I have used amember for several years and love it. My setup so far has been simple... I have both public and private content and use amember to simply allow signups for membership to view and download from a "members only" area in which all of the content is freely available to all members. We would like to begin offering downloadable products to both members and nonmembers which would NOT be included in membership... I can easily set up the directories and protect them in amember, but what I would like is to be able to add simple "buy it now" type buttons for the download products and NOT add these to the signup page since they are not memberships. Is there an easy D) way to do this? Thanks BTW- I have tried to just add the negative price group, which works beautifully to leave the downloads off of the membership signups and gives me a link for my buttons, but if a member tries to purchase a downloadable product this way they are told their username is already in use... I would like them to be able to just use their existing login info and the product to be added to their account. Thanks for taking the time to think about this!
If the member is logged in already, you can use the link: amember/member.php?action=renew&paysys_id=paypal_r&product_id=2 If they arent logged in, they will be asked to log in before being able to order. So maybe what you can do it to create 2 buttons. One for members one for non-members. David
That link would take them to their personal account management page, right? In that scenario the downloads would all end up in a big list along with renewal options, wouldn't they? I would like to keep that page as simple as possible, with only actual membership renewal options on the left... I'm afraid that as we add downloadable products it would get overwhelming to see so many options there. I guess what I was hoping could be done is a simple way to purchase add on products using "buy" buttons, send them through the amember checkout and then add the product to their list of current subscriptions for download.
That link: amember/member.php?action=renew&paysys_id=paypal_r&product _id=2 will redirect user to paypal in order to purchase product #2 User will not see other products when click on that link.
I'm not sure what I'm doing or not doing right with this, but when I create a test product which for me is product 19, then use the link above (adding my own site info, of course and changing prod_id=2 to prod_id=19) it takes me to the member.php and if NOT logged in to the login screen.http://www.mysite.com/amember/member.php?action=renew&paysys_id=paypal_r&product_id=19 Edit: Well, in testing again if I enter it into the browser a second time when logged in I do end up at paypal... not sure what's up with entering it twice... I will play with this a bit. Thank you.