#263 - Purchase to Download - attach downloadable files that must be purchased before downloading
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By mythus
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| Identifier | #263 |
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| Issue type | Feature request or suggestion |
| Title | Purchase to Download - attach downloadable files that must be purchased before downloading |
| Status | Completed |
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Type: Usability (major) (custom) |
| Handling member | Chris Graham |
| Addon | ecommerce |
| Description | Greetings,
Back in version 4 when I originally advocated for a native Composr shopping cart, the only ecomerce was dealing with points system and paid subsriptions type of thing. At that time one would need to use an outside ecommerce product for a shopping cart and such. Later on you brought in a shopping cart, which is great. I much rather use only one tool for the site than to have to bridge tools. But there is one thing that still is missing. That is... being able to pay for an item and then download it. This is something that exists in various other ecommerce solutions and CMS'es that have ecommerce, something that I am surprised doesn't yet exist for Composr. Being able to have downloaded media that you can sell per item is one of the basic aspects of internet buisness IMO. It is something that I sorely need for my site and something that would be appreciated by a large multitude of sites. As it stands right now, to sell my ebook I have only two choices not counting bridging with an outside ecomerce tool.... 1.) Have them make the purchase and then manually email the file to them 2.) Put it in downloads with permissions set for a specific group and make that group be a subscription group. Neither really work nas well as I would want. In a day when so many are used to getting instant results, having to wait for me to send them an email of the file after they have paid for it seems odd. So why not put in a field that allows one to upload a file that can be downloaded after payment is processed? This would serve many different types of sites and situations. Site builders would be able to make their unique gallery artwork a purchasable download. Theme makers could make their commercial themes and sell them through Composr. eBooks and other electronic media, which is playing an ever increasing role in todays market with smart phone and tablet users, would finally be able to be sold from Composr sites. Yes, this could potentially be an add on. However I feel very strongly that this should be a part of the core shopping cart. I feel that this should be a function of the shopping cart. Anyways, this is my feature request. This is the one thing I think that Composr needs that has been missing. Hopefully the need of it can be seen and this can be made a reality. Regardless, thanks for your hard work and for this fine product. |
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| Funded? | No |
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A workaround until the day we hopefully can implement this...
You could consider setting up PayPal button code manually into the DOWNLOAD_SCREEN template, and then setting up an auto-responder on your email address (pretty sure gmail can do this) that auto-sends out the media. You could have different buttons in different places, possibly putting the download title into the PayPal code and then making the auto-responder trigger based on the combination between that and the money received.
It is a working system for selling downloads.
This tracker issue will stay open, as eventually we want to remove the point store entirely and just have it as part of the eCommerce functionality (with points as a substitute for money).
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RE: STEP 4 (downloads):
Create download categories for each product. I note you may have a "bulk purchase" option -- make a category for this. We'll need to duplicate entries into that category (a fudge, but K.I.S.S.).
Am I correct that the duplicate entries would not be necessary if the multi-categorization feature was in place?
If sponsored I'll make sure a clean implementation is done, nicely bridging the point store and eCommerce store systems.
Further discussion is on this forum topic:
http://compo.sr/forum/topicview/browse/developing/pay-and-download.htm