hey everyone this is mercy from
dragonfly avenue
today i'm going to be walking you
through how to sell digital goods on
squarespace
now the main reason
uh you would want to do this i mean so
digital goods could be anything from
printables from templates from artwork
to mockups to photos
to website templates honestly there's a
ton of options that you have
and the great
reason like the main reason to do it is
to create some passive income
and there are other sources like etsy
creative market
um
a bunch of other platforms where you can
sell
but i always think
it's
best to have your own shop as well
on a site that you own because at the
end of the day you never know if like
i mean etsy can kick you out their
policies can change
uh creative markets policy can change
any other platform that you don't own
they can
change um
and you want to make sure that if you
are building something you know you have
something that is yours so i'm going to
quickly show you how to do this and it's
actually really not that difficult uh
squarespace has made it super easy to do
so let me walk you through how to do it
so if we are starting on the homepage
we're gonna go to pages
and you're gonna want to add a store so
sell cert products and services online
now i already have one set up here
and it's pretty much gonna like give you
some options
now you will have to be on the i think
business or e-commerce plan
of squarespace but definitely worth it
so
this is just a really simple storefront
so instead of touching any of these
we're going to go to this plus sign and
click plus so now it's asking you what
do you want to sell so you have a couple
options you have physical tangible
products services gift cards
membership
scheduling etc the main one we're
looking for is digital download so that
is right here
and you can sell an audio file how great
so this is all your product information
so let's say
um
template number one
this is the description
so template can be you know you add your
title your product name you add your
description you add an image
and right here is where you will add the
file so i'm going to just add like this
image file this isn't like a real
product it's just for a tutorial
so now it's added
and what you can do
if just on like a back-end tip
side is if you have multiple files just
compress it by zipping the file
and then uploading it
now you can set your price let's say
it's fifty dollars
you can set up categories let's say
templates
and these would be like shop categories
again tags let's say template
say moody
movie vibe call it a day
and now you have a couple like extra
features you can make it a featured
product so these will be displayed in
your summary block
you can uh show
uh products on like product pages like
related prod products if you have more
than one
how you can show customer reviews
and we're going to leave those for now
if you want to update any of the seo
information you can add that here and
edit that
now let's say you
well usually i guess well i guess if
you're doing like printables or
something else you can collect
additional information
so you can make it like
if you need to grab their name for
like if you're making wedding
invitations and you need to
collect that information you can do that
or if you want to customize the add to
cart button let's say um
instead of add to cart you want to say
buy now you like those are the things
you can do right in in those areas
and i'm going to just grab this image
again let's do an image so there's
something there
and then all we're going to do is save
well and so those are the options you
can save
publish to make it live or you can
schedule it so let's say
you are wanting to put out a new product
once a month and you're already you can
schedule it out i'm going to publish it
now another nice thing
you don't need to get feedback right now
so now you can see
the template is here
and if you want to edit it again you can
click the buttons and do edit
and i was going to say if you want to
duplicate your product over and over you
can do that too so let me
just save that
and now you have
your digital product okay
oh and so we can set up the design the
detail page i'm going to keep it simple
for now
but depending on you know whatever
layout style you like
so
there we are and then you can to add to
cart
this is not gonna work for me right now
because it's not fully set up but what
you can expect
to happen
is someone will buy
and then they will receive an email
with the file
and then they can download the file
directly
now i believe
unless it's changed
which at this point who the knows
because squarespace like does change
every now and then
um
i believe they have access to that
download for 24 hours and so
if you're you know writing a thank you
for buying something you can just add
that information
but um that's pretty much it i mean this
is how you can sell your own templates
so if you do have an etsy store and
you're like okay i want to sell on my
own storefront as well you can do that
and you know check out and then they
would get the email
um and yeah so this is how you
set up digital products within
squarespace and how you can sell digital
products on
squarespace
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