[uShop] Add Physical Items to Store
 

What this hack is for:

If you want to sell actual products in your community store, such as books, videos, coffee mugs... whatever. I suggest adding products that promote your site. You can get all sorts of customized merchandise from Cafe Press .

Before you ask, this is not a shopping cart to sell things with real money. It's to redeem points for tangible products. If you don't like the idea of giving stuff away for posting, this isn't the hack for you.

This hack will:

1) Allow you to add physical items to uShop for shipping to your users
2) The user fills in his/her shipping info
3) An email is sent with that information to the store admin
4) An email "receipt" is sent to the user

What you have to do:

1 minor change to the included action file
Add 3 new templates
Add your new items!

Enjoy!

good work

but y think will be also good a store with no phsical items, like the rpg shop of inferno RPG

Hey Nice hack :)! do u know of away you can make it so that they can download an item thanks ben :)

yeah, because i dont know many websites who would allow people to get free stuff when they get to a certain point

Downloadables would be better.

You can make any of the items downloadable. One of my items is downloadable and I just send them a link. I might make an action that would make this automated and secure, so people couldn't share links.

For me, it's no big deal to give away physical products. My community generates money (and I'm a business), so I just consider it advertising investment. We've had these same discussions when I wrote a version of this hack for Lesane's store here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=48338

If you don't want to give away stuff for points, then this hack isn't for you :)

I got the hack working however I can not get it to send notifications neither to the admin nor to the member. What could I be doing wrong ?

Regards,

NW

Thanks! :) This is exactly what I've been looking for. I will give away free preopening movie-tickets, free-tshirts and other cool stuff with this hack.

This is a great hack for large forums with sponsors for competitions etc.

Will install later on!

Great hack! :)

I too am interested in a version of this hack to allow users to download products in an automated and secure environment. Is there any plans for this in the near future or anything that already does this?

Thanks
Tom

Is there any chance that you can make a money based hack soon?