Downloads question.

[greree]

I'm planning on starting a web site that sells books in three forms, downloadable files, printed in booklet form, and burned on CD. If a customer buys a book in file form, then it's downloaded, and no shipping is charged. If he chooses a book in either book form or CD, then it's mailed to him, and shipping is charged.

 

Right now I'm using Downloads Controller v5.0 (contribution), and I can't figure a way to do it except to enter each book into three different catagories, which I would rather not do. Someone who sees a book in the CD section but would rather download it would have to leave the CD section and go into the download section, then find it again.

 

I would like for my customers to be able to see an icon of the book, click the icon to get a description, plus a choice of either download, book, or CD, then get charged appropriately. Is this possible? Thanks

[Guest]

You can do this in your admin side of the store in admin/catalog/products attributes

You create 1 product option ( lets say "Select")

Then you create 3 Option values ( file, CD, hard copy)

[greree]

I tried that, but it didn't work. The shipping charge is a function of product weight. If the product weighs zero (i.e. downloadables) then the shipping is zero. If it weighs something then shipping is charged. And weight is set for each product, not each product attribute. I can't make a paper version of a book weigh 2 lbs and a download version of the same book weigh zero.

 

I'm back to making three different entries for each book.

[greree]

Asking once more.

[Ajeh]

When I have some time after Thanksgiving, I am going to be adding some features to the Quantity Controller for dealing with weight on products that result from attributes.

 

This should allow you to configure 1 product with multiple weights.

 

If you are not in an immediate rush, this might be helpful to you.

[greree]

That'll be fine. Thanks, Linda.