How do I sell music or other products that require my customers to download files from my Netfirms Commerce Pro store? .: Netfirms 24/7 Support

To sell music or allow your customers to download files from your Netfirms Commerce Pro store, please follow these steps:

A. Enable File Download feature in Commerce Pro:

1. Login to the Members Control Panel at https://controlpanel.netfirms.com
2. Click Applications
3. Click Commerce Pro
4. For the store you wish to administer, click the corresponding Admin link
5. Click Configuration
6. Click Download
7. Select Enable download
8. Click True
9. Click the Update button

NOTE: The Download by redirect must be set to "false" for downloading of .pdf and .mp3 documents to be successful.

B. Add the product (eg. music file, picture/image file, etc.)
10. Click Catalog from the side menu
11. Click Categories/Products
12. Click New Category
13. For this example the category is named Music and an image is selected.
14. Click Save
15. Select the new category
16. Click New Product
17. Add product details accordingly

C. Add product attributes: This is where the download file name is specified.
18. Click Product Attributes from the side menu
19. Select a product from the Product Attributes field under Product Attributes section

20. Click the pull-down menu from the Product Name column

21. Click Edit

22. Set product attributes for the product by selecting the Product Name, Option Name, Option Value, Value Price, etc from the pull-down menus/fields. For downloads, also enter filename, expiry days (eg. how many days to expire the dowload), and maximum download count. For MP3's, set the Option Name to Mp3.

23. Click Update

IMPORTANT: If you would like your users to have the option to download the albums song by song organized by album title, this is not offered as a standard configuration in Commerce Pro. However there is an osCommerce contribution available at http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2495/category,all/search,music which may address this configuration set up. Simply follow the instructions on installing 3rd party contribution. This particular contribution will take multiple files and zip them on-the-fly as users download. Basically you would create a 'category' which would be the album title, store each song under that category separately, and by installing this "Zip_Download" contribution users have the ability to download either 1 song, or 3, or the entire album.

NOTE: Contributions are provided by the community in the form of project add-ons, feature updates, language packs, and extended modules. Support for the contributions are not provided; however you may post questions to the oscommerce forum at: http://forums.oscommerce.com/

How do I sell music or other products that require my customers to download files from my Netfirms Commerce Pro store?

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