Sell Digital Products & Services

Overview


Generate additional revenue from members by selling digital products and services directly through the website.


Sell ebook downloads, banner ad placements, marketing services and more. Your website will automatically charge the member’s credit card. They will then receive a confirmation email and be redirected to a confirmation/download page.


How To Get This Add-On
  1. Websites with the VIP Add-Ons Club automatically have this add-on available: 
    Join The VIP Add-Ons Club
  2. Purchase Individually: Sell Digital Products & Services Add-On


NOTE: In order to utilize this add-on, your website requires a secure HTTPS connection. Get an SSL Certificate HERE if the website does not currently have one.



Enabling the Add-On


1. Go to Finance - Membership Plans:




2. Select the Admin membership level:




3. Go to Post Publishing tab and scroll down to activate the Website - Digital Products Feature:




Adding Digital Products

Access the Admin Member Dashboard, on the left sidebar find the Website - Digital Products Feature, click on it to add a new one.






  1. Publish content on the site or save it as a draft.
  2. Add the Title of the Digital Product.
  3. Add a Price - Product can be set as $0 and it would be free and no CC would be required.
  4. Select the Available Quantity.
  5. Add the "Buy Button Text" - Call to action
  6. Redirect the members after a purchase to a "thank you" page or a custom page within the web pages.
  7. Select the email template it will be sent. There is a default email template called: Digital Product Purchase Complete, it is the default email template. This one can be used it or create a new one. Website admins can make use of the variable %group_name% to incorporate the title of the digital product into the email template.
  8. Select the email template that will be sent to the publisher(Admin) of the digital product. There is a default email template called: Digital Product Purchase Complete, it is the default email template. This one can be used it or create a new one. 
  9. Enter related keywords. 
  10. Add a description



Once all of the details have been saved, add the images to the Digital Product feature.





Upload as many images as needed.

  1. Title
  2. Description 
  3. Rotate Image
  4. Delete




Arrange the Photo Display Order:




All Digital Products (drafts or published) will be displayed in the member dashboard. To View, Edit, Clone or Delete the Event click on the Actions Button to display the Dropdown Menu with the corresponding options:




Find the Digital Products using the URL:

yoursite.com/digital-products


Use Cases


This feature should be used by the website owner. It should not be available as a regular post type for the members because the money will go directly to the site owner, so members won't be able to accept funds.


Examples of use:

  • eBooks, Whitepapers and Digital Downloads
  • Banner Ad Spots, Email Blasts and Press Releases 
  • Ticket Sales, Donations and Fundraising
  • Profile Optimization, Monthly Boosts and Mentions 
  • Consulting, Paid Services and more 


There are some options: 

  • Create a Thank you Page where they can download content after they pay. 
  • Create an Email Template where they receive the information (Download link, embedded YouTube Video, Embedded SoundCloud Audio, a form, etc.).


These options will depend on what the admin wants to sell to the members, whether that is to create only a static page, only an email template or both of them.


In this case, we are going to create a static page called: SEO-purchase


This is a simple example, but it's possible to add all the desire content. 


  1. The link which is seo-purchase 
  2. Add a Title at the top. 
  3. Some text and the Download Button.




Upload a PDF file, as it's shown, the name is "PDF_example.pdf"




Then go to the static page that was just created and add the link:




In order for the page to be limited to buyers of this Digital product, select this option in order to restrict this page:




The link should be the following:

Yoursite.com/images/name of the image.pdf




To learn how to create a custom static page with a downloadable PDF, please see the link below:


How to link a PDF to a Static Page



Purchasing Digital Products


Users can acquire either FREE or PAID Digital Products.

  • FREE







  • PAID






    Important: in order for someone to be able to purchase a PAID digital product they must be logged in as a member with a credit card on file.



When a Digital Product is purchased, the sale history will be found inside the Billing section of the admin profile:




If a member that didn't purchase the digital product tries to access the digital download page they will get this message with a link to purchase the Digital Product:




How To Select A Search For Digital Products On The Homepage


If the amin wants to sell digital products on the homepage we recommend to select in Homepage Search Settings the Digital Products Search module:




If the admin cloned the Digital Products Post type, they can select here which one they want to connect:




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