Testing Paypal functionality

[Frank]

Good day! Just started to work with the wp eStore plugin and I do have a couple of questions please.

First, is there any way to get a ‘fancy’ display of a product for the ‘buy now’ option that is like the ‘add to cart’ option? I looked high and low but didn’t find anything. Would be a great feature!

Second, how can I test a transaction with paypal from start to finish to make sure I’ve done everything 100% before going live with customers?

Thanks!

Frank

[Frank]

Just a quick update. Figured out how to use paypal sandbox. But I do have a new question.

On my first site, I have a combo product and I get to the thank you page without incident. Now the combo product is 3 downloads all together. Ok. I start the first download and it downloading. So far so good. If I select the second product to download while I am downloading the first, when the first finishes, it thows an error, invalid download link.

To me that is a bit of a problem. Also, I can only download one thing from the page at a time. Is that my desktop or the software limiting downloads? I can download up to three things at once with IE, so don’t know what’s going on here.

Thanks!

Frank

[Frank]

Ok, answered my own question. There does seem to be a small problem with the download page links that are created. The links should have the _blank option set to start the download in a new page to release the current download page to allow the customer to download another product at the same time.

I’m going to peek into the code and will offer a solution, if I find it.

Frank

[Frank]

Hmmm. Did find the file where download links are handled, but the system will still only permit one download at a time.

I changed the two lines in eStore_includes3.php to add a target=”_blank” to the download urls but doesn’t work. Even if you open a new window, it chokes waiting for the first download to complete.

I can see that this would stop a person from downloading from 100 places at once, good feature, but is there any way to permit up to 3 downloads at once from one order, to permit the user to download all of their downloads.

Thanks!

Frank

[amin007]

@fthomas, Yes, there is a shortcode to get a ‘fancy’ display of a product for the ‘buy now’ option.

[wp_eStore_buy_now_fancy id=1]

1 is the product ID here. Please note that all the available shortcodes are listed at the following URL. You can download a PDF file for your reference:

WP eStore Shortcodes and Functions Reference

The plugin doesn’t have any download restrictions. on my server I can simultaneously download multiple files at the same time.

[Frank]

Hmmm. Interesting. I’ll have to talk with my hosting vendor to see if there is anything there. Thanks very much for the fancy code for buy now products!

By the way, I love this plugin!

Frank

[Frank]

It would be an interesting project to find some way to setup a store and have it read vendor RSS feeds for relevant products and then have eStore display them. That would be toooooo cool.

F

[amin007]

I am pretty sure you can write your own script to achieve this. You need a script that reads the RSS feed and gets all the Product Information then displays the “Add to Cart” button by calling a function in the eStore and passing the product info to this function.

[Frank]

Interesting notion!

Thanks,

Frank

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