Major Additions - vbDigiShop by Mary

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It is recommended you uninstall it until further notice.
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vbDigiShop
Shopping Cart for Downloadable Products
by Mary
http://www.MadeByMary.com

1.- Product Highlights

• Supports Categories and Subcategories
• 2CO Payment gateway
• Three (3) Product's statuses: Active, Disabled, Upcoming
• Normal price, Discounted price
• Link for "more info"
• Link for "Demo"
• Can upgrade buyers to specific usergroup (or more than one usergroup)
• Can setup AddOns per product (eg Installation Service)
• Can setup Specials per product (eg if you buy this one, you can get also that product at a discounted price).
• Real time (and not configurable by admin) feature: "Also bought".
• Instant download after successful payment
• Buyer must register the domain where will use the product that he ordered.
• and many others.... check 'em out
• No Time Limit - Totally Free

2.- Additions in the Commercial version

• PayPal Instant Payment Notification
• Nothing more. Free version has all features of commercial version except that supports only payments via 2CO and not with PayPal.
• *** WARNING *** According to my copyright's rules below, you don't have the right to extend vbDigiShop by adding PayPal payment gateway.

3.- Installation

• Step 1: Upload the contains of /forum directory to the same directory where you've installed vBulletin
• Step 2: CMOD following directories to 777 (inside vbdigishop directory)

/images
/products
ATTENTION *** ATTENTION *** ATTENTION *** ATTENTION ***
Don't remove the file .htaccess from your product directory
except if you want everybody to be able to download them for free!!!!

• Step 3: For security reasons backup your database AND turn your board off
• Step 4: Check at your AdminCP->vBulletin Options->Plugin/Hook System that Plugin system is enabled.
• Step 5: From your AdminCP->Plugin System->Manage Products choose Add/Import Product and import the product: product_vbdigishop.xml
• Step 6: If you want to add a link to your nav bar then you must edit the NAVBAR template:

Search For:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

Add Below:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="vbarticles.php$session[sessionurl_q]">DigiShop</a></td>

....or use any other word you want

• Step 7: By default none usergroup has permissions to use or order, so you need to give permissions to any group. Goto AdminCP->Usergroups->Usergroup Manager and edit any usergroup you like to give permissions.
• Step 8: In your adminCP, under vbDigiShop, choose vbDigiShop options and configure it depending on your needs. If you can't see vbDigiShop's menu, then press F5 to refresh the page, or logout and login again to your admincp.

4.- Setting your store

Step 1:
Create Categories and Subcategories if you need them. To create a subcategory, choose the action "Add subcategory" from the corresponding category.

Step 2:
If you plan to give to your customers a special usergroup, then setup these usergroups now.

Step 3:
Setup your products. Please note that every product has extra actions (eg Addons, Specials etc), but the sure way is to add firstly your products and then all the additional features.

What you can setup in a product:

• Name :-))
• Status: Active = For Sale
  Disabled = Still in database, but not for sale
  Upcoming = Not for sale, but visible in the site to the end users
• Code : Even if you dont need an accounting software is good to have codes
• Category
• Subcategory
• Manufacturer You can let it empty, I'm havning some plans for later upgrade.
• Price: Selling Price
• Discount price: This price is only valid if at a later time you add this product as promotion to another product. eg Buy vbMates and get vbPals at this discounted price.
• Short description
• Long description
• Image for product listing (have you cmod 777 the directory vbdigishop/images ??)
• Featured link. It's a URL (opens in new window) for more info about the product
• Demo link. As explained above but for demo
• Usergoup. Check one or more (Ctrl+Click) usergroups where the buyer will be added (He dont lose any current usergroup).

Step 4:
Now that you've setup your products is good to add some more features. First we need to make clear what is "AddOn" and what "Special". Having my site as example, I can say that vbArticles can have as addons: vBa blocks, Brand Free, etc. Special means that when a user buys vbarticles you can setup a different product let's say "vbPhotoVote" as special offer. It's very nice marketing tool and I'm suggesting you to use it.

