Customisation for WPMU: digital products selling interface

[chiefox]

Hello –

I have been developing a WPMU project and this is where Im stuck.

Anyone may signup for a blog on my WPMU to sell their “digital file-tutorial”.

However to make the project as user friendly as possible, I cannot expect/burden the user with creating products and separately uploading etc… I would like for them to have it as simple as these people have made at tinypay DOT me.

They just allow to upload directly and secure the file – make a product out of it automatically and its ready for sale at the set price – by any user who has a digital file to sell.

Is it a long way to go? Is it far?

Thanks – would you guys help with this, T&T?

[amin007]

You are trying to setup a marketplace type site and WP eStore is not the correct plugin for it. WP eStore wasn’t designed to create a marketplace type site and cannot handle this type of setup. This post has some ideas that maybe of some help but I don’t think you will get exactly the setup you are after since it wasn’t designed like that:

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/is-it-possible-to-set-up-more-than-one-paypal-accounts-to-receive-money

[chelle]

Have you looked into the different things by WPMU-Dev? They have a free plugin called MarketPress (you can install it straight through the wp dashboard) – it is specifically meant for wpmu. There are not as many options as there are with estore though, and even that I’m not sure would work the way you want it to.

MarketPress takes advantage of PayPal chained payments…that might be something to look into also maybe for the upcoming additional payment gateways add-on for estore. It works so when a sale is made, you get a cut, they get a cut directly to their paypal account. I just learned about it recently, so I don’t know anything about it, but it seems like that would make it easy for handling a multiple user store.

If you don’t mind manual labor, you could just set up a page where they upload the file (lots of plugins for that), and then you review it and add it to your site yourself.

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