Reaction: Downloadable digital products

[joseangeljimenez]

Hi all,

First of all, kudos to all of you (core team and contributors) for your great effort!
I could not find a feature in the roadmap or vision cards, which I think may be a great addition to your feature set: support for downloadable digital products with one or many files. Few eCommerce frameworks support this, however, it is a growing area of global ecommerce.

I apologize if this is not the right way to suggest a new feature.

Best regards,
José Ángel Jiménez

[aaronjudd]

@joseangeljimenez this is has been brought up a few times and I agree that it's something we want to handle. We have a long list of features that are in our "icebox" roadmap, and this is one of those.

The overall product schema/checkout is very flexible and implementation wouldn't be to bad, but we wanted to initially focus on getting the entire "standard" workflow ironed out. I certainly think this should be an early feature though, possibly even for beta. I'm going to move this to a "vision" item on the roadmap, so at least we're paying attention to it, and maybe it will get developed sooner (some of the vision items are under development already - that doesn't necessarily mean it going to be a long time away).

[joseangeljimenez]

@aaronjudd That's very interesting news. I'll keep an eye on this, I am planning to migrate a small digital assets site by next year and actually willing / hoping to try your framework.

[aTylerRice]

Any progress on this? I may take a crack at it if not

[aaronjudd]

@aTylerRice I don't think so. @reactioncommerce/core will be happy to help guide you if you start a PR and hit some rough spots. This is a common request. (might be some folks in Gitter interested as well)

[aTylerRice]

should I fork the dev branch or the stable or it doesn't matter? I need it on a stable branch myself though

[aaronjudd]

start with the development branch, there's some guidelines in our docs, and lot other info you'll need. We keep development in a stable pre-release state. Release/Feature branches is where we break stuff.

[aTylerRice]

Can I just git clone that branch and the reaction cli will still work?

[aaronjudd]

reaction init -b development will do the trick.

[aTylerRice]

oh awesome thanks! i'll try to get this done by tomorrow night. Seems really straight forward. I actually built a digital asset store with meteor from scratch and decided I needed a lot more features then I found you all!

[aTylerRice]

Alright so took my a while to familiarize myself with the code base a bit more and to get up and running!

I want to stick to all your conventions.

I was thinking that maybe variantmedia could be used to store the digital downloads for a product? Or a new collection could be made as well? Whats everyones thoughts? Trying to put together a rough overview of how to approach this...

[zenweasel]

Not currently on the roadmap, but we would welcome a PR that added this feature.

[GraysonE]

@zenweasel I am seeing the "wontfix" label on this and it got me REAL bummed out. Is there any talk of bringing back the digital download product feature?

[zenweasel]

@GraysonE No idea as I haven't worked at RC for a while. I would think that this would be something that RC would expect implementors or 3rd party intgegrators to implement, but again I have no insight into what the focus will be since the acquisition by MailChimp

[kieckhafer]

Thanks @zenweasel!

@GraysonE, as commented, at this time, this would be something a third party would need to implement. Extending our products plugin and / or creating a fulfillment method for digital products would probably be the best place to start.