Can’t check out

It seems it wasn’t working because the products are set to $0.00 dollars. My items are free for a time, but it seems PayPal won’t accept that, which sucks because I need them to be free.

I just need a way for customers to check out, so they can receive their downloads. Without checking out, they can’t get the email downloads…but they can’t check out unless I charge. Blah!

Hi, are you selling download digital products like pdf files or something similar? Or are you selling products like toys, books, sports equipment etc?

Perhaps you are using the wrong plugin for your products. According to your other support post you are selling digital products. If that is the case then I suggest the following plugin might work best for you.

Kind regards

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by mbrsolution.

Is there a way to collect their email address and send the digital downloads without using PayPal?

I like the add to cart feature. They need to be able to add whatever products they want to their cart, and then when they click checkout, I need them to enter their email and for them to get the email with the digital downloads. But once they add items to their cart, they get the PayPal error when they try to check out. Is there a way to bypass PayPal and just allow checkout where they enter their email address and get their downloads or something. Gah I spent forever setting this up, and now I just realized PayPal won’t let me sell free items.

Digital downloads.

I am confused that you are suggesting another plugin because this plugin does sell digital downloads. There is a whole tutorial on how to set it up…??

Also that plugin does not have a shopping cart. So I don’t get how that would be helpful.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by dsrt16.

Yes I am suggesting another plugin because you are giving away free digital goods. This plugin does not allow to give free digital goods. Unless you add a value of 0.02.

Regards

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by mbrsolution.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by mbrsolution.

I did check your post. That plugin won’t work, unfortunately. Eventually, I will sell these items for a price; they are just free right now. That plugin doesn’t show a shopping cart or add to cart of any kind.

I have seen other people sell downloads for free, so I know it is possible.

I just need customers to add products to their cart, and then on checkout enter in their email so they can receive the downloads. I have purchased free digital downloads on other pages before, so I know it can be done. I am just not sure how. Maybe this is the wrong plugin…

I will just have to figure it out. Thanks!

You might like to check the following plugin eStore. This has a lot of features and I believe it allows you to add free downloads.

Kind regards

Thanks, but the problem isn’t your plugin. It is PayPal. The error message is coming from PayPal; it won’t allow checkout with a total of $0.00. Maybe I am wrong, but that seems to be what I am finding.

If you set the price to $0.00001, PayPal will process it.

Yeah, I know, it’s a stupid trick. But it worked last time I tried it.

Yeah, I set it to $0.01 and it worked. And I might just do that, but I am not sure if that will discourage people from downloading. They would have to enter in their credit card or PayPal login for one cent, or three if they pick all three of my products.