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Simple File Download Website

Submitted by phpgirl on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 21:05
phpgirl
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Hi all,

I'm trying to setup a site which will allow users to purchase a single file download. There are a couple of things I seem to be having trouble with:

1) I don't need a cart and I don't need "number of items"...I simply want to have a user be able to click a link that brings them to a paypal purchase page. Is this possible?

2) I can't seem to set an order state to "Completed" immediately after purchase...it only allows me to select "Pending" or "Processing". In theory, I could set file downloads to be allowed during the "Pending" state, but it seems somewhat unclean to not be able to have "Completed" transactions upon checkout.

EDIT: Actually, maybe I misunderstand the "Order" process. Shouldn't "Payment Completed" happen immediately after someone uses paypal to pay via their paypal account or credit card? When I tried it, it just stayed in "Pending".
permalink #1 Thu, 04/17/2008 - 22:05
torgosPizza

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Others have had these issues. You need to setup your Workflow_ng configuration to update the Order Status when a payment comes in and the balance becomes $0. Do a search here in the forum and you should find instructions on how to do it.

http://www.ubercart.org/docs/user/3345/selling_files - Selling Files instructions
http://www.ubercart.org/forum/support/4097/file_download_issues - Someone else who had a similar issue

Regarding the "PayPal one click" someone also mentioned this sometime this week. I think there is a PayPal buttons module that will allow you to add the form buttons to any page you wish.

http://www.ubercart.org/contrib/4218 - PayPal Buttons contrib

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permalink #2 Fri, 04/18/2008 - 18:05
cbm
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I was pointed here: http://www.ehow.com/how_2194835_now-button-using-paypal-account.html

For a single download you don't need ubercart at all. Read the whole article - the critical step is near the bottom (step 8 I think)

permalink #3 Sat, 04/19/2008 - 11:37
yosemite1
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with this paypal setup is the url that they are pointed to pass word protected? otherwise somebody else may find the file and download it. also they could give the url to friends or post it for others to use. with ubercart it is a 1 time (depending on how you have it set up)download url from 1 ip

permalink #4 Sat, 04/19/2008 - 20:08
phpgirl
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I ended up getting it working with the "quickfiles" modules.

torgos, as far as the "PayPal one click" using the PayPal Buttons contrib...I couldn't get it working.

permalink #5 Sat, 04/19/2008 - 20:09
phpgirl
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"quickfiles" allows you to set a limit to the # of DLs a certain URL allows. Although the module isn't very customizable, I hacked it up so that I set the default # of DLs higher and eliminated the "coupon" check.