Downloadable with expiry date by client

  • Dears

    I am trying to create a download files website with wordpress, I searched and tested many plugins without success for the moment:

    I want :
    1 – files organized by categories
    2 – customers are added manually to the web site by an operator, and he must generate a user name and password for each customer (no register by the users)
    3 – the operator give access rights to customers on categories and or files
    4 – customers may have subscriptions to many “categories” and have an expiry date for each category, so the expiry date is not specific to file or category it’s specific to customer.

    It’s not an eCommerce website for the moment, but it’s like an eCommerce where the buying is done by an operator and not directly by the user (no need for price management)

    Any suggestions for plugins, or any tutorial on doing this?

    Thank you

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  • I built a very similar site using Woocommerce Memberships. The files for downloading are added as “products”, which allows (a) them to be limited to members only and (b) protects the download URL from being shared.

    Woocommerce Memberships can also limit the products by category, so you can set up membership plans that limit which categories are available to which members.

    Hope that helps

    Thread Starter khkassem

    (@khkassem)

    Thank you for you response

    Did you use just Woocommerce Memberships, or mixed with Woocommerce supscriptions?
    this type of plugins seams good but I am unable to test it before buying.

    I don’t want any price or cart or order management when the customer login, he must see just :

    My Profile
    Subscription 1, valid undil 12/12/2018, Files:
    – category1 : file 1, file 2
    – category2 : file 3, file 4

    Subscription 2, valid undil 30/01/2019, Files:
    – category3 : file 5

    And after expiry date, I wan’t somthing like
    Subscription1 : expired, call us for renew

    But on the operator side, I want:
    – Add Customer
    – Add subscription do Customer
    – Manage Categories and files

    I am ready to buy the necessary plugin if I am sure it’s working

    Thank you

    Since you don’t want the customer to create their own accounts, there’s no need for the Subscriptions plugin. You can turn off WordPress’ built-in account and add users and assign membership plans manually.

    To be frank, the site I developed required quite a bit of customisation to disguise all of the WooCommerce backend, but that’s the beauty of WC’s software – it’s very customisable and fairly easy to find what you need to change with a Google search or two.

    Have a look at the site: https://www.macro-advisory.com. Obviously I can’t give you a customer or admin login, but you’ll see that “Shop” has become “Library”, “Product” has become “Document” and “Tag” has become “Theme”. Each product has a description (so good for Google) but you can’t access it unless you’re a logged-in client. If you were logged in, with an active membership, the “Add to cart” button has become “Access document” and, with a little code, when it’s clicked it’s automatically “purchased” (although the price is 0) and the download link is displayed on the screen, as well as an email being sent for the client’s records.

    The client didn’t require categories that expire, but I do know that you can create different memberships that limit which categories can be accessed, so I don’t see why that shouldn’t be possible.

    Note to forum admins: I hope the link above is acceptable. I’m not touting for business, just giving an example of what is possible!

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