J2Store Documentation
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  • Introduction to J2Store
  • Getting Started
    • Introduction to J2Store
    • Getting started with J2store
    • Technical Requirements
    • Installation
    • Update
    • Upgrade from FREE version to PRO version of J2Store
    • Migrating from 2.x to3.x
  • Migration from J2Store 3 to 4
  • Set up
    • Content plugin settings
    • Configuration
    • Currency
    • Custom fields
    • Set up multi-currency
  • Quickstart guide
  • Product Types
    • Simple product
    • Variable product
    • Configurable product
    • Flexible variable product
    • Downloadable product
  • Layout
    • Product layout
    • Product tag layout
    • Usecases
    • Category Tree for displaying filters
    • Special module positions
  • Catalog
    • Assigning a product to multiple categories
    • Product description
    • Short codes
    • Adding specifications to your products
    • Advanced pricing
    • Setting up tax for your products
    • Options
      • Import product options
      • How to create options and add them to your products
    • Filters
      • Product filters
      • Translating filters to your language
    • Manufacturers
    • Vendors
    • Adding related products
    • Ordering products on your storefront
  • Subscriptions and Memberships
    • Introduction to subscriptions and memberships in J2Store
    • Quickstart
    • Requirements and Installation
    • Basic Settings
    • Creating subscription based products
    • Simple Subscription Product
    • Paypal Reference Transactions for Subscriptions
    • Usecases
    • Customizing the subscription mail templates
    • Frequently asked questions
  • Partial Payments
    • Introduction to Partial payments
    • Basic Settings
    • Setting up plans for Partial Payments
    • Instances
    • Usecases
  • Booking and Reservations
    • Limitation of the booking products type
    • Requirements and Installation
    • Basic settings and Booking Management
    • Booking and Reservations
    • Creating a Bookable Product
    • how to restrict multiple booking for a product person based restriction
    • Usecases
  • Localisation
  • Translation
    • Translate J2Store into your language
    • Setting up the store in your Language
    • How to write language override for plugin in multilingual site
    • Language overrides in Joomla with examples
    • Translating Product Options
  • Design
    • Email templates
    • Invoice Template (Pro Feature)
  • Tax configuration
    • Untitled
    • Recommended Tax configuration for US States
    • Recommended Tax configuration for Canadian Stores
    • Recommended Tax Configuration for EU stores
    • Setting up European VAT Rules for selling Physical Goods with J2store
    • A simplified guide for New EU VAT rules 2015 for digital goods and setting them up in J2Store
    • How Tax is Calculated
  • Easy Checkout
    • Easy checkout
    • Trouble shooting issues
  • Shipping methods
    • Free Shipping
      • How to create coupons for free shipping
    • How to set up local store pick up shipping method
    • Australia post shipping plugin
    • Bring shipping plugin
    • Canadapost shipping plugin
    • FedEx shipping plugin
    • Purolator
    • Postal Code shipping plugin
    • Royal Mail Shipping
    • Standard shipping methods
    • Table Rate Shipping
    • UPS Shipping
    • USPS Shipping
    • United States postal service Shipping Plugin
    • USPS Advanced
  • Payment Methods
    • AliPay Payment Plugin
    • Authorize.Net plugin
    • Bank Transfer
    • Barclays Payment plugin
    • Braintree payment plugin
    • Cash on Delivery
    • CardSave Payment plugin
    • CCAvenue payment plugin
    • CECA Payment
    • Checkout fi¨
    • Culqi Payment
    • DIBS payment plugin
    • Direcpay Payment Plugin
    • EBS Payment Plugin
    • Elavon Coverage/Virtual Merchant Payment Plugin
    • eway Payment Gateway for j2store
    • First Data Plugin
    • Flo2Cash for J2Store
    • GestPay
    • Heartland Payment Plugin
    • Icepay Payment Plugin
    • Interpay
    • Klarna Payment Plugin
    • Mollie payment plugin
    • Money Order
    • Moneris eselectplus Hosted Paypage
