After attempting to create a free download using the MarketPress plugin I discovered you cannot set the sale price to $0.00. Upon doing so the price reverts to the non-sale price after clicking Update Product.
Is there any way to set the sale price for a digital product to $0.00 so it can be downloaded for free from the store page?
Case in point: We are offering a free sample chapter of a new ebook we are launching soon. The only way I could do this was to create a coupon code for the full amount of the sale price and instruct users to apply that code to download the free sample.
The problem, however, is that we do not want this coupon code to be applied to any other purchases once we launch the complete ebook and other items in the works. We would like to continue allowing customers to add this free item to their carts as we add new products. Any suggestions for how to do this are greatly appreciated.
Feel free to move this to feature requests if it is possible to incorporate this suggestion in a future plugin update. Thanks!
After attempting to create a free download using the MarketPress plugin I discovered you cannot set the sale price to $0.00. Upon doing so the price reverts to the non-sale price after clicking Update Product.
Is there any way to set the sale price for a digital product to $0.00 so it can be downloaded for free from the store page?
Case in point: We are offering a free sample chapter of a new ebook we are launching soon. The only way I could do this was to create a coupon code for the full amount of the sale price and instruct users to apply that code to download the free sample.
The problem, however, is that we do not want this coupon code to be applied to any other purchases once we launch the complete ebook and other items in the works. We would like to continue allowing customers to add this free item to their carts as we add new products. Any suggestions for how to do this are greatly appreciated.
Feel free to move this to feature requests if it is possible to incorporate this suggestion in a future plugin update. Thanks!
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9th February 2012 (3 months ago)
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Greetings jcnjr,
Thanks for this great question and a significant item to bring up.
Testing in our test environment has confirmed the phenomenon that if the sale price is set to zero that when adding the product the sale price is no longer observed and is removed from product display.
I am going to discuss it with the lead developer - to get a fix sorted for you asap.
Thanks again for bringing this up, and of course for being a WPMU Dev member.
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That's good news! I too was thinking of using the 100%-off-coupon solution for freebies but, as jcnjr mentioned, that could be applied to any product. Having it function with a sale price slashed to $0 would be ossum :-)
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Support Kangaroo — 9th February 2012 (3 months ago) #
Greetings jcnjr,
Thanks for this great question and a significant item to bring up.
Testing in our test environment has confirmed the phenomenon that if the sale price is set to zero that when adding the product the sale price is no longer observed and is removed from product display.
I am going to discuss it with the lead developer - to get a fix sorted for you asap.
Thanks again for bringing this up, and of course for being a WPMU Dev member.
We will get back to you asap
Cheers, Joe :-)
Member — 9th February 2012 (3 months ago) #
Thanks for the quick reply Joe! Awesome support as usual...
Lead Developer — 9th February 2012 (3 months ago) #
Can you test this little code change for me?
Change around line 1984 of marketpress.php from:
to
Member — 10th February 2012 (3 months ago) #
Thanks for the quick reply Aaron, but the sale price still reverts to the non-sale cost when entering $0.00 after making that edit.
Lead Developer — 10th February 2012 (3 months ago) #
Thanks, will have it ready in 2.5 beta.
Member — 10th February 2012 (3 months ago) #
Excellent! Thanks again.
Lifetime Member — 10th February 2012 (3 months ago) #
That's good news! I too was thinking of using the 100%-off-coupon solution for freebies but, as jcnjr mentioned, that could be applied to any product. Having it function with a sale price slashed to $0 would be ossum :-)
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