Selling Digital Goods - no shipment

[mausci1969]

Hello everyone,
is there any way to set virtuemart to sell digital goods like courses? It means no shipment etcetera.

Thanks in advance.

[jenkinhill]

Do you mean digital goods for download once bought?

[mausci1969]

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.

[jenkinhill]

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.

[mausci1969]

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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[RobertG]

You can manage this not in plugins but in VM shipment methods

[mausci1969]

I can't see how. The only available option for the shipment is "VM shipment - by Weight, ZIP and countries".

[jenkinhill]

http://docs.virtuemart.net/manual/shop-menu/edit-shipment-method.html

[ITechnoDev]

You can also Sell membership.

[Milbo]

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.

[mausci1969]

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.