Presale digital album? Send download code a week or two AFTER initial purchase?

[moreenz]

We want to do a pre-sale of our album to help generate money to get the physical CD pressed....is there a way I can send codes to customers a couple weeks AFTER the initial purchase so that they can get their download? I'm certain if I send the codes now the majority of the emails and codes will be lost between now and the couple weeks it will take for us to get the finished album uploaded to the site -

[E-junkie_Guru]

That sounds like you may want to use our Updates feature after you provide an actual file download for your pre-sold product:

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



BTW, this help page explains how to sell tracks as both individual downloads and as a full-album "bundle" of tracks:

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

[moreenz]

Nope - that's not what I want to do. We are doing a pre-sale - so there is nothing to download right away......they pay now and in a couple weeks we send them the full album in mp3 format.



I don't have a problem sending out the individual emails myself if need be. I just need to be sure that there's some way that our customer can get into ejunkie and punch in their unique code (which I already have stored where the album will be) and they can get the download. I have about 200 codes already stored in the appropriate spot where I plan on putting the album.....



Do you guys have a way to do this? Is there a way I can just put a hyperlink in an e-mail to a 'download page' where all they have to do is punch in the code, the system will determine if it's one of the ones I sent out, and they get their download?



Thanks!

[E-junkie_Guru]

I'm not quite sure I follow what you mean about, "punch in their unique code (which I already have stored where the album will be) and they can get the download", but you might just be trying to reinvent our wheel there.



This is what I was proposing:



1. You'd set up the pre-sale Album product without any downloads or codes, just a generic product without any special settings, maybe add an Email Message explaining that download links will be issued when the album is released;



2. Buyers of the pre-sale Album are automatically added to that product's Buyer Group list that we maintain for you;



3. When you have mp3 tracks ready to sell:

A. If you're selling tracks individually, set up each track as a separate product and upload their respective mp3 files, then edit the pre-sale Album product's settings to enable "Package files from other products" and select the tracks that should be issued as a "bundle" of downloads for that product; ...OR...

B. If you are not selling individual tracks, then you could just combine the album tracks into a single .zip file and upload that to your Album product as a Single File Download.



4. Use our Updates/Newsletters service to send the Buyer Group list for the pre-sale Album product an email message, each containing a unique link to reach the thank-you/download page for the newly "bundled" album;



5. Pre-sold buyer clicks the unique link in their own Update email, reaches the thank-you page, downloads the album .zip or individual tracks (whichever you'd set up) -- each buyer's unique links will automatically expire after the number of download Attempts or Hours (whichever comes first) that you defined in the Album product's settings.