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This guide walks through the self-service purchasing options available on www.opensesame.com. If your organization will need more than 100 subscription seats or 1000 Volume seats, please fill out this form and we’ll be in touch shortly.
Before following the instructions below, be sure to decide which license type you want, create a free OpenSesame account if you don’t already have one, and—if you are interested in individual courses rather than our full subscription catalog—locate a course you want to purchase.
Most of this guide assumes that one license type will be used per course. If you will be using (or already have) multiple license types for the exact same course, please review the final section.
Initial purchase
Adding a new license type
Adding seats
OpenSesame Plus
OpenSesame Plus is our subscription service and most popular license. Seat licenses grant learners unlimited access to any or all of the 18,000+ courses in the OpenSesame Plus subscription catalog, which features more than seventy of our leading publishers. New courses are added every day, and new publishers are added throughout the year.
Learners may relaunch or retake courses as often as they wish throughout their subscription. If your learners will be retaking the exact same courses year-over-year, such as for certification or compliance, please contact our Support team to update a setting in your account.
Initial purchase
To purchase seats for OpenSesame Plus, visit https://www.opensesame.com/plus and select either an annual or monthly subscription.
Note: If you use a Learning Management System (LMS) with an embedded OpenSesame catalog, please log in to your LMS and open its OpenSesame integration before opening the above link in a new tab. This will recognize your login credentials.
Next, use the slider bar at center to select the number of seats you want, from 1 to 100, and click the “Add to Cart” button. Please account for any additional seats you might want for testing, as any course launch will assign a unique subscription license to the individual who launched it.
Note: Unaffiliated learners who want a single seat for their own use can use the “Individual” option at left. This option does not offer visibility to a training administrator.
The Add to Cart button will bring you to the shopping cart. If you decide to change the number of seats in the cart, click “Update” to apply any changes. Whenever you are ready to proceed, click “Checkout”:
If you weren’t logged in, you will now be prompted to do so. (If you haven’t yet created an OpenSesame account, click the “Don't Have an Account? Register Now” link below the log-in box.)
Once logged in, you’ll land on our secure checkout screen:
Please enter your billing information, agree to recurring charges—which are necessary for an ongoing subscription—and click the “Complete Purchase” button. Your annual or monthly licenses will begin at the moment of purchase.
You will then land on your dashboard, where the number of available subscription seats will now appear at top left:
The OpenSesame Plus tab will be blank at first, as seen above. Once you deliver training to learners—either through an LMS or via CourseCloud Legacy invitations—this tab will populate with courses as learners launch them. (For more on delivery options, please see this article.)
The number of available seats will also update as seats are occupied. Learners using an LMS will occupy their seat upon first launch, and CourseCloud Legacy learners will occupy their seat as soon as they are invited.
Note the Order History tab at bottom:
Here you can review previous purchases and click an order number for full details.
Please note that your subscription will automatically renew for a subsequent term when the current term expires—renewing for either an annual or a monthly term, depending on the option you chose. If you decide not to renew a subscription, be sure to contact us for assistance prior to the current term's expiration date.
As mentioned earlier, any ongoing subscription involves recurring charges. A new entry will appear in the Order History tab whenever you enter a new billing cycle, when the subscription automatically renews and the credit card on file is charged. You’ll be charged annually or monthly, depending on the subscription option you chose.
If you decide to cancel your account entirely, which would remove the ability to log in to OpenSesame or access historical account data, please follow the instructions here.
Adding seats
To add more seats to your subscription, return to the earlier page (www.opensesame.com/plus) and repeat the steps above. You can find this page at any time by clicking the OpenSesame Plus “Manage” button in the Account Dashboard, next to the displayed number of seats:
Click the “Add Seats” button in the management window to navigate to the earlier page:
Note: As mentioned earlier, if you use an LMS with an embedded OpenSesame catalog, please log in to your LMS and open its OpenSesame integration before opening the above link in a new tab.
Any newly purchased seats will join your existing subscription seats and will be prorated for the time that remains in the current billing cycle. For example, if you purchase an annual subscription and then add seats three months later, the new seats will be priced for the remaining nine months and not a full year.
Volume license
Our standard non-subscription license lasts for 12 months from the moment of purchase and offers a volume discount for purchasing more seats at once.
Any course in our full catalog, with the exception of the TED@Work bundle, may be purchased as a volume license—simply select individual courses and the number of seats you want for each.
Learners may relaunch or retake a course as often as they wish throughout their 12-month seat license. If your learners will be retaking the exact same courses year-over-year, such as for certification or compliance, please contact our Support team to update a setting on those courses.
If you use a Learning Management System (LMS) with an embedded-catalog integration, please make your purchases while accessing OpenSesame through the LMS.
Initial purchase
To purchase seats to a new course, first navigate to the course’s page in our catalog and click the “Buy Now” button:
Note: If you do not see a button here and are using a tablet, mobile device, or narrow browser window, scroll to the bottom of the page. If it does not appear there either, please contact us for assistance.
