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Wed, 01/20/2010 - 10:23
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I have a customer who wants two kinds of sale

The first is simple and obvious - buy one File Download

The second I can't quite see how to do

1/ Customer signs on
2/ Customer buys a package of downloads (e.g. 10 for the price of 9)
3/ Customer downloads one file
4/ Customer signs off
5/ A week later they sign on again and download another file and so on till they run out of credit

Is this possible?

Jon - glassbyd

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Wed, 01/20/2010 - 19:02
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Re: Allowing Multiple Downloads

Would your customer be okay with using a ponts/credits system? My first quick and dirty thought was that you could use user_points and uc_user_points, to let customers buy blocks of points, which then can then use to purchase downloads, or buy a single download for $$, instead of using points. You could limit sales of points to blocks of 10 download cost...don't know if that's a direction you're interested in going.

I can't think off-hand, of any other way to allow a customer to buy an unspecified (at the time of the transaction) download/product.

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Tue, 01/26/2010 - 15:04
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UC_User_points

Thanks for the help but where can I find user points in UC

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Wed, 01/27/2010 - 19:55
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Re: UC_User_points

http://drupal.org/project/userpoints_ubercart

Also, another potential solution is uc_store_credit:
http://drupal.org/project/uc_store_credit

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Mon, 02/01/2010 - 07:03
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Userpoints

After working through Userpoints I have managed a solution in my test system so I will be working this through with my client. I will look at Store Credit as well just in case it offers a better fit.

Thanks for your help

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Thu, 03/11/2010 - 11:27
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Hi, I'm trying to get the

Hi,

I'm trying to get the same results as you described in this issue. I want to manage that clients of the webshop can buy for example 100 points and use these points to pay for downloads. I'm curious how you managed this problem.

Thanks,
Dominique

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Fri, 03/12/2010 - 08:50
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Multiple Downloads

I tested this for a client so there isn't a live example but
it did work . It uses the Userpoints module

There is a product with a real price that they pay for and that is set up as a Product in Userpoints. If they purchase this it adds user points to their account

There is another product that is set up that if they purchase that product then points can be used to pay for it (this allows them to buy a single unit with money or points). I think this was either with Award options or discount options (?) in Userpoints

I do remember that I had to fiddle with the Userpoint settings until I got it to work - this is only changing settings no PHP or things like that, but I got it to work.

If I wasn't in the middle of a build I would write more (especially as I need to remind that client I exist).

If I get time I'll re-visit and add more notes

Jon

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Fri, 03/12/2010 - 10:06
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Re: Multiple Downloads

Thanks for your clear explanation. I'm working on it and the first part works! Now the second part buying products with those points. I think I can handle that.

Thanks, Dominique

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