[Carl Craig1]

I'd like to set up a product (audiobook) that would have 2 physical formats and 2 download formats. like

Audio CD
MP3 CD
MP3 Download
M4B Download

If it is possible, how? and would I need to have a paid account to test it.

Thanks

[Kess]

There are several possible ways to do that, the suitable one depends on how exactly you would like it to work.

If you would like your customers to be able to get the book in ONE format only after the purchase, you should create 4 separate products for that. Each format may have its own price, if required, and be either a tangible pro.duct or an intangible one. Or you can create 3 products (one tangible plus 2 intangible ones). In this case the format of the CD can be set as a product option.

Or, you can create 2 products - the first will be a disk (and this product will have two options for the two formats), and the second will be a downloadable product. This case will work if you do not mind providing your customer with both downloadable formats when he/she purchases one downloadable product.

Or you can even have one product with three combinations of options, if you would like to provide your customer with a CD+a downloadable file (in either format) or a downloadable file only. In this case the product itself should have no weight, but it should have the following options:
- Audio CD
- MP3 CD
- MP3 download
- MP4 download

The combinations in this case should be as follows:
- Download only (which will in this case include both file formats)
- Audio CD + downloadable file (which will include both files formats)
- MP3 CD + downloadable file (which will include both files formats)

You can set weight for the last two combinations, which will turn the product into a tangible one, if either of these two are selected by your customers. The main product and the first combination will have no weight and thus will be intangible (thus no shipping fee for the downloadable products).

Options Combinations can be created in Ecwid control panel → Catalog → Products → click on the product you want to set combinations for -> Options → Combinatio​ns. This feature is only available to the paid accounts in Ecwid.

[Carl Craig1]

If I enter each item format as an individual product , so 4 products per book, is there a way to group those products into one? I've seen some systems that do that. and if that's not currently available, is it something that's on the future to-do list?

A possible work around... We don't use your product browser but instead create a page for each product on our system and combine the html output for each product format into one block on our site. I've been trying to test that but the code (I'm using a mydev silver account) doesn't seem to be pulling images.

Carl

[Kess]

Could you possibly clarify how exactly should such a grouped product work? What opportunities should it give to your customers? Do you mean anything like that:
http://ideas.ecwid.com/forums/22031-...

if so, such a functionality will be added soon.
http://ideas.ecwid.com/forums/22031-...
There is one scenario that may probably suit you: for example, you have three products in your store: 1st book, 2nd book and 3rd book. Each book is available in 4 formats: Audio CD, MP3 CD, MP3 download and MP4 download. And you have three pages on your site, one page for each book. In this case you can setup your store in such a way that, when a customer opens the page of 1st book, he/she sees 4 independent products on it: 1st book in Audio CD, 1st book in MP3 CD, 1st book in MP3 download and 1st book in MP4 download. When a customer enters the 2nd book page, he/she sees other 4 independent products on it: 2nd book in Audio CD, 2nd book in MP3 CD, 2nd book in MP3 download and 2nd book in MP4 download. And so on. In this case you should create separate products for each separate format of each book ("1st book in Audio CD" product, "1st book in MP3 CD" product, etc.) and three categories ("1st book", "2nd book" and "3rd book"). Then you should assign the products to the corresponding categories. As a result you will have three categories with 4 products in each. And then you an apply this solution:
http://kb.ecwid.com/w/page/15853258/... for every page of these three.

This will be convenient if you do not have many products in your store.

As for the images - as far as I can see, some products and categories in your store at http://dev.posthypnoticpress.com/sto... simply do not any images specified.

[Ivailo Borisov]

Since I'm having pretty similar issue and couldn't find a workaround, does it mean if I have downloadable product with three options, such as

128 k mp3 - 1 eur
192 k mp3 - +1 eur
flac - +2 eur

the backend does not provide means of linking each file to the corresponding price option and determine which file will be available for download based on payment?

Also, what about being able to use my own server for uploads/downloads, so I can avoid limitations (FLAC's are ~400 MB each).

[Makfruit]

Originally Posted by Ivailo Borisov

Since I'm having pretty similar issue and couldn't find a workaround, does it mean if I have downloadable product with three options, such as

128 k mp3 - 1 eur
192 k mp3 - +1 eur
flac - +2 eur

the backend does not provide means of linking each file to the corresponding price option and determine which file will be available for download based on payment?

In Ecwid, you can attach several files to a product so that a customer will get them all after payment. More details:
http://kb.ecwid.com/w/page/27264368/E-goods

Unfortunately, it is currently not possible to attach downloadable files to product options separately. However, there is a related suggestion in our ideas base. Please vote ofr it in order to get it implemented sooner:
http://ideas.ecwid.com/forums/22031-...

In the meantime, you can consider one of the workarounds suggested in this thread. For example, you can create a separate product for each downloadable file and then create your own product listing using either Ecwid Product API or single product widgets so that all variations of the same album/track will be displayed in group.

Also, what about being able to use my own server for uploads/downloads, so I can avoid limitations (FLAC's are ~400 MB each).

Please refer to this post:
http://www.ecwid.com/forums/showpost...

[Sumiruna]

Originally Posted by Makfruit

In the meantime, you can consider one of the workarounds suggested in this thread. For example, you can create a separate product for each downloadable file and then create your own product listing using either Ecwid Product API or single product widgets so that all variations of the same album/track will be displayed in group.

Hi, Ive got 3 different versions of a downloadable product, which all have different prices.. If Im understanding you correctly, there is more info on how this can be done witout having 3 seperate products on a page? if so please could you give a link to the thread that describes how to do this.. many thanks

[Makfruit]

Originally Posted by Sumiruna

Hi, Ive got 3 different versions of a downloadable product, which all have different prices.. If Im understanding you correctly, there is more info on how this can be done witout having 3 seperate products on a page? if so please could you give a link to the thread that describes how to do this.. many thanks

Hello,

The message you quoted in your post says that it is possible to create separate product for each dowloadable file and create custom product listing using either Ecwid Product API or single product widgets. More details on the API and single product widgets:
http://kb.ecwid.com/w/page/25285101/Product%20API
http://kb.ecwid.com/w/page/23947713/...