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There is a short answer, and a long boring philosophical answer…
Short Answer: That specific capability does not currently exist.
Long Boring Philosophical Answer: You are faced with what, in the security business, we call the “insider threat.” To better understand this threat, let’s look at some real-life retail scenarios…
Walmart & Sam’s Club: You need to be a Sam’s Club member to enjoy savings over that of Walmart shoppers. To get these savings, you have to show your membership card when you enter the store. Members are allowed to bring guests with them. But in order to make any purchases, the purchaser must present a valid membership card at the register. Members are allowed to make purchases for guests. In fact, there is no limit on the number of purchases a member can make for guests. Why? 1. A sale is a sale. 2. At some point, the member will tell the guest to “quit leeching off me and get your own card.”
You can already implement this scenario by having 2 eStores, on different WP sites, one that anyone can buy at, and the other with the “Only logged in members can checkout” option set.
The Employee Discount: HP has a generous 50%+ discount program for its employee on computer systems. To prevent employees from abusing that discount, HP only allows 1 employee discount per model computer. 1. Employees will think twice about giving out “their” discount for the hottest system. 2. If an employee is suddenly able to purchase one of every computer HP comes out with, they let the Ethics & Human Resources departments deal with the situation.
Perhaps Amin could add another coupon condition to eStore that would limit coupon use to one per customer e-mail. That way, people would think twice about sharing coupons. It is also analogous to the 1 per customer concept. Now, as for the matter of people using multiple e-mail addresses, unless you are selling heavily discounted iPads, I think that it would be an acceptable risk. Besides, a sale is a sale.
Amin could also decide to implement a “logged in only” condition, as you suggested; but I think the 1 per e-mail option is the more flexible way to go.
@awpcp — By any chance, are you able to examine the wp_eStore_sales_tbl in the MySql database? If so, look for the transaction that matches the product ID in question. The customer e-mail address, to whom that sale is credited should be there.
“Check the ‘business’ variable value in your item button code. The email notification is sent to address that is provided to PayPal by the ‘business’ variable value.”
Under eStore -> Settings -> Payment Gateway Settings -> -> PayPal Settings -> PayPal Email Address/Secure Merchant ID, it should be your new primary address.
Instead of using an external program to compress the PDF file, concentrate on using compressed images (JPG, not GIF) in your eBooks. There is an article on the subject at:
http://www.verypdf.com/pdfinfoeditor/compression.htm
If the recommended tool does not affect PDF Stamper’s ability to stamp a file, then I guess it’s okay to use. Perhaps you can try one of these (free) tools on a sample file, and then see if Ivy or Amin can successfully stamp it.
http://www.htmliseasy.com/table_tutor/picture_frames.html
I think maybe the frame is being added by your WP theme.
In a nutshell, trackbacks are a form of “remote comments.”
http://en.support.wordpress.com/trackbacks/
By having comments “on,” you allow visitors to comment about whatever is on that particular post or page.
So, the question comes down to… how sensitive are you about people commenting in public about your products?
There should be no password protections on the original file. You set them, if desired in PDF Stamper. All other settings related to User Interface, Initial View, Links & Bookmarks do not seem to be affected.
I’ll let Ivy or Amin address the pricing question.
My experience has been that it can take up to 20 minutes. The issue has to do with your hosting provider’s management of outgoing mail. So, what I did was to edit all occurences in WP and anywhere else that mentions e-mail to “…an E-mail has been sent. Please allow approximately 15 minutes for delivery.”
Perhaps a call to your hosting provider’s help desk?
Did you follow these instructions?
The observed behavior does not seem to exist in my version, which is 4.3.0 of eStore. Time for an update, to see if you still observe that particular behavior:
Update: The eStore “suggestion box” is located here:
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/wordpress-estore-wishlist-feature-suggestions-148
In a way, that functionality already exists. Using the WordPress -> Media -> Add New option, you can upload images to the WP media library. Then, go to the “Edit” page for the uploaded image. Look for an entry called “File URL.” Place your mouse pointer over whatever value is shown. Do a right-click, and then a left-click on the “Select All” menu option. Then, do another right-click, and do a left-click on the “Copy” menu option. Alternatively, after placing the mouse pointer over the URL value, you can do a Control-A followed by a Control-C.
You can now go back to eStore, and paste the copied value into whatever field you desire.
I’ll leave it to Amin & Ivy to address the “suggestion box” suggestion
