Selling Download with trial membership

Discussion in 'Customization & add-ons' started by arpowers, Jan 18, 2010.

  1. arpowers

    arpowers New Member

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    so on our site we are selling downloads, and we want to be able to give our customers a 'trial' two-month membership when they sign up.

    Basically, sell:
    • the product for $75
    • a trial member $10/month, free for two months.

    Ideally, the customers would lose access to 'updates' of the download product if they didn't have a subscription.

    Is this possible?

    We don't want to sell the download product on a subscription basis, as this may lead to confusion, because they can use the purchased version on an unlimited license.

    the updates are where the subscription comes in.

    Does this make sense?
  2. davidm1

    davidm1 aMember User & Partner

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    Can you bundle the download product and 2 mos trial into a single product?

    Trial price would be the product price, 2 mos. trial period followed by $10/month.

    David
  3. arpowers

    arpowers New Member

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    we could but then PayPal says something like: $75 for two months, then $10 per month..

    this gives the impression we are charging them to use the product... which isn't true.

    What's the alternative?
  4. alexander

    alexander Administrator Staff Member

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    there is no allternative for paypal website payments standart.
    For Paypal PRO you can create two separate products so when user will be redirected to paypal (or on CC info page) he will see two separate lines.
  5. arpowers

    arpowers New Member

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    great idea.. that's what we'll have to do then :)

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