Ho do I set-up pushing updated products?

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Ho do I set-up pushing updated products?

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Hello,

I have a site selling downloadable products, mostly paid, but some free. It is working so well!!

Many of our products will soon be given updates and we want to offer free updates for all purchased products.

Is there a way to update the product(s) and Push them out to everyone who already bought it? Thus making the updates free and accessible but not allow free download to anyone who did not purchase it previously?

Thanks,
Nerdy
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Re: Ho do I set-up pushing updated products?

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Hi, I think, for this you need to create some kind of downloadable area, e.g. with help of Phoca Download and set rights for files or categories. E.g. setting access rights for user who purchased such file, etc. :idea:

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Re: Ho do I set-up pushing updated products?

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I will try that, Thanks.
Maybe it would be an idea for future feature to have Versions and any new versions could send customers a link via email to get the latest version?
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There are some plans to make really simple subscription feature but hard to say if there will be time to implement it.

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What would happen if I replaced the download with a newer model, would people who purchased it in the past still have available downloads?
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Hi, if users will be able to download the file or not, depends on the rights and options. If you change the file on your server, then users will get the new file. The system does not check the content of the file - if tokens, etc. are OK, such file can be download (and it does not matter if it changed or not).

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