Can this plugin be used for free one-time downloads?

  • Resolved sharonejackson

    (@sharonejackson)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    I need a download plugin to reward people who supported a Kickstarter campaign. Donors of over $25 are going to get a free copy of a book.

    I want to be able to email those people and direct them to a special page on my website where they can download it ONCE for a very limited time.

    So the questions are
    1. can the product be free
    2. can the download be limited to one
    3. can it be time constrained ie. in the next five minutes.

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

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  • Hi there,

    1. Yes, products can be free. They will still be required to go through the checkout process so that a purchase record is created, to ensure the file is only downloadable by those who have purchased it.

    2. Yes, there’s a setting to limit the # of times a product can be downloaded, and you can disable redownloads entirely if you want.

    3. That’s not a feature we support at this time. We do have link expirations though, which can be set to an hourly value. For example, if you shared the same download link with the whole list, the link could be made to expire. This would be useful if you didn’t want the backers to go through the checkout process and you did it yourself for the purposes of sharing a single link with them all. Otherwise, we don’t have an option for that. Hope that makes sense.

    Let us know if you have any other questions.

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