Authenticated Page Redirect (APR) allows you to offer secure one-off access to WordPress pages and posts, without requiring the services of a membership plugin.  You might find this capability useful in some cases for selling access to something like an event or time specific page or post, which may in turn provide access to live streaming video. The key thing to understand here is that the APR feature protects the content inside the APR shortcode (it doesn't try to mask the URL of the page). The content inside the APR Shortcode can only be viewed after the customers click on the encrypted link for that product that they receive after the purchase. If anyone directly goes to that URL the content inside the APR shortcode will be hidden. Setup Preparation (Basic Understanding) The security mechanism used by APR is an encrypted session cookie; the APR Cookie.  Each APR cookie is specific to a particular permalink, and contains encrypted timing information.  On the pages being protected by APR, called APR Targets, an APR shortcode encloses the content being protected.  Content enclosed by an APR shortcode will only be displayed if one of the following specified conditions are met: An APR cookie EXISTS in the current browser session. An ...

If you are setting up a revenue sharing site whereby you want to share the profit of the products with the author/creator of the product then you can use the "Revenue Sharing" feature of WP eStore. How Revenue Sharing Works WP eStore allows you to setup a revenue sharing site with the help of the WP Affiliate Software. Basically, you setup your authors as an affiliate then specify the affiliate ID of each author to their corresponding products when setting up the product in eStore (this links the author with a particular product). When a product is sold, eStore checks to see if this product is using revenue sharing. If revenue sharing is used for that product then it awards the appropriate amount to the corresponding author of the product in the form of affiliate commission. The commissions will keep accruing whenever this product sells. You can then payout all the outstanding commission (the authors share) at the end of the month or week or whatever. How to Use the Revenue Sharing Feature Step1: Enable the revenue sharing feature from the "AddOn" settings menu of WP eStore [caption id="attachment_932" align="alignnone" width="444" caption="Enable Revenue Sharing"][/caption] Step2: Create an affiliate account for each of your authors/product creators (You ...

WP eStore has built in stats feature that gives you overall sales data as well as itemized sales stats. This statistics is very useful but having the option to track sales through Google Analytics rocks my world so I added this option to WP eStore plugin. Checkout the Google Analytics E-Commerce Tracking Presentation to learn more on this. Please note E-Commerce tracking does not work for "Subscription" payments as the recurring payments take place in the background. How to Add Google Analytics E-Commerce Tracking on eStore Step 1: Make sure you already have a Google Analytics account and are already tracking visitors through Google Analytics (everyone with a serious online business should be doing this already) - if you don't already do this, then open a Google Analytics account today and get the  Google Analytics For Wordpress plugin Step 2: Enable E-Commerce Tracking on your Google Analytics account from the profile page. This presentation explains how to do it if you are not sure. Step 3: Add the post payment transaction result display option explained here. Step 4: Check the "Enable Google Analytics Tracking" checkbox in the setting menu of WP eStore plugin (Look under the 3rd Party Integration Tab) [caption id="attachment_851" align="alignnone" width="444" caption="WP eStore Analytics E-Commerce ...

This page has a list of all the different pre-configured product display styles that you can use to display your products when using the WP eStore plugin. Note: You are not restricted to using one of these product displays if they don't suit your needs. You can design your own product display in a WordPress post or page then use eStore's simple "Buy" button (there are shortcodes to embed a plain button on a post or page) to facilitate the purchase of the product (very helpful when designing an optimized sales/landing page). Stylish Product Display 1 [wp_eStore_fancy1 id=10] Stylish Product Display 2 [wp_eStore_fancy2 id=22] Stylish Product Display 3 [wp_eStore_fancy3 id=22] Stylish Product Display 4 [wp_eStore_fancy4 id=21] Stylish Product Display 5 [wp_eStore_fancy5 id=21] Stylish Product Display 6 [wp_eStore_fancy6 id=22] Stylish Product Display 7 (Useful for selling MP3) [wp_eStore_fancy7 id=20] Stylish Product Display 8 (Useful for selling MP3) [wp_eStore_fancy8 id=20] Stylish Product Display 9 (Useful for a compact display) [wp_eStore_fancy9 id=27] If you don't specify a description for a product then this display will become a very compact one with just name, price and a buy button. Stylish Product Display 10 [wp_eStore_fancy10 id=28] Fancy10 is a lot similar to the popular Fancy1 display except it has a section to show the additional images below the main thumbnail. The images will show in a lightbox when ...

