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FPSC Classic Product Chat / Can someone explain how paypal works for downloading files?

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Explosm69
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So iv been trying to sell 1 of my games, but how do i know that they are getting the file? [Look at the picture] Where it has "Project Blue" underlined in blue, all it is is...Well thats the thing, but it is not the file at all. So how do you work it out so they can get the file?

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Poloflece
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Posted: 30th Jan 2011 07:08
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I think paypal works by, after you purchase the product, the vendor will email you a download link, if the product is not in your possession within a certain ammount of time. You can open a dispute and the people running paypal will force the vendor to give you the product or give you your money back.

Well at least that's how the purchase of henrys character kit works.


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Posted: 30th Jan 2011 07:22
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that's 1 possibility, but one that you will have to make yourself, the usual paypal process is that after they purchase the product (i.e. from where you are from your screen print, they login and confirm payment), then paypal will redirect them to another page/link which you configure that will either have a download link on the page, or be a direct link to the download file itself.
You have to create that final page yourself; or make sure that your file is available at the download link (if that's the case).

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Explosm69
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Thank you both, the email I was thinking that might happen, but i only check my email about once every, like, 5 months.
Quote: " then paypal will redirect them to another page/link which you configure that will either have a download link on the page, or be a direct link to the download file itself.
You have to create that final page yourself; or make sure that your file is available at the download link (if that's the case)."
Ok then...the next question is, how do you do the "Final" page.? Personaly i went to paypal check every button, especially "Merchants Products" or something of that sort, it only gave me the same thing.

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Posted: 30th Jan 2011 08:05 Edited at: 30th Jan 2011 08:09
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after logging into your account, goto the Merchant Services Tab, and then the Buy Now buttons option under the Key Features section.
Fill in all the fields as required for your product for steps 1 to 3.
At Step 3 (Customize advanced features), there are a couple of url links that you can specify that the buyer goes to when either they do or do not complete their order:

please note that this is the very simplest method of payment processing and does not have any security or real order confirmation. if you need those extra features, then you will need to read up a bit more on Website Payments Standard and IPN (Instant Payment Notification).

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Explosm69
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Thanks

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Be careful though. You'll need to make a security measure to ensure that your users will not spread around the download link. I recommend using PHP to generate custom url's for each buyer.

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Explosm69
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How do you use PHP?

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