Top 5 Ways to Sell Digital Products for Bitcoin

The world of e-Commerce is filled with every product imaginable yet the one that does not come to mind immediately when we talk about selling goods online is a digital product.

Digital products come in a plethora of forms, they can be e-books, music, fonts, the list really keeps ongoing.

These are a lot of services that cater to users looking to sell digital products but only a handful of them accept bitcoin as payment.

If you are looking to sell your digital product(s) with bitcoin as a form of payment here are the top 5 ways you can do so:

1. Easy Digital Downloads (EDD)

Easy Digital Downloads or EDD is a versatile WordPress plugin that comes with a host of advanced features.

Some of which include:

• Full Shopping Cart
• Discount Codes
• Product Protection
• Extensions Support
• Analytics
• Customer Account Page

You can access all of these features once you install the plugin to your WordPress backend.

Plus, you can manage all of your digital products on the same page:

It is no surprise that it one of the top plugins on WordPress to sell digital products.

Although, EDD does not offer native support for bitcoin payments, to accept bitcoin payments you have to integrate it with an additional plugin offered by Blockonomics, GoUrl.

Salient Features:

• Pricing: Free — $499/month
• Platform/Storefront: WordPress
• Usability: Advanced — Requires technical knowledge
• Crypto Support: Only through extensions — Blockonomics, GoUrl
• Digital Goods: Only digital files — e-books, music, videos, etc.
• Storing/accessing download: EDD provides support to easily store and access digital files.

Verdict:

It is a great tool for someone looking for a multitude of features and advanced functionalities.

Although it does have certain limitations:

• Since it is a WordPress plugin, you need to create a website on WordPress to be able to use it.
• It requires integration with a second plugin to accept bitcoin payments.
• It only supports digital files: e-books, music, videos, software, photos. It does not support other digital products such as serial/codes/product keys or services.

2. Blockonomics

Blockonomics is a bitcoin payment gateway that offers its services to a multitude of online stores such as, WooCommerce, PrestaShop, Magento, OpenCart, etc.

One of there services includes Payment Buttons/URL’s that allow you to sell digital products.

You can either create a button that can be integrated into any website or a link (URL) that can be shared easily online.

Your product page (payment link/URL) looks something like this:

Upon successful payment, the download link for the product is shared with the customer via email.

Salient Features:

• Pricing: First 10 transaction free, after which 1% per transaction
• Platform/Storefront: Basic product page
• Usability: Basic — requires basic/minimal technical knowledge
• Crypto Support: Bitcoin
• Digital Goods: Mainly digital files but anything that can be shared via a link.
• Storing/accessing download: Blockonomics does not provide support to store or access your digital products. You have to use a third-party service to host and create a shareable link for your product.

Verdict:

It is a great tool for someone looking for minimal functionality and no technicality, plus they have top-notch customer support.

Due to its minimal functionality, it does have certain limitations:

• It does not provide support to access or store your digital goods
• There are limited analytics and workflow features
• Limited crypto support: Only supports bitcoin
• No customization option for your storefront/product page

Thus, it is a rather basic tool that is a great option if you are not looking for additional features.

3. Selly

Selly is an online store builder and payment gateway for digital goods.

It offers you an all-in-one platform to build your own customized online store with a ton of features.

Some of which include:

• Shop Design Customization (HTML/CSS)
• Coupon Creation
• API for Integrations
• Customer support
• Blacklist customers
• Support multiple payment methods (Fiat & Crypto)

A premade shop is already made for you, all you need to do is add products to it. Your shop looks something like:

Upon clicking the product, a product page opens up with the purchase button:

Plus, you can access and manage all your products easily via the platform:

Salient Features:

• Pricing: $19.99/month— $59.99/month — customized price for enterprise solutions
• Platform: Selly
• Usability: Intermediate/Advanced— requires you to build your own store and manage it.
• Crypto Support: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Ethereum — processed via Coinbase or CoinPayments
• Digital Goods: Digital files, Serials/Codes, Services, Dynamic products
• Storing/accessing download: Selly provides support to easily store and access digital files.

Verdict:

It is a great tool is you are looking to build an online store without having to go through the complexities of building a dedicated website.

They support a lot of different crypto options including, Bitcoin, BCH, Ethereum, Litecoin.

Plus, you can even customize your store and make it look however you want, although this requires technical knowledge.

Although it does fall short in some aspects:

• There is no shopping cart feature, so during checkout, you can only pay for one item at once.
• It offers limited options to customize storefront/branding.

4. Rocketr

Rocketr is an e-commerce and payment processing solution for digital goods.

They offer a ton of features to build your own online store that is designed for sales and delivery of digital goods.

Some of its features include:

• Automatic Delivery & Order Tracking
• Custom Pricing & Coupons
• Live Chat/Messaging
• Analytics
• Fraud Database and Blacklist
• Support multiple payment methods (Fiat & Crypto)

The platform is easy to use and all the features are accessible via a sidebar.

The digital products are easy to create and manage via the platform.

Your Product Page looks something like this:

Salient Features:

• Pricing: Free—customized price for enterprise solutions (% cut of the transaction fee for all plans)
• Platform: Rocketr
• Usability: Advanced — requires you to build your own store and manage it.
• Crypto Support: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum
• Digital Goods: Digital files, Serials/Codes, Services
• Storing/accessing download: Rocketr provides support to easily store and access digital files.

Verdict:

They offer a great platform to built and manage your online store with a lot of functionalities and features.

The platform is easy to use and does not require technical knowledge.

Few areas where it falls short include:

• No customization option for your storefront.
• No Shopping Cart feature, so during checkout, you can only pay for one item at once.

5. OpenBazaar

OpenBazaar is a Peer-2-Peer free online marketplace that allows you to sell your products both digital and physical.

It is a decentralized marketplace that has no middleman and no fees of any kind.

Some of its features include:

• No fees (platform, listing, transaction, etc.)
• Customizable store
• Peer-2-Peer
• Decentralized

You can easily list your product on OpenBazaar:

Once listed, your product page will look something like:

One important thing to note here is that,

OpenBazaar does not provide hosting or delivery service for your digital product

So, once the product is purchased you would have to manually send the digital product to your buyer.

This essentially makes OpenBazaar a listing platform where you can list your product/service and upon successful payment, you manually send the digital product to your buyer.

Salient Features:

• Pricing: Free
• Platform: OpenBazaar
• Usability: Basic — requires you to list your digital product on the platform
• Crypto Support: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Zcash
• Digital Goods: Digital files, services
• Storing/accessing download: OpenBazaar does not provide hosting services for digital products.

Verdict:

It is an easy to use platform that connects you directly with the buyer. It is truly a decentralized platform with zero costs involved.

Although it does come with certain limitations:

• It is essentially a listing platform: You can list your digital product and buyers can pay in crypto but it does not currently provide any support to send the digital product to the customer automatically upon successful payment.
• There are limited analytics and workflow features.

Conclusion:

There are many different ways to sell your digital goods each with varying benefits.

Blockonomics offers a minimal yet quick solution to sell digital products while EDD, Selly, Rocketr offer more advanced functionalities but require more advanced knowledge and time.

While, Openbazaar is a decentralized option suitable for darknet kind of transactions.

There is no right choice but the choice that is right for you.

Now that you know your options and its different benefits go ahead and start selling your digital products.