A Little Help with the Plimus Control Panel?

[Sybixsus]

Sorry if I picked the wrong forum. I couldn't decide between business and technical, but since it's more about making it work, I picked technical.

I've just signed up with Plimus and this control panel is hideously complex. I've managed to set up my products ok, but some of the advanced stuff is baffling me. Allow me to explain.

I have three products which I have added, let's called them Game 1, Game 2 and Game 3. I have added one initial "Full Version" contract for each, which is just the standard game at full price ( $19.99 ) Now I want to do bundles for all the games, so I've added another three contracts to =each= product. EG:

Game 1 : Contract 1 - Game 1; Contract 2 - Game 1 + Game 2; Contract 3 - Game 1 + Game 3; Contract 4 - Game 1 + Game 2 + Game 3;

Game 2 : Contract 1 - Game 2; Contract 2 - Game 2 + Game 1; Contract 3 - Game 2 + Game 3; Contract 4 - Game 2 + Game 1 + Game 3;

Game 1 : Contract 1 - Game 1; Contract 2 - Game 3 + Game 1; Contract 3 - Game 3 + Game 2; Contract 4 - Game 3 + Game 1 + Game 2;

That way, as I understand it, I can open the BuyNow page for whichever game they are playing the demo of, and it will still have all available bundles involving that game displayed.

I've modified the HTML so that the order page matches my site ( very nice feature that ) but it looks a bit basic when the buy page comes up, with the game listed at the top and bundles listed below it. I've noticed some other Plimus customers have a buy page for each game with some check boxes at the bottom, with options like "Buy Game X with this for just $5.00; Buy Game Y with this for just $10.00; Buy Game Z with this for just $10.00"

Then when the user has picked what they want, it moves onto the order page for just that contract. Is this done via bundles as I have set it up or do I need to remove the bundles and handle it differently? Is it done via the Plimus control panel or do I have to script this manually? I just can't find the way to set it to do that.

Also, as a little extra not-so-important question, can I change the colors of links in the <#content#> section of the buy page? My page is fairly blue/purple and the blue links don't show up at all well. I could easily put a nice pale coloured table around the <#content#> section but it would look slightly out of place with the site, so I'd rather change the link colors if that's possible.

Thanks guys.

[Jack Norton]

You need to make Promotions.
Example:
Product - UBM
Contract #1 - Fullversion 24.95$
Contract #2 - Special price 14.95$ -> mark this one as "for Promotions only"

then on the other game you want to promote:
Product - GK
Contract #1 - Fullversion 19.95$ -> go in the Promotions page->add the other contracts marked as Promotions only in the step above

really is only a matter of doing some experiments, but once you understand you can make anything :)

Change the color of the links=use your .ccs file for that :) upload it like for the images so the link in your HTML code of Plimus order page will look like:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.plimus.com/plimus/developers/XXXX/styles.css" type="text/css">

Hope that helps a bit :)

[Sybixsus]

Ahhhh, Promotions, not bundles. I thought about uploading the CSS file to the secure area with the images, but I wasn't sure if that was allowed. Thanks for the information, Jack, that clears everything up.

[SonSon]

Will be useful to me too. Thanks Jack! :)

[Jack Norton]

Np, I've used it for a while :)
Bundles are good if you want to make fixed bundles, like 3 games-pack, which the user must buy all together (and not choosing which one to buy).

[SonSon]

Your tip about the .css file will be very helpful. I never thought about uploading something else than pictures to Plimus.
Please tell us any other tip you're aware of. I should go and seriously set up my Plimus catalogue now.:D