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Hi,
How long does the content on the shopping cart is kept? The reason I am asking is that I am offering up to 50 free downloads when a specific coupon code is entered.
Some of the customers prefer not to download everything in one sitting, rather they want to come back at a later time and continue selecting products from the shop and add them to their exisiting selecting in their cart.
Thanks for your help.
Hi,
In addition to encrypting the links of your download files, eStore also offers functionality whereby you can limit the duration of your download link so that they expire after a certain amount of time or even based on the number of downloads.
In the eStore settings page there is a section called “Digital Product Delivery Settings” and here you can specify how long a link remains active or the maximum download limit count.
The cart contents are stored using PHP sessions. Sessions usually expire after 20 or 30 minutes (You can control this by specifying how long your PHP session data stays valid in your server config)
Perhaps, you could explain a typical scenario in more detail, so that we can advise on how it could be implemented?
Thanks for the responses.
Here’s what I want to have. I want my customers to be able to continue selecting the free downloads and add them to their existing selection in the cart at a later time even after they close the browser.
They probably need time to review their selection and properly make a selection. Some of them probably are busy and can only do a few selection at a time.
This is *before* they click on the checkout button.
I tried selecting 50 downloads myself in one sitting and find it quite tedious considering one has to select from over 500 selection.
Any suggestions?
Thank you.
Perhaps having somekind of bookmarking feature or lightbox feature where user can keep their favorites in a folder before making a purchase?
You mentioned that these items are free downloads? You can just place Secure Download Now Buttons for these items on a page so that a customer doesn’t have to add all of them in the cart. They can just download the items they want.
They are not actually free downloads but when customer purchase our software, they will get a coupon where they can download 25 or 50 templates for free.
Those who don’t purchase the software won’t get the free coupon download.
An ability to save the cart could be an alternative but we don’t have a save cart feature in eStore just yet. How long do you need the cart to stay? Are we talking hours or days or weeks?
Yes, ability to save to cart would be great
as I want to make it as convenience as possible to my customers. I would prefer days but adding weeks would increase the flexibility greatly.
We have a save and retrieve cart feature in the works for eStore but it will be a few weeks before it is live. In the mean time you can try to extend the time before your PHP session expires. You can set this in your server config but I wouldn’t set it to weeks though.
No, couldn’t finish this feature yet. However, I am very positive that I will have it done within 2 to 3 days time.
Okay, finished working on this feature. You can now enable the save and retrieve cart feature from the eStore settings menu by checking the “Enable Save and Retrieve Cart Feature” option.
You can place the following shortcode on a post, page or sidebar which will show a save and retrieve shopping cart section to allow your customers to save the current shopping cart or retrieve a previously saved cart.
[wp_eStore_save_retrieve_cart]Please get a new build of the plugin to get this feature.
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