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When I first heard of these digital selling services I was confused and asked – why can’t you just use PayPal? After doing further research I found out that there is a fair amount of risks that can be hazardous to your online business and everything’s just not that simple. Converting visitors into paying customers can be a serious challenge. The most cautious still consider internet sales a fraud. Inappropriate descriptions, ugly interfaces, a long checkout process – these are just few factors that prevent people from buying digital goods.
This is where digitally selling services comes in handy. So what are the advantages? Selling products with them is made as easy and pleasant as possible. All you have to do is upload your product, get the Buy Now button and watch the money roll in. These services let you focus on the product while they do the selling. The products are uploaded on safe and secure servers so you don’t have to worry about delivery and possible downtime. Most of these services provide more than one payment method so your visitors can shop in their local currency and use their preferred payment method. Want to expand your business even further? Create your own affiliate service with ease and watch the sales increase. And finally, you can track and monitor all your purchases, have a clear overview of products and all your activity in one place.
So you believe your business is ready to hit the global market? Are you ready to attract new buyers and keep them coming back? Continue reading and check out these 10 useful services for selling digital goods online.
Sellfy describes their service as the simplest way to sell digital products on your website. The process is quite simple – you create a product (design templates, ebooks, images, videos etc), upload it to Sellfy and make money using generated ‘Buy now’ button.
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In the screenshot below you can see the user’s control panel. Here you can drag and drop files to create the product.
Once the files are uploaded you have to specify the name of the product, the price, your Paypal email address and information about discounts if you want to offer any.
When finished with that you’ll receive the HTML code of your button. You can later access it on your products dashboard.
PayLoadz offers a secure digital goods ecommerce service for anyone to sell downloadable goods online. They enable tens of thousands of people to sell digital goods such as videos, video games, ebooks, software and templates to a large audience of buyers from their online store. PayLoadz can service the needs of beginners as well as enterprise level partners.
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Below you can see the product setup screenshot from a demo account. You can enter things like file format, category, keywords and description.
They also provide you with detailed statistics about the purchases.
E-junkie provides shopping cart and buy now buttons to let you sell downloads and tangible goods on your website, eBay, MySpace, Google Base, CraigsList and other websites. For merchants selling downloads, there is an automatic securing of the digital delivery of files and codes. If you are selling tangible goods, the shipping costs and inventory management is automatically calculated.
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Below you can see the Add Product page and user admin panel.
The Plimus landing page is decorated by a huge title which says – “sell more. Market, sell and buy digital goods and services around the world online and on mobile.” Indeed, Plimus is one of the largest and most serious services around offering great tools for sellers as well as affiliates. With the Plimus e-business platform, you have all the tools you need to take charge of your business and sell more.
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Plimus has a very instructive getting started page where you can find useful guides for using the service together with some video tutorials.
Fetch is a digital delivery application that makes selling downloadable products simple. It seamlessly integrates with popular shopping carts and payment systems like Shopify, Goodsie, PayPal, and many others. Fetch is hosted software so there’s nothing to install and works on any platform.
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All premium accounts have unrestricted access to everything Fetch has to offer. Unlimited products, orders, downloads, and so much more. Fetch puts you in control of everything.
Pulley is a simple way to sell your digital art, music, videos, photography, fonts, eBooks, software, and other downloadable products. With Pulley you can easily add your digital products and customize your account settings, sell from any website and the money goes directly to your PayPal account, secure download links are emailed automatically to your customer and view real-time statistics as well as complete order and download history.
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The dashboard gives you a crystal clear overview of sales, top products, and activity in your Pulley account.
See all of your order activity and customer details presented clearly and precisely.
DPD makes it quick and easy to sell downloads. Sell downloads, automatically deliver your products, and run your own affiliate program with DPD. Get advanced selling features and options with no programming required.
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This tool is your best buddy when it comes to selling digital goods through PayPal. Automate product delivery and keep track of customers and orders after their purchase on PayPal.
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After signing-up you need to add a new product and upload your digital file.
The product view presents you with the integration code.
In the settings section you can customize the email and adjust PayPal settings.
The Dashboard will show you the latest trends with new orders and statistics from sales.
Cerizmo is yet another selling platform which was created to provide a simple and reliable way to sell digital goods online. After realizing the limitations of most digital product e-commerce systems, they created their own solution to address these problems.
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With BitBuffet, you can sell single pay-per-download products through simple links or use PayPal’s built in shopping cart and receive the money via PayPal.
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 16:01
What about e-junkie? they are by far the cheapest out of all these. Although, getdpd.com is very good too
Thursday, March 1st, 2012 07:03
I contacted the ones that don’t take commission.
None of them would answer my support questions via email in a quick manner except BitBuffet who was available on chat and immediately helped me setup and get going and import previous customer data.
