Downloadable products - gifting, and updates

Dear Hikashop,

We've just launched our shop using HikaShop starter, and will be upgrading to Commercial and HikaSerial as soon as we've established that the shop is going to profitable (it's not our core business, so any sales we make will be a bonus, and justify the cost of the upgrades).

All of our products are software modules, so we've set up the shop to allow a "free" datasheet download prior to purchase, and a further module download following purchase. This currently works because the purchaser receives a download link with their order confirmation.

However,
I'd like to
(a) gift some modules to existing customers, without necessarily sending them a confirmation email, and
(b) give existing customers the facility to download the purchased modules from the site when, for example, we update the module, and want them to be able to download the new version.

I've been able to sort (a) out, by creating an order manually and setting the state to confirmed, but is it possible to have the non-free file appear under the downloads section of the product page, so they can re-download by logging in and going back to the product page?

I hope that makes sense!
Cheers,
Oliver

Hi Jerome,

Thanks for the reply. I see the download links now, so thanks for pointing that out.

I was looking at the views to see if we could modify the block_product_files.php. I noticed in the vote/form.php there's a flag to indicate the user had purchased the product, so would it be possible to modify block_product_files with something to show ALL files if the product has been purchased? i.e. something like the addition below?

product/show_block_product_files.php

foreach ($this->element->files as $file) {
      if ($file->file_free_download  *** || $purchased *** )
        $skip = false;
    }

Thanks Jerome- that's very helpful.

We may put in a "quick fix" as we're not concerned with expiring access or download limits, and then replace with the official version when it's released.

Thanks again,
Oliver