Next Version of Digital Shop - 2.0.6 - Post Suggestions Here

Site Admin Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 756

Please post what features you would like to see in the next version of the Digital Shop.

So far, the planned features are:
Template driven email purchase notifications/receipts.
Allow Items to be added as free downloads.

Update: This version has been released!

Joined: Mar 25, 2007 Posts: 27

Give admin options

One Id like to see is in config or for each product to enable approvals before the download info is sent out, this will help with fraud attempts any suspicious orders can go through approval process rather then IPN responding saying the purchase was fraudulent and culprit has the download Sad

March 27 07
SEF's
Rate system (star rating)?
CSS based vertical rate?

NEW March 29 07
- How about adding a clone option or duplicate?
- On hover for the item link in modules.php?name=Digital_Shop&do=administer&act=item_manager one of the images (1st?) appear in a small popup window, this will help when trying to find a specific product.

Ill keep adding here when I think of more Cool

Site Admin Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 756

I like the manual approval idea Smile

There is already a rating system, so I'm not sure what you mean by this:

Quote:

SEF's
Rate system (star rating)?
CSS based vertical rate?

Joined: Mar 25, 2007 Posts: 27

More of a way to display the rating in images such as stars or vertical css bar(s)

SEF's : Search Engine friendly URL's
/shop/products/cat1/item2
Usually htaccess file editting for this

Site Admin Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 756

It comes with the google tap files for nuke, which makes the urls nice and short.
And the rating images can be replaced by just overwriting the ones included.

Joined: Mar 25, 2007 Posts: 27

Sounds great Ill have to do more testing Smile

Quote:

It comes with the google tap files for nuke, which makes the urls nice and short.
And the rating images can be replaced by just overwriting the ones included.

Where do I enable this ^^

Site Admin Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 756

You'll have to install GoogleTap, GT-nextgen, or ShortLinks.
ShortLinks is the newest so you will probably want to use that one, the other 2 are old and unsupported. Get ShortLinks at montegoscripts.com

Then in your package you will see a folder called extras.
Inside the GoogleTap folder you will find GT-Digital_Shop.php and htaccess.txt.
Upload the GT-Digital_Shop.php to your ShortLinks folder and add the contents of the htaccess.txt to the .htaccess on your site.

Joined: Dec 13, 2005 Posts: 91

Hey Gotcha

Idd like to see an actual number next to the reviews, for the submitted reviews, its doing my head in clicking the reviews tab to see if some one has wrote one !

let me think of some more ! Very Happy

Joined: Mar 25, 2007 Posts: 27

- How about adding a clone option or duplicate?
- On hover for the item link in modules.php?name=Digital_Shop&do=administer&act=item_manager one of the images (1st?) appear in a small popup window, this will help when trying to find a specific product.

Code Authors · Joined: Dec 09, 2006 Posts: 249

Allowing items to be added as free downloads seems like a great idea Wink

I also like the proposal to show the number of reviews submitted per item to save clicking the review link as posted by xGSTQ.

I'm not certain of your long temr road map for this project but something I would definitely like to see at some point (not for my own use but for flexibility) is the ability to sell 'services'.
Say for example you can create a number of service 'categories' with an assigned costs, then a number of assigned service 'sub-categories' with an attached cost it should then be possible to dynamically create a user form to sell 'services like hosting, theme design, installation or anything else for that matter.
E.g. an 'Installation' service category might be assigned a null cost but there might be service sub-categories like 'Modules' with an assigned cost of $10 (the starting costs) then depending in the module that a user wants installing, these can be assigned further costs (perhaps using a drop down list or something).

This would seriously expand the functionality of the base script from what is essentially a downloads module to a fully fledged 'shop'.

I just hope this post does not open up a huge can of worms Smile

Site Admin Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 756

To see waiting reviews count, you can drop this bit of code into the adminblock function in mainfile.php....

php:

 $rvl = $db->sql_numrows($db->sql_query("SELECT id FROM shop_reviews WHERE approved='0'"));

    $content .= "<strong><big>

& middot;</big></strong><a href='modules.php?name=Digital_Shop&do=administer&act=reviews'>Reviews</a>: $rvl<br />";

I'll still work it into the next release, but this makes it even easier Smile

Keep the great ideas coming, even if they don't make it to the next release, they will still be on the table for future versions.

Joined: Mar 25, 2007 Posts: 27

After adding add client might want to have them appear under client manager as well, maybe have item id's on drop down from "Add Client" once selected the thumb appears to the right, this will help for sure.

Joined: Mar 25, 2007 Posts: 27

How about a currency converter something like this will help client.

Code Authors · Joined: Dec 09, 2006 Posts: 249

You could simply add this free one, it is only one line of code and is free for 10,000 requests per month - http://dynamicconverter.com/

Or there is a java script one here - http://www.oanda.com/products/currencyconverter/demo-converters.shtml

Make sure you also include a disclaimer about the accuracy as the conversion rate shown on the site may be slightly different to the one that PayPal uses.

Joined: Mar 25, 2007 Posts: 27

I was suggesting more for on the fly pricing, when user selects USD, CAN EUR etc the prices on the products change as well, simply add the currencies in admin area, place current currencies in admin set the default and the drop down from frontend should dynamically change all product prices and symbol