Downloadable Products

[feelfetch]

This is such a needed feature!

[olivermrbl]

@feelfetch Thanks for reporting it in. What is your use case?

We've helped numerous merchants open businesses with downloadable products, so I assume we could also assist you.

Usually, the desired customer flow is attaching the downloadable product in the order confirmation email, but you might have additional requirements.

[feelfetch]

That would be awesome! Yes, attach a download link to order confirmation page and email. That is more than enough for my use case.

[slavanga]

@olivermrbl I'm also very interested in how to achieve downloadable products like you described with Medusa.

[srindom]

Where would you want to store the downloadable file?

I could see a few options for how this could work with what we have currently and then how it could be done in the future.

For the current setup you could do this:

• In your Medusa project/plugin, create a custom entity src/models/downloadable-asset
  • Model will have id, variant_id, file_url (maybe also title, etc, etc)
• Create a custom Service that handles the business logic - it will have:
  • create - takes variant and file_url, ensures uniqueness on variant id etc.
  • update - can be used to change the file_url
  • delete - use to an asset from a product
  • listForOrder - checks what downloadable assets are available for an order by going through order.items.$.variant and checking for downloadable-assets
  • (createSignedUrl - maybe not necessary, but could be relevant if you want to create signed URLs that are only valid for a given time-period)
• Create API endpoints to manage assets
• Modify the product detail page in medusajs/admin to allow adding downloadable assets to variants (use the custom API endpoints you created).
• Note you can use the FileService to upload, store and manage your files (see medusa-file-* plugins in /packages).
• Create a subscriber that listens to the order.placed event; the handler for the event should do:
  • downloadableAssetService.listForOrder(orderId); if there are any downloadable assets issue send an email to the customer with the file_urls. Note you can use a notification plugin to handle the email send (e.g., medusa-plugin-sendgrid).

^ This could be made more advanced depending on your needs, but think this is a good, simple starting point

Btw, this would be such a cool plugin to create!

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In the future, I could imagine this functionality being supported out of the box, but it is not something we have on the roadmap at the moment.

[slavanga]

@srindom thank you for the detailed answer. This will help for my further evaluations. Would definitely be nice to see this as a feature one day.