    • MultiSafe Payment Plugin
    • Nochex Payment Plugin
    • NMI Payment Gateway
    • Ogone Payment plugin
    • Pagseguro Payment plugin
    • Paybox Payment plugin
    • Payeezy
    • Payfast Payment plugin
    • Paygate Payment
    • Paymate
    • Paypal Sandbox
    • Paypal Adavnced Payment plugin
    • Payment Express for J2Store
    • Payment Sense
    • Paypal Express Checkout
    • Paypal payment plugin
    • Paypal Pro Payment Plugin
    • Payseal Payment Plugin
    • Paysera Payment Plugin
    • Payson Payment Plugin
    • Payson Invoice Payment Plugin
    • Pay U Latam
    • PayUMoney plugin
    • Poli Payment Plugin
    • Post Finance
    • QuickPay
    • Razorpay
    • Rabobank Omnikassa
    • RealEx Payment Plugin
    • Redsys/Servired/Sermepa Payment Plugin
    • Sagepay Form Payment Plugin
    • Secure Trading Plugin
    • Sepa Payment
    • Sisow Payment for J2Store
    • Skrill Payment Plugin
    • Sofort Banking
    • Stripe
    • Squareup Payments
    • Tranzila Payment Plugin
    • USAePay Payment Plugin
    • Voguepay Payment Plugin
    • Worldpay Payment Plugin
    • 2Checkout Plugin
  • Sales
    • Coupons
    • Vouchers
    • Customers
    • Orders
  • Report Sales
  • Modules
    • Product search module
    • J2store Detailed Cart
    • Product categories module
    • Product display module
  • Apps
    • Add to user group
    • Additional fee
    • Ask question / quote
    • Availability-notification
    • Bundled Products
    • Bulk discounts
    • Change Password
    • Checkout Redirect
    • Custom Tabs
    • Data validation
    • Donation
    • Drop-box
    • Email basket Plugin
      • Email basket issues
    • GDPR compliance
    • Google-analytics-ecommerce-tracking
    • Group Products
    • How to send download links through email notifications
    • Image Popup
    • Invoice Prefix Generator
    • Open hours (time based restriction)
    • Pay later/Pay against invoice
    • Points and Rewards
    • Re-Order
    • Shipstation
    • Simple CSV import and export tool
    • Tax Utilities
    • Upload file in checkout
    • Quantity dropdown
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Where can i find my sub-template
    • Products not aligned properly on list view
    • SCA support for payment plugins
    • To show the base price instead of price range in flexivariable products
    • Where do I add the CSS on my site
    • Unable to save the settings in any app
    • Difference between product types
    • Commonly found issues
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Quantity Restriction
  • Troubleshooting Guide
    • Products not visible on storefront
    • Cart not Working
    • Troubleshooting Cart related Issues
    • Moving the description
    • Troubleshooting Checkout Issues
    • Troubleshooting Common Issues
    • How to disable shipping address and payment in checkout
    • Joomla Article Error decoding json data
    • Troubleshooting Email Issues
    • Troubleshooting Paypal related Issues
    • Troubleshooting Product Display Module Issues
    • How to create a custom thank you message
    • Troubleshooting Shipping Issues
    • Troubleshooting Tax Issues
    • Troubleshooting Translate related Issues
  • Common Overrides
    • To add options to downloadable products
    • Moving additional image list to the left of the main image in product view page
    • To display the UPCE/BAN/ISBN on the product page
    • To Display Both the main Image and the additional image in the product view page
  • Video Tutorials
    • Quick Start
    • Catalog Management
    • Subscriptions
    • Booking and Reservation
    • Partial Payments
    • Tax
    • Shipping Methods
    • Discounts
    • Language
    • Apps
    • Email and Invoice Template
    • Checkout and Payment
    • Sales and Orders
    • J2Store CPanel
  • General
    • How to set cron job on your server
    • How to create an FTP account and super user account in Joomla
  • Developer Guide
    • Introduction
    • Queue System
    • App for J2store
    • Sub-templates
    • Creating an integration plugin for your component
    • Payment plugin
    • Templates
  • Canonical URL Plugin
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  1. Apps

