Microsoft Office Live Small Business Community

Hi All,

I'm working on setting up my site so that it can sell and distribute software.  I want to go with the e-commerce part of office-live, but when I called the helpline, they said that there is no feature built in to handle this type of thing.

Has anybody done this?  If so, what did you utilize?

Any insights would be appreciated.

Thanks,

John Leone

http://radiolistenersElectricEasel.com 

I'm selling digital downloads and I'm using Payloadz to manage the file distribution.  (I'm not using the OLSB store manager at all.) 

My customer purchases using PayPal and as soon as the payment happens a screen pops up where they can download the file (mine are multiple PDF's in a ZIP file.)  They also get an email with the download instructions.  Payloadz can also do key management if you need that.  I highly recommend their solution.

I used the OLSB "Custom Business App" to create a list (the list is actually created by a query from Access 2007) and I wrote my own XSL to present the list in the format I wanted on the website.  Here is where you can see a page:  http://bobfreedmanarranger.com/hsbigband.aspx

Good luck!

-Wendy

Hello,

I have the same problem. So, I use ebay button(free), and distribute the software on CD instead of downloading it. The problem seems to me that one can not upload onto a document, a self extracted file (the software) with an extention EXE, even when the file is zipped. I try it again and again and it never worked. Got no help at all on this site. 

http://www.bezalelart.net

Payloadz will let you upload .EXE files and handle distribution - no sending CD's.  https://www.payloadz.com/

-Wendy

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