Does AbleCommerce support a "Membership" to an online store?

[ebingen]

Background: we sell only virtual products.

Situation 1:

• We create a product and add it to the online catalog that is a "Store Membership". A buyer purchases this product, and receives a discount code that is 100% off any product, good for a predetermined time like 1 month, 6 months, or one year
• The buyer can then use the discount code to oibtain any product in the online store for free

Situation 2:

• We create a product and add it to the online catalog that is a "Product Type X Membership". A buyer purchases this product, and receives a discount code that is 100% off a defined group of products, good for a predetermined time like 1 month, 6 months, or one year
• The buyer can then use the discount code to obtain any product in the online store for free

Does AbleCommerce support either of these, both of these, or none of these without custome coding?

2nd question: could we limit the number of times a specific product is downloaded by a buyer via AbleCommerce's Digital Rights Management functionality?

[FredM]

Hello,
For both solutions you could use coupons, but you'll need to manually issue the code to the customer. The coupons can be applied to a single product, category, combination of products and categories or the whole catalog. You can set the number of uses also. Another option for specific products might be to use a price rule that is attached to a specific group for a set data range.

Yes. You can also limit the number of downloads for digital goods.

[ebingen]

One last question on this subject: if a coupon for 100% off is used, and the total due in the shopping Cart is zero, then ideally we would want to bypass the step in the Check Out process in which the Buyer enters credit card infromation and the tranaction is submitted to a Payment Gateway.

Assuming the total due in the shopping Cart is zero, how could we best achieve this?

• Nothing to do: AbleCommerce will automatically byapss the Credit Card payment step during check out
• We could extend one of your classes or use conditional configurations provided in AbleCommerce Admin to handle this
• We would need to custom code this

Thanks for your insight!
Eric

[FredM]

I just did a quick test by creating a 100% off coupon and chose a free shipping method so the total was $0. The payment method is bypassed and a Complete Order button is displayed.

[ebingen]

Amazing! thanks so much!
Eric

[rtetali]

We have a similar issue with the 100% coupons.Even though we have the subtotal = 0 dollars, the payment method is not bypassed. Where should I implement the code to bypass the payment method?