Sell Digital Products & Services

Link: https://support.brilliantdirectories.com/support/solutions/articles/12000057707

Overview

Generate additional revenue from members by selling digital products and services directly through the website.

Sell ebook downloads, banner ad placements, marketing services and more. The website will automatically charge the member’s credit card. The user will receive a confirmation email and be redirected to a confirmation/download page.

How To Get This Add-On

1. Websites with the VIP Add-Ons Club automatically have this add-on available: Join The VIP Add-Ons Club
2. Purchase Individually: Sell Digital Products & Services Add-On

IMPORTANT: This post type should only be activated for the admin membership plan, not for directory members. This feature is directly linked to the website payment gateway so any purchases made will be paid to the admin.

NOTE: In order to utilize this add-on, the website requires a secure HTTPS connection. Get an SSL Certificate HERE if the website does not currently have one.

NOTE: Users must be logged in to an account to get a Digital Product. This is required for all types of digital products: free, paid and recurrent.

Enabling the Add-On

Go to Finance - Membership Plans:

Select the Admin membership level:

Go to Post Publishing tab and scroll down to activate the Website - Digital Products Feature:

Adding Digital Products

Log into the Admin profile and using the left sidebar find the Website - Digital Products to a new Digital Product:

Digital Products Form

Fill out the Digital products form. Here's a list of the fields available in this form:

1. Publish content on the site or save it as a draft.
2. Add the Title of the Digital Product.
3. Payment Type - Select if the product will be free, one time paymet, recurrent or a custom donation.
4. Add the "Buy Button Text" - Call to action
5. Add a Price - Product can be set as $0 and it would be free and no CC would be required.
6. Select the Available Quantity.
7. Redirect the members after a purchase to a "thank you" page or a custom page within the web pages.
8. Select the email template it will be sent. There is a default email template called: Digital Product Purchase Complete, it is the default email template. This one can be used it or create a new one. Website admins can make use of the variable %group_name% to incorporate the title of the digital product into the email template.
9. Select the email template that will be sent to the publisher(Admin) of the digital product. There is a default email template called: Digital Product Purchase Complete, it is the default email template. This one can be used it or create a new one.
10. Enter related keywords.
11. Add a description

NOTE: If the Credits System Add-on is enabled, there will be two additional fields appearing in the form:

• Credits to Add After Purchase: Buyers will receive this credit amount one time after initial purchase. Leave blank if no credits are granted.
• Allow Use of Existing Credits for Purchase?: Select 'Yes' to allow buyers to use existing credits towards this purchase, or 'No' to require the use of a payment method.

Once all of the details have been saved, add the images to the Digital Product feature.

Upload as many images as needed.

1. Title
2. Description
3. Rotate Image
4. Delete

Arrange the Photo Display Order:

All Digital Products (drafts or published) will be displayed in the member dashboard. To View, Edit, Clone or Delete the Digital Product click on the Actions drop-down to display the available options:

Digital Products URL

Find the Digital Products using the URL:

yoursite.com/digital-products

Thank You Page

If a Thank You page was selected, make sure to also protect the page. This can also be done for any static page.

In the Web Page Builder go to the static page and in the Page Details select Protect Page and only Allow Digital Products Buyers, then choose the digital products that are associated to this page.

This allows to select multiple Digital products so this will Restrict this page to be only visible for the buyers of the selected Digital Products.

If a user tries to access the page without having purchased the product a message will appear letting indicating that they don't have access to this page: