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Online shop builder

Build a complete online shop, from the storefront to the first payment taken.

Block code
ECOM-BTQ
The format

Three months, two hours a day.

  • Certificate programme · 128 h
  • Two hours a day
  • 250,000 F — the same fee for all sixty
  • All in the same format, at the same fee.
The qualification

A CQP under MINEFOP accreditation.

  • Leads to the CQP — Certificat de Qualification Professionnelle, which the ministry used to call the AQP.
  • Awarded under MINEFOP accreditation.
  • The full programme for the same profession remains open to anyone aiming for the complete qualification.
Sessions

A new session opens every quarter.

Next intake: Monday 5 October, with enrolment open until 2 October. The following one starts on 4 January 2027.

  • First-quarter intake — enrolment closes on 2 October5 Oct.
  • Second-quarter intake — 20274 Jan.
Objectives

What you will be able to do.

  • Compare e-commerce solutions on their total cost over three years

  • Set up a shop: domain, certificate, backups

  • Configure currencies, taxes and delivery zones for Cameroon

  • Design a site structure, categories, attributes and filters

  • Style the shop without making updates impossible

  • Reduce basket abandonment and cater for slow mobile connections

  • Manage catalogue, stock and variants, then launch with a checklist

Programme

Four modules.

  1. Module 0132 h

    Choosing a platform and laying the foundations

  2. Module 0232 h

    Styling the shop and polishing the customer journey

  3. Module 0332 h

    Catalogue, stock and variants

  4. Module 0432 h

    Launch and first customers

Who it is for

Who it is aimed at.

  • Complete beginners, comfortable with a computer and the Internet. The block particularly suits shopkeepers and craftspeople who want to sell online themselves.
Afterwards

Where it leads.

  • Online shop builder, e-commerce webmaster, freelancer setting up shops for retailers. This is the block that lets you bill for a service as soon as you finish.
Method

How it works.

  • Systematic alternation between short theory sessions and practical work, with most of the time spent on practice

  • Progression from simple to complex: each module builds on what was learnt in the previous one

  • Realistic role-plays drawn from Cameroonian business cases

  • Considered use of generative AI as a working tool, in line with the common core

  • Regular formative assessments and a final integrative project drawing on all four modules

Assessment

How you are assessed.

  • Formative assessment at the end of each module (graded role-play and practical exercises)

  • Practical work assessed against competency sheets

  • Final integrative project, presented and defended before the trainer

  • One graded assignment per module in the online course space

Tools

What you work with.

  • WooCommerce on WordPress, with Shopify for comparison

  • Shared hosting and a domain name per learner or per pair

  • Let's Encrypt certificate and backup tool

  • A child theme and a page builder

  • Spreadsheet for bulk imports and exports

Join the next session

Ready to get started?

Sessions open every quarter. Apply now or request the detailed brochure — our advisers will get back to you.