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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Selling Stock Direct => Topic started by: pixel8 on February 18, 2015, 20:47
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Is anyone here using WooCommerce? If so how does it allow for an instant download after a PayPal payment is made and how does it protect all of your images from someone downloading more than once or prevent someone from finding the image in your web page files and downloading for free?
Thanks.
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I can't explain the technicalities of how it actually does those thing (I'm guessing it wouldn't be that interesting/ understandable anyhow) but I can vouch for the WooCommerce set of plug-ins. They are very well supported and are generally top notch. The media file download feature isn't new so I'm guessing the have the bugs pretty well worked out of it.
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I can't explain the technicalities of how it actually does those thing (I'm guessing it wouldn't be that interesting/ understandable anyhow) but I can vouch for the WooCommerce set of plug-ins. They are very well supported and are generally top notch. The media file download feature isn't new so I'm guessing the have the bugs pretty well worked out of it.
they do, you're right @leaf.
Protection is good (or, in fact, a lot better than on, say, 500px who are infamous for losing pictures to scraping pirates). WooCommerce uses masked links, among others, so people cannot simply guess download URLs and then circumvent the payment gate etc. Also, loads of equally-free add-ons for watermarking, download reports etc etc available.
Not to mention the latest all-in-one solution for photographers and graphics artists alike called grfx http://www.grfx.co/ (http://community.grfx.co/) (which is also based on WP & WooCommerce extending and adding to their built-in features) while offering everything in one convenient WordPress Plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/grfx/ (https://wordpress.org/plugins/grfx/) for very easy setup. IMHO, the best in stock indie-selling you can get these days.
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I just researched woocommerce yesterday for digital downloads for microstock. I have used woocommerce for selling products, and it is a very good plugin for that. But it isn't set up for multi-sized digital downloads, that I could see, (yet). There isn't any way, that I could see, to serve up to the customer the size they order. In other words, woocommerce doesn't have a separate protected folder where the original sized images are uploaded to, then when the customer orders a different size, it doesnt auto size the image and serve up that size to the customer, like the Sell Media plugin does.
It IS, on the other hand, set up for photographers selling digital downloads of a certain size. And you can impose a download limit or time expiration on allowing downloads.
Here is a link to the documentation:
http://docs.woothemes.com/document/digitaldownloadable-product-handling/ (http://docs.woothemes.com/document/digitaldownloadable-product-handling/)
I was hopeful when I started reading, and even installed the plugin and played around with it, but no dice.
Here is a link to more documentation. If you scroll down under the tshirt photos, it even says this:
"Please note: This extension does not help with selling digital photo downloads." I took that to mean no stock images with multiple sizes.
http://www.woothemes.com/products/woocommerce-photography/ (http://www.woothemes.com/products/woocommerce-photography/)
If I am wrong about any of that, please say so. I would love to use it for microstock out of the box.
And no, I will NOT get involved with the whole symbios/grfx/leo/robin mess. Been there. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. ;)
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I just researched woocommerce yesterday for digital downloads for microstock. I have used woocommerce for selling products, and it is a very good plugin for that. But it isn't set up for multi-sized digital downloads, that I could see, (yet). There isn't any way, that I could see, to serve up to the customer the size they order. In other words, woocommerce doesn't have a separate protected folder where the original sized images are uploaded to, then when the customer orders a different size, it doesnt auto size the image and serve up that size to the customer, like the Sell Media plugin does.
It IS, on the other hand, set up for photographers selling digital downloads of a certain size. And you can impose a download limit or time expiration on allowing downloads.
Here is a link to the documentation:
[url]http://docs.woothemes.com/document/digitaldownloadable-product-handling/[/url] ([url]http://docs.woothemes.com/document/digitaldownloadable-product-handling/[/url])
I was hopeful when I started reading, and even installed the plugin and played around with it, but no dice.
Here is a link to more documentation. If you scroll down under the tshirt photos, it even says this:
"Please note: This extension does not help with selling digital photo downloads." I took that to mean no stock images with multiple sizes.
[url]http://www.woothemes.com/products/woocommerce-photography/[/url] ([url]http://www.woothemes.com/products/woocommerce-photography/[/url])
If I am wrong about any of that, please say so. I would love to use it for microstock out of the box.
And no, I will NOT get involved with the whole symbios/grfx/leo/robin mess. Been there. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. ;)
those Plugins seem to be handling different sizes though as needed (have been looking for something like that for quite some time myself)... Sellmedia has added benefits of it own though (like sub-agency functions & compatibility with non-WooCommerce themes etc.