Downloading separate products for different variants

[suite48]

I have 2 variants, one for a single license report, one for a multi license report. Prices are different and the PDF files of the reports are also different. Can I sell these as two variants of the same report (it seems I can only upload a single file for both variants)?



Or do I need to create two products? (I prefer variants with a pull down to choose the single or multi license variant)



Thanks!

[E-junkie_Monster]

Hello,



These would need to be separate products. Although you can add options to a downloadable product those options won't have any impact on what file is sent out. Only one file can be uploaded to a product and it will be sent regardless of any options the buyer enters or selects.



Although it will be necessary to create two separate products that can still be handled as a drop down menu on your site with some custom coding. Each of your products will have a unique URL within the button code, it would be possible to write up a custom menu of your own that calls up the appropriate purchasing URL based on what the buyer selects:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.custom.purchase-buttons.htm#custom

[suite48]

thanks, I'll try that out.

[E-junkie_Guru]

There's actually a fairly simple way to provide a dropdown menu where the buyer can select which product they wish to order before clicking a single Add to Cart button, rather than having separate Add to Cart buttons for each product. In the following example, you would replace XXXXXX with your E-junkie Client ID (248432), and replace YYYYYY and ZZZZZZ with the respective Item Numbers of each product:



<form action="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?c=cart&cl=XXXXXX&ejc=2" target="ejejc" method="POST" accept-charset="UTF-8">

License:<br/>

<select name="i">

<option value="YYYYYY">Single license $12.34</option>

<option value="ZZZZZZ">Multiple license $56.78</option>

</select>

<br/>

<input type="image" src="http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/ejadd_to_cart.gif" border="0" alt="Add to Cart" class="ec_ejc_thkbx" onClick="javascript:return EJEJC_lc(this.parentNode);"/>

</form>

[suite48]

great, that's a lot easier.

[suite48]

Now that I've done further testing: my View Cart always shows empty. Should I have changed the code for that too?



One complication: I use iWeb and use the recommend trick to replace placeholder text with the view cart code in the html code.



Have done the same with "add cart," which works without problems.



So I don't know if this has to do with the pull down for different product code or with the iWeb issue.



If you have a chance, could you please review the code on http://suite48a.com/test2.html?

[E-junkie_Guru]

It appears you're still experimenting with this, but bear in mind that the standard overlay-style cart that appears "inside" your page is treated as a separate cart from the "fallback" cart that appears in a separate window/tab whenever the overlay cart can't work for some reason -- i.e., items added to an overlay cart won't appear in the fallback cart, and vice-versa.



If you want to use the overlay-style cart, pasting the button code directly into the raw HTML source code, separately from iWeb, is the method you should use. This discussion covers some more tips you may find useful for using iWeb with E-junkie:

http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/3164

[suite48]

Thank you for your quick and helpful response. Good to know you can not mix and match overlay cart styles with the "new window" cart styles that iWeb reverts to.



OK, so i have taken that hurdle now on http://suite48a.com/test2.html, by adding the Add Cart and View Cart manually in the html page. When I add a product it shows in the cart when clicking View Cart.



That's the good news.



However, when I add a different product, the previously added products are removed from the cart. My suspicion is that this might have nothing to do with iWeb but more with the code I have for the pull down menu for adding different products?

[E-junkie_Monster]

I believe that's a matter of the code for the pull down menu, will buyers be purchasing both licenses at once?

[suite48]

no, it's either license or the other.

[E-junkie_Guru]

Your page has an extra space between the &cl= and 248432 in the first line of your Add to Cart button code:



<form action="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?c=cart&cl= 248432&ejc=2" target="ejejc" method="POST" accept-charset="UTF-8">



Deleting that space like so should fix the problem:



<form action="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?c=cart&cl=248432&ejc=2" target="ejejc" method="POST" accept-charset="UTF-8">

[suite48]

Ah! Thanks so much. That fixed it.

[champ]

Is it possible to use a paypal button and have proper download go to user after payment when using multiple file types using just one add to cart button. Also would I be able to change the image for the buttons so that it integrates design wise into their website?

[E-junkie_Guru]

The top of this help page explains how to modify your button codes to replace our standard button image with a custom button graphic or text link:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.custom.purchase-buttons.htm



To offer a choice of file types, you would need to set up a separate product for each file format; however, there's a couple different ways you could let the buyer choose their preferred type



You could just create a bundle product as explained in Approach B here:

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

...in which case the buyer would have a single product to order and then see a choice of download links after their payment is completed.



For a different approach, which would require more extensive HTML customization, you could create an HTML form that uses a menu to pass the Item Number of the product with the buyer's preferred file format. This help page explains how to set that up:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/tips.custom.buttons.item-menu.htm