processing payments for downloadable pdfs

simonl / 2015-12-31 17:48:54   

We want to sell an ebook in the form of a downloadable pdf or ePub file that can be processed (I guess) through PayPal. Has anyone done this with Indexhibit? Its easy enough for physical books as we get an email from PayPal and post the books wherever it says - with the e-book we wanted people to be able to just do it all in one go - pay and download...

Vaska A / 2016-01-01 00:47:22   

Let me just give you some advice - this is not easy.

You would be better off finding (and paying) a service to handle this. Paypal's IPN is even hard for me to handle. I was just talking to a dev last week about what a pain it is to utilize.

You can do it custom, but it's not an Indexhibit issue. Search the greater web for options (but you'll likely need to pay for them).

simonl / 2016-01-05 10:56:45   

Thanks, Vaska. This is what I suspected might be the case, but I'm ever hopeful! In this instance, though, probably misplaced!

Vaska A / 2016-01-09 10:02:47   

Because this has an API maybe it wouldn't be so hard to open up a download upon completion - it's worth checking out.

2checkout.com/

This thread has been closed, thank you.