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You could go through the trouble of manufacturing and marketing a physical product, but there are so many additional logistics that you’ll need to handle as a result. That’s why so many Internet entrepreneurs have turned to the digital marketplace for selling their digital products.

The great thing is that you don’t need to be a coding wizard to set up an online storefront for your various products. Instead, you can turn to a convenient service like DPD: Digital Product Delivery. It’ll take care of the entire shopping cart experience, including the hosting of your digital products.

Selling E-Books, Video Courses, and More

Digital Product Delivery (DPD) looks like a very robust service, marketing itself as the “easy way to sell downloads.”

In short, you sign up for an account, set up your websites within the system, and upload your digital products accordingly. Each digital product can only consist of one file, so if you have a multi-file product, you’ll need to compress it into a single ZIP or RAR file.

One of the great things about this shopping cart utility is that it can handle products sold across multiple websites. This way, you don’t need to set up separate accounts for each of the websites that you own. It can also handle multiple products per site, offering full analytic data for each.

For more on DPD and what it has to offer, check out the features and options page on their website.

How to Add a New Product

After you establish your first website within the DPD user dashboard, you can go to the page to add your first product. This offers a simple form with plenty of fields for your customization desires.

Each product will be associated with a specific storefront (website). That field is pre-filled. Other fields include product name, price, SKU, product description, product image, and the return URL where customers are sent after they have completed downloading the product.

In the universal settings for the site, you can define the payment processors (like PayPal), purchase download limit, download time limit, and tracking HTML. It would have been nice if these settings could be overridden for individual products, but the universal settings will fit for most circumstances.

Front and Backend Support

To help you with sales, DPD also comes with several additional features.

Choose from numerous “buy now” buttons to embed on your various websites, including those that work with an “add to cart” (multi-item checkout) configuration and those with a “buy now” (single item checkout) configuration. You can also establish affiliate programs for your various products, further helping to promote their sales.

Plans for Business of All Sizes

Unlike some other digital marketplaces that charge you on a per transaction basis, DPD offers flat rate plans. All plans come with unlimited bandwidth and transactions, and only the smallest plan limits your product space.

Monthly prices range from $5 to $30, making for a very affordable e-commerce solution, especially since it can handle multiple sites and multiple products.

Link: DPD

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