availability subsctiption products.

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.4
-- Joomla version -- : 2.5
-- PHP version -- : ?
-- Browser(s) name and version -- : ?
-- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : No error

In my shop people can buy electronic goods and download them.
More special is that they can also buy a subscription that allow to buy the same product without the need to pay for them (free). In fact there are many more products available as free download for subscribers than the paid ones for regular visitors.

I want to tease visitors by showing the products that they are missing when they do not buy a subscription.
As It is organised now regular visitors do not see the products that are available for subscribers.

So something like : showing the product on in the productview but when clicked they get a message "availble with subscription".

Any advise How to organise this?

Sjaak

Ah, Ok, I see. If that is how it is done then it should be fairly easy to organise.
Only; How do I set access levels to the price of the product?
In the price field I only see a dash under access level and I do not see how I can change that. Look at my screenshot.

Thanks

Sjaak

Hi,

You have to save the product first and then you should see an icon to select a group.
The installed HikaShop must be a business edition for this feature.

HI,

I do use the business edition. I followed your advise. Set the access level of one product to 'all'. Saved it. Still I cannot select an access level for the price of the product.
I tried this for all access level combinations I could think of.

Strange hey?

What can be wrong here?

Sjaak

That is what I did. Price in the field 'price' is 0,0 euro. Save it. Then I should see a possibility to select the access level for the price. Well, not on my side.
The screenshot I showed in my previous message stays the same.

Do I need to set the price in another field, and then save? Where am I going wrong?

Sjaak

After several fruitless attempts I found a way to be able to change access levels for the price of a product. I changed the value to another value and saved the product. After that move I was able to change the access level of the product. So now I had assigned an access level to the product. But now the product also carries the wrong price. I changed the price back to it's old value and saved. Strange enough I again could not change the access level for the product.

I can only say: This is not a very steady way of working. If I have to do this for all the free subscribers downloads not knowing to which access level they are assigned to then I am going to have a shop that I can't trust.

Another question comes up: If I do not show the add to cart button for free products .......then how are my subscribers going to add the product to their cart so they can download the product??? The add to cart button will not be displayed to them as well.

Hi Jerome,

I have thousands of products with a 100% discount available for subscribers. Writing discounts for those products wil not be an easy task. It literally means a complete reorganisation of my shop.

Next to that I want to show that being a subscriber is something special. I have thousands of products that are not available for regular visitors. Those products don't even carry a price to set a discount for. They are only available for subscribers.

As I see it I do want to sell free products. I just do not want to sell them to everybody. The subscriptions are my solution to that. With the subscriptions I decide to whom I sell the product as a free product.

Do you have another suggestion on how to organise this?

Sjaak

Hi Jerome,

Your first suggestion would work OK for products I have available for sale and visible to regular visitors. It would, as I see it now, not work for the products I have available for subscribers only.

Your second suggestion sounds interesting. I looked at the list of hikashop plugins and found one called ' HikaShop Free orders validation Plugin' . Reading the name and description of the plugin one would think this plugin is written for what I try to achieve. Does this plugin not work or does it need some modification?

Regards

Sjaak

Hi,

I am not sure that this plugin is really what you need. It allow to process free orders, but don't allow to add free products to the cart.
So I think that you will have to add things to this plugin to have what you need. You potentially have to use the "onBeforeCartUpdate()" function in the plugin.

Hi,

Is there a plugin available to do what I need?

I am not able to code myself. That is why I came to you guys ;o)
If a new plugin is needed....please tell me. And if it can be made.
I am sure it will be interesting for other webshops that offer downloads.

Sjaak

Thanks,

I have a new plugin working in my webshop that does the thing.

Thank you Jerome/Obsidev.

Hi
I find interesting all your post ( the way you expose your problem issue) about
1- howto to resolve subscription upgrade issue ( akeeba (end of product) fail and need to buy hks emerald extension ( higher price than hikashop business extension or membership-pro 35$ ( don't resolve all issue) )
2- howto give access to register sub group for many free product buy setting a price and create reduce of price to 100 % instead set price to 0 !!! . Does the custom plug in is available for free ? Did you hire a php / joomla / hikashop developper ?

regard's