How to build digital download store with wordpress

By OnlineMarketingDummy on Apr 2, 2011 in Affiliate Marketing, Recommended IM Tools and ebooks, Turnkey Website, wordpress

Hi,

Recently, I have found this fantastic wordpress theme when i am looking a way to setup my self help ebook store. This is a very user friendly with lots of functionality for you to setup an online store including a digital download store.

I have get the quite complete theme installation to show how it can help you setup a store in just an hour or less.

Below is the theme installation guide:

Installing and Activating StoreFront

Upload StoreFront theme under wp-content/themes directory and then Activate the theme from your WordPress admin panel > Themes.

Premium WordPress Shopping Cart Theme

Auto Install Dummy Content

Go to Themes, and from here you can install or delete the sample data.
If you want to auto install the dummy data then just click on “Yes insert sample data please”. Theme will be activated & completely installed with some added dummy content and categories by default so you can start using it right away.

If you wish to delete the dummy data that we populated in your site then you can remove it by clicking on Yes Delete Please!

Design Settings

Go to wp-admin > Shopping Cart > Design Settings page. Take a thorough look at all the flexible options available to you. Do the settings as per your wish and then save them.

How to Add a Product

Go to wp-admin > Shopping Cart > Add Product Option page.

Product Title
Product Description
Product Category Select
Product 6 Images
Digital Product Setup : 1) Go to wp-admin > Shopping Cart > General Settings Option page.
2) Select Store Front Type – Digital Shop & Submit button now you can see this option
Enter Product Price
Select Product for Sale
Product Sale last date set
Product Sale Price
Product Weight
Select is Product taxable or tax free
Enter Product Size with price
Enter Product Color with price
Is product Out of Stock? – Check this box in order to show your product as out of stock
Opening Stock – Mention opening stock of this product. If the product is out of stock, keep the value as “0″. Leave this textbox blank if you want to show the stock as unlimited.
Low Stock Notification – Mention product stock here when you want to get a notification alerting you about low stock. Leave it blank if you do not need notification.
Show available stock on your store? – Select this if you want to show the figure of the product quantity in stock.
Set Custom Affiliate URL Link – For this particular product, if you want to disable your shopping cart and want to take your visitor to some other website (for example an affiliate link to Amazon.com), mention the full URL here and Buy Now button will appear on your site that will take the user to new site

Other General Settings for Store Front

Go to wp-admin > General Settings Option page.

Store Type – (a) Shopping Cart, (b) Digital Shop, (c) Catalog Mode
- (a) Shopping Cart – Customer can place the order to purchase the product and pay via diffent payment gateways, then shipping and all.
- (b) Digital Shop – Customer can place the order to purchase the product and pay via diffent payment gateways, after successful payment and order approval a link to download digital product will ge generated and display in “My Account” section. He can now login and download it.
- (c) Catalog Mode – In this mode insted of shopping cart “Send Inquiry” Button will be appear on the product detail page. The completed shopping cart mode will disappear. Any can send inquiry for the product and email will be send to admin or site email.
Checkout Type (for “Shopping Cart” and “Digital Shop” only) – (a) Shopping Cart, (b) Buy Now Button
- (a) Shopping Cart – you can see “Add To Cart” Button while view product
- (b) Buy Now Button – you can see “Buy Now” Button while view product
Checkout/Login Method (a) Normal Checkout (b) Checkout as Guest
- (a) Normal Checkout – you can see the options for “Sign In” and “Registration”
- (b) Checkout as Guest – you can see the option for “Guest Checkout” from where any guest user can place an order without registration while processing for chekcout.
Send Registration Email Notification – In case of Checkout as Guest do you want to send Registration Email Notification : yes or no
From Email Name – Name that will be shown as email sender when users receive emails from this site
From Email ID – emails to users will be sent via this mail ID
Default Currency (Ex.: USD) – All the order payment transtions will be done via the this currency code
Default Currency Symbol (Ex.: $) – The currency symboll will display with product price
Product Tax – apply to each products (%) – Percentage amount of Product Tax will be apply (if product is applicable for tax) while purchasing the product

