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steve-greyghoststudio - 5/12/2010 5:11:11 PM
   
Products that are digital assets
I'm looking for suggestions on the best way to set up products that are digital assets. Any suggestions would be great.

How did you configure the cart to ignore shipping? Or did you just set up a shipping option of 'Electronic' with a cost of $0.00?

How did you go about providing the asset after payment is taken? Did you edit the ShoppingCartPaymentGateway.ascx to email the products to the user? Or is it a manual process after Admin reviews the order?

Thanks!

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kentico_helenag - 5/18/2010 4:26:47 AM
   
RE:Products that are digital assets
Hello,


We are planning to implement the e-goods feature.

In the meantime, you could eventually try following scenario as a workaround:

You could create a products for the downloadable files. But the main files would be placed in some special location - secured area, which will require logging in for each file. After the purchase will be confirmed, customer could receive the access credentials and link to this document.

I know this is not very nice solution but I hope this short description makes sense.

Usage of existing webparts should be sufficient to accomplish this.

You can send credentials in E-commerce - Order status notification to customer e-mail (you can enable the Order status notification e-mails only for your Complete/Payment received status).

Optionally, you can send the e-mails by custom payment gateway or custom order status provider.

Regarding the free shipping: Yes, I would recommend you creating a special choice with 0 cost. Optionally, you can re-write the shopping cart step not to display dropdownlist for shipping options and assign the zero shipping by code to all orders.

You can find some helpful information in E-commerce guide.


Best regards,
Helena Grulichova

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james-distinctionhq - 5/19/2010 6:10:13 AM
   
RE:Products that are digital assets
Hi Helena,

We come across this requirement quite a lot and unfortunately have to recommend alternative CMS solutions when the customer needs electronic goods.

I don't see it on the roadmap - when are you likely to implement it?

Thanks,

James

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kentico_helenag - 5/20/2010 5:51:34 AM
   
RE:Products that are digital assets
Hi James,

Probably, it will be in 6.0 version (Roadmap). You can support this idea in Uservoice of Kentico. If it has more voices it will increase its implementation priority.


Best regards,
Helena Grulichova

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AndyHartunian-yahoo - 9/14/2012 10:02:38 AM
   
RE:Products that are digital assets
Its been a couple of years since this post was around so wondering if anything has been done with Kentico and Digital Assets? I saw this on your marketing material but have not seen any documentation on it.

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AndyHartunian-yahoo - 9/14/2012 10:22:40 AM
   
RE:Products that are digital assets
Oops... just found it... thanks for your help

http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/ecommerceguide/product_type_eproduct.htm