Checkout to download a free file fails

Hi,

I don't see why you say it fails then ?
It seems to work. You get the email with the download link after the checkout. And you can also find a download link if you access the order through the user control panel menu, or in the download area:
demo.hikashop.com/index.php/en/other-fea...panel/user/downloads
Normally, when you have a payment method, you have a "return URL" parameter where you can set the link where you want to be redirected after the checkout. If you don't have a price, then you don't have a payment method, and thus you're not redirected after the checkout and you stay on the default thank you page.
If you want to do something else, then you can edit the file "end" of the view "checkout" via the menu Display>Views and redirect the customer where you want with some custom code:
<?php JFactory::getApplication()->redirect('url'); ?>

Hi,

The link is not on the thank you page on our demo website because the template we use has an old view override on the thank you page which doesn't include the link.
It's normal that you get the link there.
a. I can't say why the link doesn't work. It should work. I suppose that there is a SEF issue or something. First try downloading the install package of HikaShop on our website and install it again on yours. That will add all the latest patches and it might help.
Otherwise, we would need more information to be able to answer to that question.

b. Removing the link should be easy. Edit the file "end" of the view "checkout" and remove it from there. But you could even do it without any code change by change the translation YOU_CAN_NOW_ACCESS_YOUR_ORDER_HERE with a translation override:
www.hikashop.com/download/languages.html#modify