's view.
Every payment, refund and transfer reconciles cleanly.
Edinburgh's August festivals and summer schools bring short, intense programmes with fixed dates and visitors from abroad. The site sells these as dated cohorts with seat limits, deposits and balance payments, and prices in other currencies where you choose to.
Seasonal programmes fill without oversold places.
Scottish public bodies, NHS boards and councils often buy training through formal procurement, sometimes advertised on Public Contracts Scotland. The site supports quotes, purchase orders, VAT invoices on terms and seat allocation, alongside individual checkout for the same course.
Institutional orders run through the store rather than around it.
Banks, insurers and investment firms in Edinburgh buy training their staff must complete and record. The employer portal exports completion dates, scores, CPD hours and certificate codes per person, and keeps the history if a seat moves to someone else.
Clients file training evidence without asking you for it.
Each certificate carries a unique code and a public verification page showing the course, level, completion date and learner name. Certificates can be reissued from the admin if a name changes, and revoked if a payment is reversed.
Employers can trust a certificate from your Edinburgh courses.
Catalogue, checkout and learner area are built and tested against WCAG 2.2 AA, with captions and transcripts on course previews. The Equality Act 2010 applies in Scotland, and a documented accessibility test helps you answer the questions universities and public buyers raise.
More learners can enrol without asking for help.
Who this is for
Edinburgh's course market reflects the city: universities and colleges with active short course and CPD teams, a large financial services sector that buys compliance training, arts and language schools that peak around the festivals, and independent experts who teach online to learners across Scotland and beyond. Each needs a store that respects Scottish rules and the way its own buyers pay. These are the four starting points we see most.
Departments selling CPD, online short courses and summer programmes often work outside the main student records system and need their own store. We build one that matches the institution's brand, takes card and invoice payments, sends enrolment data to central systems where permitted, and lets course teams publish dates and prices themselves within agreed limits. International learners can pay in their own currency, and the store can hand accepted applicants to the institution's own systems at the right moment.
A course store that fits beside the main admissions system.
Compliance and professional training providers whose clients are Edinburgh banks, insurers and asset managers need corporate seat management, completion exports and invoices that pass supplier checks. Individual professionals often buy the same courses, so we build both routes on one catalogue and keep each employer's reporting separate. Renewal reminders for annual refresher courses go to the employer's administrator, not to individual staff who may have moved on.
Corporate and individual buyers share one catalogue.
Short courses timed around the Fringe and the wider August festivals, language summer schools and evening classes sell in sharp peaks. We build dated cohorts, deposits, waiting lists and multi-currency pricing for overseas visitors, and keep the site quick when demand rises in spring and early summer. Visitors booking from abroad receive confirmation emails with clear dates in UK time and a simple route to transfer to a later course if their travel plans change.
Seasonal peaks handled without manual seat counting.
Tuition and youth course providers teaching under-eighteens need payer accounts for parents, PVG records for tutors and child privacy settings that follow the ICO's Age Appropriate Design Code. We switch off public profiles and profiling for children by default and give your safeguarding lead oversight of messaging. Parents receive receipts and progress summaries, while the learner account stays focused on lessons.
Scottish safeguarding steps are built into the admin.
How we work together
Most Edinburgh clients start with a fixed scope build timed for a term or a summer season. Cost depends on the number of courses and cohort types, whether you sell to institutions by invoice, age and safeguarding features, integrations with finance and learner records, migration from an old platform, and multi-currency pricing. After launch, a monthly retainer covers new intakes and changes in rules. Providers with a long roadmap sometimes take a dedicated team. Whichever route you pick, the plan names who approves each stage on your side, so legal, safeguarding and finance sign-offs happen in the right order and nothing is held up close to an intake.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
For e-learning online course platform development Edinburgh teams can maintain themselves, we use WordPress and WooCommerce, Laravel or a Next.js storefront, with Stripe or another UK payment provider and links to your LMS, CRM and accounting tools. We pick the stack in discovery around the people who will update courses and dates after handover.
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02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
Scots law, Scottish course levels and Scottish safeguarding.
The checkout, payments and learner access work much as they would anywhere in the UK, and consumer rights are the same. The differences sit in the detail: contract terms written under Scots law, age rules shaped by the Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act, course levels described on the SCQF, awards from Qualifications Scotland where relevant, and tutor vetting through the PVG scheme. We build these into the platform so your Edinburgh learners see terms and levels that make sense to them.
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