Sell Downloads is an WordPress eCommerce for selling downloadable files: audio, video, documents, pictures all that may be published in Internet.
Sell Downloads features:
» Sell Downloads is a WordPress eCommerce
» Allows selling digital files like audio,video,documents,pictures,etc.
» Allows to filter products by types of files
» Includes multiple layouts for the store
» Allows paging and sorting the results by popularity, price or file name
» Uses PayPal as payment gateway. Payments are SCA ready (Strong Customer Authentication), compatible with the new Payment services (PSD 2) – Directive (EU)
» Allows sharing products in social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Google+)
» Allows to associate additional information to the products
» Allows to protect the files with the inclusion of a file’s demo
» The demo files will be displayed directly on browser, whether are enabled
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Sell Downloads is an WordPress eCommerce for selling downloadable files: audio, video, documents, pictures all that may be published in Internet. Sell Downloads uses PayPal as payment gateway, making the sale process easy and secure.
Create an e-commerce for sell digital files never was more easy than with “Sell Downloads”, the majority of e-commerce plugins are developed thinking in tangible products and does the sale’s process very complex. An ecommerce that pretends to sale only digital files must to coexist with data related to tangible products, configure shipping cost, etc, “Sell Downloads” doesn’t need any of previous data. With “Sell Downloads” is required only define the PayPal data and the products to sell.
More about the Main Features:
The “Sell Downloads” plugin allows the specific integration with the following editors:
The base plugin, available for free from the WordPress Plugin Directory has all the features you need to create a ecommerce for sell downloads on your website.
Inserting and using the basic “Sell Downloads” plugin.
Premium Features:
Inserting and using the premium “Sell Downloads” plugin.
Demo of Premium Version of Plugin
https://demos.dwbooster.com/sell-downloads/wp-login.php
https://demos.dwbooster.com/sell-downloads/
Are safe the downloads links?
The security in the access to products files is determined in different ways.
It is possible define a time period, in days, where a download link is considered valid. If a user tries to download a purchased product, the Store checks the date of purchasing.
The Store may be configured to request the email address used in the purchasing to check the validity of download link.
It is possible define a limit of downloads by purchase. If a user tries to download a product, the Sell Downloads checks how many downloads have been made.
If you want more information about this plugin don’t hesitate in checking the plugin’s website:
http://wordpress.dwbooster.com/content-tools/sell-downloads
Inserting a products list, and products, in pages or sidebars of website (only available in the premium version of plugin).
Setting up of shop
Sell Downloads can be set up via the menu: “Sell Downloads > Sell Downloads Settings”. The setup screen offers general settings for the shop, allows entering the PayPal data required to process sales and texts that will be used for the email notifications with the download links of the purchased files.
Settings Interface
The setup interface of commerce includes the following fields:
Payment gateway data (PayPal)
Discount settings applied to the sales of the ecommerce. In the shopping cart the discount is applied to the total sale cost(premium version)
Coupon settings applied to all sales of the ecommerce(premium version)
Notification Settings, both for buyers to complete a payment, and the shop manager
Affiliate Royale Integration, if the Affiliate Royale plugin is installed on the website, and you want integrate it with the store.
Creating product for commerce
The shop allows to sell possible digital files (video, audio, documents, etc). To create a product press the menu option “Sell Downloads > Products for Sale”. Initially it displays the list of products entered previously and a set of data associated with the product: Product Name, File Type, Downloads, Purchases and Date (screenshot-2)
To enter a new product/file to the shop press “Add New”.
The interface for entering data pertaining to a product is described below (screenshot-3):
Product’s data
Programming a discount for the specific product(premium version)
Publishing the “Sell Downloads” ecommerce
The “Sell Downloads” ecommerce can be posted on a page or post of WordPress. To insert the “Sell Downloads” shop go to the relevant section (page or post) and press the “Sell Downloads” button above the content editor of post/page(screenshot-4), the action displays a setup screen (screenshot-5)
Interface for insertion dialog
The insertion process generates a shortcode which will be replaced by the shop when it is displayed on the website.
