14 Platforms to Boost Digital Downloads, Subscriptions

There are an assortment of ecommerce platforms for merchants and founders of movies, ebooks, software, and other electronic goods.

Here’s a list of platforms to promote digital products. You will find simple, dedicated tools to market basic digital products, and you will find advanced platforms to provide subscriptions, secure digital rights management, and also sell physical products.

Sellwire

Sellwire is a platform to sell digital products online easily. Upload a file and get a URL to add to your site or discuss on Twitter and Facebook. Upload multiple variations for each file so users can get easy access, and automatically receive alerts when you add a new edition. Includes easy order tracking, flexible promotions, and in depth reports. Sellwire supports PayPal and Stripe. Price: Plans begin at $9 a month for up to ten files.

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Sellfy

Sellfy is an ecommerce platform to market digital products, subscriptions, and physical products. Embed Sellfy”buy now” buttons, merchandise widgets, or an entire shop on your site or on social websites with an easy link. Features automated email advertising, product upsells and discount codes, analytics to track buyers and earnings, Zapier and Facebook Live integration, and much more. Use PayPal or Stripe to take payment. Price: Plans begin at $19 a month.

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FastSpring

FastSpring is a full-service ecommerce platform to sell digital downloads and subscriptions. FastSpring also includes branded voucher, a 15-factor fraud detection algorithm, and a localized checkout. FastSpring integrates with WordPress, AdRoll, Google Analytics, Impact (affiliate marketing). Offer global shoppers multiple payment procedures, currencies, and languages. Contact for pricing.

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Simple Goods

Simple Goods is a simple way to sell digital products. Add a pop-up voucher to any site, or, if you do not have a web site, sell through hosted payment pages. Integrates with WordPress, Squarespace, and other third-party apps. Supports multiple currencies and major credit cards. Price: Plans begin at three products for a 3-percent transaction fee. Ten goods for $9 a month plus a 1-percent transaction fee.

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Selz

Selz is a platform to record, market, and promote physical and digital products. Rent your movies and video tutorials with limited-time streaming. Protect your intellectual property with license keys. Set download limits to stop clients from sharing products. Use widgets, buttons, and an embedded shop to sell on societal or a site. Apply promotion, coupon, and discount tools. Transact in approximately 100 currencies. Use Selz Pay to process all major cards or PayPal. Price: Plans begin at $26 a month.

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SendOwl

SendOwl is a platform for promoting electronic products — downloads, memberships, subscriptions. Sell to clients via email, social networking, or your site. Use drip functionality to release your goods over time. SendOwl comes with an integrated affiliate system, pre-checkout and post-payment upsells, discount codes, and pay-what-you-want pricing. SendOwl accepts credit cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, and even bitcoin. Price: Standard plan is $15 a month for 30 goods and 3 GB storage.

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FetchApp

FetchApp permits you to market and digitally deliver downloadable products, such as music, videos, photos, ebooks, PDFs, and applications. FetchApp integrates with popular ecommerce systems such as Shopify and WooCommerce. FetchApp automatically emails a secure download link when orders are received. Price: Free up to 25 orders every day and 5 MB storage. Premium plans start at $5 per month for 50 MB storage.

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Gumroad

Gumroad is an easy ecommerce service for founders to sell digital products, such as subscriptions, rentals, license keys for software, and pre-orders. Provide codes and multiple product formats. Share previews through social networking, and market through affiliates. Clients can pay with any major credit card and PayPal, with many currencies. Customers may also pay what they want. Price: Starts at $10 per month and 3.5-percent and 30cents per fee.

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DPD

DPD (Digital Product Delivery) is a shopping cart and electronic fulfillment service to sell downloads. Manage a number of shops through one DPD account. Sell downloads, services, tangibles, or key codes. Stamp PDF ebooks with the buyer’s info, then disconnect to avoid copying or printing text. All sales are paid directly to your merchant account or payment provider, such as PayPal, Stripe, and Authorize.Net. DPD integrates with 500-plus sales and marketing tools, such as Zapier, Google Analytics, Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor, and GetResponse. Price: Plans begin at $10 a month for 20 goods and 1 GB storage.

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E-junkie

E-junkie is a platform to market documents, codes, created keys, or applications, with download links that expire after limited use. Sell downloads offline using unique codes. Other features include coupons and discounts, an affiliate program, and promotional giveaways. Sell for a specific price, pay-what-you-want pricing, or even accept donations. E-junkie also supports the sale of physical products with tax and shipping calculation and stock management. Price: Plans begin at $5 per month for 10 goods and 200 MB storage.

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Easy Digital Downloads

Easy Digital Downloads enables you to sell digital products through WordPress, such as WordPress plugins, PDF files, and much more. It includes discount codes and download action monitoring. Put the file download limit and join expiration. Access the built-in reporting platform to easily view stats and produce customized reports. Price: Plans begin at $99 each year.

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PayLoadz

PayLoadz enables you to sell downloadable items like software, music, movies, PDFs, templates, files, and anything else that may be downloaded. Use button links and codes to sell on social networking or your site. Deliver your goods instantly after payment. Integrates with eBay for electronic goods auctions. Supports over 190 countries and more than 20 currencies. Clients can pay with credit or debit cards, e-checks, ACH transfers, or straight into your PayPal account. Price: Starts at $19.95 a month.

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Pulley

Pulley is a solution to sell downloadable products, such as electronic artwork, music, videos, fonts, ebooks, and software. Use Pulley to upload”Buy Now” buttons into any website, blog, and email, in addition to on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Money goes directly to your PayPal account. View real-time statistics in addition to complete order and download background. Integrates with Enormous Cartel, the ecommerce platform. Price: Plans begin at $6 per month for up to 25 products and 100 MB storage.

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MemberPress

MemberPress is a WordPress membership plugin to market digital download products, in addition to create, manage, and monitor subscription subscriptions. Manage your members by granting and revoking their access to posts, pages, videos, categories, tags, feeds, communities, and electronic files. Integrates fully with your current WordPress site, in addition to third-party services like PayPal, Stripe, Mailchimp, and ActiveCampaign. Price: Plans begin at $149 for a year of service.