Selling Digital Downloads with Firesage Checkout
What is Firesage Checkout?
Firesage Checkout is a unique, yet simple solution that lets you host and accept payments for your digital products... on your own site. A one time fee provides everything you need to accept payments and deliver the digital product via encoded download links. Unlike other options, there are no monthly charges, no per-payment charges, no storage charges, and no download charges... in fact, we won't charge a penny over the cost of the initial license.
What are the advantages of Firesage Checkout?
How do we provide such a fabulous service at such an affordable price? Firesage Checkout has integrated the PayPal Digital Goods process with our own digital delivery system, providing a cost effective method to sell and deliver your digital files. And with PayPal's reduced micropayment pricing for low-cost items, this process becomes even more appealing. Check out some of our advantages...
- One time purchase, with no recurring fees or charges. You keep 100% of revenue (less any PayPal transaction fees)
- Integrates into your existing site
- Support for the PayPal Mini Cart
- You manage the price, availability, upgrades, and download links
- No outside costs incurred for file transfer or data storage
- Protected download links that are time-bombed, encoded, and tracked, preventing your digital product from being offered up on blogs, email, or social media sites
What type of digital content is supported?
We understand there are many types of digital products, including videos, music, PDFs, pictures, apps, ebooks, articles, digital subscriptions, etc., and we support them all! Whether you have a pdf file for your customer to download, a video that you want to show after payment, or a subscription to be emailed to the buyer, Firesage Checkout provides the solution to automate the entire process.
What is the process to implement Firesage Checkout?
Simply said, there are just a few steps to integrate this into your website, namely...
- Copy the files to your site and run the installer
- Add one or more products you plan to sell, including sku, description, and price
- Copy your digital content to a specified, protected folder on your server
- Add the few lines of code to your page, indicating the product to sell
- Sit back and let Firesage Checkout handle the payment and deliver the product to your customer
What is the process for payment and product delivery?
Simply said, there are just a few steps to integrate this into your website, namely...
- Customer clicks the Buy Now button, which passes control to the Firesage Checkout components.
- The in-context PayPal Digital Goods payment window is displayed, providing a secure payment process for the buyer.
- Upon successful payment, we dynamically generate and display the order confirmation window, and send a confirmation to the customer via email. Each method includes detailed order information and encoded, shortened download links for the purchased product.
- Customer downloads product, and lives happily ever after.
Why Firesage Checkout?
We understand that every freelancer faces the difficult task of finding the best method to sell and deliver their digital content online. Although there are various solutions available... some take a large portion of the sale price, while others charge an unrealistic monthly fee. Furthermore, many options only address the payment process and charge extra for storing and delivering the product to the customer. This is why you need to check-out Firesage Checkout.