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***** DANGER WILL ROBINSON — Running with scissors ahead! *****
You can perhaps query the database table “wp_eStore_sales_tbl” for the e-mail address and product ID. This same information can also be found in “wp_eStore_customer_tbl” but that table is only updated for paid products (does not include free downloads).
iTunes has a ton of Terms & Conditions also, but that did not stop me from doing a successful chargeback recently.
The point is that you can only hope that your product, price and service is good enough to minimize customer dissatisfaction.
It may be difficult to find such a processor, because the restrictions seem to be originating with the Reserve Bank of India.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-paypal-restrict-payments-india-merchants.html
You must use another payment processor, that is “India friendly.” That, or use manual checkout and process the payments by hand.
Of course, there is the security aspect… In the above example, what happens if a Groupon customer passes out that $1 coupon to their friends? The result is that some poor soul becomes the 801st purchaser!
So, what you do is create 16 coupon “pools” of 60 uses each. That gives you 960 redeemable coupons, 800 plus 160 (20% more) for shrinkage. Because the coupons are broken into 16 pools, the damage from coupon passing is limited to 20% of each pool.
*** Re-edited after having my first cup of coffee… ***
It would seem, from the FAQ, there is no immediate interaction between your site and the Groupon customer. With that said, and without having used it myself, here is one possible scenario that might play out…
You enter into a contract with the folks at Groupon to offer a coupon that allows purchasers to buy a $30 item for $1. You are selling this coupon for $5 to Groupon customers if Groupon brings in a minimum of 500 coupon orders within 24 hours. Groupon does its thing and collects its monies, in bulk from its members. Groupon sends you the money and a request for 800 coupons…
I don’t think you would get customer information, just a request for an anonymous number of coupons; Groupon’s FAQ clearly promises its members that Groupons are transferable…
So you then generate 800 coupons for a particular product ID, that allows the purchase of that product for only $1.
Of course, this is only a half-baked idea, based on the Groupon FAQ.
1. Yes.
2. Yes. ***** PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE LATEST VERSION *****
https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/update-request
3. WP eStore –> Coupons/Discounts
4. WP eStore -> Add/Edit Products –> Variations
1. Can you download the unstamped files for 2 & 3?
2. Can you manually stamp files 2 & 3?
3. Can You manually generate encrypted links for stamped versions of files 2 & 3?
4. If you enable debug files, do the “resolved DL file paths,” in the download manager debug file, for stamped versions of files 2 & 3 correctly correspond to the locations of valid files from the PDF Stamper?
1. Is the seller’s (you) PayPal email address properly configured in eStore?
2 Is the Use Sandbox Mode checkbox unchecked?
Yes. That is correct, you do not have to set permissions. The expiring URL takes care of everything.
Personally, I feel that S3 is the more cost effective option. You gain an unprecedented level of reliability and speed, for a fraction of the cost and aggravation that you’d have to pay for a VPS and all the support costs. The only time I can see S3 not being cost effective, is when you start getting into massive sales levels and downloads.
When eStore does the download processing (no as3tp) it acts as a middleman between the actual file location and the browser. As such, the process was always dependent upon the lack of any resource restrictions on the part of the hosting provider. The as3tp solution does not suffer from this problem. There are simply too many things a provider can do that can mess up the download process. The as3tp process counts on the fact that Amazon is using their own network for their own business (selling books/music) and that they would not allow anything to screwup the download experience for their own customers.
You should be able to use the existing CNAME in the product URL as as3tp://CNAME/folder/object
The 0k file problem was related to eStore handling the downloads. the as3tp is a “hint” to eStore to process using S3. You should be able to use the existing CNAME as part of an as3tp URI as long as it resolves to the correct form, that uses the bucket name as part of the host path… bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/folder/object and not the form that uses the bucket name as part of the directory path… s3.amazonaws.com/bucket/folder/object
