Stats for Free Downloads – Enhancement?

[thehigheredcio]

The sales counters are incrementing on Free Downloads which I will be using a lot but those counters are not being pulled into the Stats page. It would be nice if I could also track Free Download quantities just like sales.

Conceivably, I can also see the value of being able to compare two products sales/download history.

Scenario 1: I can imagine offering a digital product for sale at a nominal price as well as Free if they sign-up and it would be nice to be able to compare performance.

Scenario 2: I can imagine wanting to track individual product sales/download stats in comparison to a bundled version of those products.

I may be missing the bigger picture if most people do this outside of the eStore product using Google Analytics.

[admin]

Usually people use Google Analytics to track clicks on buttons and links on the site. However, I am not entirely against some form of stats for downloads. I can potentially add a new tab under the “stats” menu for showing stats on downloads (which will include the free downloads too). Are you using a squeeze form to give out your free item?

[thehigheredcio]

I will give Analytics a try. So far I am using the same approach for all free downloads which is the just a squeeze form using the Free Download Ajax shortcode as shown on this page: http://wp.me/p1RYyA-ZA

Thanks for considering the suggestion.

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