Virtual shopping and download

Hello newbie here

I want to setup Hikashop where customers can download free files and files with a price. When i set the files for free - there is no download file link. I'm looking for tutorial how to do this and can't find it

Can anyone point me to the right tutorial or let me know what to do

Thanks
Moe

If you want to have free file downloads on the product page, why not just put a link to them in the description of your products ?

Thank you - i try that

How do you make a link from descriptions to a product? I have no idea how to make this work

In the Create Product - product category, there is a file upload feature, what is this for? How do you enable this for download? be a lot cleaner using this

Either way to work is ok

thanks

I don't understand what you're talking about. Could you maybe do a screenshot to explain what you want to do ?

If you want to add a link to a file in the description of a product, first get the URL of your file (maybe upload it in the media folder via FTP ?) and then use the URL button of the text editor of the description to add a link to it.

If the product has a price, the customer would add the product to the cart, buy the product and finish with shipping. Then a link would appear for downloading the file

If the product is free, the customer would add the product to the cart and a link should appear to download the file without having to go to buying and shipping

I would like the download-file to work for both product-to-buy and free-product

At the moment - when i select the product that is free, there is no download link to the file i uploaded, please see picture-bottom-right hikashop product.png

Yes. There is no add to cart button for free products.
It's not a bug. If you add files to a free product, there won't be any way to get them for the user.
As I said before, you could just put a link to the file in the product description.

ok - thanks for your assistance

Hi!

I'm searching for a good e-commerce solution for a more complicated enviroment than only a shop where you can buy t-shirts, tools etc.. I tried some for Joomla!, also discret Shop-Systems.

Problem (or challenge ^^) is: A company sells licences for a web-application. To manage the licences and users as well as content we need a) a CMS (like Joomla!) b) a shop-system with user-management. I think the combination of Joomla + HikaShop is an approach to this.

Some licences are free BUT the User needs to "buy" them like the ones with costs (except of the paying). That's also important because we need to know the customers and which licences are bought.

So: Where and how can I change HikaShop so the "Add to Cart" is also displayed on free products and the whole checkout-process is like with a product with costs? Has HikaShop the possibilty to communicate via soap-webservice to the application-server? Or is this easy to implement with custom-code?

Hi,


We'll look at making an option to allow the display of the "add to cart" button even on free products in next version of HikaShop. For now, it's not possible.

Each SOAP web service has its own API. You can build a plugin for hikashop so that your code is triggered when an order information is updated/created by following that documentation: www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...r-documentation.html
Then, in the event functions, you can just put normal PHP code you would use to talk with a SOAP web service.

Thanks for the fast answer!

1.) Isn't it possibly to 'hack' this in a file? In other threads I saw some PHP-Source-Hacks e.g. to make the cart visible in the product list. In my simple mind there has to be a code like "If price == 0 --> no-cart". Maybe Joomla!-Overrides work?

2.) That's what I wanted to know. So I can write a Plugin which is executed when the order is done to execute my custom-code for the SOAP web services. Right?!

thanks

1/ You can of course change the view to display the button add to cart. However, the checkout will display the payment methods even if the price is free and direct you to the payment plateforme at the end of the checkout in such cases. You can of course remove the payment view from the checkout. But then, if you also sell some other products their won't be a payment method proposed.
For now, the best is to wait for next release ( next week ) to have that possibility with just one option of the configuration instead of trying to hack the code a bit everywhere in hikashop.

2/ yes

Hi, Rather than start a new thread, I'm going to post here.

I have both free and priced products for download.

all products can be added to the cart.

When selecting free product and adding to cart, free product is added to cart. When next is clicked, I get a message saying thank you for your purchase.

When confirmation email arrives at client email account. They get a message saying that I am waiting for payment before providing download link. seen below.

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We are pleased to confirm the creation of your order No. B3M4 ( www.innovative-trading-solutions-online....=order&task=show&cid []=34&Itemid=474 ) at www.innovative-trading-solutions-online.com/ on the 07 July 2011 at 18:07
SUMMARY OF YOUR ORDER

Name Unit price Qty Total

Range No Gap Chart
$0.00 1 $0.00
TOTAL without VAT : $0.00
TOTAL with VAT : $0.00
Billing address





Telephone:
Shipping address





Telephone:
Your order will be processed as soon as we receive your payment.

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So no download link for client until they pay $0.00 .

Suggestions on what to do about this???

Thanks,

RJay

Indeed, the orders are not confirmed automatically when the price is 0. It's used by users using the checkout as a quote system.

Why not put the files as "free download" on your free products and not have the add to cart button for free products ?
That way, users will be able to directly download the files on the products page when they are free downloads, without having to checkout.

The free download check box will not accept the check/X to allow free download.

I have to delete and re-upload existing file to change status.



If I remove existing file and add new file, then save, HikaShop saves both files.

I have to remove existing file, save, then add new file ,then save again, to replace one file with another.

I would also like to force web users to login when they select products that have free downloads.

Is this a feature you provide?

It looks like its available in the business edition?

???

Thanks,

RJay

Free downloads are available directly on the product page without registration.
However, With the business edition, you can restrict a product to some user groups. So you could only allow registered users to see these products. But they wouldn't display on the products listing either as long as the user wouldn't be registered...

Making the files non free and the products free would be a solution to that but you would be back on the problem you had at the beginning with orders not confirmed by default...

nicolas wrote:

We'll look at making an option to allow the display of the "add to cart" button even on free products in next version of HikaShop. For now, it's not possible.

Is it possible, yet?

Yes. That's already possible since a few months ago. You will find the option "Display 'add to cart' button for free products" in the Display tab of the configuration for that.

Been over the documentation and a few posts.

We are using Hika Essential 1.5.3

We charge for Gift Certificates and treat them as virtual products (zero weight).
We want users to download a PDF of the gift certificate.

After purchase tho, there is no link to download them, nor do they appear in the product description area. Where is this located?

AH... NOW I SEE IT IN THE EMAIL LINK! THX

e.g. a $75 gift certificate .

So how does someone get the PDF of the Gift Certificate.

By the way, to other users, we create a coupon in the Discounts area: GC-75+6 random characters which they can redeem once in the check out steps.

NEW QUESTION: CAN I SET OR CONTROL THE NUMBER OF DOWNLOADS?