llegrand,
This is going to be really long, my apologies. I am including your quotes to help out, lol. Thanks for such a detailed response.
Wow, so many questions and most are actually answered in the documentation or simply by playing with a demo or doing an install of Abantecart - it is free.
I thank you for your response, but I feel you misread. Or maybe I did, not sure... I was not looking for answers to all the things I listed, I was responding to eCommerce Core's request for
ideas for new implementations or features, which is how I understood his post. And, I noted in my post, that I could possibly already do these things, but I had not gotten to the rest of the features in the demo...because I got stuck on the download options in the demo...which I
am playing with, as stated in the original post.

as to your sizing issues -
It's a workaround, but the problem for me is, it would seem, that I would have four or five different product pages for the same "photo", each one with a different size, which after a certain number of products, is confusing to the customer, and it clutters up the store. I actually would just simply move on to a different cart than do that.

I may even option out more than just size, which would become an out of control issue very, very fast. There are a few carts that have this "options linked to download files" capability (with plugins), but they also have some shortcomings, so I was trying Abantecart. It looks great so far, but I do need that one feature for sure. My product is more complicated than photos, I was just using that scenario for ease of understanding.
But yes, there is a link in the order email sent to your customers, ...
When I purchased from my cart, I didn't get an email. I also saw someone else with the same problem on the forum in a different post which was unsolved, I can't find it right now. I went into my own demo, and made sure I was logged in and all my info was correct, purchased, then in the admin panel completed the order which is a requirement for releasing downloads..etc. Still no email, even though my downloads are available in my account. There may be a setting I am missing, I will go back and check.
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As for the rest, thank you for clarifying. I am slowly making my way through the demo, but I would honestly be wasting my time without the feature needed in my original post. This is why I asked on the forum in the first place. I do hope the feature is implemented, I have a few weeks before I really need to have it to begin developing. Abantecart is a huge contender if this feature is implemented by then.
Thank you both for your replies, I really do appreciate it. And I would really like to see the implementation I mentioned in the original post.
If I misunderstood eCommerce Core's response, I apologize.
