Hi everybody,
I almost completed my webpage and have a problem creating a page from where visitors can download a trial version of my app and other free apps I have created. Since there is no payment required all these shop apps seem like an overkill. Is there an easy solution?
Any help appreciated, thanks in advance
Hi Gerhard!
In order to let your users download your apps you have to store their files in an external (to wix) source and use the wixFetch API in order to retrieve them.
Other then that, there’s a wide collection of file types that are supported in wix collections.
If any of your files are compatible with this list you can store it in your site’s database.
Hope it helps.
Doron.
Hi Doron,
thanks for this info. So does this mean I have to subscribe to another Web service and open an account to store my files there? Or else how and where do I store these zip files?
Unfortunately it indeed requires an external database. You can use a service like Azure by Microsoft to store your files and than use the API’s I mentioned before.
Doron.
Thank you so much for your quick replies. I googled in the meantime and there a re lot of free file hosting services on the web. So if understand this right: I put the files on a file hosting service, a visitor to my site clicks on a filename to load down and the file comes off the hosting service and downloads it to the visitor?
Again, thank you so much
Yes, exactly.
Follow the fetch API in order to implement it in your site.
Glad you were able to get a solution 
Doron.