User Digital Downloads / Who downloads what

Design help General
1

Hi everyone

I am looking to create a site where users can download specific content. So far so easy.
However, I need to be able to track which user downloaded which content.
The experience should be as smooth as possible. This is why I am hesitant to fall back on the E-Commerce Digital Product solution.

Ideally it would be possible for users to:

  1. Log-In (or register)
  2. See and click the download button
  3. Get the file (download or via email)

(And 4. I can see which user downloaded what file).

I am currently experimenting with access groups but maybe this would be possible with different mailing list in Mailchimp.

Does anyone have an idea how to achieve this?

Phil

2

If you use ecommerce you will not have any track usage, use a form automation instead, make a form with only a submit button and the email of the user, and with zapier/make/pipedream, send an email to that with the download link inside, in this way you can save somewhere the email

3

I thought about that. However is there any way the user does not have to input his/her email? If the user is logged in - can the system pull the email address somehow?

4

not with conventional methods, but with javascript you can