Music Store – WordPress eCommerce

Music Store – WordPress ecommerce features:

♪ Allows selling audio files via PayPal, Square Up, iDeal – Mollie. Payments are SCA ready (Strong Customer Authentication), compatible with the new Payment services (PSD 2) – Directive (EU)
♪ Allows selling the Music Store products via WooCommerce cart (Experimental feature)
♪ Allows a custom setup of the online store
♪ Includes an audio player that supports formats: OGA, MP3, WAV, WMA
♪ Includes multiple layouts for the Music Store
♪ Allows sharing songs in social networks (ex: Facebook and Twitter)
♪ Supports all most popular web browsers and mobile devices
♪ Includes a module to track sales statistics

Music Store – WordPress ecommerce is an online store for selling audio files: music, speeches, narratives, everything audio. With Music Store your sales will be safe, with all the security PayPal, Square Up, and iDeal – Mollie offer. The Music Store alternatively allows selling its products via the WooCommerce cart.

Music Store – WordPress ecommerce protects your audio files, preventing them from being downloaded without permission.

Music Store – WordPress ecommerce includes an audio player compatible with all major browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome and mobile devices: iPhone, iPad, Android. The audio player is developed following the html5 standard. The Music Store audio player supports the following file formats: MP3, WAV, WMA and OGA.

More about the Main Features:

• Allows to create a WordPress online store for selling audio files via PayPal, Square Up, and iDeal – Mollie.
• Allows a custom setup of the online store, with ability to paging and sorting the results by popularity or price.
• Inserts a product in a post, page or template.
• Allows to insert a list of products in a post, page or template. The list can load the top rated products, newest products, or the top selling.
• Allows to associate additional information to the products.
• Includes an audio player that supports formats: OGA, MP3, WAV, WMA.
• Allows to share the products in the social networks (like Facebook and Twitter).
• Allows to display or hide the “Buy Now” buttons and the download links for anonymous users.
• Allows to insert a login form in the website sidebars.
• Allows to insert a counter of sold products in your website.
• Allows define licenses.
• Supports all most popular web browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad and Android.
• Includes a module to track sales statistics, with animated charts.

The “Music Store” plugin allows the specific integration with the following editors:

• Classic WordPress Editor.
• Gutenberg Editor.
• Elementor.
• Page Builder by SiteOrigin.
• BeaverBuilder Editor.
• For other editors, the shortcodes should be inserted using other controls of general purpose, like the controls for inserting HTML or shortcodes.

The base plugin, available for free from the WordPress Plugin Directory has all the features you need to create a WordPress ecommerce on your website.

Premium Features

• Allows selling collections. Audio files can be grouped into collections or albums (advanced version of plugin).
• Includes a shopping cart
• Offers secure Audio Playback that prevents unauthorized downloading of audio files.
• Allows to filter products by types of files: Singles or Collections.
• Allows selling product exclusively, and add a license for exclusive purchases.
• Allows to create discounts.
• Allows to entering discount coupons.
• Allows generate coupons dynamically, and send them to the buyers to promote new purchases.
• Allows to import multiple audio files at once, and extracts the information of the songs, like: title, artist, genres, albums names, and year, from the ID3 tags.
• Allows the integration with WebHooks for using services like: Zapier, IFTTT, Microsoft Flow, all of them are connectors for hundred of other services.
• Allows the integration with Salesforce to create new leads with the buyers data.

Demo of Premium Version of Plugin

http://demos.dwbooster.com/music-store/wp-login.php

http://demos.dwbooster.com/music-store/

Important

The theme used in your website, should include the wp_footer function in the footer.php template or the index.php template.

Are safe the downloads links?

The security in the access to songs files in the WordPress store is determined in different ways.

• The song files can’t be accessed directly. The purchased files are stored in a special directory called ms-downloads, the ms-downloads directory includes a .htaccess file to forbid the access from browser. The files can be accessed only through a server side script that validates the purchases.

• The Music Store – WordPress ecommerce determines the validity of download links based in three options, available in the settings page of plugin.

