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Hi,

<newbie alert!>

Does Prestashop provide the facilities for selling PDFs, zip files etc? I am looking to create a website to sell PDFs, powerpoint presentations that I have created. Ideally something like Lulu.com should be sufficient for this, but I am looking to build a website all on my own, in an effort to learn about building e-commerce applications. Does Prestashop provide the necessary functionality for this? Or is any other open source e-commerce application more suited to this? Please advise!

What I have in mind is something like this:

I have a page detailing a book that I have written. Now when the user clicks on a link he goes to a Paypal page to pay for the book in PDF format. After he pays, a link shows up which gives him the URL to download this book as a pdf or as a zipped PDF, Doc file.  This link should be autogenerated and should work only for say 12 hours or a maximum of 3 downloads after which it should not work.

Thanks in advance!

 

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Hi bashdot,

 

Welcome to the PrestaShop Forum!

 

Your timing is good -- we've just recently implemented a services & virtual goods feature on PrestaShop.

 

It can be hard to locate at first : In the Back Office >> Catalog, go to the item's product page.  On the Information tab, you will see a checkbox:

 

"Is this a service or virtual product?"

 

When you check the box, functionality related to virtual goods will appear.

 

Please come back and let us know what you think, especially if you encounter any bugs! ::)

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Hi alespar!

 

As Peter said, edit your /config/config.inc.php file and add the code, for example, after the last line of this file.

 

For example, the last lines will be:

 

...

global $link;
$link = new Link();
$smarty->assign('link', $link);

?>

<?php @ini_set('upload_max_filesize', '100M'); ?>

 

To edit a file, you can use this method:

1) Download the file (using a ftp client)

2) Open and edit the file with notepad(or any text editor)

3) Upload the modified file to the server (overwriting the old one)

 

:)

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