Need info on uploading free bonus ebook file

[moondaddy3]

Hi there,



I want to try offering a free bonus ebook (pdf?) along with the main product (ebook) on my site as an added incentive to potential buyers.



I checked out the Help on multiple files which led to this page : e-junkie.com/help-package.htm where I saw the info under "Approach C: Providing free bonus files"



However I'm still unsure about how to proceed with this as it didn't give step by step tutorial type instructions on exactly how it's done. A lot of people selling ebooks from their sites offer a free bonus ebook as well and many of them are using ejunkie/paypal to cover the process so it must be fairly straightforward.



Any help/info or directions to page outlining full procedure gratefully appreciated.

[E-junkie_Ninja]

Are you using our PDF stamping feature on your eBook? If so then you will not want to use the options presented on that help page. What you will want to do in that case is use a multi-add button to add both products to the cart at one time:

http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/575



The other option if you are using the PDF stamping option is to provide the file directly from your server on the thank you page. You can do this by customizing the thank you page:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.custom.thankyou-page.htm



If you are not using the PDF stamping feature then I would suggest using our bundle product feature to combine the two files in to one and then customize the thank you page to let your buyers know the second file is a bonus file:

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

[moondaddy3]

Re the PDF Stamping feature, I can't actually remember whether I utilized this feature or not, tho I imagine that I would have. Thing is I can't find anything anywhere in Seller Admin to tell me for sure if I have or not.



I checked out the 3 links above but not knowing which may apply to me doesn't make it any easier to figure out.



I looked at the View/Source code for a similar sales page which includes a free bonus ebook download along with the main paid one. Here's the code relating to the Add To Cart button :



<p><strong>To get your copy of <em>xxxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxxxxx</em>, just click the Add To Cart button below.</strong></p>

<div id="uyc-button"><a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?i=892261&c=single&cl=103472" target="ejejcsingle"><img src="http://xxxxxxxxxx.com/blog/images/uyc-button-final.jpg" alt="Add To Cart" /></a></div>

<p> </p>



In that case, clicking on the add to cart button takes you to the paypal page where you pay thru paypal or click to opt for credit card payment. On neither page is there anything about the bonus ebook, just the paid one, so I'm assuming the download link for the free bonus must be on the Thank You page.



(I don't know if it makes any difference but the same author wrote both the paid ebook and the free bonus one, whereas in my case the author of the free bonus ebook would not be me. I haven't selected a free ebook to offer yet).



The third option in your reply above which presupposes that you're NOT using the PDF Stamping feature unfortunately seems to be the simplest way (on the face of it at least) assuming that the "bundle product feature" is easy to use. However I'm fairly sure that it's better to use PDF stamping and I probably already have anyway.



In other words in light of all the above where do I go from here?

[moondaddy3]

Anyone? Just bumping this up looking for a response.

[E-junkie_Guru]

It appears you have not set up PDF Stamping for your main product, nor added a download link for any bonus file yet. This help page explains how to set up PDF Stamping for your product:

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



PDF Stamping cannot work for a product using "Package files from other products" to bundle multiple file downloads together to sell as a single product. If you need both the main product file and free bonus file to be Stamped, you would need to set up each file as a separate product and create a multiAdd to Cart button that adds both items to a buyer's cart at once:

http://www.e-junkie.com/bb/topic/575



If you're not terribly concerned about theft of the free bonus file and don't need it Stamped, you could just upload that file to your Web site or a third-party file-hosting service and place a static link to that file in the thank-you page for the main download product; that link code would go in the "Message (HTML)" field of the main product's settings.