Magento Downloadable Products

Downloadable Product in Magento is a product that you can download right to your computer. You can buy one or more files of a downloadable product that are presented in Store Manager for Magento. These downloadable files can be located on your server or be provided as URLs to any other server.

Creating Downloadable Product

There are a few steps involved:

1. Create or Edit Magento Attribute set

Сreate attributes/attribute set which you will be able to use for the current downloadable product. To learn how to create an attribute set visit Magento Attribute set page.

2. Create Magento Simple products

After creating attributes/attribute set, create Magento simple products that will be a part of the downloadable product.

3. Make Magento Downloadable Product

To create downloadable product you need to click on “Add Product” button or use a right mouse button click on products and then select “Add Product”.

Fill in the required information just like in a case of creating a simple product. Make sure that you add an inventory quantity, and set the item price to 0.00. This is very important to mark the item as In Stock.

4. Manage Downloadable Product

Once the creation of downloadable product is completed click on the Downloadable Samples tab or on the Downloadable Links tab or click on both.

Edit Downloadable Links is necessary to set up the work of Store Manager for Magento with downloadable products.

5. Display Magento Downloadable Product

Now Magento downloadable product is visible in your Magento store and your Magento product page. Your customers will be able to choose it and make a successful purchase.

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