Sales and Fulfillment of Digital Goods

by on December 31, 2007

Q: I’ve decided to manage my affiliate program with iDevAffiliate software and I’ll be integrating it with PayPal. The product I will be selling is an ebook, and I’d like to know how I can set up automatic delivery for it. I would prefer to keep things inhouse as much as possible and avoid paying outside services. How can I do this with iDevAffiliate and PayPal, or is there a software I can use to integrate the two?

A: I am not familiar with how to integrate the two, but I’m sure there are hacks to do it. iDevAffiliate should be able to help with that issue.

Personally, I wanted to do the same thing a couple years back, and I went with a company called PayLoadz.

PayLoadz will manage the whole process for you: hosting the digital product, tracking and reporting sales, integrating with PayPal, and an affiliate program.

It’s a quick and easy solution. You upload your file there, create some confirmation e-mails, and provide your PayPal account information. They handle the fulfillment and copy you on sales notifications.

While you could do this a number of ways, I think many other options will result in manual fixes and hassles.

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{ 5 comments }

Webhosting Reality February 10, 2008 at 5:33 am

Try to check how Aaron Wall of seobook.com how he delivers its e-book. He is also into outsourcing his digital product.

Windi Briargate February 9, 2008 at 7:26 pm

Shucks, even my Horse can add those easy numbers. I’m new to ebooks (aren”t we all?) and tried to get a tel # or some support from payloadz and…zilch. I think it is run by 2 guys in the back of their garage. MAybe it’s ime for Paypal to handle fulfillment too?
Nice photo.
WB

Mary January 5, 2008 at 12:21 pm

Watch out for PayLoadz. Their support is surly and slow, and they have a habit of cancelling acounts without warning.

Try e-junkie or bytecommerce—they both have more reasonable fee structures, and are nicer to work with.

Shawn Collins January 2, 2008 at 1:10 pm

I’m working my fatblogging thing.

Can’t keep enjoying the fried chicken and pizza if I want to show my face in Vegas. :-)

Rick Lea January 2, 2008 at 1:06 pm

Man, you have lost weight! Also, Happy New Year!

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