Thread: Is Downloadable?

Is there a way to make the link in the email user specific or secure to one user based on their login? The links are pretty generic, meaning that the buyer can forward the ling to any other people for them to download the product without confirming them as the original buyer.

Create a .aspx page that displays the download orders, call it orderdownloads.aspx. (I canabilized the orderhistory.aspx and .cs) Then place the name orderdownloads.aspx into the Download Location field.

Don't name the file beginning with "download" or it will treat it as a file in the download folder.

The customer will receive an email that contains a link to the orderdownload.aspx. Clicking the link will bring them to the Download Order page, require them to login and list downloads available to them.

You will need to put the actual filename in the extension data field or create a database table that links the SKU with the download location.

You can also do this with a topic page to avoid having to do any custom work. Make the downloadable product also a subscription product and then set the topic page to require a subscription to view, and put a link to the download in the topic content. Not only does this force the customer to log in before they can download, but it restricts the download to people who actually made a purchase.

The downside to doing it this way is that the software currently only supports a single subscription level, so customers who bought any of your downloadable products would actually have access to all of them if they knew the topic page address. You can minimize the chance of that happening by creating a separate topic for each with a hard to guess name and making sure the topics aren't published in the sitemap.