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    Default Selling e-books!

    Good day!

    I feel so stupid to ask this question, but I really dont know and this is the only thing standing in my way to finish my clients website.

    So I installed Zen, I did everything, even created a category and I have the 4 e-book packages ready.

    My customer sells e-books which he has categories, with a free copy of adobe acrobat reader. This is also in zip files, which then gets extracted and has a setup file which installs acrobat and gives a html gui for you to view the e-books.

    Seeing that their is no shipping but a downloadable product, how do I disable shipping completely? And how do i disable the shipping fee?
    Next how do I set the product as software and not as a physical product?
    And lasltly, can Zen make it so that once the purchase has been completed, the customer can download the software immediately?

    Im so sorry if im asking a historical question, but no such thing as a stupid question :)

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    Default Re: Selling e-books!

    When setting up the Products, you must understand a couple of things about Downloads ...

    Download Products:

    1 Are NOT Virtual Products - mark this as No, Shipping Address Required


    2 Are NOT Always Free Shipping - mark this as No, Normal Shipping Rules

    A Product with a Download automatically knows that there is no shipping by seeing the Download filename that is attached to the attribute ...

    Download Products will automatically skip the checkout_shipping page ...

    If an Order contains Physical Products and Download Products, the Shipping Modules are designed to adjust and not count the Download Product(s) in the charges ...
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