Add a PDF to product

I would like to add a product sheet PDF to an individual product and don't see a good way to do it.  Any ideas?

Thanks.

Darryl

 

Some ideas, not sure if they would work for your situation.

1. Product descriptions can be in HTML you can simply include a link to the PDF file directly into your description. You would first have to upload your PDF file into a folder/directory on your site so you know the exact path/url where the file resides. This link is exactly like a regular link, but instead of linking to a page you link to a file.
Sample html code to insert into your product description could be (2 links in this code):

<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/folder/subfolder/file.pdf" target="_blank">Click here to download PDF Product Sheet</a> Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view this document. To get Acrobat Reader free, visit the <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/gntray_dl_get_reader" target="_blank">Adobe Website</a>.

2. Only if you want them to access it after registering. You could create a Free digital/downloadable product (your PDF) then set up a Cross Selling Relationship with the original product. So anytime someone sees the main product, they will always have the downloadable product shown below, but it would have to be added to the cart and the customer would have to checkout in order for them to download and view it.

Hope that helps.

Picking up on the second suggestion above to see ProductCart for digital download products for comparison purposes, feel free to have a look at us.

We're at http://www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk (or the .com) and only sell downloadable items.   ProductCart has proven to be a very capable store for this.

We sell legally hundreds of albums and add around 30 a month.   It hopefully shows what can be done with ProductCart in the digital products area.

cheers
Mark

Does anyone have an idea how a pdf can easily be uploaded via the admin instead of having to use ftp? Will the HTML editor tool do this?  I have a need to do a weekly upload of a pdf file and need to link back to it in an email newsletter.

Thanks Sean, I have a client that may want to add that at some point.