Creating a downloadable product
Using downloadable products, you can offer digital products such as images, documents, and other files.
To create a downloadable product, in the submenu New click Downloadable product.
This forwards you to the page where you can enter the general product details. First, enter a unique value in the
Product number field. Having done this, enter additional general information; see
Product details – General
Save your entries by clicking Save.
After saving, additional tabs will be activated. You are immediately led to the
Downloads tab. This tab only exists for downloadable products. Upload the files which belong to this. See
Downloads. After this, enter the remaining information as described in
Product details – Images and following.
In the Product settings under Downloadable product, you can set when the files are available to be downloaded. You can set whether the customer can download the files immediately after completing the order or only after payment.
In the detail view of the order, you can send the links for downloading manually. In the editing mode, you can change the limits for downloading for this order.
Downloads
In the table, you can see all the files that you have uploaded for the current downloadable product.
If you want to upload files directly, click Upload file.
If you have saved the files to an external server and the customer should download them from there directly, click Link file and enter the URL of the file.
Click the file name to open the file.
In addition, you can limit downloading of the current downloadable product by the customer as follows:
- By time: Limit the time during which the customer can download the files.
- Quantity: Limit how many times the customer can download the files.
It can be useful for the sale of downloadable products to not put any files here. This applies to software or documents that you need to customize for the customer. In this case, you are responsible for sending the files yourself.