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1. Carol7
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm looking for a recommendation for a way to offer people eBooks and PDFs to download. Some of the downloads will be free and some will have a fee. PayPal is acceptable; would also like the capability to accept major credit cards. Is anyone doing this successfully with WordPress and what are you using? Advantages? Issues you had with implementation that I should be aware of? Thanks!

2. Carol7
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Still looking for advice...

3. phpoet
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   We are doing this with the PHPurchase WordPress shopping cart. It can handle both free products and, of course, products that you want to charge for. You can easily sell digital products as well as physical products. PHPurchase works with PayPal (Pro, Standard, Express Checkout) as well as any payment gateway that implements the Authorize.net API. Also, I'd recommend running your own affiliate program. It's one of the best ways to promote digital products. PHPurchase is already integrated with the WordPress Affiliate platform. Just install both plugins and you are runinng your own store with your own affiliate program.

4. doolie2007
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   The author of the affiliate plugin phpoet mentions also makes an eStore plugin that works seemlessly with the affiliate plugin. He also offers a discount if you purchase both together. You can get both for about the same cost as the other shop plugins alone. I have been very pleased using them.

5. dcannon1
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   My favorite plugin for downloadable products is the Shopp Pluggin - http://shopplugin.net/

   There is a license fee, but according to the authors, the plugin is released under the GPL, but you pay the license fee for automatic updates (not gonna get into if that really falls into GPL or not), but it works beautifully for downloadable products. You can use Paypal, Google Checkout, Authorize.net and a couple other payment processors I think.

   I believe you have to pay for the ability to use processors other than Paypal and Google checkout though.

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