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For payment processing I recommend stripe, it just works. EDD is a good choice, there are a lot of extension plugins available to add functionality as needed. WooCommerce is another option.

If you want to just sell downloads of your videos then EDD should be all you need, if you want to sell sure access to streaming video then look at my EDD extension plugin which does just this. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions, best of luck with your project.

Gavin

Hi Neilaj, if you want to just sell video as a downloadable file you probably have a few options, including easy digital downloads and woocommerce. If you want something a bit more advanced where you can stream the video, show trailers before purchade, and work across devices, then check out my plugins which integrate with the HostStreamSell.com platform.

Gavin

Hi jo13sue, apologies I’m only seeing this now.

The only difference is that currently our Easy Digital Downloads plugin supports selling a group of videos as a single item as well as selling videos as individual items, our WooCommerce plugin only supports selling each video as an item.

If selling groups of videos is not important to you, then your choice will be led by whether you would prefer to use the main Easy Digital Downloads or WooCommerce digital store plugins.

Gavin

Hi lorax,

Woocommerce provides the shopping cart and payment processing functions. Yes, everything related to the videos is configured and stored in our system, and the update button pulls this information including a unique ID for each video which is all stored in your WordPress database as Woocommerce products.

The video player on your website can then play the video hosted in our system by sending a request to our system referencing that unique ID and we return the streaming information for the player.

When a customer makes a purchase, your website will send a request to us saying allow access to user X for video Y. When this user goes to watch the video, we know to return information for streaming the full video rather than just the trailer. We can also make decisions based on how long you have specified access for and if you have set streaming bandwidth limits for each purchase.

All of the requests are made possible through our RESTful API.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Gavin

Having a look at your account, it looks like you still need to do a few steps in your hoststreamsell dashboard:

• For the video you have uploaded, click on the Edit Details button, update the name and a description (optional) and press Save
• Create a Group by clicking on the Groups menu link and then the ‘Add Group’ link. Give it a name and description (optional)
• For the group you have created, click on the Assign Videos button, then select your video and Save

You are then ready to move to the steps on your WordPress website as shown above.

Gavin

Hey, so assuming you have the main woocommerce plugin installed (https://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/) and the plugin you listed above, then in your WordPress dashboard you do the following:

• In the menu on the left, go to Settings -> HSS WOO Admin
• Enter your API key provided when you registered on hoststreamsell.com and press Save
• Press the Update button

You should now have products automatically entered with all their details and pricing as configured in the steps in your hoststreamsell dashboard. Click on Products in the same left menu and you should see a product for each video, if not then you have missed a step during setting up your videos in your hoststreamsell dashboard so go back and review, and reach out again if you cannot figure it out.

In your woocommerce settings (WooCommerce -> Settings) you will need to disable guest checkout by unchecking the box beside it and saving.

Go to your woocommerce Store page on your website and your videos should be there. By default, the each video page will play the trailer. When a customer purchases a video (and whenever they return and are logged in) and go to the video page again they will now see the full video instead of the trailer.

Gavin

Apologies, I was merely pointing itsmemary to our website which seems an absolutely relevant option for what he is trying to do – selling
streaming video through WordPress using a 3rd party hosting platform.

Easy Digital Downloads is a great plugin for selling digital downloads, and we have actually built a plugin which extends this to allow selling streaming video access instead of downloads.

You are correct though that it is not a simple problem to solve. There are various issues around different browsers and devices supporting different video formats, streaming protocols, flash or no flash, adaptive-bitrate switching or not, never mind the problems around securing access to your video streams, and providing accounting and analytics on who is accessing your streams and from where.

Anyway, if we can be of help (even just to answer some general questions around video streaming) then please get in touch ??

Check out https://www.hoststreamsell.com, seems like we could help…