Hello,
I am redesigning a website that at one point was attempted to be done in magento. This site specifically sells online tests that are simply a HTTPS html document that you fill out online content, hit submit and the information is sent via a form mailer. In magento, this functionality did work. You could create a product to sell, go into the file download and either specify a manual file to have the customer download, such as a pdf or alternatively a URL web link to send the customer in their invoice. When this product was purchased, they could click a link in their email that would generate a unique encrypted link to this document that was stored on a 3rd party server and it opened fine.
We are trying to port this same functionality to drupal as it's a much easier CMS form and things seem to work better. However, the core functionality for their downloadable products doesn't work at all with ubercart. Ubercart from what i can see will only allow us to upload specific files that the customer has to download. We don't want them downloading these html files. We simply want them clicking a link in their email, it opening the URL to this document on a 3rd party server in their browser and going from there. I haven't seen any other modules that can duplicate the magento download URL functionality either.
Any ideas from anyone of any modules I could use that will allow selling file downloads via a URL external that links to a 3rd party web server, without having to upload any files?
By the way, I have so far looked at ubercart, commerce and ecommerce. I thought I saw what I wanted in filefield sources but not sure on that yet.
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With Ubercart you can sell
With Ubercart you can sell files (http://www.ubercart.org/docs/user/3345/selling_files) or give a user permission (e.g. to use a form) after purchasing an item (http://www.ubercart.org/docs/user/3366/selling_site_access_role_promotions).
Selling Site Access Roles
The selling site access roles may work for what I'm wanting, let me check that out and play with it a bit to see if it will do what I want. Thanks!
google the 'moneyscripts file
google the 'moneyscripts file download module' you have to pay for it but it does exactly wt u need, well worth the money too.. im using it on a site im working on here: http://client.amarablack.com/bandladder
hope that helps
Thanks for the suggestion but
Thanks for the suggestion but moneyscripts seems to be the same as ubercart - in that you have to upload a file and when someone purchases it, they then have to download the file to their computer. What I'm looking for is a module that when they purchase this online exam, they are then sent a unique encrypted URL that is specific to them to their email. In that email, when they click the link, it simply opens up this URL that is an online exam. This exam is simply a web URL with something they read, then answer questions at the bottom and hit submit. That processes via a form mailer. What their basically purchasing is the link for this exam that they can take.
With ubercart and several other modules I've seen, I need to upload a file and then the customer would download this file on their computer. This would be fine for things like books, mp3's, pdf's, etc but not for this purpose. Magento downloadable products worked fine for this, I could either upload a file like ubercart or alternatively I could specify a URL where the specific exams were located and the customers could purchase them. Magento just happened to be extremely slow for them.