It is possible define a time period, in days, where a download link is considered valid. If a user tries to download a purchased product, the Music Store checks the date of purchasing.

It is possible define a limit of downloads by purchase. If a user tries to download a product, the WordPress store checks how many downloads have been made.

The Music Store – WordPress ecommerce may be configured to request the email address used in the purchase to check the validity of download link.

If you want more information about this plugin or another one, don’t doubt to visit the website:

http://musicstore.dwbooster.com

Installing and using the free version of the Music Store – WordPress ecommerce

Installing and using the premium version of the Music Store – WordPress ecommerce

Inserting a product, and product list, on a web page and sidebars. Premium version of plugin.

Buying in the Music Store – WordPress ecommerce.

Interface

Setting up Music Store

Music Store – WordPress ecommerce can be set up via the menu: “Settings / Music Store” or the new submenu “Music Store / Store Settings”. The setup screen offers general settings for the Music Store, allows to enter PayPal data to process sales (The plugin includes the integration with other payment gateways like Square Up, iDeal – Mollie, and Stripe), and texts necessary for email notifications.

Settings Interface

The setup interface includes the following fields:

• Integrate into WooCommerce (Experimental feature): By ticking the checkbox the plugin will sell its products via WooCommerce cart.

The Integrate into WooCommerce option disables discounts, coupons, payment gateways, native shopping cart, add-ons, notification emails and any other features of the Music Store plugin involved in the purchase process and communication with buyers. Since in this case all these functionalities would fall on WooCommerce. The Music Store would be restricted only to generate and display the products.

• Music Store URL: Enter the URL of the webpage where the Music Store is inserted. The URL of the store will be used to return from the product page to the store page.

Tip: If the Music Store URL is defined, the list of songs that belong to an album, artist or genre, are displayed in the same page of music store, with the corresponding options for filtering.

• Allow to filter by type: Inserts a field into the Music Store webpage that allows to filter products by type (including Singles, Collections or all products)
• Allow to filter by genre: Inserts a field into the Music Store webpage that allows to filter products by their genre.
• Allow to filter by artist: Inserts a field into the Music Store webpage that allows to filter products by the artist.
• Allow to filter by album: Inserts a field into the Music Store webpage that allows to filter products by the album they belong.
• Allow multiple pages: Allows paging of music store products.
• Use friendly URLs on products: Allows to use friendly URLs for products pages.
• Store layout: Allows select one of the multiple layouts available for the store.
• Items per page: Defines the number of products per page in the Music Store.
• Player style: Select the audio player style from the list.
• Percent of audio used for protected playbacks: Percent of audio to play in secure mode (advanced version of plugin).
• Explain text for protected playbacks: Text displayed below the music player in secure mode (advanced version of plugin).
• Share in social networks: Display a group of buttons for sharing the songs and collections in the social networks(like Facebook and Twitter)
• Facebook app id for sharing in Facebook: App id for sharing the website’s links in Facebook.

Payment gateway data

• Enable PayPal Payments: Allows the sale of products through PayPal.
• PayPal email: Enter the email address associated with the PayPal account.
• Currency: Symbol of the currency in which payments are accepted.
• PayPal language: Preferred language of the PayPal interface.
• Payment button: Select the payment button design.
• or use a shopping cart: Allows to activate a shopping cart, in place of sell each product separately (advanced version of plugin).
• Hide download link if price in blank: Allows to hide the download links in those songs whose price is left in blank.
• Increase the download page security: Requests the email used in product’s purchase from the download page.
• Pack all purchased audio files as a single ZIP file: Allows to download all files in the same purchase as only one zipped file. This option may be limited by configurations of the web server (advanced version of plugin).
• Restrict the access to registered users only: Pair of checkboxes to display the “Buy Now” buttons, and the download links for free products, for the registered users only.
• Licenses: Allows enter the URLs to the web pages with the licenses for free products, regular purchases and exclusive purchases.

Note: The links to the licenses for regular or exclusive purchases are sent to the buyers in the same email with the download links. In the case of free downloads, the links to the license are displayed just beside the download links.

