Hello,
The "Access level" section is related to the usage of Joomla user group restriction on payment plugins.
It has not kind of relation with "downloads" and do not generate any issue with that feature.
You can check the payment plugin documentation if you want to read more about that setting :
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/3...paypal-form.html#acl
Please be sure that HikaShop starter do allow to create a full working e-commerce store, for free.
The feature provided by commercial edition of HikaShop are advanced feature if you want to go further, like "guest checkout", advanced customization (via custom fields), usage of Joomla user group for products/categories/payments/shippings, etc.
Regards,
Jerome - Obsidev.com
HikaMarket & HikaSerial developer / HikaShop core dev team.
Also helping the HikaShop support team when having some time or couldn't sleep.
By the way, do not send me private message, use the "contact us" form instead.