EDD Suitability

  • Resolved Bunzer

    (@bunzer)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    I spent yesterday setting up another shopping cart, only to find out that I couldn’t charge different amounts for product variations. Bummer.

    I want to sell photos, mainly as physical prints and cards, but potentially also as licensed downloads. Ideally, I want a shortlist of popular images in a “shop/store” page, with an option to buy each image as different sizes of cards and prints (each “size” having its own price), with collection or shipping options. Selling as RM stock with a selection of different usage prices would be a nice addition too.

    Potentially, it would also be cool if I could add a buy button to every page/image on my website, for people who like an image not included in the shortlist.

    I know that EDD doesn’t do physical products out of the box, but I wonder how easy/cheap it would be to extend to cover my requirements?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/easy-digital-downloads/

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  • Plugin Contributor Pippin Williamson

    (@mordauk)

    We do have a Simple Shipping extension that could work for you: https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/simple-shipping/

    It provides simple shipping so it may be too simple for you, but take a look at it and let me know if it looks like it may work.

    Thread Starter Bunzer

    (@bunzer)

    Thanks. I’d already looked at that page. It’s difficult to say at the moment, as I’ve never used EDD.

    I’ll give an example:
    Let’s say I have a photo of a unicycling hippo.
    It’s a popular image, so it’s in the blog AND in a gallery of popular photos.
    By each gallery photo, there’s a BUY NOW button, together with a drop-down selection box.
    In the selection, you can choose: postcard, greeting card, small print, medium print and large print.
    Each choice has a set price, e.g. ￡1 for a postcard, ￡10 for a medium print.
    Postcards are cheaper to ship than large prints.

    An added bonus is the ability to add a similar buy now button automatically to every blog image.

    An added bonus is the ability to provide the image as a licensed digital download, but most will not have the high-res source file available to begin with. I could upload these for the gallery, but I suspect that the blog would be the best source of stock images.

    I was hoping to avoid spending another day getting to know an ecommerce package only to find out it’s unsuitable, and I don’t want to spend a bunch of cash if it’s not going to get used.

    I guess I’m just going to have to install EDD to get a better feel for how it works, and then see if Simple Shipping will close the deal. I hope so, because I’ve heard good things about both EDD and WooCommerce, and EDD looks more suited to my requirements.

    Plugin Contributor Pippin Williamson

    (@mordauk)

    That’s not going to work well with EDD.

    We don’t offer a way to sell images from galleries like that.

    I’d suggest you check out the “Sell Media” plugin.

    Thread Starter Bunzer

    (@bunzer)

    I already tried and eliminated Sell Media.

    Thanks for your time. I’ve set up a shop with Simple Paypal Shopping Cart, but I can only sell one product type per button. So a gallery of 40 popular images will need at least 200 shortcodes, and that’s before I’ve even started on the blog.

    Back to the drawing board.

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