1 Product with 2 childs : Downloadable / Deliverable

[Mister Paul]

Hi,

I had a VirtueMart 1.1.4 eshop that I'm upgrading to the last versions of Virtuemart and Joomla.

At that time there were downaloadable products. For each book I created a parent product, and 2 children products:
- 1 printed version of book
- 1 dowloadable, ebook, versoin of the book

Now it seems that's it's no more possible to sell virtual products from a standard VM Install.
What would be your advise to let me sell easily these 2 variants of a product (deliverable / downloadable)?

Thanks for your help
Paul

[Studio 42]

You have to buy this plugin https://extensions.virtuemart.net/checkout/shipments/shipment-for-virtual-products-detail

[Milbo]

Thank you Patrick.

I am going to add a light version of the download plugin to the core. Mister Paul, the plugin is written by me and provides a lot more features than the vm1 builtin feature.

[Mister Paul]

Thank you both

I bought today your plugin.

[Mister Paul]

I'd need your advice.
As this plugin allow to download products, I'd need to know how I could manage virtual stock.

As I said before with the Virtuemart version 1.14 when I was selling books, I created a parent product with 2 childs:
- printable version with its own stock
- downloadable version with only 1 in stock. And the stock was not decreased after each purchase as it was virtual: Virtuemart managed that perfectly. It was fine.

But now it's decreased and could run out of stock.

How could I manage that?
(without setting 1000 in stock)

[GJC Web Design]

why not just set 10000000 stock?

[Mister Paul]

 
Just because the stock is shown. And clients see it.
So that would be only an ugly trick...

[GJC Web Design]

hide the stock with css

[Mister Paul]

or remove all downloadable products should do the trick too...


I can't believe that there's no way to manage virtual products stock in Virtuemart...

[Studio 42]

you have to check if the downloadable customfield plugin is set in the product object and not render the stock level if it's the case.

[Milbo]

I wonder that you show the stock in general. As far as I know the stocking feature and display of the stock are different things.

I suggested you to disable stocking and to set the stock for the virtual product to 0, so you will get negative stocking. You answered that is not Pro, but from my point of view it is more pro than the vm1 method. You can so see how often you sold the virtual product, in vm1 you had to use the revenue report only (which creates a bit different results).

Important to mention, you can configure the stock handling PER product. But you must enable that in the vm config "Stockhandling on product level". This way you can use all the stocking features for prints (waiting list for example) and just configure the virtual product without stock handling.

[Mister Paul]

Important to mention, you can configure the stock handling PER product. But you must enable that in the vm config "Stockhandling on product level". This way you can use all the stocking features for prints (waiting list for example) and just configure the virtual product without stock handling.

Thanks Milbo
And sorry for late reply...

I tried your suggestion but couldn't make it work yet. Could you help me please?

• I checked "Stockhandling on product level" in general Configuration:
https://bit.ly/2SbsaHI

• In the downloadable Product, in "Product Status" I selected these parameters:
https://bit.ly/2TEvlt0
But it doesn't work: I still get the global config "Notify me" and no "Add to cart" button


I missed something?
(I use VirtueMart 3.4.0 for now and I'll update it soon but later)

Thanks for your help
Paul