Drop-box

Sell your files stored in dropbox with J2Store Joomla eCommerce platform. The app enables you to connect your dropbox and sell the files securely.

Important Notes

NOTE 1:

The download link sent in the email uses the Dropbox API’s method to create a temporary url.

The API does not allow us to set a custom expiry date (like in Amazon S3). Dropbox itself sets the expiry time. The link expires after a few hours.

After the link expires, the customer cannot download using that link. He will have to visit the site, login and then click the Download. This would create another temporary download url and allow the customer to download.

Now there are two ways of solving this

  1. You can mention in the email that the link is valid only for a few hours. if it expired, customers have to login to your site to download the file.

  2. Dropbox API now allows creating a permanent sharable link. Once created it is valid till your file is removed from dropbox.

You can use the app’s settings to choose whether to send a temporary url or permanent url. In your app’s settings, you can see the following parameter

Choose the type of link to be included in the email

  • Choose Send a Temporary link if you wants to send temporary link to your customers. This url will expire in few hours.

  • Choose Send a Sharable link if you wants to send permanent link. This url never expires unless you delete the shared file in your dropbox account.

NOTE 2:

Before proceeding with with setup for the app, make sure you defined a local folder path in J2Store -> Set up -> Configuration -> Basic settings (example: media ).

Key features

  • Sell any file stored in Dropbox

  • Enables you to retrive the files from the Dropbox remotely.

  • Generates a temproary url for the downlodable files, which expires within minutes

  • Allows you to control the expiry of the url from settings

Known Limitations

  • When you are using Dropbox for selling digital files, do set Download limit and Download expire days.

Requirements

  • PHP 5.4 or higher

  • Joomla 3.x

  • J2Store 3.2.10 or above

Installation

  1. Download Dropbox app from our site’s extensions section and install it using Joomla Installer.

  2. In the backend, go to J2Store > Dashboard > Apps.

  3. Click Enable in the Nexmo SMS app as shown in the image below.

4.)Once app is enabled, click open to setup the Basic settings of the app.

How to Generate access token, key and secret key?

Step-2: Clicking on Create app button will ask you complete the several steps to create the app.

  • Choose Dropbox API as API in your first step of creating app

  • Choose your access type.App folderA dedicated folder named after your app is created within the Apps folder of a user’s Dropbox. Your app gets read and write access to this folder only.Full DropboxYou get full access to all the files and folders in a Dropbox.

  • Give the name for your app and agree terms and conditions and click create app.

Click on Generate button to generate access token for your app.

Step-3: Now the app page will be displayed which contains your **App key **and App Secret key.

Step-4: Click on Generate button to generate access token for your app.

Step-5: Copy all the credentials in your notepad and paste it in the J2Store’s dropbox app basic settings.

Basic Settings

Folder Name: Enter the name of the folder. The folder will be created(with the name entered here) in the path which you have entered in the J2Store configuration. All the files stored in your dropbox account will be fetched and stored in this folder. Access Token: Enter the valid access token for your account provided by Dropbox.

Dropbox Key: Enter the valid app key associated with your dropbox account.

Access Token: Enter the valid access token for your account provided by Dropbox.

Dropbox secret key: Enter the valid app secret key associated with your dropbox account. Choosing files in creating digital product

  1. Once finished configuring basic settings, go to article manager and open your product.

  2. Move to J2Store cart tab and then navigate to Files tab

  3. Click on Set Product files

4.Click on Choose file will display the folder named with the folder name you have given in the basic settings.

5.Choose your file and save.

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Step-1: Go to and login using your dropbox account. After logging in, you wil be having the page with Create app. Click on the Create app button.

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Still have questions? You can post in our support forum:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps
http://j2store.org/forum/index.html