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4 Aug 2006, 6:43 AM
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Real and Virtual on one product page

I'm setting up a store that sells roleplaying game books in both PDF and print. Is there a way to have an add to cart on one product page for both types? If they want a printed book they click on that button, or the button for PDF, or one for both.

Is this something that can be set up in the atributes page? The information is the same for both, it is just a matter of how they want it.

I searched the forum, but didn't see anything about this.

the store is here if you need to look. http://www.comstar-games.com/store/

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jack

4 Aug 2006, 7:10 AM
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Re: Real and Virtual on one product page

In Zen Cart v1.3 there is the option to mark a product as both virtual and physical, and then use attributes to drive the customers' choices.

Now ... where's Ajeh to explain all that ... ?

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4 Aug 2006, 10:28 PM
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Re: Real and Virtual on one product page

DrByte:

Now ... where's Ajeh to explain all that ... ?

Yes, she helped me on another problem that ended up being my mistake.

I looked around in the Attributes area, and just can't see a way to add anther buy button from there. So I will have to wait and see if someone else has an answer to this.

Thanks.

5 Aug 2006, 3:31 AM
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Re: Real and Virtual on one product page

OK, an update to my problem.

I have figured out how to sell real products and virtual products from the same page.

Product

  1. Set the price to 0.00 on the product page.
  2. Set the Weight to 0.
  3. Do not choose price by attribute, It will show the combined prices.

Attributes

  1. In the Option Name Manager set an option for your real product. Chhose Radio Button(Mine was Print Product)
  2. In the Option Value Set a value. (Mine was Print Product)
  3. I set a new option for downloads to be used just when combined with real products. Set it as a Radio Button.

Setting the Attributes.

  1. Go to the Attribute Contoller and find your product.
  2. Set your products Attribute to Download by clicking on those to highlight them, go down and give it a Price. add your zip file name (myproduct.zip) and click on Insert.
    3 Set another attribute for the same product. Highlight Real Product (mine was Print Product) Set the price for the real product. Set the weight (Important for shipping charges).

The only downside and maybe someone can tell me how, is that there is no price displayed for the product, since it is priced by attributes. I added the price at the top of the description so it will be the first thing on the product page page.

Hope this helps someone else.

Jack