{"id":1113,"date":"2017-11-07T17:37:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T17:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withinweb.com\/info\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2017-11-08T09:20:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T09:20:43","slug":"guide-to-sell-digital-downloads-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinweb.com\/info\/guide-to-sell-digital-downloads-online\/","title":{"rendered":"A guide to sell digital downloads online using a PHP Shopping Cart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinweb.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/digital_goods_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1265 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withinweb.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/digital_goods_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.withinweb.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/digital_goods_1.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.withinweb.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/digital_goods_1-100x71.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.withinweb.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/digital_goods_1-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.withinweb.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/digital_goods_1-200x142.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Digital goods, electronic goods, digital products or e-goods are anything you can sell that is in a digital format.\u00a0 The types of products include ebooks, software, website templates, music, videos, license codes, ringtones and pdf tutorials.\u00a0 The costs of adding a digital item to a shopping system is very small so it can be a great way make a steady income.<\/p>\n<p>A PHP shopping cart with add to cart buttons can be combined with selling digital downloads as used in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinweb.com\/phpeseller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PHP-eSeller<\/a> application.<\/p>\n<p>Here are just a few of the advantages to selling digital downloads using a specially designed PHP shopping cart:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 No inventory \u2013 you have <strong>no<\/strong> stock levels to maintain so you have no storage problems or supply problems.<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>Costs are the same<\/strong> to sell one or thousands digital goods.<br \/>\n\u2022 <strong>No<\/strong> postage costs.<br \/>\n\u2022 The customer will<strong> instantly<\/strong> receive the product using a digital download system.<br \/>\n\u2022 The transaction is <strong>quickly completed<\/strong> so you have the money in your account straight away.<\/p>\n<p>Some online services specialize in selling digital goods, including invoicing, payment, and delivering the digital copy for you.\u00a0 In that case, you have to pay some sort of fee to the service provider.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively you can have a PHP shopping cart on your web site that you install yourself or get a developer to install for you.<\/p>\n<p>Choosing a PHP Shopping cart can be difficult, here\u2019s some guidelines to help you get started:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) Fees<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The payment system that the shopping system uses will have some kind of transaction fees.\u00a0 This will vary so check what they require and what you can afford. Selling through <strong>PayPal<\/strong> is often a convenient way and they use a transaction fee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) Integration with your website<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Make sure the shopping cart can be integrated with your website.\u00a0 This may be by modifying a template system or by adding buttons to your existing web pages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) Features<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a few of the features that might be helpful:<br \/>\n* Automatic product download<br \/>\n* Have the option of no shipping<br \/>\n* The ability to simultaneous sell tangible goods and e-goods<\/p>\n<p><strong>4) Security<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important that the purchase made by the customer is secure. You should expect your customer, after purchasing your product, to receive a secure link to immediately download the purchased item. The link should expire within a certain amount of time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5) Easy to Use<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Make sure the transaction is smooth and easy for your customer, you want to make it easy so that your customer come back for more.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a great eCommerce guide from my site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/withinweb.com\/global\/hints_tips_and_tricks\/digital_files.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/withinweb.com\/global\/hints_tips_and_tricks\/digital_files.pdf <\/a><\/p>\n<p>on further concepts for digital downloads.<\/p>\n<p>The product <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinweb.com\/phpeseller\/\">PHP-eSeller<\/a> is designed to sell digital goods from your web site using a PHP shopping cart system.\u00a0<strong> PHP-eSeller<\/strong> has a number of carts, and displays which enable you to integrate it to an existing site.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-info\" href=\"https:\/\/www.withinweb.com\/phpeseller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0 Click here to go to PHP-eSeller description\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital goods, electronic goods, digital products or e-goods are anything you can sell that is in a digital format.\u00a0 The types of products include ebooks, software, website templates, music, videos, license codes, ringtones and pdf tutorials.\u00a0 The costs of adding<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinweb.com\/info\/guide-to-sell-digital-downloads-online\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A guide to sell digital downloads online using a PHP Shopping Cart<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-php-eseller"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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