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mikesay98
Nov '12

Hi, I have been using this service for a long time now in which I type in codes and people receive one when they purchase, etc. I think I've considered whether or not I can change over to a different way of delivering them, but I wasn't sure if your system is set up for this.



Is there a way to sell an item where instead of delivering a code each time they buy one, it delivers a file, like a jpg or pdf? And I mean this as in each file is different from a batch I upload, and only one is sold each time. Hope this makes sense, thanks!

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E-junkie_GuruWebmaster & Support Guru
Nov '12

You can use our Send Stored Codes feature to issue each buyer their own code from a list of pre-generated codes you'd provide for the product:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.selling-codes.htm



Or if you prefer, you could instead use our Send Generated Codes feature to have us submit the order details to a keygen script at your end and obtain a code in return, which we'd provide to the buyer:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.keygen.htm



Our Single File Download feature can only issue every buyer an identical copy of whatever file you'd provided for the product. The only slight exception to this is PDFs, where we can stamp the buyer's name, email and unique Transaction ID in the upper-left corner of every page of their own copy of the PDF.

mikesay98
Nov '12

So what you are telling me is that there is no way for me to create several different PDFs and have each one sent out only once to each customer when they make a purchase.



If that is the case, is there any way to request this or pay to have it made an option for my account?

E-junkie_MonsterSupport Monster
Nov '12

We can certainly add that to our wishlist, but it would not be a feature that could be quickly or simply added, especially when we already have other means of accomplishing this via stored and generated codes.

mikesay98
Nov '12

Ok, I'm confused on how sending stored or generated codes would work to send out PDF files. Maybe there is something I'm not understanding of how I could make this work.

E-junkie_NinjaSupport Ninja
Dec '12

The only way our system has to send out codes to people is with the two methods mentioned by the E-junkie Guru on Thursday, one of which it sounds like you are already using.



There is not a way to setup those features to send a PDF or JPG. The single file download feature that we use to provide JPGs and PDFs would not work for what you are looking to do, because the file would always be identical. So instead of buyers A, B and C getting different codes, they would all get the same code.



There is not a way we can just add a feature to our system that would allow it to store a list of different files(JPG, PDF, etc..). That would have to be a feature that is added to our system. However, this is not a feature that would be added to our system any time soon, if at all.

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E-junkie_GuruWebmaster & Support Guru
May '18

Unfortunately, we have no built-in way to deliver files as you described. However, it may be possible to do it using our Send Stored Codes feature, if you can store the files on your own server. Basically, your product's list of Stored Codes would be a list of those files' URLs on your server, then we would issue one code (URL) from that list to each buyer.

Each code (URL) can be up to 255 characters long; if your URLs need to be longer than that, or if you'd prefer to paste a list of just the filenames rather than full URLs, we could get clever with using our Templated Email feature to handle the part of the URL that doesn't differ, so the Stored Codes would only consist of the differing filenames.

For security, we'd recommend using random filenames, as sequential filenames could be susceptible to unauthorized access -- e.g., a crooked buyer who receives 12345.jpg might try the URL for 12346.jpg to see if that works too, so random filenames would avoid that. You could use http://random.org/strings to generate randomized filenames.