Limit Access to purchased streamed video and PDF

For the PDF download part of your setup, you can create a Downloadable product that includes the pdf file as the downloadable media. There is a setting to configure how many times can a customer download the files. You can read documentation on how to create downloadable products here:

https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/digital-downloadable-product-handling/

As for restricting access to a specific page, that’s something you’ll require an additional plugin or custom code to achieve. I would personally recommend using WooCommerce Memberships, as that is the exact use case it is build for. However, I know you mentioned you’d like an alternative solution. You can do some research for any other membership plugin that is offered for free in the WordPress repository.

I’ll leave this thread open for now, in case anyone else has suggestions about plugins that might work for this scenario.

Thank you Fernando. Could you help me visualize how it would work to “bundle” the two things (the PDF and the video page link)? Would I set up product as a virtual/downloadable item, and then in the Purchase Notes would there be the link to the page with the video? I guess I don’t understand how they would get access/be directed to the video.

I will look at some other membership plugins as you suggested. The $200 annual would be difficult for us to afford. This will likely be our only video for sale, and we don’t expect many sales.

Thank you –

hey there!

Could you help me visualize how it would work to “bundle” the two things (the PDF and the video page link)?

You could do this by using shortcodes to show both products on the same page: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-shortcodes/#section-16

You can also do this using Woo Blocks, if you’re already working with blocks. You’d want to the “handpicked products” block:
https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-blocks/

Would I set up product as a virtual/downloadable item, and then in the Purchase Notes would there be the link to the page with the video? I guess I don’t understand how they would get access/be directed to the video.

Customers would see a link in their order confirmation email, as well as have access through My Account > Orders. Once they’ve paid for the product, this will happen automatically and you won’t need to do anything.

As Fernando mentioned, here’s some more information on how this process works:
https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/digital-downloadable-product-handling/

I will look at some other membership plugins as you suggested. The $200 annual would be difficult for us to afford. This will likely be our only video for sale, and we don’t expect many sales.

Fair enough, it’s up to you to decide when a plugin will have enough return on investment for your site. I don’t know of another good way to handle allowing access to a certain page, though there are likely other plugins that I’m not aware of.

I hope that helps!

Thank you for your input Hannah. I will look into the options you suggested. I am still looking for options to restrict content. I will post a solution here if I find one.

Glad I could help, and please do share whatever other options you find!

Hi @suchipsa,

We have not heard back from you for a bit, so we will go ahead and close this thread. If you have further questions on this please let us know as it will re-open it, otherwise open a new thread if there are different questions.

Have a super day!