Note: After inserting the ecommerce on a page of your WordPress, it is advisable to copy the URL of the relevant page, and enter in the “Sell Downloads” setup section, to allow the users to return to the shop from the product page.
Shortcode attributes
Through the shortcode it is possible define some attribute for change the store’s settings:
columns: Enter the number of columns to display the products in the store with a grid format. By default the value of “columns” attribute is 1.
[sell_downloads columns="3"]
filter_by_type: The values allowed are 1 or 0, and shows or hide the filtering by product’s type in the header section of the store’s page.
[sell_downloads columns="3" filter_by_type="1"]
show_order_by: The values allowed are 1 or 0, and shows or hide the “Order by” options in the header section of the store’s page.
[sell_downloads columns="3" show_order_by="1"]
order_by: The values allowed are: plays, price, post_title, post_date. Allows ordering the products in the store’s page by the criteria defined in the attribute.
[sell_downloads columns="3" order_by="post_title"]
Interface for insertion dialog of product (the products list is available as widget to be inserted in the website’s sidebars)(the option is available only in the premium version of “Sell Downloads” plugin)
The insertion process generates a shortcode which will be replaced by the product when it is displayed on the website.
Interface for insertion dialog of product list (the products list is available as widget to be inserted in the website’s sidebars)(the option is available only in the premium version of “Sell Downloads” plugin)
The insertion process generates a shortcode which will be replaced by the list of products when it is displayed on the website.
The products list, and specific products, can be inserted as widgets on sidebars (screenshot-8)
Sales Statistics
When a sale takes place, a notification email is sent to the shop manager. However, sales can also be reviewed in Sales Reports. To do this, go to option “Sell Downloads > Sales Reports”(screenshot-9)
The Reports section allows you to filter sales reports over a specific …
To install Sell Downloads, follow these steps:
Sell Downloads Item
Sell Downloads Product Section
Product Edition Interface
Integration with the Gutenberg Editor
Integration with the Elementor Editor
Integration with the Page Builder by SiteOrigin
Sell Downloads Insertion Button
Sell Downloads Insertion Interface
Integration with the BeaverBuilder Editor.
Insertion Interface for Product
Insertion Interface for Products List
Available Widgets for Products and Products List Insertion
Sales Reports
Filtering Sales Report
Available layouts
A: First, go to the settings page of commerce and be sure the PayPal checkbox is checked, and has defined the seller’s email. Second, be sure the product has a price defined and a file for sell associated.
A: If the store has defined a discount and a coupon at the same time, only one is applied to the sale, the biggest of both.
A: To download all purchased files as only one file, is required enabling the zip option from the settings page of “Sell Downloads”. The zip feature may be disabled in your website because the required extensions are not present in the PHP of the web server.
A: Verify that the theme used in your website, includes the function wp_footer(); in the template file “footer.php” or the template file “index.php”
A: Go to the plugins section in WordPress, deactivate the free version of Sell Downloads, and delete it ( Don’t worry, this process don’t modify the products created with the free version of plugin), and finally install and activate the premium version of plugin.
A: I’m sorry, but the current version of plugin allows PayPal only.
A: The restriction is imposed by PayPal. Please, check that your PayPal account allow to charge directly from the credit cards of customers.
A: The design of each section of Sell Downloads, is determined from templates located in “/wp-content/plugins/sell-downloads/sd-templates”.
The “sd-templates” directory contains multiple files.
The template files:
A: It is possible promote a product or products list, from the website’s sidebars, or directly from the content of pages or posts.
To promote the products on sidebars, go to the widgets section, and inserts the corresponding widget on sidebar.
To promote the products from the content of pages and posts, go to the page and press the corresponding icon over the contents editor.
A: The security in the access to products files is determined in different ways.
A: The plugin includes some different designs that can be selected through the settings option “Store Layout”, but you can create a new once, duplicating an of available store’s layouts, and edit its style.css file
A: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/sell/ipn-test-outside
A: Yes, that’s possible. The products types are taxonomies, and for searching by the products’ taxonomies, go to the settings page of the store, and tick the checkbox: “Allow searching by taxonomies”, and that’s all.
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