Jenzabar Campus Marketplace vs OpenEduCat

Jenzabar Campus Marketplace gives colleges an online way to manage enrollment and payments for non-credit, dual-credit, continuing education, workforce development, and professional development programs. Its branded, responsive storefront lets learners register and pay from any device. Purchase workflows cover buying classes for someone else, joining waitlists, and purchasing materials. Faculty, corporations, school districts, and other users can monitor and track data in a secure environment. Institutions can use real-time reporting to identify courses generating return on investment and centralize transaction, order, payment, and credit records. Campus Marketplace connects with Jenzabar One and other institutional systems through a public API. Skill bootcamp courses use Common Cartridge format and can be loaded into major learning management systems. The offering also includes enrollment marketing services from Spark451, a Jenzabar company. The product is cloud-hosted and available through web and API. Pricing is on request; institutions can request a demo.

OpenEduCat is a modular education platform for institutions, available through cloud hosting or on-premise deployment. Institutions can select modules and add more as needed, with no per-student fees. Its systems connect student information with admissions, fees, library, hostel, and other institutional functions; the SIS supports real-time collaboration around student data. Community Edition supports standards and sign-on options including SCORM, xAPI, LTI 1.3, SAML, Shibboleth, OAuth2, Azure AD, and Google Workspace. The platform also lists assessments, certificates, API access, and Android and iOS apps. Its Free Edition has no learner cap or time limit, although capacity depends on hardware. The Free Edition uses the LGPL-3.0 license, with source code public on GitHub; institutions own their data and can self-host without student limits or license call-home. Self-hosting can use Linux, Python 3.10+, and PostgreSQL 14+. A 15-day trial is offered without a credit card. The listed Core plan is $489 a year, and the site lists a No Refund Policy.