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I'm trying to make rules for what is 'checked out' of the cart. Is the following possible?





Add and download item 1: Redirect to page1.html



Add and download item 2: Redirect to page2.html



Add and download item 1+2: Redirect to page3.html





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I'm taking care of the download page and link from my own site, and have it working perfectly with a single item in the cart through checkout. I'd love to get this working.



Thanks,



Bim

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We really don't recommend just redirecting the buyer after checkout to a page on your own site where you present a static download link, as buyers could share the URL of that page with anyone else who could then visit that page directly to download without paying. Normally, our standard download fulfillment process works like this:



You would simply upload the product to our server when you add/edit the product's settings in Seller Admin. After the buyer finishes checkout and the payment processor confirms the buyer's payment was good and completed, we grant the buyer access to a thank-you page where we present their unique download link(s) automatically, and we also issue them a thank-you email with a link to reach the thank-you/download page in case they did not proceed to the download page after checkout. Their download link(s) expire after the number of attempts or hours (whichever comes first) that you specify in each product's settings.



These help pages explain how to customize your thank-you email messages and your thank-you/download page:

1http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.custom.thankyou-email.htm1

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



We can recommend a technique for redirecting to a common thank-you URL on your site where our secure, expirable download links for each buyer's order would be displayed inside an iframe within your page:

1http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/tips.redirection.download-link.htm1

Many thanks for your reply.



It wouldn't be a static url that can be shared - It's a cookied page that has a masked download link, so it can only be downloaded by the buyer.





I understand how your method works, as it would be the 'normal' way of doing things, but I don't want to pay the extra for your hosting on my HD video downloads. - But the MAIN reason is that you cannot customize your download links, as until this point my shopping experience is completely branded. My/any customers wouldn't want to check out and then receive an 'e-junkie' link that they've never seen before.







So with this information, is there any possible way of doing what I originally asked?



Thanks again,



Bim

You can enable Redirection in the settings of each individual product and provide a URL where we would direct the buyer after that product is purchased. To specify a redirection page for 1+2, I think it would be best to create a third product which you understand to be a "bundle" of 1+2 together, then you can give that product its own Redirection URL:

1http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.redirection.htm1



To make this happen as automatically as possible, do not customize your E-junkie thank-you pages -- i.e., put nothing in the Message (HTML) field of each product's settings, and nothing in Admin > Account Preferences > Common Thank-you Page HTML field -- and use Buy Now buttons (rather than cart buttons) to send buyers to instant checkout for just one item at a time.



Note that different checkout methods vary as to how they handle the post-checkout transition; some can auto-redirect the buyer, others only present a link the buyer must choose to click to proceed. For checkouts that only present a click-through link, if the buyer does not choose to click the link, we can still send a product-specific thank-you email with a link that would lead to the Redirection URL. For this case, you would probably want to delete your Common Thank-you Email in Seller Admin > Account Preferences.

Hi Bim,



What you are proposing isn't impossible but it also is something that is completely outside the scope of what we can support. You're re-inventing an entire file-distribution process that we've already created for you and is ready to go as is. You can do so if you wish but it isn't something that we can walk you through.



To address your reasons for doing things this way, you can already host your files on your own server rather than ours with any of our subscriptions beginning at $18/mo.



Regarding your concerns about branding, our domain name would only be discoverable if a buyer deliberately viewed your page's raw source code, or in the browser's status bar when hovering over a cart button, but anyone savvy enough to be doing any of that would also not see any cause for concern.



Only after the buyer has already completed checkout and proceeded to your thank-you page would there be an inconspicuous "e-commerce by e-junkie" tagline in that page. Even this can be removed by adding the following CSS settings to your thank you page:



<style type="text/css">

/* Hide 'e-commerce by e-junkie' line: */

td[align="right"][width="50%"]{display:none;}



It is also possible to call up the thank you page that we generate with your buyer's download links from within your own site's thank you page, which you can read more about on this help page:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/tips.redirection.download-link.htm

We had some problems with posts appearing in this thread so Guru and I both made our own answers, sorry for the double reply :wink:



Guru's suggestions may help you get your own set up made but beyond that there is still very little we can offer in guidance if you want to work around our established download delivery system.

Really appreciate the input and detailed responses guys. I always knew this was outside the lines, but it was worth asking just incase it was possible.





The only way for me is to use immediate download buttons, which will work, but it's a shame to miss out the nice cart :)







All best,



Bim