Monday, December 5th, 2011 09:05
In hunting for a way to sell a few pdf files on my own site, I found a simple script called Firesage Checkout that got me up and running in less than an hour. It basically integrates with Paypal, and uses in-context payments to keep the whole process on my site. It’s not an all-inclusive site like those mentioned in this article, but it handles the Paypal payments and provides an encoded, self-expiring link to my download files. I can’t recommend it highly enough for selling your own digital goods!
Thursday, December 1st, 2011 01:31
Sounds good.
I confirm that in Italy more of this services are unknown.. the most used is PayPal
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 19:52
Plimus is very e commerce website for selling of digital goods as I have used it personally.
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 02:33
I think you are really missing some of the major companies that help people sell digital goods online and that are trustworthy. This reads, at first glance, like a top 10 list, but it is actually more like 10 companies you probably haven’t heard of that might also help you sell digital goods. It seems like you have ignored the major players in the selling digital e-commerce game.
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 06:52
please tell me the other major companies in this field which are more trust worthy and transparent in there transaction and charges
Monday, November 28th, 2011 19:21
Awesome & very difference post.
Monday, November 28th, 2011 17:07
Hi there,
I work for Tinypay.me and saw this list without us being on it! Perhaps you hadn’t heard from us yet.
Here’s the pitch:
With Tinypay.me you can have your item (physical or digital) online for sale within 60 seconds.
There are no fee’s or costs we only charge if you’d like to (automatically) advertise your item on other websites or Ad-engines.
Might want to give it a shot and see if we’re a good fit. Good work!
Sunday, November 27th, 2011 13:42
I have heard of a couple of these, but I would have to say that Clickbank and PayPal are the 2 that are most used and recognized.
Digital buyers know that they have a company that they can depend on when doing business thru them
Sunday, November 27th, 2011 00:53
Clickbank?
Saturday, November 26th, 2011 01:19
“Converting visitors into paying customers can be a serious challenge. The most cautious still consider internet sales a fraud. Inappropriate descriptions, ugly interfaces, a long checkout process – these are just few factors that prevent people from buying digital goods.”
This is why PayPal is the best option to use. People trust it.
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Saturday, November 26th, 2011 01:19
“Converting visitors into paying customers can be a serious challenge. The most cautious still consider internet sales a fraud. Inappropriate descriptions, ugly interfaces, a long checkout process – these are just few factors that prevent people from buying digital goods.”
This is why PayPal is the best option to use. People trust it.
Estiak Ahamed
Monday, November 28th, 2011 19:21
Awesome & very difference post.
Richard
Monday, November 28th, 2011 17:07
Hi there,
I work for Tinypay.me and saw this list without us being on it! Perhaps you hadn’t heard from us yet.
Here’s the pitch:
With Tinypay.me you can have your item (physical or digital) online for sale within 60 seconds.
There are no fee’s or costs we only charge if you’d like to (automatically) advertise your item on other websites or Ad-engines.
Might want to give it a shot and see if we’re a good fit. Good work!
David
Sunday, November 27th, 2011 13:42
I have heard of a couple of these, but I would have to say that Clickbank and PayPal are the 2 that are most used and recognized.
Digital buyers know that they have a company that they can depend on when doing business thru them
Tom
Sunday, November 27th, 2011 00:53
Clickbank?
Julie
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 02:33
I think you are really missing some of the major companies that help people sell digital goods online and that are trustworthy. This reads, at first glance, like a top 10 list, but it is actually more like 10 companies you probably haven’t heard of that might also help you sell digital goods. It seems like you have ignored the major players in the selling digital e-commerce game.
ankit goel
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 06:52
please tell me the other major companies in this field which are more trust worthy and transparent in there transaction and charges
Stan
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 19:52
Plimus is very e commerce website for selling of digital goods as I have used it personally.
joe
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 16:01
What about e-junkie? they are by far the cheapest out of all these. Although, getdpd.com is very good too
Richard
Thursday, March 1st, 2012 07:03
I contacted the ones that don’t take commission.
None of them would answer my support questions via email in a quick manner except BitBuffet who was available on chat and immediately helped me setup and get going and import previous customer data.
Federico Bucchi
Thursday, December 1st, 2011 01:31
Sounds good.
I confirm that in Italy more of this services are unknown.. the most used is PayPal
Kostic
Monday, December 5th, 2011 09:05
In hunting for a way to sell a few pdf files on my own site, I found a simple script called Firesage Checkout that got me up and running in less than an hour. It basically integrates with Paypal, and uses in-context payments to keep the whole process on my site. It’s not an all-inclusive site like those mentioned in this article, but it handles the Paypal payments and provides an encoded, self-expiring link to my download files. I can’t recommend it highly enough for selling your own digital goods!