WordPress eStore Plugin – Complete Solution to Sell Digital Products from Your WordPress Blog Securely

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1. parrfunkel says:

   After struggling with zencart I am back to your plugin. I think I’m going to go for it!

   Quick question. I looked but didn’t find this anywhere. Is there a way to set up a coupon or discount code for a product?

   I also noticed that you now have a free product option (squeeze page) Is that new based on my request a few months back? Doesn’t look like it provides an encrypted link, but is a great feature regardless.

   thanks for all the great documentation! I will be getting started with estore today.
2. admin says:

   Hi Stephen, it can cope with both. The only option you won’t get is the variation control which I am implementing now and am going to release in a few days.
3. Stephen Martin says:

   This plugin looks great but we have a mixture of physical items (CDs) and digital downloads. Can it cope with both? With kind thanks.
4. admin says:

   @Yoso, eventually I will implement them all 🙂 be sure to put these ideas on the WP eStore WishLish page so I don’t loose track of theme.
5. yoso tattoo says:

   I need to open in new window too 🙂 Please send me the tricks!
   Might be good to make that a global option in admin?

   Also, I was thinking the ‘if box ticked’ product will be available as download.
   As some people get confused, even I still do 🙂

   Maybe it should become two radio buttons, choose between download, or no download!

   Thank you 🙂

   Y
6. yoso tattoo says:

   hello admin.

   Have been playing with wp estore and affilate!
   All great! Really motivating me and giving me new idea
   to sell the stuff that can benefit my niche traditional japanese tattoo site.
   So hard to get stuff from Japan when you’re out of Japan!
   As an insider, I can really recommend them the best publications.

   I know you initially wrote your plugin for digital downloads!
   In that context it’s perfect! But not good enough anymore 🙂
   I want to sell real books too 🙂

   For this I would need.

   1- Create a generic table of prices according to weight,
   according to country.

   2- when I create a product, I just enter the weight for the item.

   3- according to the number of items that the customer buys,
   and the country he chooses for delivery.
   the weight is calculated and combined, hence a total price
   for the products and for the delivery.

   In my view all this should happen within my own website.
   So that the customer enter the details, and country, region.

   only when he decides to checkout. the information is transferred to paypal,
   then he enters his credit cards details!

   If there is any chance you can implement that at some point 🙂
   would be great 🙂

   Thanks as ever for your great affordable plugins!
   You’re really helping the social media revolution 🙂

   shame we can’t skip paypal 🙂 they make the big box 🙂

   Y.
7. yoso tattoo says:

   Loving your plugin 🙂
   One other addition that might be nice, is to get a confirmation listed in the sales, and/or via e-mail to confirm that the product has been downloaded by the customer. That ensures that the sale is complete and the customer got what he bought.

   Eventually on top of that, we could have a tick box, that says, remove link once teh product has been downloaded.

   Thanks

   Y.
8. Ramona says:

   Thanks! I’ll do so.
9. admin says:

   @Ramona, At the moment the digital downloads are restricted by an expiry time. I intend to add a feature so it can be restricted by the number of downloads in the future. Keep an eye on the WP eStore Change Log for future updates
10. Ramona says:

    Is it possible to configure digital downloads as “only one time”? Background: I want to sells texts for exclusive publication, that means only one time is possible here.
11. admin says:

    Hi Aaron, Unfortunately the delivery of the digital products through the encrypted link part uses some wordpress functions that are not available in earlier versions (pre 2.7) of wordpress. If you can give me access to a test site that has WordPress 2.2.2 installed (all my test sites are on the latest version of wordpress as most people use the latest version) then I might be able to have a go at it and try to make it work by tweaking some code.
12. Aaron says:

    I’m interested in purchasing this plugin but I need to make sure what versions of WordPress it is compatible with.

    I am on WordPress v. 2.2.2 and I cannot upgrade because there is a lot of custom coding and alterations that i’ve made to my theme. Will this plugin work with WordPress 2.2.2?

