how to sell digital products ???????

[theste]

how to sell digital products ???????

i am not sure how to do this e.g. download links, paypal, make it all secure and so on :scratch

plz help :cry:D

thank you

[mikeyuk3]

hum what you mean on your site or on ebay? and if i was you i would make a point OF NO REFUNDS!
Well something like:
This product is not eligible for refunds.http://www.direct2drive.com/2/9977/product/Buy-Dragon-Age:-Origins-Ultimate-Edition-Download
Might help you from getting scamed.

[onehandharry]

If you want to have a website to sell digital products soley on your own without using any affiliate (not sure if this is the right word to describe) program - amazon,ebay etc. Then before people will generally buy goods from you they would at least like to see you are a real trading company not just someone who setup a random site with a few PayPal buttons (in my opinion)

If you have all this in place then maybe you could try an open sourced CMS type system using extensions, eg Joomla is pretty good for that stuff and the extensions for creating a digital download store are there (though I have yet to use any) You will be able to manage your site without having to worry about the coding of it all.

[theste]

sorry yes, this would be going through my website :)

[Mokey]

What kind of digital goods are we talking about? I would imagine the procedure would vary a bit depending on what you are actually selling.

[mikeyuk3]

best bet use ebay until you get a name for your self. No offence but i wouldn't use your site to buy stuff as it has no protection.

however here is a link to some e commerce site you could install http://www.softaculous.com/softwares/ecommerce

[Smifis]

Hey mate, I'll set this up for you as an IOU

[theste]

What kind of digital goods are we talking about? I would imagine the procedure would vary a bit depending on what you are actually selling.

the digital goods I am going to sell are 3D modleds :D


best bet use ebay until you get a name for your self. No offence but i wouldn't use your site to buy stuff as it has no protection.

however here is a link to some e commerce site you could install http://www.softaculous.com/softwares/ecommerce

mate it would not need to be protected because the it will be going to through paypal, that then would some how let the client downlaod the contect. p.s. my hosting as SSL :D that can be added at anytime


Hey mate, I'll set this up for you as an IOU hi mate, to be honest i would like to learn how to create something like this and the only way i can do that is to do it my self :) but with a little bit of help :chuckle: if that is possible. p.s thank you for your kind gesture ;)

[Smifis]

If you have skype, I'll take you through each stage for ya

[VJ]

you can use paypal, i've done it before for donations.. which didn't kick off, but it worked :)
https://www.paypal-business.co.uk/merchantservices/set-up-your-payment-solution/adding-payment-buttons.htm
i'm happy to help out too if you need

[LiegeLord]

If you're doing it through your own website, using PayPal, then you need to read up on PayPal's IPN (Instant Payment Notification). I've done this before to sell PHP Scripts in the past. The IPN itself will need some PHP Knowledge to setup.

I read up on the IPN, wrote a class to handle it then made a mini store front. You don't have to use PayPal buttons, you can design your own. When a payment is made, the IPN handles and validates the request and then adds the digital product to the users account for download.

PayPal | Instant Payment Notification (https://www.paypal.com/ipn) - I hope you have some PHP skills. Otherwise, a premade open source digital commerce script would be easier.

[scottmac]

There are quite a lot of opensource shopping carts out there which support digital products, look into things like Magento, Cubecart, Opencart and I think things like OS commerce and Zen cart also do. Depending on your hosting you may even be able to install some of them with a single click from your Cpanel

[theste]

hi all, at the moment I think i am going to go with opensurce shopping carts just to see how it go's :eek:.

@Smifis (http://forums.aria.co.uk/member.php?u=14675)
if it is ok with u, i might take you up on your offer. if it does not work out :p

thank you all for all your help, it is greatly appreciated :)

[IanS]

I'd recommend Zen Cart as an open source cart. A lot of hosting packages include it as part of Fantastico.