Version Updater

For Joomla 1.0.12

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Joomla component for administering software updates for vendors of downloadable products with VirtueMart shopping cart

FEATURES

When a user buys a downloadable product in your web shop and the order is listed as completed in VirtueMart after the payment has been done, he gets an e-mail with a download ID and downloads the product.

When a new version of the product is released, the user can click a menu item called Updates to login at www.yourdomain.com and get a list of updates for earlier bought downloadable products. Data is taken from the VirtueMart database tables. If no updates are available text is shown telling a user that there are no available updates.

If you have special orders - bundle orders and so on - you can have these listed so the customers will also be able to get updates.
AND we have extended Report from Virtue Mart so you can select many views including types, extra sales and more.

After user passes authorization on the component's page he is granted access to download updates for all products purchased by him. The user cannot view updates for other products and must be logged in used during the purchase. If no updates are available corresponding text string will be displayed.
The user will neither be able to view updates not allowed for him on 'additional download rules' page (see the SETUP tab), and vice versa.

Feel free to browse the support forum, view the tutorial here.

SETUP

The component allows existing customers to download updates for purchased products.

First you should create a directory for updates on the web server. You can use FTP or JoomlaXplorer to do so. For your own security: if you can please use a directory ANYWHERE OUTSIDE THE WEBROOT.

Select menu item VersionUpdater -> Configuration

Here you are supposed to enter the name of a catalog where updates will be located (by default root catalog of the Website could be /var/www/www.mysite.com/secure)

Select menu item VersionUpdater -> ListUpdates

Here you can preview existing updates or add new ones. To add a new update press the button 'NEW'.
On the showed up page you must enter the following information:
  • Update Name В– Users will see the name of Update while downloading.
  • Update File В– Users will download that update file. You must select this file from the list of uploaded updates, or upload the new file. If you upload the new one, please refresh the page to populate the list of files.
  • Product В– product choosing from the list for which that update is supported.
  • Comment В– Users will see the following update description.

Select menu item VersionUpdater -> Tracking

Here you can find information about users and updates downloaded by users.

VersionUpdater -> Additional download rules

Here you can add rules to allow or disallow updates downloads to selected users.

VersionUpdater -> Additional payments

Here you can add payments which are not registered in VirtueMart. You will be able to add these payments to VirtueMart reports which will be shown in our component.

VersionUpdater -> VM Reports

This option allows you to view the VirtueMart product sales of a specific time range. You can filter results by order status and add to the report additional payments from 'VersionUpdater -> Additional payments'.