I have an online application for which I will sell various forms of a license to use it. An individual can purchase a license for $xx, or a license for some number of users at $yy, for a high school or college class. What is the best way to set this up?
I need to keep track of the number of individual users that access a particular license and limit users to the number that was purchased. A person/teacher could buy a license and get a license code delivered by email. The license code would be distributed to students, who would log in to a "Class" and get access to the page with the application, if they enter the correct license code. I would need to also get some identifier from the student, like her email address and name. I'd like to avoid having a large number of individual student accounts, so perhaps there would be only one account per class. All students would log in to the "class" account. Even nicer, the teacher who buys the license would get an automatic account created, with name of the class as the user and license code as the password. The student would then have to enter an email address to get to the application page, if the student has previously logged in, or if the number of licenses had not been exceeded.
I'd appreciate any suggestions of modules or techniques that would support this need. I'm not a module developer, so pre-built modules are preferable. But, I'm not afraid of using jQuery to do some of the specialized code.
Thanks for any ideas. I use Drupal 6.20 Bill
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