Hi
I'm using 4.7 with ecommerce and audio to sell downloadable audio programmes.
I also have some free podcasts available on the site. I use playlist and audio_playlist for this.
The next stage is that I would like to sell subscriptions to podcasts:
1. User has one personal, secure (with MD5 hash in url as a mimumum) RSS2 feed from the site, which they can setup in their iTunes or other podcatcher.
2. Any normal downloadable programmes they buy automatically get added to their personal podcast feed. Perhaps the feed could be based on '?q=store/myfiles/xx' page generated by ecommerce???
3. They can buy subscriptions to premium podcasts on the site. Whenever a new episode is added to a podcast and their subscription is still current it is added to their 'myfiles' ecommerce page, and therefore to their personal podcast feed.
4. Ideally they should be able to prepay for a years subscription to a podcast as well as pay monthly recurring.
Is anyone working on anything similar?
Or could you suggest the best way to implement this please?
All advice very gratefully received.
Steve
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Views/Actions/Workflow useful in this case??
Just a quick follow up on my question above...
Do you think its possible to do the above by using a combinations of ecommerce/Views/Actions/Workflow?? Or will it require custom coding?
I'm happy to contribute to sponsorship of development for this kind of functionality.
cheers
steve
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Steve Parks
Convivio - a digital services agency
http://weareconvivio.com
podcast sales
*shameless bump*
Really keen to crack this one...any advice from a drupal expert please?
Any advice is very very much appreciated
Thanks
:)
steve
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Steve Parks
Convivio - a digital services agency
http://weareconvivio.com
daily downloads
STEVE -
I have the same questions you do. One I'd like to add is:
The vcasts, in my case, are created as a series, so I'd like subscribers to download a new cast, the next in the series, each subsequent day - as opposed to all at once and having at them in whatever random order they choose.
It's not feasible to simply 'post' a new one each day myself, as the series is the same for everyone, but user subscriptions will start on different dates.
How is it possible to 'time-release' file downloads based on user's subscription start date?
To convolute the issue, I'd like it to be cumulative or some sort of 'running total' :
ex: 1) If their sub runs out, they should still be able to download the casts they paid for.
ex: 2) If, say, it's day 17 of a 30 day sub, and they've only downloaded the first 5 days' casts,
they should be able to 'get current' and download all 'casts available to-date.'
thanks, all !
- MARK