Hidden Categories/efiles

-- url of the page with the problem -- : www.themanpuzzle.com/
-- HikaShop version -- : 2.5.0
-- Joomla version -- : 3.4
-- PHP version -- : 5.4.43

I want to create a hidden category (normal users will never see this) called 'Press' and in that category I want to put 3 versions of my eBook (nook, kindle, ipad).

I will set each version of the book at a specific price and then give out a unique coupon for each editor who wants to review my book.

When an editor requests a review copy of my book I will send them a link to the hidden category, they can then add their specific ebook version to their cart, enter the coupon and check out with no charge.

How do I set this up?

Thanks,

Nicolas,

Thanks for your help and for not sending me off to look at this post or that set of directions... those things are always a frustrating wild goose chase!

Your instructions went well right up to the menu part...

I created the category and left it unpublished. I added the products (had to go into configuration and add new file types .azw3 and .mobi for Kindle). I went to the menu and added a new menu of type HikaShop->Product Listing. Saved once and then accessed the options. So far so good.

Once in the options I scrolled down to: Associated category which said "2 product category" |Select|
I'm not sure what it means "2 product category" but I clicked on |Select| and then clicked on the newly created category and then there was no way for me to select or save that category.

What did I miss?

Thanks!

P.

Hi Nicolas.

Thanks for being so helpful! This makes the process much less frustrating.

The category is now published, the products are listing but there is still one problem that prevents anyone from completing the checkout process: As per the attached file, the user is being asked to enter a shipping address.

It was charging a shipping fee so I set the minimum weight for the book as 1 pound. I tried setting the weight for the ebook as both 1oz and nothing and in either case the when I click 'next' to get to the payment option I get an error telling me I need to "please select your shipping information."

Also, you said 2.6.0 is the latest stable release and when I check for updates through hikashop dashboard/menu -> Documentation -> Update / About it says that 2.5.0 is the latest version.

P.

Nicolas,

This is when HikaShop turns into an extremely frustrating product to use so I REALLY appreciate.

1) I did have "force shipping regardless of weight" turned on. Turned it off. (see attached images) Things went south very quickly after that... south pole, nuclear bomb south.

Essentially you click through to payment with no screens or prompts, click on next from the payment step (3) and then you get a timeout and an error that says "too many redirects" (see attached). When I use the browser history to go back to the start of the checkout cart, there is a screen full of HikaShop messages (see attached).