michaelrmurrin

Hi, I’m sorry, I had not had the energy to look into this yet but I will take note of these things and I don’t have the energy to look into them right now but I will take note of these things and hopefully get to trying them soon, thanks.

Hi @mordauk

Am I correct in seeing that this plugin is $29 a year? I’m going to be selling like 1 PDF a year. I guess I’m used to using things like Firefox plugins, etc., that are free and open source or whatever. From a store/selling standpoint, this is nearly just a website for my hobby. I’m not running a business where I’m making basically any money. I just want it to be set up right.

If I can’t use the plugin for custom purchase receipts, then I’ll have to write out a long template that applies to both purchases and free downloads, and I don’t even know what I’ll write, because in the case of “purchases”, the reason the download link expires is for copyright protection. In the case of “free downloads”, the reason the download link expires is just so that people can’t host this (free) work I did on any website other than my own. So I don’t even know what I’m going to say in my purchase receipt. Because I HAVE to have a warning in the purchase receipt informing the person that the link will expire in 24 hours. But I don’t want to just look like some greedy or unreasonable seller by not explaining why. If I sell someone sheet music for a piece I wrote, they download it, a year later they lose their data and they have to re-download it again, and they go back in their email and find the download link, and get blindsided with the fact that it’s expired, they may come back at me with an angry email about how I stole money from them or something. So I’m going to have to explain in the purchase receipt, that the download link expires, and that if they lose their data, they can contact me and I’ll re-send them the music.

But I need to explain this for both the free downloads and the purchases. And having to come up with some long explanatory template to cover both purchases and free downloads seems unnecessary. I just wanted a place where people can buy my music. I’m not running a business. (For legal purposes, I am, but what I mean is, I’m not making my living (or hardly any money) with this). (That’s why I ditched WooCommerce, because with them, with WooCommerce Payments and all that, they’re going to hold 25% of my payments for 2 months, and it’s like, I’m selling like 1 thing a year! I’m not opening some big business.)

This whole experience has been a nightmare. All I wanted to do was add a plugin to my website so people can buy PDFs directly from my website instead of emailing me. First WordPress.com doesn’t allow plugins without the extremely expensive business plan, then when I switched to www.ads-software.com, I ran into all sorts of problems with hosting the website, and now problems with plugins — it’s been a nightmare. All I wanted to do was make ONE little change to my website and it’s been a debacle for weeks with one problem after another.

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Thanks for the response. Once I changed the DNS (and nameservers or whatever) of my website, and it was officially published and hosted by BlueHost, the problem got fixed. I can now access/view/preview all of my download files. I’m guessing the problem had something to do with the temporary domain names.