Joe,

I have successfully setup a mojoportal store to sell my old band's CD.  I'm currently offering 2 products... a "Shippable" version and a "Download Now" version which is a .Zip file containing mp3s of the full CD.

I ran through a real purchase of both.  Payments were received and worked successfully for both versions.  However the downloadble version still wants to charge me for shipping when I purchase (since I setup shipping cost @$2.00 for a quantity of 1 item).  I suppose this is a function of the way I have my Paypal shipping preferences setup but I can't figure out how to change this for "downloadable" types of products.  I assumed that mojoportal sends the items in the cart to paypal with a "type" id associated with it so Paypal knows the downloadble items are not for shipment.

Here is a snap shot of some of my shipping preferences:

Display Ship Button:

Select the type(s) of transactions for which you want the Ship button to appear in your History and Transaction Details pages. Click Save to update your preferences.

eBay Items and Auction Goods (non-eBay) (checked)
Goods - Non-Auction (checked)
Services
Cash Advance

My store is located here:

http://www.mikeknauer.com/store.aspx

Any help on this is appreciated!

Thanks,

Mike

Hey Joe,

Thanks for the reply and clearing that up.  I do have shipping setup globally for my Paypal account with the use of their tables (by quantity for now).  For example, Paypal lets you define if 1-5 items are shipped in the U.S. - cost = $2.00, and items 6-10 - cost = $4.00, and so on...  The advantage of using Paypal to calculate shipping is that you can also setup International Shipping costs seperately.  So if someone orders your CD from Europe, you can add more $ for shipping overseas.

It would be nice if Mojoportal would have a shipping calculation feature built in so that you can define it by products (of different size & weights) and just pass Paypal shipping included in the price.  That would be great if you make this available in 2010.  I can think of a few places I could use this!

In the meantime, I guess I could just turn off global shipping in Paypal and include a little extra in the price of the items in the mojo store.  However, this sort of thing has screwed me in other CMS solutions that I personally have built when I get international orders.  For example, I had an order for a CD from someone in the Netherlands and China and the shipping costed me almost $10 which was the cost of the CD in the first place... haha.  Oh well, there is a high price for fame right!  :)

Another thing I could do in the meantime - although more of a hassle, is to create 2 paypal accounts and 2 mojo sites and stores (an MP3 site & store pointing to a Paypal account that does not use global shipping) and a second site/store for items that are only shipped that does use the Paypal shipping tables.  But the limitation there is that if I sold say... CDs and Tshirts, Paypal does not know the difference between items and you cannot setup shipping tables for different items (but you can define shipping costs by weight which I guess would work ok).

In either case, I'm not doing a high volume of sales now anyway so I'll just factor in shipping in the cost of my CDs sold for Physical Shipment and hope that I do not get screwed for any international shipping rates :)

You have a wonderful CMS platform product here and I'm very happy to be using it and helping out with testing and evaluation for you.  I'm excited to see what features/abilities you add in 2010!  I'll be glad to evaluate and test for you :)

Thanks again for a great CMS solution and have a happy holiday & new year!

Mike