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[Corinne]

Hello,

I'm selling digital products and I'm also offering free samples or promotional products to my customers at no cost.

My proble here is that I would like them to register in order to grab the free stuff, so I tried to set up my products at 0.00$. It creates me a field on the product page "add you price here". So you add 0 and then you checkout... Until now it's ok. But it's not really user friendly.

Is there a way to show/mark a product is free other than with a "add your price here" ?

Thanks in advance.

[balinor]

Just edit the text that says 'Enter your Price' with 'Free'. Moving to Template Editing.

[IAPDirect.com]

Originally Posted by balinor

Just edit the text that says 'Enter your Price' with 'Free'. Moving to Template Editing.

My version does not show 'Enter your price'. Mine just shows an entry field. I can't seem to find this on the products.tpl page. Please help me locate this code. Thanks.

[balinor]

In 4.1.3 that is probably this bit of code:

<input type="text" size="7" name="price" />

[IAPDirect.com]

Originally Posted by balinor

In 4.1.3 that is probably this bit of code:

<input type="text" size="7" name="price" />

Thanks!

[wjbrewer]

You could make a static page of free downloads and require customers to be logged in to download the products. You can do this through Smarty:

{if $login eq ''}You need to register/login to download this file{else}---download link----{/if}

This works well, but the problem is once one person has the link they can share it, or the download can be hotlinked to from another site.

You could go more advanced and custom code a downloads page that uses session data to check that the customers is registered/logged in, and that they are on your website (and not another website that is linking to your file). This is what the larger software/download sites do when you are required to register to download their trial/free software. I have done this on my soundware site, you can check it out to get an idea of what you can do within the X-Cart system.

http://www.soundbrewer.com/downloads.php

Just a few ideas.