Services · Ecommerce development · Education course and enrolment sites
Codeeo offers education course selling website development Manchester skills providers, training companies and tutoring firms use to enrol learners whether a course is fully paid, part funded or free to an eligible adult. We build the course catalogue, the eligibility and enrolment steps, the checkout, the learner portal and the admin tools behind them. In a city region where public skills funding and private course sales often run through the same provider, the platform keeps each route clear for learners and correct for your auditors.
A learner from Wigan, Stockport or Salford should be able to see in one glance whether a course costs them anything, what they need to prove, and when it starts. Your team should be able to see the same answer in the admin, with evidence attached. Course dates, prices and eligibility rules are edited by your own staff.
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What the platform handles
Most course shops assume everyone pays the same price by card. Many Manchester providers do not work that way. A digital course might be free to an eligible resident through a funded programme, partly paid by an employer, and full price to someone outside the eligibility rules. The website has to ask the right questions in the right order, collect evidence where your contract demands it, and only then show the learner what they owe. We design that decision path first, because it shapes every page after it, and keep it short enough that a learner on a phone finishes it. The rest of the platform, from the catalogue to certificates, is built around the outcome of those few questions. Some providers describe the result as an online course platform, others as a paid learning portal with funded places attached; the build underneath is the same.
A short set of questions about age, residency, employment status and prior qualifications decides which price route applies. The answers are stored against the enrolment, and wording is written plainly so learners understand why each question is asked.
Learners see the right price route without guessing.
Where a funded course is limited to residents of the ten Greater Manchester boroughs, a postcode lookup confirms the learner's area before the funded route is offered. Learners outside the area are shown the self-funded option instead, with no dead end. Boundaries are kept in a table your team can edit.
Funded places reach the residents they are meant for.
Learners upload identity, residency or employment evidence through a secure form. Staff review it in a queue, approve or request more, and the enrolment only confirms once evidence is accepted. Files are kept for the period your funding rules set, then removed.
Audit-ready files without paper folders.
When an employer pays part of a course for their staff, the employer receives its own invoice and the learner pays nothing, or a separate share. Each party sees only its own balance, and contributions are tracked against the right cohort. Employers can also nominate staff directly from their own account, which creates the learner invitation for them.
Split payments that finance can reconcile.
Learners who pay themselves get a straightforward checkout with Strong Customer Authentication, Apple Pay, Google Pay and pay by bank, plus optional staged payments for longer programmes. The total compulsory price appears from the first course card.
Paying learners complete enrolment in a few steps.
Courses running at venues in the city centre, Salford Quays, Oldham or Bolton appear as separate intakes with seat limits, session times and nearest Metrolink or bus details. Learners filter by the venue they can actually reach. Step-free access notes and parking details sit on each venue page.
Fewer no-shows from learners booked at the wrong site.
After enrolment, learners see their timetable, joining links, coursework deadlines and attendance in one place. Progress data that your funding contract requires, such as attendance and completion, is captured as they study rather than chased at the end.
Completion data ready when the funder asks.
Completing one course can trigger a certificate and a tailored offer for a higher level course, with the right price route checked again because eligibility can change between courses. Certificates carry a verification code employers can check online.
More learners move on to a second course.
Reports split enrolments by funding route, borough, course and cohort, showing self-funded revenue next to funded starts and completions, exportable for your management information returns.
One view of the whole business, funded and paid.
Education course payment integration Manchester finance teams can audit means each card payment, employer invoice, refund and funded start is tagged with its route, cohort and borough, then posted to your accounting system. Month end becomes a check rather than a reconstruction, and funded and self-funded income never mix in the ledger.
Clean books across every funding route.
Who this is for
Greater Manchester holds a devolved adult skills budget and runs national programmes such as Skills Bootcamps locally, so many providers here sell to three audiences at once: funded residents, employers and self-paying learners. Add a large student population across the city's universities and a busy digital and creative sector around MediaCity, and the mix of buyers becomes unusually wide. These are the four kinds of provider we most often build for. Providers asking for education online course platform development Manchester learners can use on any device usually fall into one of them.
You deliver short intensive courses in software, data or digital marketing, some funded, some sold to employers and some paid by individuals. The platform needs an application step, eligibility checks, interview scheduling and clear offers, then a learner portal for projects and employer interview days. Different price routes for the same course sit on one page so marketing does not split across several listings. Employer partners can log in to see candidates who have opted in to share their profiles, and interview day bookings sit in the same portal.
Three price routes on one course page.
Your courses range from English and maths to wellbeing and hobby classes, run in libraries and community centres across several boroughs. Learners may have limited digital confidence, so the enrolment flow uses large controls, plain English and a phone callback option. Staff can enrol learners on their behalf in the admin, recording consent properly. Courses with a small fee for some learners and none for others are handled by the same eligibility logic, so tutors do not have to collect cash at the first session. Course listings can be printed as simple timetables for libraries and community noticeboards, generated from the same data as the website.
Health and safety, leadership, construction and compliance courses sold mostly to businesses across the North West. Employer accounts, group bookings, purchase orders and certificate records for audits matter more than flashy course pages. Repeat bookings and refresher reminders keep employers coming back when certificates near expiry. Open courses can sit next to closed in-house courses for a single client, reachable through a private link, so one catalogue covers both kinds of work.
Refresher reminders built into certificates.
GCSE and A level tuition, entrance exam preparation and holiday courses paid for by parents. Accounts sit with the adult who pays, children's profiles are minimal, and screens a child uses follow the ICO Children's Code. Tutor safeguarding records are kept in your systems, never shown publicly. Termly packages, sibling discounts you set and a simple calendar of sessions keep the parent's side straightforward.
How we work together
Most providers begin with a fixed scope first release covering their busiest course type and its funding routes, then add more on a monthly retainer as contracts and programmes change. Providers with several funded contracts and a long roadmap sometimes take a dedicated team. We work with Manchester clients remotely: discovery, design reviews and testing sessions run by video call, and every decision is recorded in the shared scope. When a new funded programme opens, the retainer lets us add its eligibility rules and evidence steps without disturbing the courses already selling.
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
We pick the stack around how complex your funding logic is and who will maintain the platform. Simpler catalogues suit WooCommerce or a headless storefront; heavy eligibility logic usually suits a custom Laravel or Next.js build. Hosting is agreed with you to fit your data policy.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
An enrolment platform that handles eligibility and evidence before any payment.
For funded courses, the website has to work out who qualifies, collect proof, and only then confirm a place. For paid courses, it behaves like a normal shop with checkout and receipts. Most Manchester providers need both in one site. We design the eligibility path, the evidence review queue, the checkout and the learner portal together, so learners never feel they are moving between separate systems. The platform also records consent for marketing separately, as PECR requires, so funded learners are not added to sales emails by default.
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