Help With Downloads...

Hello I am new to the board. My name is Kirsten and I own a candy business and custom printing.
I would like to have some FREEBIES on my site.. were my customer can click on some FREEBIES add them to the cart and would be able to download them after the transaction is over. How can I add this ?
Please help me.. I need a play by play I am a tad slow to these things.

Thank you so Much
Kirsten L. Cisco :thumbsup:

Kirsten-

Welcome to Zen Cart. May I suggest you begin with the FAQ section and the WIKI. They should point you in the right direction. Feel free to post agin if you get stuck.

You can go to Admin panel and add the products and set its cost to zero and non taxable
I am not very sure if this is the best method for this
San

see if this helps

I Tried the FAQ well at least I thought I did. I will give it a try again and see what I come up with. I am very slow and confused when it comes to the Zen-cart. LOL
But I guess I have to turn my file into a zip file. I got that. But it also ask for the file name. How do I know the file name? Is is how I saved the file?
Wow I have a lot of reading to do. LOL

yes...the file name would be what you saved it as on your pc then uploaded to the downloads folder in your cart

Were do I find the download folder in my zencart? I made a folder in my cpanel and I ziped the Image/freebie I want them to download.
Now.. I know some what about the attributes, but I just dont know were the download folder is and how to add it. I tried looking at the FAQ and I printed up some of the answers But It does not really explain the download thing.. at least not for me.
What I did was uploaded it to my download folder on my c-panel. Then I took that http://folder and copy and paste it to the file in the Attribues down at the bottome and it says to allow a certain amount of days and downloads. Thats were I put the file. Then I would upload it with a Text file.. and it would say's with a Red dot not the right format or something like that. What am I doing wrong??

I am soo confused. :no:

File Download
981 File Download TEXT + 0.0000 + 0 0
$0.00 $0.00
Filename: http://www.kandiesforyou.com/downloads/AsweettreatCandyBar.zip Days: 7 Max: 5

Thats what it looks like :(

Folder should be named download NOT downloads.
Zencart looks for download folder re zip files and ignores
anything else.
HTH

download folder should have been made during zen installation...it is on the same level as the admin and includes folders.

Well if the Download Folder should have been when "We" installed the zencart well then I am screwed..LOL I did not install the zencart someone else did. LOL

The Download name should even be with out an s in the cpanle folder?

right...just make a folder named download on the same level as the admin and includes folder...be sure to set the chmod/permissions to 777

I may sound dumn but whats the chmod/permissions to 777
???
LOl

NOTE: /download should be 755 ... not 777

There is not a need for it to be 777 ...

kirsten ... in your FTP program you can click right on a filename or directory name and you will see the chmod or permission settings of the current filename or directory ...

Usually filenames are 644 and directories are 755 ...

There are exceptions to this ... but right now those are your concerns ...

Ok - I think I got that.. But why when I place the file name for the Zip file into the abbitrudes.. it says the file is incorrect?

Filename: http://www.kandiesforyou.com/download/AbcBabyList.zip
There is a small Red dot next to the Filename. Not a Green Dot.

I also add "Text" is that wrong as well? What am I doing wrong?

Ok Now how do I set it to the 755 I see the 655

K' the download folder is 755 but the images in the folder are 655 is that ok ? If not how do I change the images no?

The filenames in the /download directory should be 644

Make sure that when adding the filename to the Attribute you are typing exactly what its name is:
AbcBabyList.zip

If that is the exact name, that is what you should use ...

Make sure filenames have no spaces or special characters as well ...

Ok went back to my zen-cart admin.
Now I have the option name is " File download " and the option value name is "text " now the red button next to the acual file is missing. this is were I am confused. Also should I have Text as the Value name ?