There are multiple ways that learners can access your content and courses on the BenchPrep platform. There are four ways that we will discuss below:

• Free Plans

• Vouchers

• SSO

• BigCommerce

Free Plans

A Plan establishes the terms for course access for your learners — which course(s) they should gain access to, for how long they can access them, and how they will access these course(s). 

• Do not require a voucher and a user can access courses at any time.

• Once you create a free plan, learners can go to your marketing URL to enter their credentials or log in to redeem access to the courses in the plan. 

• Recommended if you do not want learners to pay to access your content/courses.

Vouchers

A voucher is a code a user can redeem in exchange for access to one or more courses. Each voucher is part of a specific plan, and will grant the user access to courses for the duration of time dictated by the plan. If a plan's validity period has ended, the voucher will no longer work. Users redeem a voucher by visiting https://YOURNAME.benchprep.com/voucher (or, after implementing a masked URL, https://YOURURL.COM/voucher) and entering the voucher.

Recommendations:

• Use vouchers to test configurations within your tenant before you launch.

• Use vouchers if you want to create plans that give learners access to a course for a specific duration of time.

• Use vouchers for users who log in to your platform directly. 

• Use vouchers if learners will buy course access somewhere besides an integrated BigCommerce storefront. 

• Users accessing the platform via SSO cannot receive access via a voucher. They must access the course through the external platform they are logging into.

Click here to learn how to create vouchers.

Single Sign-On (SAML or OIDC)

SSO is a great way to provide seamless access and pass authorization from one service to another without sharing actual user credentials. The two SSO protocols that are compatible with BenchPrep are SAML and OIDC. At the current time, setting up SSO authentication is not self-serve and requires the assistance of our BenchPrep Support team to assist you. Learn more about SSO here.

eCommerce

BenchPrep allows you to enable customer acquisition and continuous engagement while providing a streamlined purchasing experience. You can use our partner, BigCommerce, to configure all of your courses within your online store. Once integrated, you can use BigCommerce to add or remove courses and course bundles, to keep your clients up to date with your curricula! Click here to learn more about BigCommerce.