If the button reads “Deliver Course,” you already have a license and can purchase additional seats of the same license type by clicking the link to its left.
This will navigate to the course’s purchasing page. Click the “Add to Cart” button underneath the Volume option:
In the purchasing menu that appears, which provides the course’s discount percentages and thresholds, adjust the number of seats to your liking—from 1 to 1000—then click “Add to Cart”:
Note: Please account for any additional seats you might want for testing, as any course launch will assign a unique seat license to the individual who launched it.
This will bring you to the shopping cart. If you decide to change the number of seats in the cart, click “Update” to apply any changes. You can continue browsing the catalog to add multiple courses to the cart, and whenever you are ready to proceed, click “Checkout”:
If you weren’t logged in, you will now be prompted to do so. (If you haven’t yet created an OpenSesame account, click the “Don't Have an Account? Register Now” link below the log-in box.)
Once logged in, you’ll land on our secure checkout screen:
Please enter your billing information and click the “Complete Purchase” button. The 12-month licenses will begin at the moment of purchase.
You will then land on the account dashboard, where the number of available seats will appear below any given course in the “Purchased Courses” tab:
Once you deliver training to learners—either through an LMS or via CourseCloud Legacy invitations—this number will update as seats are occupied. Learners using an LMS will occupy their seat upon first launch, and CourseCloud Legacy learners will occupy their seat as soon as they are invited. (For more on delivery options, please see this article.)
Note the Order History tab at bottom:
Here you can review previous purchases and click an order number for full details.
Adding seats
Each Volume seat is valid for 12 months from the date of purchase. If you purchase additional seats, the new seats will be available for an independent 12-month term and will not be affected by the expiration date(s) of other licenses.
To add more Volume seats for a course, navigate to its page while logged in. You can quickly do this by clicking the course’s title in the Account Dashboard:
Once on the course’s page, click the “Buy More Seats” link that appears to the left of the “Deliver Course” button:
Note: If you do not see the link or button and are using a tablet, mobile device, or narrow browser window, please scroll to the bottom of the page. If it does not appear there either, contact us for assistance.
This will navigate to the course’s purchasing page. Click the “Add to Cart” button underneath the Volume Purchase option:
The familiar purchasing menu will appear, where you can select how many seats to add and then proceed to checkout.
After checking out, the number of seats that remain for the course will increase in your dashboard. Different 12-month expiration dates are not displayed in the course’s Manage menu, so please refer to the Order History tab for purchase dates if needed.
Pay Per Use license
OpenSesame accounts must be specially contracted and configured for Pay Per Use (PPU) licenses, and PPU licenses do not offer discounts. If you wish to explore this license type further, please contact our team. Courses from the TED@Work bundle are not available for PPU licenses.
Multiple license types
If you use a Learning Management System, note that each license type will have its own dedicated course file. When using multiple license types for the exact same course, we strongly recommend labeling or renaming each file within the LMS to more easily tell them apart.
On occasion, a combination of license types may be the best solution for your training needs.
If your learners will be retaking the exact same courses year-over-year, such as for certification or compliance, please contact our Support team to update a setting.
Initial purchase
If you don’t yet have any licenses for a particular course, you can add both a Volume and an OpenSesame Plus subscription license to your shopping cart. (If you plan to use a PPU license as well, please add the course to your PPU library before purchasing other license types. Pay Per Use licenses do not use the shopping cart.)
To add the first license type to your cart, follow either the OpenSesame Plus or Volume Purchase steps above and then pause before checking out. Next, return to the course’s purchasing page, select the second license type, add it to your cart, and finish checking out.
Adding a new license type
If you already have an OpenSesame Plus or Volume license for a course and want to add another type, please contact our Support team for assistance.
If you only have the course in your PPU library, you can also add a Volume Purchase license, an OpenSesame Plus license, or both if they are purchased at the same time. To do this, click the “Buy More Seats” link that appears on the course’s page next to the “Deliver Course” button, then follow the desired license type’s purchasing steps as outlined in its section above.
Adding seats
If you already have multiple license types for a course, the path for adding seats will depend on which license type you’re adding to. If you do not see a “Buy More Seats” link on the course page, please contact us for assistance.
For OpenSesame Plus, you can visit www.opensesame.com/plus to add more subscription seats at any time. (If you use a Learning Management System with an embedded OpenSesame catalog, please log in to your LMS and open its OpenSesame integration before opening the above link in a new tab. This will recognize your login credentials.)
For Volume licenses, please contact our support team for assistance with adding more Volume seats.
For Pay Per Use licenses, which are not purchased in advance, it is unnecessary to manually add seats once the course is in your PPU library.
If you have further questions, our Support team is here to help via email at support@opensesame.com or via live chat and phone. Feel free to reach us at (503) 808-1268, ext. 2, or at +44 203 744 5541 in Europe.
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