Shopping cart Express v4.2

Greetings folks!
I’m using Express 4.2.4 and want to set up shop. My goal is to sell tutorials that can be downloaded.

  • Can this be done in Express 4?
  • I’m not a web guy. Is it pretty simple to set up through Mal’s cart? Should I really set this up through a web guru?

Thanks.

-Alan


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Hi, yes…it’s really simple to set up a shop. Just read the tutorials about it and use Mals Cart…!

All the best,

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Thank you sir!

Yeah, I’ve been reading the shop manual for v4. seems easy enough.
Tell me, did you have any concerns for security? Does Mals Cart take of all that?

Is it really as easy as setting up an Mals acct and plug it in to your site?

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No there aren’t any security concerns as Mal’s Eccommerce uses secure methods to transfer payements such as Paypal…which mean it is not alway Mals itself that handles the money side.

Also, with regards to the security of keeping prices without alteration there are certain codes that assigned to products which means that the prices cannot be changed.

If it’s download products you are selling then you may wish to consider Link-Locks (http://www.link-lock.com/software/linklock-mals-e.html) which automaticall sends out a hidden link to the customers for download…meaning that they can not see where the file is stored. Also, this provides a time in which that file can be downloaded and a specific number of times the file can be downloaded!

Hope that helps…all the best,

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Thanks again FT.

Joe Billings from softpress gave me that link as well. Yeah, my goal it have customers download my tutorials so it would be good it the download link was only good for a period of time.
I will need to look into this. Thanks!

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What kind of tutorials are you selling?


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Hi Dan,

I am creating photoshop rendering tuts geared for product designers. It’ll cover the very basic skills to more advanced skills.

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BTW, does anyone have an opinion on which avenue would be better?

  • Burn to disk and send out?
  • Create a down load link good only for a few days?

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Hi… Glad that helped!

I’d probably go for the send out link option as it means you don’t have to do anything each time a tutorial is ordered…it is automatic. As a pose to you having to post out CDs.

However, there may be a market for the disc version too. Perhaps think about offering the option of a disc at least for a short ‘trial’ period once your store has started to sell and then from that decide whether it is really wanted or not.

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Hi Alano

If you hoped this to amount any quantity then I’d use linklok for Mals as I
mentioned recently to this or a similar thread.

If it was that difficult to implement I wouldn’t be able to do it :wink:

If you like the walk to the post box or post office then maybe it’ll save
you from screen death - but otherwise the download option is worth setting
up for an ongoing flow of videos.

all the best
Brian-S

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BTW, does anyone have an opinion on which avenue would be better?

  • Burn to disk and send out?
  • Create a down load link good only for a few days?

Thanks.

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Thanks so much for help with this Fergus. This really helps!

-Alan


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-Burn to disk and send out?

  • Create a down load link good only for a few days?

Since most people have broadband access these days the download option is more expedient and in my opinion more popular because of it. Besides, you have to charge more for disk and shipping so the cost of download is going to be more tempting.

But…if these tuts are HUGE files, download may not be viable.


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Plus…if you know your producing high quality tutorials then it might be an idea trying to get them distributed via the many free CDs that are offered with Mac and PC magazines…just a thought .

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