Product Settings

Product Image Path (http://192.168.1.111/project/storefront/wp-content/uploads/)
(Default folder is “products_img”) – All the product images will uploaded to this folder
Digital Product Path (http://192.168.1.111/project/storefront/wp-content/uploads/)
(Default folder is “digital_products”) – All the digital product files will uploaded to this folder
Display Product Weight – want to product weight on product detail page or not
Display “Tell a Friend” on Product detail page – want to “Tell a Friend” on product detail page or not
Display “Add Comment” on Product detail page – want to “Add Comment” on product detail page or not
Display “Related Products” on Product detail page – want to “Related Products” on product detail page or not

Stock Settings

Set email alert on minimum stock of Product

Other Settings

Display Blog Page link on header navigation – want to “Blog” page link on header navigation or not
Display Store Page link on header navigation – want to “Store” page link on header navigation or not
Display Number of Orders on Admin Dashboard
Display Coupon code on checkout page – want to “Coupon code” on checkout page or not
Display Term and Conditions – Display Term and Conditions checkbox at checkout page
Registration Page Mandatory Fields – The selected fields will be Mandatory Fields while collecting user information
Login Page Top Content – enter the content you want to display at top (above login form) on Member Login page

Blog Settings

Go to wp-admin > Shopping Cart > Design Settings Option page. From here you can select the Blog category.

Add Blog Post

Go to wp-admin > Posts > Add Post Option page.

Post Title
Post Description
Post Category Select

Home Page Settings

Go to wp-admin > Appearance > Widgets Option page.

Front Page Header Banner : PT-> Advt470X60px
Front Page Main Banner: PT -> Advy 680X245px
Front Page Latest Products
Front Page- Sidebar : PT -> Advt 200X150px

Below is a preview of Homepage:

Affiliate Module usage Instruction guide:

1) How to manage affiliate module from admin:
Go to wp-admin -> login -> Shopping Cart -> Affiliates

Set “Affiliate settings” – Affiliate Share Amount(%) and Affiliate Cookie Alive time (in Days).
- Affiliate Registration Page URL
- Affiliate Login Page URL
- Affiliate Share Amount(%) Default Share Amount is 0%)
- Affiliate Cookie Alive time (in Days)(Default Cookie alive time is 1 day)
- Registration Page Content Top This content will show at top in affiliate registration page content area
- Registration Page Content Bottom This content will show at bottom in affiliate registration page content area
Manage Affiliate Links – click on “Add Affiliate Link”, you will see the form to add affiliate information.
- - Link Title
- - Link URL
- - Link Status and submit.(Note : Affiliate link should be product detail page URL link of the site only other links will not effect affiliate module, Affiliate member will not given share commission for those links.)
Your link will be saved and will appear to affiliate members only if the status is “Show“.
You can even delete it also.

2) how to register as affiliate member :

Go to wp-admin -> login -> Shopping Cart -> Affiliates-> Settings -> Affiliate Registration Page URL
You can place this URL at any where on affiliate page from where members can register as affiliates.

3) Go to “My Account Page” you can see the affiliate section in your account page below “My Personal Information” section.

Affiliate Information
Sale Summary
Affiliate Links

4) You can see your sales detail information from “Sale Summary->View Detail link”

on the detail page you can see the detail, search by date and you can export to excel format.

Manage Stock

Go to wp-admin -> login -> Shopping Cart -> Stock
From Store Products Stock Management system you can see the Prouct Opening Stock, Sold Out products, Current Stock, Low stock value and Stock enabled?

How to Bulk Upload Products ?

Yes, you can bulk upload several products with the help of CSV file. Go to Shopping Cart > Bulk Upload.
Firstly download the sample CSV file by clicking on download sample CSV file. Now all you need to do, is to fill out the new CSV as per this sample CSV file. Below is a explanation of the columns in CSV file:

Post Title: Product Title
Post Content: Product Description
Post Category: Category of the product
productimage: Name of the image file for this product
productimage2: Name of the image file (for additional images)
productimage3: Name of the image file (for additional images)
productimage4: Name of the image file (for additional images)
productimage5: Name of the image file (for additional images)
productimage6: Name of the image file (for additional images)
digital_product: In case, this is a digital product, enter the filename of the zip file
price: Price of the product
spPrdLstDate: If this is a special product, then enter the last date of the offer
specialprice: If this is a special product, then enter its price (sale price, which would be less than price)
weight: Enter weight of the product
istaxable: Is the product taxable ? If yes, then enter 1, else leave it blank
size: Enter additional product attributes, like size
color: Enter additional product attributes, like color
affiliate_link: If this is an affiliate product, then enter the affiliate link here