    I simply need a method to sell hi-res digital files (images) via Paypal with a shopping cart system.

    thanks,

    Aaron
13. Mindi says:

    FANTASTIC! Thanks for such a quick response.
14. admin says:

    @Tracey, The shopping cart code is XHTML valid. It has been checked with the W3C Markup Validation Service. Please note that the best way to check the shopping cart code is to use it on a page that does not have any previous XHTML validation errors and then check it. This is to make sure that other validation errors from your WordPress Theme or other code is not throwing things off.
15. admin says:

    Hi Mindi, Yes the next release that I indent to release within a week or two is going to have the that option. You will be able to configure a product with multiple product IDs in the ‘Download URL’ field which will then include links from all those products in the email when someone purchase this bundled product. I will have more instructions on the documentation site after the release and yes I will send out links to all the existing customers so you can download the updated version.
16. Mindi says:

    I am very excited to have found your plugin! Thanks so much. Any word on if you are updating plug in anytime soon to be able to send multiple links in an order. Ie. Bundling products?
    Thanks
17. admin says:

    @Matt, Yes it’s in the ‘wp-cart-for-digital-products.php’ file. I will send you an email with the code so you can do it easily.
18. Tracey says:

    Hi,
    One last thing which is on my wish list for future releases … is to get the shop code to validate xhtml please or instructions on how to edit to make it validate ;-D

    Thanks
19. Matt says:

    Hi – Is the submit code in the wp-cart-fordigital-products.php – I’m no coder so finding it tricky to find exactly where to put the target property to get he result I want

    thanks
20. admin says:

    @Matt, Just specify the target property in the button submit code
21. Tracey says:

    Hi,
    Unfortunately no good with PHP – copy/paste mainly or the occassional debug of html in a php page is about my limit!

    Since my query, have done a couple of test purchases and successfully bought a product (not downloadable), which worked great as have set it up at PayPal to include buyers address in the sellers notification email from them so not a big deal if the the plugin didn’t include it.

    The only issue that had with the test purchase is that whilst eStore sent notification emails to both the seller and the buyer, the buyer email came back as undeliverable …. the buyer address used is the same one used to purchase eStore, never had any problems with it before and it’s not the ‘Seller’s paypal account email. I had turned on debug before running the tests and the log displays a successful sale with no errors. I also checked the email address in the eStore customer base which is correct so am at a loss as to why the email failed to be delivered??

    Just as an aside, the IPN setting at PayPal requires a URL to be entered. In scripts I use on other sites this usually has to include a ‘true’ url which acts as a notifier that activates something in the script and looks something like this:
    http://www.yourdomain.com/scriptfolder/ipn.php (or reg.php etc)
    I was unable to find any indication in the documentation of which file this should point to in eStore so it’s currently set to a static html thank you page – could you please clarify what should be entered into the Paypal IPN URL field?

    One other minor niggle…. added the code for a squeeze page .. which displays ok in firefox but the fields and button image fail to display at all in IE 8 as you can see here: http://www.simplesolutionstostress.com/free-tips/hot-tips-no-1/
    Any tips or a fix for this please?

    Other than these small issues, the plugin works great!!
    Thanks
    Tracey
22. Boon says:

    Cool, thansk a lot! When you get chance to have a look over perhaps you could email me and we can take it from there. I will also have details of the amends I made to the code for you also.
23. Boon says:

    Thanks mate, will do. Do you have an email I can send to? Would be good to discuss possible modifications also when you get chance.
24. Matt says:

    Hi – I need the paypal button on the shopping cart to open PayPal in a new window instead of the current one – is here an easy way to make this adjustement.

    Thanks

    Matt
25. admin says:

    Hi Tracey, Good to hear that you like the plugin. Yes, it is possible to include sellers postal address in the email that you receive from PayPal with the addition of some code. Are you good with PHP language?
26. admin says:

    Hi Boon, I am pretty sure I removed all the violations but I am adding code on every release so some may have been introduced. Please feel free to send me the details and I will remove them in the next release.

    Yes, it is possible to remove the quantity field and make it do the way you described. The modifications should be reasonably easy but I really need to have a look at the code to give you better guidance.
27. Tracey says:

    Hi,
    Love the plugin, great job thanks!

    Will be selling physical products and adding digital ones at a later date. Would like to include the buyers postal address into the sellers notification of purchase email. Is that possible and if so how?

