How To Sell Digital Product on Ecommerce Site

How To Sell Digital Products on Ecommerce Site. Today we are going to see how you can sell digital products on your e-commerce site. Now let’s see what our digital products. So, a digital product is just any product that comes in a file format. Now, for example, a book or an audio file that you have prepared. So these are called digital products. Now let’s say you have a book, Which is in PDF format. So if you want to sell this book on your website.

You can do that easily by reading this article. So after reading this article, You will be able to sell any digital products, On your website like this. Now once a customer purchases this product. They’ll be able to download it from your website. So all you need to have to follow these steps for an e-commerce site. If you don’t have an e-commerce site, you can easily make it by reading an article. To read this article, you need to click here. So once you created your e-commerce site. You can then follow this tutorial. So let’s get started. We are going to do this in just two steps.

Create Digital Products

In the first step, create your digital product. So to create your digital product. Let’s go to our WordPress dashboard. Then go to ‘products’. Now click ‘add new’. Now first, let’s enter our product name. As I’m going to sell an e-book. I’m going to enter my product name as WordPress Beginner’s Guide and here enter the price of your product. So, as you can see right now this is a regular product. Now to make this product into a digital product, You need to enable the downloadable option here. So let’s enable it. So now this product will be changed to a digital product.

Now you can see here that we have got a new section where we can add our product file. So to add our product file, let’s click ‘Add File’. Now, again enter the name of a product here. Now to add the product file, Let’s, click ‘Choose file’. Now then drag and drop your file from your computer. Now, as you can, see your file has been added here. So let’s scroll down. So here you can give an explanation of your product. So once you have added these details. Next, let’s add an image for our product. So just click set product image. Then drag and drop your image.

Now, as you can see, your product image has been added. So once you have added all the details. Now to add this product to your website, Just click ‘Publish’. Now, this digital product will be added to your website. So now if we go to our website. Now go to the store. You can see that we now have a digital product. Now, if we click it. You can see that it. Now, be purchased from our store. So this is how we can create a digital product, On your e-commerce website.

Buying Digital Products

Okay, So let’s try buying this product and see what happens. So now if you click ‘Add to cart’. You can see that it is asking for the shipping address from your customer. Now since this is a digital product, which can be directly downloaded from your website. Customers don’t need to enter their address here. So let’s see how we can remove these address fields. So to remove these fields, we are going to install a plugin on our WordPress site. So to install the plugin, let’s go back to our WordPress dashboard.

Now, go to ‘Plugins’, and click ‘Add New’. Now search for ‘digital goods’ in this box. Now, you will get this plugin. Now, this is the plugin that is going to help us remove the address fields for digital products. So to install the plugin let’s click install. Then click activate. So now the plug-in has been installed. So once you have installed the plugin. Now to remove the address fields, Just click here. Now it will take you to this page. Now, as you can see These are the fields that we have on our checkout page.

Now we need to select the fields. Which you want to remove from your checkout page. Now since we want to remove all of these fields. Now click select all. Now all the fields will be removed. Now, if you’re using the Instamojo payment method on your website. Make sure you deselect this option. So once you have selected the fields you want to remove. Click save settings. So now if you go to our checkout page. Then click refresh. You can see that all the address fields have been removed. So let’s continue with the purchase. Let’s fill up these details. Now click place order. So now if you make the payment. You can see that we have successfully completed the purchase.

So we have a new download option where we can download the product. So if we click this button. You can see that the product has been downloaded to our computer. So this is how we can sell digital products on your website. Now, if you see it here. You can see that the Downloads remaining is set as infinity. This means once a customer has purchased the product, They can download it as many times as they want. Now, if you want to limit the number of downloads available for your customer. You can do that easily by setting a download limit.

Set Download Limit

We are going to see how you can set a download limit for your digital product. So set a download limit, let’s go back to our WordPress dashboard. Now go to products. Click all products. Now, let’s open our Product. Now, if you scroll down. You can see that we have a download limit option. So, here you can set the limit for the number of downloads. So let’s say you want your product to be downloaded only twice. Just enter two here.

Once you have set the limit, Just click update. Now, if we go back to our order page. Now click refresh. You can see that Under ‘Downloads’ remaining’ It says two. So this means your customer can only download this Product twice. So let’s try it on loading this product. If we click download twice. You can see that the product has been downloaded two times. So if you try to download this product for the third time. You can see that we are getting a message saying, ‘you have reached the download limit’ So this means your customer will not be able to download the product again. So this is how we can set a download limit for your digital product.

So that’s it, guys. This is how you can sell digital products on your e-commerce site. Now, if you want to learn how to create an e-commerce site. You can read this article by click here.

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