# "Credit system" ecommerce

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/credit-system-ecommerce/280993
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [February 3, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/credit-system-ecommerce/280993 "2009-02-03T19:37:01Z")
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### Author: ![digitalmatt](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/digitalmatt/32/694_2.png) [@digitalmatt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/digitalmatt)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/credit-system-ecommerce/280993/1 "2009-02-03T19:37:01Z")

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Hola,

I have a client that wants to sell streaming videos online. Client’s initial vision was for it to be a pay-per-view. I recommended against this. Instead I recommended a membership / credits system where you can create an account and buy credits that you can redeem for videos. I believe this will require costumers to have a membership with the client’s site so that the credits can persist – similar to iStock photo or Ultrashock.

I, am, of course trying to keep the client’s initial overhead low so I’m looking into existing free / open-source solutions that are built with PHP/MySQL. I’m looking at OSCommerce and ZenCart, but I can’t get much info on a module that does what I need it to do.

Anyone know of any good systems?