Adding downloadable pdf forms (ebooks) to my page

I have been using Stripe for a while now and found them to be very web developer friendly. Have a look at https://stripe.com/en-au

Kindle Direct Publishing on Amazon.

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/

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ASecurecart PCI Compliant Shopping Cart

https://www.asecurecart.net/main/default.aspx

Linkloc Download Delivery Script

https://www.vibralogix.com/linklokasc/

Linkloc Secure URL Script

https://www.vibralogix.com/linklokurl/

Hi @11580283,

Dreamweaver cannot do this for you out of the box. This would be an advanced programming project for you or your developer.  Start by talking to your shopping cart provider about offering digital downloads.  They may have a ready-made solution you can use.  Or publish your e-Book on Amazon and sell it that way.

The basic procedure goes something like this:

1. Customer gets taken to your PCI compliant shopping cart where they pay safely & securely by credit card over encrypted HTTPS servers. 

2. When payment process is completed, customer is automatically redirected from shopping cart to a download page containing an encrypted link to their digital product which only they can access.

3. They also receive an email with a link as fallback in case the JavaScript redirect fails to take them to the download page.  Some people have script blockers so you must provide a fallback of some kind.

4. Download links expire after a predetermined interval of say 2-5 days.

On the surface, this may seem simple but it's actually fairly complex.  How good are you with programming?

You would have to use a payment gateway so you get the payment first, before the customer gets to download the pdf. I would recommend maybe Paypal as that seems to be the easiest payment gateway to set up and doesnt involve any 'merchant bank account set ups'. I havent used Paypal in a while but it did have a digital-download solution at one stage.

The workflow is you create an encrypted payment button in the Paypal user-inteface, this means no-one can change the value of the button if they happen to be good at manipulating code in the front-end where the button code will appear. Once payment is received the customer gets taken to a download page where the pdf is available to download. The problem with this method is the user can then give that url address to their friends who can download the pdf for free (but hey that doesnt matter as they could just send them a copy of the pdf) or the pdf page could be found in a Google search........so you need to put the pdfs in a folder and make sure Google doesnt find it by not having any links in your main website to the download page or pages.

Of course the best way would be to send something like a one time code back to the users email address once they have paid, along with a url to the download page and check the one time code is genuine but thats probably more indepth than you can handle.

There is nothing in Dreamweaver which will do this for you, it all needs to be hand-coded.