Thursday, March 24, 2011

Selling digital downloads using VendingBox

As well as physical products, VendingBox supports the sale of digital products. Merchants can upload and sell eBooks, music, software or any digital product from their storefronts. Adding digital products to your store is very similar to adding other products. The following steps show how.


To begin, log into your account.

Under “Manage Products” Click “Add Products” in the submenu.

Add all the details of your digital download as the form suggests - fill in the fields, “Title”, “Price” and click on “browse” to upload an image of your product.

Enter a good description about your product in the description box at the bottom.

Above the product description field, tick the box “Is this a digital download?”.



Once the tick-box is checked, scroll down and click “Apply Details”.

A new link will appear beside the digital download tick-box , which you can use to upload your digital product.




Follow the instructions that appear. You will be asked to define if your product is a book or a music file - tick as appropriate. "Browse" for the file you wish to upload to your store for sale. Click "Apply", and upload your product file.






Once your file has been successfully uploaded to the server the message below will appear.


Your digital product has been listed and is now available for sale.

(N.B. Ensure your product is "active" in your "Product list" in order for it to display on your storefront. Or, click on "Preview" to see if it is active.)

Tips:
If your individual digital product entry has any variations you will be able to provide a separate file for each variation. E.g. Language versions, template titles, music formats, to name a few. Simply add each variation to the table shown below.

Any variations made available for an individual product are chosen by the customers during the checkout process.






How do customers purchase your digital product?


After a customer purchases digital products from your VendingBox at checkout, they are returned to a page containing links to each of the digital downloads. These links expire after 24 hours.


The customer also receives an email containing a temporary link, so they can download later at their leisure.


We recommend creating zip files for your digital products, which include instructions, licensing information etc.
If your product has any variations you will be able to provide a file for each variation. Any variations made available for an individual product are chosen by the customers during the checkout process.

1 comment:

  1. Tips on variations:

    If you want the customer to get more than one file after purchasing the download, we recommend packaging all of the files together into a single zip file.

    If you want the customer to be able to choose one of many variants (e.g. a Windows and a Mac version of a program), you can create product
    variations after specifying that the file is a digital download, and provide files for each variation by using the upload buttons that appear in the product variation table.

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