[erics_dad]

Thanks Amin!

OK, one last question. Does the download button have to be a button? I envisioned my download-page.html to have a link where I tell them to right-click “Save As” kind of thing.

Sorry, just new to all this.

If I can only use a button (because I’m using a shortcode) then fair enough. I suppose I could hack into the php of the plugin and just get rid of the image (ie button) right?

Possible to make it a link instead?

Cheers

[erics_dad]

Thanks Amin

So, to clarify, the html pages and the sign up process (Aweber) does not have to go through the estore plugin?

I can simply create a download button and inside the plugin (wp dashboard) tell the button which folder has the zip file?

Also, is v3.8 the correct version of the plugin?

Thanks again

Scott

[erics_dad]

Thanks wzp,

I think I understand. So, after collecting the optin info, and after they confirm by clicking the confirmation link (double-optin by this point) then the final email that says not only “thanks for confirming” but I believe I can then have more text in that email saying along the lines, “to download your free templates, click this link” which could be to a page on my BLOG (no more html at this point) which I would display a “button”?

So, a button instead of a link? I guess though, the page I send them to wouldn’t be secure or does that matter?

If I have to, I’ll figure out how to create my html squeeze page (the one I’m collecting optins from) into a wordpress page. I mean, I can simply try creating a page template.

I suppose what I’m really after is being able to secure my download link so even if the download PAGE is another html page but the download BUTTON leads to a secure location on my site (within the blog) then that would work too. Could it also be a link?

So, it’s sort of sounding like it could go like:

squeeze page (html) >> thank you page (html) >> download page (html) with a button that secures a folder on my blog so the button would link to something like mydomain.com/blog/secured-download-folder/product.zip?=some-random-numbers ? I don’t know php but you hopefully understand what I’m asking

How can I find out more about this “free” download button?

Thanks again

Scott

[erics_dad]

Hi Amin,

Thanks for the reply.

OK, just to clarify then. Does this setup look correct?

Trial Period section

1) Trial Billing Amount – 397

2) Trial Billing Period – 1 Month

Recurring Billing section

3) Recurring Billing Amount – 25

4) Recurring Billing Cycle – 1 Month

5) Recurring Billing Count – 0

6) Reattempt on failure – checked

Will that charge a one-time fee of £397 and a recurring billing amount (after 30 days) of £25?

That’s how I have it set up at the moment. If that’s not right, let me know how to correctly set it asap please!

Thanks again

Scott

[erics_dad]

Hi Amin,

OK, perhaps I haven’t made my situation clear enough.

Here’s what I need to do:

1) There are 2 charges for my web design service. The first charge is the “setup fee”. So, this needs to be a certain amount, e.g. $300. This amount needs to be charged once they hit the Buy Now button and are taken to PayPal.

2) The second fee/charge is for the monthly hosting. So, after they pay $300, they need to be charged $20/month.

You originally said to set up the Trial Offer as the one-time (setup) fee, and the monthly subscription to 1 month, $20 (or whatever I want to charge).

Now your saying I don’t want to setup a trial offer. I was only following what you suggested with the trial offer.

So, can I charge them a one-time setup fee AND a recurring subscription fee from within the plugin?

If so, how do I do this?

Thank you

Scott

[erics_dad]

One more thing. I noticed the the email sent after the sale says it’s from WordPress. This doesn’t sound very professional. Is there any way I can change this title to my site name?

Thanks

[erics_dad]

Hi Amin,

OK, I was able to do a live test and everything seems to work ok except I have a few questions about the recurring payment.

Here’s what I did:

1) What I did was made the product a penny (.01) and had my wife purchase through my site.

2) I made the .01 as the Trial Billing amount and set the monthly subscription to .01, 1 Month respectively.

3) My wife got her thank you email, I got a confirmation email so that’s great. However, I looked at her paypal and cannot see any subscription set up. So, how do I know this worked? Is it because there won’t be a first monthly subscription payment for a month? Is that what happens? Or, should I have seen the subscription setup in her paypal account? Just want to make sure it’s working (the monthly subscription part).

4) Lastly, is there any way within the plugin that I can have the paypal page redirect to my “thank you” page? That “Return to merchant” link is very hard to see and I have instructions on the thank you page.

Thanks again for your help

Scott

[erics_dad]

Just to confirm, the reason I wasn’t getting a return email (or notification of a sale) is because in the payment gateway, I had to add my “merchant” sandbox test email, whereas I was using my own REAL paypal email. Duh!

Anyway, all seems fine. I’ll see if I can do a real, live test with .01 somehow.

Thanks again Amin!

Cheers

Scott

[erics_dad]

Thank you very much Amin for taking the time to explain everything

I’m doing as you suggest and I’m sure it’ll work out fine.

Thanks once again!

