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Hi,

I like to built a structure whereby if receipt of payment is established (paypal) the payer receives an automatic email with the related attachment.

Is there an easy solution whilst using Simple eCommerce or any other facility of EE? Or how is this best resolved. I prefer not to integrate a third party supplier which offers such facility but want to have it established within my own framework.

Thanks,
Hans

I am afraid there is no easy way to do this with the Simple Commerce Module alone. It’s a rather limited (“simple”) module, allowing you to use PayPal to sell physical goods. Everything more advanced would mean using custom code, or a full-fledged e-commerce system.

Is it the same file in all cases? Perhaps moving buyers into a special member group (which the SCM can do) might be an option, and give that group access to the file somewhere?

I would like to prevent using a full-fledged e-commerce system. As it is indeed in all cases the same file and I like to have the file located on my own server environment. What would it need to establish this in the SCModule? Is the working of this described in the manual?

Thanks for you help.

R, Hans

How about a link to a downloadable file rather than an attachment?  That’s the process I use on Train-ee, and has worked well.

Thanks Boyink, that’s exactly what I meant. Does that help, Hans?

Hi,

I’m actually looking at doing something very similar with the Simple Commerce Module in EE2. I have a course booking system set up, and found the SCM to be the best (and cheapest) way for my client to add purchases.

They have no need for the PayPal integration, and so just enter purchases when they receive paper invoices. On each course template I’ve added a check to see if the current user has access to the course they are viewing, and if so, they can access specific course materials, download PDFs, etc.

This system works fine, however, my client has to manually send emails each time an invoice is received, so what I’d ideally like is for the SCM to send emails to users as soon as their purchase has been entered, to let them know they can access the course materials.

Boyink, how exactly did you add this functionality to Train-ee? I’m reasonably comfortable making changes to system/module code, and I’m guessing this may be necessary.

Thanks,

Mike

Simple Commerce has a “customer email template” that allows you to specify an email that sends upon EE getting it’s IPN notification from PayPal.  I just create product-specific emails and put the download links in that email.

That email is triggered by PayPal however, so you’d need to figure out a manual way to trigger it.

slacktop,

I am going to move this thread to the CodeShare Corner as more appropriate there

Do you just use the the SM to keep track of purchases and to automatically move the memebr to a new member group?

Because you could probably do most of that with a dedicated weblog to keep track of offline purchases.
You then have al that data easily available in your templates to create printable reports etc.
You could even build a simple tool in your template to send an product specific email using a form, and embed and this add-on.

You then don’t have the restrictions of using the SC without Paypal