How to provide an “access key” for a prepaid download?

  • kracor1

    (@kracor1)


    14 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks in advance for any help…

    For example, digstation.com offers a download card for access to mp3s. The band sells or gives away these cards at a show and then the customer uses the unique access key on the card to download the track or album.

    I’d like to offer that, but thru my wordpress site (in development).

    So, here’s what i’d like to do:

    1. assign a UNIQUE access key/code to a human
    2. allow that human to enter the access key on my site, then grant them access to a downloadable mp3
    3. limit the number of times it can be downloaded (from 1-3, let’s say).

    I don’t want to have to send them to paypal for this.
    Please keep in mind, they have already PREPAID at a show. (otherwise, i’d just setup a cart, right?)

    Thank you, wordpress gurus.

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  • NativePaul

    (@nativepaul)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    I’m looking to do exactly the same thing. Any bright ideas?

    colinbarrett

    (@colinbarrett)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    I’m doing a similar thing in that I’m giving access to certain assets via both a membership gateway and also by a coupon scheme similar to the one you’re proposing.

    After a lot of research, I decided to install specialist “membership” software. The two most popular ones seem to be DLGuard and AMember. You can do exactly what you’re trying to achieve with such apps – it’s easy in DLG. It protects (ie: scrambles) the source URL and you can set a restriction on download numbers and attempts as well as protecting downloaders from passing the download link to their mates! I haven’t yet integrated with WP but I think it will be easy since you’re only dealing in links to protected folders/files on the same server which the software takes care of.

    That said, I’m sure a nifty bit of php coding will do your job as well, so why not solicit some clever coder to write a simple (but secure) coupon-code gateway for you?

    Colin

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