Knowledgebase/General Vendor Information
How do I deliver multiple products or bonus products with a purchase?
Jason Chance
posted this on April 20, 2010 22:53
There are essentially two methods to deliver multiple products, free bonuses, or additional products with a purchase through DPD.
Method 1: Create a zip file that contains all items you want the customer to receive and upload as your product
To perform this method:
1. Place your product and any bonus products you want to deliver in the same folder or on your desktop.
2. Highlight all products as in the example below and right click.
3. Select "Send to > Compressed (Zipped) Folder"
After selecting "Compressed (Zipped) Folder" a new Zip file with all the products you selected will be created in the same location as your files.
4. After you have created your zip file upload it to DPD as your product file when setting up your product.
Drawbacks of using this method:
May create one huge file for buyers to download depending on the size of the files the zip contains.
Method 2: Create a "Thank You" page on your site with links to the free products and set the Thank You URL during DPD product setup
With this method you upload your free bonus / additional products to your own web hosting, create a thank you page that contains links to the free / bonus products and upload it to your website, and set the "Thank You URL" on the Product Options page of DPD setup.
Drawbacks of using this method:
1. Page is not secure- anyone with the URL can download your free bonuses
2. You need to know how to create your own web page / upload products to your website
Comments
I`m setting up a 3th method:
I work with aweber - and when they purchase, I let them know they receive the bonuses through a separate mail.
When a person from my prospect aweber list buys the product, then he automatically is unsubscribed from this prospect
list, and gets subscribed to my `buyer`list. They receive a mail with the title: `you bonuses` - they need to confirm
this mail (click) on a link to go to the download page I created.
In this way, I`m almost 100 % sure all my costumers will get from my prospect list to my buyer list, for all of them
wants to have the bonuses of course.
The drawback is that you need to be able to set up the aweber mailings lists
you need to be able to make your own download page
-> if you can, you can work with a password, to make the bonus download page more secure
Is there a way to have multiple zip files delivered? I have a 1GB file that I would like to split into 2 500MB zip files for delivery. This way the customer can get 2 smaller downloads instead of 1 huge zip that might not download correctly because of the file size. I was able to do this with other services. I uploaded 2 or more zipes then assigned them to the product for purchase.
-Frank
Unfortunately it appears you can't deliver two pdf files as a combo purchase with buyer tracking, bummer....
James it should work as long as both of your PDF files meet the requirements for PDF buyer tracking and they are not contained in a zip file.
You can find the requirements for PDF buyer tracking here: http://support.getdpd.com/entries/159575-pdf-buyer-tracking-feature-information