Good for selling singles, bad for selling albums, bad SEO

  • If you need a quick and easy way to sell single tracks on paypal, this plugin is great.

    I am using the pro version – April 2015.

    Some of the features are great, like: Automatic song protection and limiting play back time and inserting tracks into posts.

    However… For a premium plugin I’d expect more and have spent hours with customer support customizing and editing it to get even close to what I think should be a simple music store: A list of albums, with their respective songs and the ability to buy either the song or the album.

    The plugin has many minor user experience flaws in its overall design, like showing the ‘purchase now’ button when the cart is empty.

    It is a complete failure at SEO friendly urls.

    Even with the added ability to make and sell collections of songs, it doesn’t work well at listing multiple albums and their respective songs.

    They are also telling me to make changes as direct modifications to the core plugin files without using a child theme, which seems like bad advice in the long run.

    On the up side, their customer support has been quick and very helpful and hopefully in the end will help me set up the store to be what I need.

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  • Thread Starter AJD

    (@ajd)

    Update: I would add another star to this review if I could. Support has been extremely helpful.

    I also spoke too soon and found the shortcodes to help layout the store, with a lot of styling it is almost there.

    [music_store_product id="90" layout="single"]
[music_store_product id="92" layout="single"]
[music_store_product id="94" layout="single"]
[music_store load="singles" columns="3" show_order_by="0"]

    Thread Starter AJD

    (@ajd)

    50% of attempted sales have failed due to inability to download, customer support nightmare. This plugin is not easy to update and though support is friendly and willing to make code changes to your store, they do not code properly for future updates. AVOID this plugin, do not buy the commercial version. They must do better development and make updates easy. After 1 year I am deactivating and using something else.

    Plugin Author codepeople

    (@codepeople)

    Hi,

    Yes, unfortunately some of the custom modifications are not included in the official distributions, however, in the latest versions, we’ve improved the module for download the purchased products.

    Please, give another opportunity to the latest version of the plugin.

    Best regards.

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