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My company wants users to be able to gather different documents from our website (for instance, manuals, installation instructions, etc) and put them all in one place (kind of like a shopping cart) to then print out all at once when their visit is over. Are there any applications that I can leverage to do this? We want something that's fairly plug-and-play because this is a late-stage requirement. I feel like I've come across something like this before but can't remember where.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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You say "shopping cart" but are users paying for these documents?

If so, you can outsource the downloads to a third party like PayPal to handle the digital downloads. PayPal API will let you handle a shopping cart.

If not, why not just have a link to a PDF on the document's description page? Then they can save, print, whatever. (My two cents, of course, but I don't see the big advantage to bundling a bunch of documents just to unbundle them on the other end.)

John at CashCommons
They will not be paying for these documents. I see what you mean about bundling the documents being an inconvenience, but I'm not so much talking about combining a bunch of PDFs into one. It would just be nice if the user could drag and drop the documents they want to print into a "cart" and print them at the end of the session rather than print one, go to another page, print another, go to another page, etc. or rather than making them save them all to their desktop.
ellenchristine