5.- Copyright

This script cannot be redistributed, reproduced, or published in any way. Modifying this script and sharing or publishing your modification A-N-Y-W-H-E-R-E (including here) without the author's written permission is strictly prohibited. The sane applies for writting addons or integrading it with any other software or module (eg vbAdvanced).

Especially for vbDigiShop, as the only difference with commercial version is that Free version dosen't supports PayPal payments, developing this gateway even for your own use is strictly prohibited. If you don't agree with this rule, just don't install vbDigiShop. It's a final rule and please don't PM me. If you want to use PayPal, simple buy the commercial version.

Copyright removal, editing or replacement PROHIBITED !! My copyright text and link must remain visible. If your template has colors that makes my copyright invisible you're responsible to change the color of my copyright to be straight visible.

[SledgeHammer101]

Originally Posted by Taipa

It did for me!
Well, I haven't bought the paid version yet, but I was looking at it on her site a few days ago and wanted to try it, but I didn't want to buy it before trying it out to see if it would work for my purposes.
I have downloaded and installed it, and from what I have seen, if a couple things get cleared up I will indeed be looking to get the paid version. ^_^


My current issue is (after only 5 minutes of testing, so it may just be something I overlooked) is on the main vbDigiShop page everything is fine, on the main category page everything is fine and the product images show up, but on the actual product pages, the shop is pushed waaaaaay down below the header (maybe about 600px or so of blank space between the header banner and the shop), and the product images are broken. /images and /products are set to 777.

Also, the pricing is a bit wonky.
If I don't enter a "discount price", it assumes the price is $0.00, instead of just using the "Price".
If I DO enter a discount price, it works fine.

Btu I don't always want a discounted price. Sometime, the price is the price. So then what do I do? I tried just entering the same price in both the "price" and "discount price", and then it displays the price correctly, but it says " Was [S]$100.00[/S], now yours for $100.00". That just looks silly, since there's no discount being offered.

I have the same problems. Can't wait for the real Shop version...

[MrNase]

Can I extend your Add-on by adding another payment gateway (bank transfer)?

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by MrNase

Can I extend your Add-on by adding another payment gateway (bank transfer)?

As long as it's for your own use only and it's not the PayPal payment gateway, yes, you can.

Maria

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by SledgeHammer101

I have the same problems. Can't wait for the real Shop version...

Well let's try to clarify something. 99% of your product is enought to set just the price and let discount price empty. Discount price works only if this product is special offer in conjuction with another one.

If you want to sell Product A + Product B in a discounting price you must use "Bundle" option.

As for the template's problem, have you tried to modify it? If yes, then check for any unclosing cell, row or table. If not, then give a link to see it.

[MrNase]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

As long as it's for your own use only and it's not the PayPal payment gateway, yes, you can.

Maria

Alright thank you! I will not publish my additions, they're all for private use.

[Taipa]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

Well let's try to clarify something. 99% of your product is enought to set just the price and let discount price empty. Discount price works only if this product is special offer in conjuction with another one.

If I leave the discount price empty, it sets the price to $0.00, no matter what I put in the "price".

I'm not sure what you mean by the discount price only working for special offers.

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

As for the template's problem, have you tried to modify it? If yes, then check for any unclosing cell, row or table. If not, then give a link to see it.

I have not made any modifications to the vbDigishop template. All I did was install it, and quickly add two test products. The only page that is wonky is the [details] product view page. All others seem to be fine.
Here is my link: http://indiefinds.com/forum/vbdigishop.php

[Wayne Luke]

nevermind.. I just removed thumbnails from the template and am using my original image.

[ktutorials]

can i we have 2 options of purchasing.... one is to buy with Paypal cash, other is to buy with iCash or other points......

since i am planning to make a Shop for Graphics stuffs...

Hoping a suitable answer..

[CilmSim]

Is there a way to set it up where various people can upload to the shop. As we will have a few salers but none of them are admin except for me.

[murekhalir]

would there be a shopping cart for actual real physical items built into forums that utilizes paypal? would be a nice mod actually. E-commerce vbulletin O_O