    Cheers
28. admin says:

    @David, The WP eStore is similar and can do everything the simple paypal shopping cart does. The WP eStore uses a database so you will have to add a product to the database before you can display it on your pages.

    Yes it will work for physical products. If you switched to this you will have to add all the products to the database and use the trigger text for this plugin to display the buttons. You can find most of this answers on the documentation page of the WP eStore plugin at the following URL:

    https://tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce

    I haven’t implemented variation control yet (drop down boxes for variations of each product). I intend to do this in a future release (WP eStore Wishlist).

    I don’t like sites that make you sign up and log in to purchase a $20 item. So when I designed the plugin I made sure that it has an one click checkout system. So the WP eStore plugin doesn’t have any login page.
29. David says:

    I forgot to ask? Can they order multiple items like the simple paypal shopping cart and have it show up in the sidebar?

    Thanks again.
30. David says:

    I’ve been using the Simple PayPal Shopping Cart for a couple of months and love it. I’m finding now that it might be easier for me if I had a few more options.

    I have a few questions about the estore plugin.

    Will this work for physical products?

    Is this similar to the Simple PayPal Cart when implementing it on the site? For example on the sidebar and within the pages. If for example I switched to this would I have to make significant changes to my site.

    I really like that I can pick how many of each product I have with this plugin.

    Is there a way to have drop down boxes for variations of each product?

    Do customers have a login page where they can view their orders? Is there a way to customize what each individual customer views?

    Thanks for the great plugins.
31. Boon says:

    Got this today – very effective plugin 🙂

    Only point I would make is that some of the code it outputs will not validate to W3C standard, nor is it very accessible. So I had to go in and amend that myself but it wasn’t too much of a problem.

    A question though..is there any way to remove quantity altogether from the process? If you’re downloading a digital file (or buying a license key in my case) it’s unlikely that you’re going to need more than 1 of each item.

    So if you clicked “add to cart” it would say – “product is already in your shopping cart” instead of adding another to the quantity. This would make it even more ideal for my use.

    Are there modifications I can make fairly easily to achieve this?

    Thanks
32. admin says:

    @Alessandro, All the documentation for the WP eStore plugin can be found on the documentation site at the following URL:

    https://tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/

    The tutorial on how to make a “Buy Now” type button can be found at the following URL:

    https://tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/?p=15
33. Alessandro OXiDE says:

    How it is possibile to make the buy now button?
34. admin says:

    Yes, it is possible. What kind of support are you after? Do you want me to give you some guidance and you will do it or do you want me to do the whole thing? I am overseas on work at the moment so I won’t be able to do any coding until I get back home but I should be able to tell you what to do.
35. admin says:

    Good idea.. gonna put this in the comment section of the WP eStore wish list page
36. Samuel says:

    I’m interested to the product. Can I get support to make some modifications? I would like to change the check out process. Instead of payment process, I want the application send me an email containing information of name, email, shopping cart and shipping address. I’ll send quotation to the customer by email before payment process.

    is it possible?
37. Rado says:

    @admin, @Exceltrader, when there ere sales of different products in the basket; how about if there is still only one email sent as it is sent now, but, in the email’s body inline below it would contain paragraphs for each product’s Title and in second line of the paragraph would be a clickable link (e.g. url to take you into this product page.) Like:

    p> {product_title}: br />
    {product_page_url} /p>

    Then people can download the product before each of the links expires (btw the expiration is great feature) and still be able to use the same email to get to the products’ details/instructions pages. The email-title would be always same for all sales in the shopping trolley, e.g. purchase at domain.com shop or whatever suits better.

    Just an idea on this.
38. admin says:

    @Exceltrader, Glad to hear that you are liking the plugin. Sending different messages for each product can be a tittle tricky as there can be only one email for each shopping cart checkout and what if the cart has more than one item in the basket? I can make it so the individual messages only work on a “Buy Now” type button though. I will give it some thought… added this to the WP eStore Wish List page.
39. Exceltrader says:

    I purchased the wp estore plugin a few weeks ago I just wanted to come back here and say thanks. I have had some sales and no one has had any problems checking out and/or downloading their digital files! I use wordpress on a non apache server so I was worried that there would be issues with “url rewriting” (like I have had with other plugins that do anything with urls). There were actually no problems at all it just works perfectly for me.

