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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  • 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.

    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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