http://www.wilsonweb.com/art/ecomm/digital-downloads2.htm

they will password protect the download, email the buyer after the transaction and also delete the download after a set number of days so that the buyer can’t pass along the information.

they integrate with paypal and a bunch of other vendors.,

It can easily be done with PayPal. I developed something for a designer to sell her images online. The client selects some images and passes the command, then pay via PayPal When the bill is paid he is automatically redirected to his personal, protected, online account where the stuff he bought stay. The client will always have access to his account with a login name and a password. However, with the functionalities that PayPal give to developers, you can do anything, you only need the idea.

Salutations,

Fred

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Because I use TruXoft in my own store, I can see the benefits of automating the e-purchase and randomizing the directories to locate the e-product and prevent abuse or misuse the download if you have multiple items. Amazon probably looks better, but I think it just detracts people’s attention.

So, I would use your Paypal account. Don’t worry about auto-formatting and selling it in the blog, just create a page that sells the product (non-blog page) and link it from the blog in your sidebar or in the comments like you would link any other page. After one “click-to-pays” to buy your book, you can set paypal to go to another exit page, which could be another page or directory on your server which you can also control…. make the folder name about 20 characters and 1 folder per product ..

Well, that’s what I would do.. // HART

My goals were:

1) Don’t make the customer wait, so the file has to be up for download automatically or emailed to the user
2) Don’t allow anyone else besides the customer download the file, so I can’t just have an automated reply that has a link to the secret file (something like /secret/file.pdf).

It accomplished both of those, but in anything where you charge for people *will* have trouble and complain. And often before they even email you back they will request a chargeback. You have no recourse a lot of times. One of my customers emailed (at something like 2AM et) and then again 15 minutes later and said YOU ARE NOT ANSWERING MY EMAILS I WILL CHARGE BACK! THIS IS FRAUD!

It’s a crazy world out there!

Thus, the amazon approach would likely be more reassuring for your non-regular readers who may assume it’s purely a way for you to get rich and little else.

Again, it would take a little longer to do – but I definately think you would reap the rewards from it long term (as well as raising your own profile further!)

There is also clickbank which handles everything from payment to paying affiliates for you. I’ve heard negative and some positive things, but I’ve never used them personally.

For me, I don’t use a credit card (have used it last month first time in 5 years for an denmark trip), credit cards are often not as distributedly used as in the US.

Clickbank seems to add sales taxes where no sales taxes have to be applied (had that once, you might remember my email about that).

As it seems, payloadz may also offer you an affiliate programm system.

[As for the integrating: If WP messes that up, just use included.]

Tell us?!?

Definitely PayPal. Within some days or programming, you will be able to do anything you want. Their API is ease to use and you can easily test what you do with their Sandbox. The first thing you have to do is checking what you want to sell, and where/how you want to sell it. After, go read the developer document to know about the services they offer with their API. I do not know what is the degree of integration you want, but you will not have any problem to do it. However, if you have any question, do not hesitate to leave me an email.

Salutations,

Fred

http://www.manage4me.com

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