Downloadable products – Available later

  • Resolved Ruben

    (@rubenvankempen)


    4 years ago

    I want to offer downloadable products on my webshop. The products will be GPX-routes for cycling. I’d like to make these downloads available on a later moment, but I’d liek customers to subsribe in the period before the download becomes available.

    What do I have so far?
    > Buying a route works fine.
    > Confirmation by mail goes fine, but it contains a link to the GPX-file route already.
    > Placing an order let’s you make a new account. This works fine, but the download is immediately available in ‘My downloads’.

    Is it possible to make the downloads available (in customers account) on a later moment?

    Example
    1) The cycling tour is on July 1st and contains 5 different routes.
    2) April 2nd John subscribes to one of the routes by buying this product on my website.
    3) John gets two mails:
    a. the confimation-mail without the download-link
    b. the mail to complete his account
    4) On June 1st the download becomes available to everybody who already bought a specific route. Customers download this using their account > My downloads.

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  • Plugin Support EastOfWest a11n

    (@eastofwest)

    Hi there,

    A low-tech solution to this might be to use a URL to a page that links to the downloadable file, rather than the file itself. You can then set that page to Status : Private, or even just put a message that the download will be available on X date, until you’re ready and then either publicly publish it, or change the content so that it includes a link to your file.

    If you’re looking for a more sophisticated solution then WooCommerce Memberships would offer a fully-fledged membership system that will allow you to assign memberships to users who buy specific products, and control access to content on a per-membership basis.

    If you have more specific questions about that extension, please ask them via this sales form.

    Thread Starter Ruben

    (@rubenvankempen)

    Thanks for the respond!

    Sounds interesting. But isn’t it possible to do it easier with just one setting or so?

    If I use a page with the possibility to download the file, I can’t filter the payed customers, right? Or I’ll have to send a password manually to every payed customer for this secured page.

    Plugin Support abwaita a11n

    (@abwaita)

    Hi @rubenvankempen,

    If I use a page with the possibility to download the file, I can’t filter the payed customers, right? Or I’ll have to send a password manually to every payed customer for this secured page.

    I think my colleague was saying you can use a placeholder page (instead of a path to the actual file) and later on swap it with the actual path to the download file, once it’s ready. In such a case, you’d not have to share any passwords with the customers.

    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter Ruben

    (@rubenvankempen)

    The solution I found out: unmark the products as virtual.
    Now I can manually accept every order. Untill then, the customers will receive an e-mail but there will be no file to be downloaded. As soon as I confirm the order (mark as completed) the file will show in a customers mail ánd in their account.

    In Holland we call this: Two flies in one hit!

    Plugin Support abwaita a11n

    (@abwaita)

    Glad to hear that you have a working strategy for now – thanks for letting us know!

    I’ll go ahead and mark this thread as resolved. If you have any further questions, I recommend creating a new thread.

    Thanks.

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