Saleor: Services as product

[Cerix]

Hello guys, my idea is to sell a service as a product, for example the customer sends a file when he places an order, this file will be processed manually by the staff and subsequently to the customer will be sent either a physical product or a digital product.

Business examples:

• Custom Printed T-Shirts shop
• 3D print shop
• Translating services

Additional features

Implement a custom function over the files (an automation), like for example a checksum control or file extension check, auto resize ecc..
calculation of additional costs based on size or others parameters

is there a way to implement these features in Saleor?
can you kindly link me the suitable documentation to eventually try to develop these functions?

Thanks

[maarcingebala]

We do have basic support for digital products in the API, e.g. you can create a product type with isDigital flag set and later provide digitalContent objects that can hold e.g. files. It's still not supported in the UI yet.

But to sell e.g. a service which doesn't involve downloading any files, you can use products without shipping for that. Again, you need to create a product type and configure it as not requiring any shipping. This can be done in our dashboard:

Products that don't require shipping can be sold without providing shipping method and shipping address.

[Cerix]

thanks for the reply, currently there is no way to attach a file during checkout?
e.g

reading the API documentation, it would be nice to be able to pass a customFile object while creating a checkout object

mutation{
  checkoutCreate(input:{
    lines: { 
      quantity: 5
      variantId: "UHJvZHVjdFZhcmlhbnQ6NQ=="
      customFiles: [
          {
             id: "XXXX"
             url: "fileurls"
          },
         {
             id: "XX22"
             url: "fileurls2"
          }
      ]
    }
    email: "[email protected]"
    ...
      .....

[maarcingebala]

@Cerix No, there is no such feature in Saleor now. I can imagine that we could use for that our attributes system - each attribute has an input type and if we had "file input" type, then maybe that would be possible.

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