Scott

[erics_dad]

Just to mention regarding adding a recurring hosting charge.

I have these settings:

1) For product details, I have the one-off fee, e.g. $300

2) On the same page toward the bottom, I have these for recurring subscription (hosting fee):

Recurring Billing Amount – 25 (for $25/month)

Recurring Billing Cycle – 0 (in text field) Month (in dropdown)

Recurring Billing Count – 0 (in text field)

Reattempt on failure – ticked

I didn’t manually add the 0s (Zeros) they just appeared when I left blank and clicked “Save Product”

So, I’m trying to get the plugin to charge the one time fee of $300 AND a $25/month recurring billing fee.

Will this work? If not, what should I do? Charge the one-off fee of $300 and then send them another link to a subscription of $25/month? So, this would be 2 separate paypal transactions?

Thanks

Scott

[erics_dad]

Also, while I’m here

Is it possible to add something like a “Buy 3 get one Free” kind of thing using eStore or would I simply send them a discount code, e.g. “3-for-4” or something.

Cheers

[erics_dad]

Hi Amin,

Many thanks for the reply. I just got your email too.

Yes, I figured I could do this with eStore and eMember together but if you see my two posts above, I mention that I wanted to use the theme from templatic. Please look at this page as an example – http://templatic.com/demo/eshop/GoldwynSandals/

That particular theme already has an ecommerce element built into the theme, ie no plugin.

So, my main/original question had to do with whether I could use THAT theme (with their own ecommerce built in, not your eStore plugin per se) and still get it to work with eMember some how. I like that theme because of the layout. Otherwise I have to sit and code/CSS some other template and I don’t really have the time to do that.

I was thinking maybe I just don’t input any product data other than photos if I end up using that theme. So, I would use eStore to set up product (or membership) pricing/data and just use the theme for the layout??

But, if I can’t do that, then I’ll have to use their built in ecommerce functionality and my question is would this work with eMember? Doesn’t eMember rely on eStore and the PayPal API or whatever? Can eMember work with this theme’s PayPal/ecommerce functionality?

Hope that makes sense

Cheers

Scott

[erics_dad]

Hi Tink,

Thanks for the reply. It sounds like we might be trying to do something similar, I think lol

The thing I’m a little confused about (which maybe I wouldn’t be confused if I had a blog up!) is using a theme with pre-built ecommerce functionality. I’ve installed eStore on my friends blog and really like it. But, the theme(s) mentioned above would save me days of CSS and WP hacking! lol

I’ve got loads of WooThemes and I too own Artisteer but what I’m wondering is about being able to use eMember with a theme that already has an eCommerce function built in. Those themes above already have a “join” or “login” section so I guess I could somehow disable that part of the theme??

I see you’re attempting 2 levels of membership. Ultimately I’d like that too where someone can join at a lower entry fee and lower monthly fee to use my themes/templates for personal use and a higher entry fee/monthly fee for a developer’s license.

Either level would allow a paid member to download everything on the site…or most things anyway.

I was thinking, I could have a page ie domain.com/product1/ and that’s what the non-member public can see to view the products (thumbnails) and when they pay to join, they see something like domain.com/members/product1 therefore it’s an entirely different page on the site. Is that how eMember works anyway?

If so, (Amin/Ivy/Tink) can I have them pay after directing them to the member signup page?

For example, someone at my domain.com/product1/ page decides to join. Instead of having a “buy this specific product” link, like eStore or the themes above, there’s a link/button that says “become a member” so before they’re even able to purchase they must become a member or at least choose their desired level of membership first.

When they click “become a member”, instead of just a login page, they have to select which option they’d like, ie “Personal Rights Membership” and “Developer’s License Membership” and after they select the level (radio button?) they are then redirected to paypal (or whatever), pay, then are redirected back to create their username, password.

Would that work? Please keep in mind, I’m seriously considering using one of the ecommerce (built in) themes above due to time constraints.

Thanks and I hope my questions are too confusing!

Scott

[erics_dad]

OK, sorted the floating image situation. It was a position:relative; in the CSS that wasn’t really needed and the got rid of the lightbox div so all is OK now.

Thanks

[erics_dad]

Hi amin, I tried Fancy1 and it did the same thing. It works fine in IE8 and all other current/modern browsers. I only keep IE7 to test layouts and can’t figure this one out.

On another note, I noticed that the plugin as well as my theme are both using lightbox. So, when I click the thumbnail in the shopping cart the image is being pulled twice if that makes sense.

I’m using the thumbnail url as the same image that’s within the post, ie in the media library.

Was wondering if I could disable rel=”lightbox” within the plugin’s code without messing anything up? If so, can you please tell me which php file in the plugin uses the lightbox when using Fancy2?

Cheers

Scott

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