. I have some questions regarding the potential functionality of OS-commerce, to see if it can fulfill my requirements, and would be super appreciative of any help/advice.I will be setting up an audio files website. Customers will visit and purchase these files via a variety of ways. My questions are as follows:
1) Firstly, is digital delivery of audio/pdf etc files/products straight forward with os-commerce?
2) As well as being able to buy files in the usually one-off way, customers will (hopefully) be able to purchase credits. I.E $20 will buy you 25 credits. 1 audio file may cost $1, but will also cost 1 credit. So you can see how buying credit packs will encourage sales. Its a common and simple system.
so... will I be able to easily implement this? I understand you can get a reward points add-on, and I will create a product (which will cost of $20) which will result in a deposit of 25 credits in the customers acount (straightforward?). Can I set how many reward points each individual product will yeild, rather than 1 credit per $1 spent? This is critical.
3) is it possible to create a subscription system to take $X from a customers credit card per month, in return for unlimited access to all audio files in the catalogue?
4) Would it be simple enough to create a preview system for audio files? I would expect the easiest way would be to allow the admin to upload a second 'preview' file along with the main product. they would create this seperate file, rather than have the system somehow chop down the main audio file to create a preview on-the-fly. Adjustments to the database, coding, and the addition of a 'preview' button in the product details page would be needed I guess...
5) does anyone know of any examples sites (using os-commerce) that do exactly what i need in question 4?
6) I will need a pay-per-album purchase option too. I guess 10 audio files could be put in a zip, and that could be uploaded as its own product, but would it be possible to take payment for a product, and allow a customer access to a specified select group of digital files/products?
thats about it. I'm sure you will be thinking 'anything can be done if you pay a coder enough $$', but i suppose I am asking if there are existing plug-ins or scripts I could implement myself to rapidly acheive my objectives.
sorry for asking you to spoon feed me info here, but a client needs answers pronto and i have no time to research in any depth.
thanks!!!
P.S I am pretty profficient with modifying php code, adapting scripts and working with MYSQL DB's, but arent a fluent coder.