WP eStore do not impose any restriction on the downloadable file size. As long as your server can handle it eStore will be fine. With that said, WP eStore sits between the actual file and the browser creating a shield (this is how eStore keeps the true location of the file hidden). However this means that eStore has to read the file and serve it to the browser (meaning the file will be temporarily loaded in your server's RAM). If you are selling large files and your hosting plan has a limited RAM available for you to use then this could create a file download issue (the file won't be downloaded fully). When hosting companies refer to *unlimited* disk space they refer to the hard disk space not the RAM memory size. So make sure to ask your hosting provider how much RAM memory is available to your PHP application. To better understand this... imagine a computer having 500GB hard disk but having only 32MB RAM (see the difference between them?). There are a few possible workarounds that can be tried: You could break the bigger file into multiple parts (e.g. each 50MB) and use the multi-part download option of eStore. Try one of the ...

You can use the WP CSV to DB plugin to upload product details from a CSV file into the WP eStore's database. Note: The WP CSV to DB Plugin may not work on all servers. If this happens to you then note that you can directly import content into MySQL database via PHPMyAdmin (you can find it from your cPanel). The video tutorial on How to Easily Import or Export any of Your WordPress Database Content article will help. Video Tutorial 1. Setup/Preparation Install the WP CSV to DB plugin. Download the Products.csv template file and open it using Microsoft Excel. Fill up the product details; One product per row (There are two example entries in that file so replace them with actual product details). Once you are done entering all your product details then save the file as a CSV file. 2. Specify the General Options Enter 2 in the "Starting Row" field. This is the row number in the CSV file where you want the plugin to start reading from (the first row is the column titles so you want to read from the 2nd row) Enter "wp_wp_eStore_tbl" in the "Database Table Name" field (this is the database table name for the WP eStore's products table given that you did ...

The WP eStore and the Simple Shopping cart Comes with many "Add to Cart" button images that you can use. Here are some additional "Add to Cart" button images that you can use on your online shop. Simply right click on the image and save it to your computer. Blank Button Templates The following are some empty button templates that you can customize with your own text and use them on your site.

The WP eStore shopping cart plugin can be easily integrated with AWeber (Email marketing and Autoresponder service). Step 1: Create an Email Parser AWeber use email parsers in situations where you want subscribers to add to your list via an email from a third party, typically a payment processor, rather than the subscriber sending an email directly from their email program. AWeber only supports 3rd party integration using email parsers. Quick Video To add a new custom email parser select "Email Parser" from the "My Lists" menu and choose "Add New" from the "Custom Parsers" section. My List -> Email Parser Custom Parsers -> Add New The new email parser configuration will look similar to the following (Click to enlarge) [caption id="attachment_616" align="alignnone" width="444" caption="New Email Parser"][/caption] There are only two fields (Description and Trigger Rule) that need changing here. Give a description for this parser, eg. eStore Parser In the Trigger Rule field, replace the "user\@domain\.com" with the email address that you have specified in the "From Email Address" field of WP eStore's settings menu (This step is very important). If you have multiple lists in your account then edit the parser you just created then check the "Enable parser for all lists in this account" checkbox and save it (This ...

Can't Remove an Item from the Shopping Cart Make sure you haven't included special characters like apostrophe (') in your product name. The Price Shows up as $0.00 in the Shopping Cart Make sure you have entered the Price to two decimal places and didn't put any symbols or characters. eg. 10.00 or 6.70 or 1999.95 etc (Do not put currency symbol in the price field) NextGen Gallery doesn't show the "Add to Cart" buttons correctly Make sure the wp eStore template file is in the "view" directory of NextGen Gallery. You using something similar to the following to display the gallery: nggallery id=1 template=wp-eStore] Variation Control Not Working Please make sure your theme's "footer.php" file has a call to the wp_footer() function of WordPress or it won't add the javascripts in the footer. Many themes are not designed according to WordPress standard and causes problems. Simply add the following line in your "footer.php" file to solve this: <?php wp_footer(); ?>