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Title: Selling Digital Goods - no shipment
Post by: mausci1969 on July 03, 2014, 19:57:18 PM
Hello everyone,
is there any way to set virtuemart to sell digital goods like courses? It means no shipment etcetera.

Thanks in advance.
Title: Re: Selling Digital Goods - no shipment
Post by: jenkinhill on July 03, 2014, 20:25:45 PM
Do you mean digital goods for download once bought?
Title: Re: Selling Digital Goods - no shipment
Post by: mausci1969 on July 03, 2014, 22:16:25 PM
No,
I'm sorry if I did not make myself clear. I am developing an e-learning web site with Moodle, connected with a Joomla web site. To access to the courses, users have to buy them and I decided to sell them with Virtuemart. It works well (even if I still have to customize it to let users to buy just one packet of courses and not more), but it shows the shipment informations, that in my case are misleading. I am wondering if there is any way, even through a plugin, to cut this shipment part. I just thought that selling digital goods might have the same needings.
Title: Re: Selling Digital Goods - no shipment
Post by: jenkinhill on July 03, 2014, 23:17:06 PM
Shipping digital goods for downloads requires a special plugin. All you have to do it set up free shipping using the standard weight-countries plugin, set it to autoselect on checkout and either hide it at checkout using a template override or change the displayed shipping text to something relevant to your store with a language override.
Title: Re: Selling Digital Goods - no shipment
Post by: mausci1969 on July 12, 2014, 16:20:53 PM
Sorry for my late replay Kelvyn.
As standard weight countries plugin you mean the one provided by VM2? Cause, if so, I can't see the options you're talking about ...

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Title: Re: Selling Digital Goods - no shipment
Post by: RobertG on July 13, 2014, 11:33:36 AM
You can manage this not in plugins but in VM shipment methods
Title: Re: Selling Digital Goods - no shipment
Post by: mausci1969 on July 13, 2014, 17:12:50 PM
I can't see how. The only available option for the shipment is "VM shipment - by Weight, ZIP and countries".
Title: Re: Selling Digital Goods - no shipment
Post by: jenkinhill on July 13, 2014, 17:26:35 PM
http://docs.virtuemart.net/manual/shop-menu/edit-shipment-method.html
Title: Re: Selling Digital Goods - no shipment
Post by: ITechnoDev on July 13, 2014, 18:11:39 PM
You can also Sell membership.
Title: Re: Selling Digital Goods - no shipment
Post by: Milbo on July 15, 2014, 09:18:22 AM
http://extensions.virtuemart.net/products/shipment-for-virtual-products-detail

and here the tutorial, http://extensions.virtuemart.net/all-tutorials/9-custom-fields/9-shipment-for-virtual-products

some of our customers use moodle with it.
Title: Re: Selling Digital Goods - no shipment
Post by: mausci1969 on July 15, 2014, 12:08:44 PM
Thank you everyone for your answer.
Yeah, it looks like the plugin is the best solution for me, I think I'll follow that path.