Discount Settings (advanced version of plugin)

• Display discount promotions in the music store page: Allows to display all discounts promotions at the bottom of music store.
• Percent of discount: Enter the percent of discount to the sell price.
• Valid for sales over than: Condition for apply the discount.
• Valid from: First day to apply the discount rules.
• Valid to: Last day to apply the discount rules.
• Promotional text: Text for promote the discounts.

Coupon Settings (advanced version of plugin)

• Percent of discount: Enter the percent of discount to the sell price.
• Coupon: Enter a valid coupon code.
• Valid from: The coupon is valid from start date.
• Valid to: The coupon is valid until end date.

From the version v5.0.74, was included an add-on to allow generate coupons dynamically with every purchase, and send them to the buyers to promote new purchases.

Coupons Generator Add-On (Advanced version of plugin)

• Activate the Coupons Generator: Activates the generator.
• Percent of discount.
• Length of the coupon’s code: Number of characteres in the coupons’ codes.
• Valid for: The number of days where coupons are valid.
• Promote coupon message: The promote’s text to add to the notification emails, with the coupon’s data.

Notification Settings, both for buyers to complete a payment, and the store manager

• Notification “from” email: E-mail address that will appear as the sender of notifications.
• Send notification to email: Email address where a notification is sent after each sale.
• Subject of user confirmation email: Subject of the confirmation email sent to the customer when making the purchase.
• Email confirmation to user: Body of message sent to the client when making the purchase. The message should include the tag %INFORMATION% which will be replaced by the purchase data.
• Subject of email notification to admin: Subject of email notification sent to the administrator when a purchase is made.
• Email notification to admin: Body of the email message sent to the administrator when a purchase is made. The message text should include the tag %INFORMATION%, which will be replaced by the purchase data.

Affiliate Royale Integration, if the Affiliate Royale plugin is installed on the website, and you want integrate it with the Music Store.

Square add-on

Allows integrating the store with Square Up payment gateway. More details: https://musicstore.dwbooster.com/add-ons/square

iDeal – Mollie add-on

Allows integrating the store with iDeal – Mollie. More details: https://musicstore.dwbooster.com/add-ons/ideal-mollie

Stripe add-on

Allows integrating the store with Stripe. Requires the installation of the free plugin: Music Store – Stripe Add On

WebHook Connector add-on (Available in the Professional version of the plugin)

The WebHook Connector add-on allows the integration with WebHooks for using services like: Zapier, IFTTT, Microsoft Flow, all of them are connectors for hundred of other services.

The add-on is accessible from the store’s settings. Simply, enter the URL to the WebHook, and create the connection between the names of fields in the WebHook, and the information that the website should send.

The possible data to send:

• The buyer email
• The products’ names (it is an array with the names of purchased products).
• The products’ links (it is an array with the links to the products’ pages).
• The payed amount.
• The download link.
• The raw data received from the payment gateway
• Furthermore it is possible to enter custom attributes, that would be selected first between the data received from the payment gateway, or if the attribute does not exists, it would be sent to the webhook as a text.

Salesforce Connector add-on (Available in the Professional version of the plugin)

The Salesforce Connector add-on allows to create new leads in Salesforce with the buyers data.

The add-on is accessible from the store’s settings. Simply, create the relationship between the Salesforce attributes and the information in the website.

Note: Salesforce requires at least the users emails to create the leads.

The possible data to send are:

• The buyer email
• The products’ names (it is an array with the names of purchased products).
• The products’ links (it is an array with the links to the products’ pages).
• The payed amount.
• The download link.
• The raw data received from the payment gateway
• Furthermore it is possible to enter custom attributes, that would be selected first between the data received from the payment gateway, or if the attribute does not exists, it would be sent to salesforce as a text.

Creating content

Two types of products can be sold through the Music Store – WordPress ecommerce: songs or collections.

Creating songs

To enter a song in the store please press the menu option “Music Store Song” to open the relevant section. Initially it displays the list of songs entered previously and a set of data associated with the song (screenshot-2)

To enter a new song press “Add New”.

The interface for entering data pertaining …