Simplified way to buy one article

  • I have s2Member Pro. I am trying to set up an academic journal that matches the capabilities of https://npj.uwpress.org/content/11/1.toc. With this journal, you can either subscribe and have access to all articles or make a one-time purchase of a single article. With their one-time purchase, you are granted access to that specific article. My test site is at https://stjournal.org/ and I have set up access levels and also a one-time purchase option. The way I understand this, if someone wants to purchase a single article, they sign up for membership, then have to log back in and find the article again. Is there a way to make this easier for the purchaser?

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  • If you use the Stripe or PayPal Specific Post/Page (Buy Now) Forms, there is no need for a purchaser to have a membership in order to make a one-off purchase.

    Thread Starter eggmedia

    (@eggmedia)

    Thanks, if I am reading this correctly it looks like I have to generate a unique code to purchase and access each document, and there will be hundreds. Is this correct? Also, the items I am restricting are PDF documents, not posts.

    I don’t know what you mean by “a unique code.”

    s2Member can’t sell access to a PDF directly. You would put a link to the PDF on a post or page and sell access to that post or page.

    Thread Starter eggmedia

    (@eggmedia)

    Thanks for the quick response. Basically, I want something that works like https://npj.uwpress.org/content/11/1/5.full.pdf+html and it appears that s2Member can’t do that.

    Except that it can do exactly that. You can design a page just like the one to which you refer, and have a Stripe or PayPal Specific Post/Page (Buy Now) Form on it.

    That sells access to a page, from where the user downloads the PDF which you are selling.

    Thread Starter eggmedia

    (@eggmedia)

    Thanks again, my only concern is that if I do it that way, I don’t think the download link to the PDF is protected, meaning anyone with that link could download it. Am I correct?

    No. The file will be protected if you store it in the normal s2Member folder for protected downloads: see Download Options -> Basic Download Restrictions

    Thread Starter eggmedia

    (@eggmedia)

    Okay, and I hope this is the final question! I understand there is a folder for protected downloads, and that only logged-in members can access it. However, I thought the user who does a one-time purchase isn’t technically a member.

    Well, they aren’t a member in the human sense of that word. The code doesn’t see it like that, though: they are, I suppose, a sort of temporary member.

    I’d suggest just trying it out!

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