edj
Oct '09

I have software that I'm selling that comes in "lite", "full", "pro", and "advanced". I'd like to not take up all 10 of my downloadable items, so I'm wondering how I might set up my ADD TO CART button using only a single instance of the product? The issue is that we allow users to purchase a "lite" version and then have the ability to upgrade to another version and only pay the difference. If I were to upload the same program 4 times (lite, full, pro, advanced) and then have to upload 6 additional items (lite -> full upgrade, lite -> pro upgrade, lite -> advanced upgrade, etc), I would be out of my allotted 10 items since I already have other products for sale. I know that I can create a drop-down form and give different variants of the same item, but that does not go well with the website theme we are running. Instead, individual ADD TO CART buttons would be best. What do you recommend?

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E-junkie_GuruWebmaster & Support Guru
Oct '09

If you have different products that issue the exact, same download file, you don't have to upload the same file multiple times; you can just upload it for one product, then configure the other products using our "Package files from other products" setting to have them issue a link for the first product's file.



If your lite, full, pro and advanced levels are all the same actual download file, you could just configure that as a single product and use Variants to offer the range of price points. If you would prefer to have a series of specific Add to Cart buttons for each Variant rather than using a dropdown menu (and if you don't want to configure each price level as its own, separate product) then you would need to manually rejigger our standard Add to Cart code as described in this tutorial:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/tips.variants.button-tutorial.htm