Ideally we want to properly bridge the pointstore and ecommerce systems, to have just one kind of product purchasable either by points or by real money. This isn't so simple, it involves lots of DB and UI changes. Obviously any particular item should not automatically be available by both.

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.

How do I add a vote for this?

You just did by 'Monitoring' :). We hjiacked that mechanism to mean 'vote' (technically some people will monitor it because they want to check it's not being implemented, but I think statistically that's not going to cause a problem, and people can leave notes too)

This is now partially done. It's in non-bundled addon form in the development repository, and I'm attaching it here.

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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Chris-

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 multi-categorisation was implemented for downloads, you're correct yes ;).

Old 4.3 code attached (permission_products.zip) for a fork we had. Probably of little to no use now, but may be worth reviewing.

We're seeking sponsorship of this issue currently, and Jason was kind enough to be the first to chip in.

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

Thanks for the sponsorship moimaim :)!

This is now sponsored :). Thanks to TQ, who made a donation, which I've funnelled into sponsoring this.

This is now implemented in the feature__pointstore_merge branch on github, which will be merged into the v11 branch at a later date. I'll be posting a news announcement about it on the forum.

It is likely this branch is going to become v10.1 (it has a lot more eCommerce work done now besides just this work), so I'll mark resolved as no merging is required for the initial delivery.

Nice to know we will be getting this sooner rather than later. Thanks for the sponsorship guys and thanks for all your hard work Chris and team.