I have a site going up that is going to have approx 80 products (video downloads) to start with and approx 20 videos added a month. This adds a lot of products quickly. I have broken the vids to categories to have separated order pages but I have hit a roadblock: the separated (by category) signup pages are really for new user, right? and current users have to order new stuff through their Member page, right? I don't want this for a couple reasons: 1) its confusing for members and 2) they will have to deal with a huge, clunky list of hundreds of videos - no way. The individual signup pages would work perfectly if you could just hit 'buy' then and have it done with instead of dealing w/ the actual order on the members page. Please help, any advice would be great (even if someone thinks i should dump amember and use a different product for this individual circumstance). I just really need to know how to break down and organize the ordering process and have my members login and get re-directed as little as possible. thanks!
Unfortunately, aMember Pro is not suitable to manage such count of products in catalog. We are working on special "downloads" solution so you don't have to create a separate "product" for each file. However, I would prefer to don't give any estimates when it is finished.
solution for trying to have lots of products Has this been figured out yet, how to have lots of products separated into groups?
After setting up the products in amember, you could create a new page/table with all the products listed and a button to order that specific product using the code: <a href="{$config.root_url}/member.php?action=renew&paysys_id=paypal_r&product_id=2"> Order Now!</a> Where paysys_id is your payment system code, and product_id is your product code. You could probably alter this to use groups as well. David
Hey that is a neat trick David. (btw, in your example there is a space between product and _id) It seems like this would not work if you offer multiple payment processors (autorize.net and paypal in my situation) as the user won't get the option to chose which option they want?
so ok.. wow, this gave me an idea that I just tested that seems to work. Aside from the whole multiple payment option issue, this could be an idea solution for using Amember to power an poor man's "add to cart" solution.. Essentially if you have the code behind the "add to cart" button appending the product ids {insert some logic here for multiple selections of same product, clearing cart, etc} you could dynamically generate a URL that would allow you to add many products of varying product groups, etc. Code: https://yourdomain.com/amember/member.php?action=renew&paysys_id=paypal_r&product_id[]=1&product_id[]=2&product_id[]=3 This obviously does not work for new members and may hit a URL length limitation, but for existing members this could be a stop gap for us for some functionality requests until a true Amember cart solution is available. [/hack]