    If I had to come up with one feature request, it would be the ability to send different automated messages for each product (so that I can link to my instruction page which if different for each file.)
40. admin says:

    Hi Bill, Yes you can do all those with the WP eStore plugin. When you talking about event registration payment are you talking about a one time payment for an event or some sort of subscription payment? This plugin doesn’t handle subscription payment yet.

    Yes, the license allow you to install it on more than one site with different paypal account as long as the sites belong to you.
41. admin says:

    Sounds good.. I will consider it. I have added a new wish list page on the documentation site where you can add the features you want to see.
42. Rado says:

    Just wanted to make it clear that I was referring only to those features we were talking about in the comments (those not existing suggested features.) The plugin is at the moment perfect, so is your work you put into it, and the other things
    mentioned by me are only a new additions.
43. Bill Gram-Reefer says:

    I’d like to

    – sell ebooks

    – event registration payment

    – sell other merchandise

    perhaps separately on different parts of page or pages.

    Can I do this with this product?

    Also does one license allow me to install on more than one site with different paypal acct?
44. Rado says:

    Good to hear. Best would be if all the extra eStore plugin features were able to be switched on and off from the wp admin panel. So those not in need wouldn’t be visible at all on the site. That makes this plugin practical and unique, doesn’t it?

    Another feature comes to my mind if I may. Perfect would be to be able to show a drop-down menu for other currencies options in the shopping cart. No need to calculate on the web an exact current conversion rates. Would be enough if in the product add/edit admin page were the fields to fill in a set price for each currency per each product. I would use this feature for sure cause people from all over the world transfer money and, simply feel easier if their home dough is available to use.
45. admin says:

    @Rado, Thank you for reposting… Yep I am still going to add the Google Checkout option to this plugin in a future release. I intend to add a lot of features to this plugin as I get feedback from the users and as time permits. Glad to hear that you find the WordPress eStore as one of your potential eCommerce solutions 🙂 Oh! and the tickbox for “terms and conditions” before checkout is also in my features to be implemented list.
46. Rado says:

    Oh my, I cannot read it either 🙂 sorry. I was reffering to #comment-1635.

    Basically I was asking whether you are still adding the Google Checkout to your eStore. People started to ask me a lot for this payment option. So far we use only paypal. E.g. 2 radio buttons, for sellecting between these two payment processors (GoogleCheckout/PayPal) within the shopping cart, could work well.

    Secondly; reading through all these comments, another person mentioned a feature for a thick box between the products in shopping cart and the submit button, for buyers to indicate that they read a purchasing policy. Not always, but if this was a sellectable option to add from the admin area it could be very handy too.

    Whole day today I searched for a shopping cart for my ecommerce. I am going with yours, it’s strong and clearest, I looked at ~15 sites that use it. I would be happy to $upport to help to push these things into the perspective, IF only, it is your intention as the creator to add these features.
47. admin says:

    @Rado, I am not sure I understand the following request/question:

    “I’d like to ask you to find out what do you think possibly the Google Checkout will be added that would work as the other payment option to choose for people”.

    Can you please explain it a little bit so I can answer?
48. Rado says:

    First of all thanks for this system. I haven’t installed it just AS YET (only as a test); as You’ve mentioned “In the future I intend to make it work with Google Checkout”. Forgive me my ignorance, I understand you work on this – on other features, I’d like to ask you to find out what do you think possibly the Google Checkout will be added that would work as the other payment option to choose for people. Thank you very much and, please let us know and I’d buy/donate, install, straight away. Keep up the great work. With compliments and anticipation.
49. Lewis says:

    UPDATE:

    Just done a full transaction and PayPal does automatically add the correct VAT/Tax inline with the VAT/Tax settings I’d pre-configured in Papal, via the profile menu.

    This is perfect – I just hadn’t realised that you had to enter your card details first for Papal to add the correct Tax – hence he post.

    Hope this helps anyone else in the same position and thanks Admin for your time.

    Lewis

    P.S. I like the sound of the affiliate programme version, which I remember reading about on this site.
50. Jakob says:

    When the new update arrive, will it be possible to have different shipping costs depending on where in the world the package should be sent.