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Pre-sale questions about WP File Download

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

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I am building a self-hosted e-commerce site with the following conceptual elements and would like to understand if WP File Download plugin functionality would be able to achieve these outcomes. I would really appreciate detailed responses as to which requirements your plugin is able to handle and which ones it cannot. If you had a free trial I would be able to test this myself.

1. Person visits the website and can click to view digital photographs from particular events which are available for digital purchase (no physical delivery). Plugin being considered: WooCommerce (for the e-commerce backend).

2. Dynamic gallery functionality is needed in order for the client to be able to upload hundreds of event photos into different Google Drive folders and for these to be instantly (or with minimal effort) displayed on the website for individual purchase. Plugin being considered: WP File Download (not sure if your plugin can handle batches and how the images would be made into products in WooCommerce available for immediate purchase???).

3. Visitor should be able to view low resolution versions of the event photos (from the relevant Google Drive folder) in order to decide which photos they would like to add to cart (should be able to select multiple photographs at a time). Plugins being considered: WooCommerce, WP File Download (not sure if your plugin can achieve the multi-select requirement or if WooCommerce can handle that).

4. Visitors should be able to check-out using Stripe. Plugin being considered: WooCommerce Stripe Gateway.

5. After the purchase has been successful, the customer should be emailed download link(s) to the high resolution version(s) of the photos which they paid for. Plugin being considered: WooCommerce.

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1 year ago

#19246

Hi,

Thanks for contacting us here about this extension.

1. Person visits the website and can click to view digital photographs from particular events which are available for digital purchase (no physical delivery). Plugin being considered: WooCommerce (for the e-commerce backend).

Yes, our plugin is integrated with WooCommerce. Make sure you research our demo, product pages and documentation:

https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-demo/demo-to-sell-e-book-video-music-game/
https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-products/wp-file-download/woocommerce-file-download-plugin
https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-documentation/wp-file-download/519-wp-file-download-addon-woocommerce-integration

2. Dynamic gallery functionality is needed in order for the client to be able to upload hundreds of event photos into different Google Drive folders and for these to be instantly (or with minimal effort) displayed on the website for individual purchase. Plugin being considered: WP File Download (not sure if your plugin can handle batches and how the images would be made into products in WooCommerce available for immediate purchase???).

You can assign multi-files in a product, but it's not the gallery of the product.
Those files will be located in WP File Download section of your product you can see in our documentation.

3. Visitor should be able to view low resolution versions of the event photos (from the relevant Google Drive folder) in order to decide which photos they would like to add to cart (should be able to select multiple photographs at a time). Plugins being considered: WooCommerce, WP File Download (not sure if your plugin can achieve the multi-select requirement or if WooCommerce can handle that).

Users can preview product once ordered successfully.

4. Visitors should be able to check-out using Stripe. Plugin being considered: WooCommerce Stripe Gateway.
]5. After the purchase has been successful, the customer should be emailed download link(s) to the high resolution version(s) of the photos which they paid for. Plugin being considered: WooCommerce.

Those features are handled by WooCommerce. It depends on your settings on WooCommerce plugin.

Cheers,

28PrnQrsC9

1 year ago

#19247

Thank you for your responses. I have some follow-up questions in relation to the same numbered points.

3. "Users can preview product once ordered successfully."
No, visitors to the site should be able to browse images and click on them before adding to cart. Does your plugin do that or is that handled by WooCommerce?

2. "You can assign multi-files in a product, but it's not the gallery of the product. Those files will be located in WP File Download section of your product you can see in our documentation."
I will rephrase my question using an example. I take 200 photos at an event. I upload those 200 photos to a folder in Google Drive. I want those 200 photos to be available to purchase instantly on the WordPress website with add to cart functionality, same price etc. How can I turn those 200 photos into digital products without having to add each one manually? Imagine I take another 200 photos at the next event, and then another 200 photos at the next event etc. How can your plugin help with automating/semi-automating this process?

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1 year ago

#19252

Hi,

Thanks for getting back to me with more information.

3. Users can view a product image and gallery of the product that WooCommerce handled it.

2. Yes, you can create a product including 200 files from the cloud within a click.
You can also select a file as a product image while creating.
As you can see clearly the form creation in our documentation:

https://www.joomunited.com/wordpress-documentation/wp-file-download/519-wp-file-download-addon-woocommerce-integration#toc-1-create-a-product-from-dashboard

Cheers,

28PrnQrsC9

1 year ago

#19255

Thank you for your responses. I have some follow-up questions in relation to the same numbered points.

2. "Yes, you can create a product including 200 files from the cloud within a click. You can also select a file as a product image while creating. As you can see clearly the form creation in our documentation."

I would like to know what bulk functionality your plugin can perform. For example, if I take 200 photos, then I need each of those photos to be individually available for sale on the site (ie I need 200 products created). Would I need to create every single photo as an individual product and have to do each one manually? Or can your plugin create those 200 products automatically for me?

Could you please advise solution options.

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