How to Sell Digital Products Online - with WordPress
Hi guys. We are going to see how you can sell digital products on your site. Now, let's see what our digital products are. So, a digital product is just any product that comes in a file format. So, 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 that is in PDF format. And you want to sell this book on your website.
So after watching this video, you will be able to sell any digital product on your website like this. And once a customer purchases this product, all you need to do is follow this tutorial. Just by watching this video. So once you create your e-commerce site, you can then follow this tutorial.
So to create your digital product, let's go to our WordPress dashboard. And then go to 'products'. And click 'add new'. Now, let's first enter our product name. 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. Now, as you can see, this is a regular product. Now, in order to make this product a digital product, you need to enable the downloadable option here. So let's enable it. And now this product will be changed to a digital product.
And you can see here that we have 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. And to add the product file, let's click 'Choose file'. And 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. And here you can give an explanation of your product. So once you have added these details, let's add an image of our product. So just click Set Product Image." And then drag and drop your image. And 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'. And now this digital product will be added to your website. So now if we go to our website and go to the store, you can see that we now have a digital product. Now if we click it, you can see that it can now be purchased from our store. So this is how we can create a digital product for your e-commerce website. Okay So next, 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 of your customer. Now that this is a digital product, which can be directly downloaded from your website,
It is not necessary for customers to enter their addresses here. So next, let's see how we can remove these address fields. Now go to 'Plugins'. And click 'Add New'. Now search for 'digital goods' in this box. And 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 plug-in, let's click install. And then click activate. So once you have installed the plugin, to remove the address fields, Just click here. And it will take you to this page. Now, as you can see, these are the fields that we have on our checkout page. And now we need to select the fields that you want to remove from your checkout page. Now that we want to remove all of these fields, let's click select all.
and 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. And now, if you go to our checkout page, click refresh. You can see that all the address fields have been removed. So now let's continue with the purchase. Let's fill up these details. And click place order. And now if you make the payment. You can see that we have successfully completed the purchase. And now 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, as you can see, the number of downloads remaining is set to infinity. Which means once a customer has purchased the product, they can download it as many times as they want. Now what if you want to limit the number of downloads available for your customers? You can do that easily by setting a download limit. So next, we are going to see how you can set a download limit for your digital product. So now that we've set a download limit, let's go back to our WordPress dashboard. Now go to Products.
And click all products Now let's open our product. And 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. And once you have set the limit, just click Update. Now if we go back to our order page and 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 loading this product.
If we click download twice, you can see that the product has been downloaded twice. And now, if you try to download this product for the third time, 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. You can watch this video. And if you want to get more useful tools for your website,