who commerce is probably one the biggest
platforms online for selling products
but what if you want to sell digital
products how do you go about doing that
and differentiating them from a normal
product well in this video I'm gonna
show you how to do just that my name is
Paul C and this is wptouch the channel
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okay so digital products how do we add
them and how do we set everything up and
configure it very very easy let's just
jump over to the dashboard of WordPress
and let's go into WooCommerce we're
gonna come down into the categories
we're gonna create a new category so the
first thing we do is say Digital guides
and we're gonna click on add new
category once we done that we're gonna
come in and add our new product once
you've done that we're gonna give this a
title so we're gonna call this fitting
guide we'll choose the fact that we want
this to go into the product categories
of digital guides we'll come down and
we'll just set in a product image and
we'll use this one now finally we'll
just put some basic information in there
for the product itself I'll simply use
some filler text and we'll do the same
then for the short description at the
bottom to scroll down and a short
description in okay so once you've done
that we're now ready to go into the
product data so let's set up a price in
there we'll say this is gonna be $9.99
and we'll leave that as is now we've got
a couple of options we can go through
and set up the type of product it is and
in this example we're gonna leave it as
a simple product we then have a couple
of checkboxes we've got virtual and
downloadable if you choose virtual as
I've covered in a previous video this
will set it as a product that doesn't
require shipping or anything else like
that so it becomes a product a service
or something along those lines however
if we choose downloadable you'll see
this opens up some additional options we
can also set virtual if we want to so we
can sit click on there you'll see that
we'll get rid of now things like the
shipping option we set the price in
there we can set the scheduled sale
price or we can just set a flat sale
price if we want to but then we've got
three specific items that are only
available for downloadable products the
file itself the download limit and the
download expiry so against
by how long this will be available as a
download link before it expires the link
itself so we can click to add a file and
you can click on there you can see this
will pop up and say we've got the file
name and we can choose the file so let's
just say choose file for this example
I'm just going to leave it as an
ordinary file it can be a PDF it could
be anything you want in there could be
audio files whatever you want to sell
going to hit that file URL and you can
see it now puts in the link through to
that and we can give it a file if we
want to we can just call this fitting
guide once you've done that we can
specify the download limit so we can say
how many times we want allow them to try
downloading it was said that 2 5 and
we'll set the expiry date we'll leave
that as a we'll just let it be it'll
carry on forevermore
obviously this is down to you if you
want to do that or you can specify it
expires after a certain period of time
now you may be thinking that this isn't
particularly secure and you could well
be right I've got a video where I'll
show you how you can secure these if you
use in a Linux server I'll link that in
the description below and I'll pop up at
the corner now so if you want to see how
you can secure these downloads a little
bit better than what we'll Commerce does
straight out of the box I'd recommend
taking a look at that video it'll tell
you exactly how to do it for now we'll
keep this simple and just show you how
you set up digital product themselves we
can then go through we can enable stock
management if we want to so if you say
there's only gonna be 20 of these
available you can do the stock
management or being a digital product
you could basically let it be something
that could be sold as many times as you
want and make as much money as you want
from it you can go through and do your
linked products like you would normally
any other kind of product you can set
attributes and you can set advanced
features on there if you want as well
however we're gonna keep this
straightforward we're gonna leave it as
is and we'll just click on publish so
we've now got our product created it's a
digital product so virtual products
doesn't require shipping so if we open
this up now to take a look at it you see
there's our product there's all our
information about it you can see we've
got reviews and descriptions and all the
kind of things you'd expect to see on
them if we add that to the basket it's
going to give us a product with no
shipping option and like I said that's
basically because it is a virtual
digital product so we don't need
shipping so let's add that o basket
let's go take a look at our basket and
we'll see that there's our fitting guide
there's the price for it and you can see
we take a look at the basket totals
we've got
total in total but nothing to do with
shipping because this is a virtual
digital product so once that's been
purchased you'll then have the option to
go through and download that from your
account and you also have an email sent
out to the person that purchases it with
all the details about the actual
download link itself now whenever an
order is placed you're going to find the
order inside WooCommerce itself it's
going to have some additional
information you don't get as part of a
standard non digital order so if we take
a look at an order I've just placed you
can see all the normal information is
available to you shouldn't the products
and so on but we come down you can see
we've got the downloadable product
permissions you can see it tells us what
actual file was purchased or files if
you've got more than one it'll tell you
the name or the information it'll also
tell you the number of times this has
been downloaded you can revoke access
for this point if someone's downloaded
something and there's been a glitch or
there's been a problem you can revoke
that access so they can no longer use
that download link if we expand that out
you can see the information we set the
downloads remaining so we set it to be
five so every time they download this
until they hit that maximum will
decrease that figure each time if
there's an expiry date
that'll be listed there for you if for
any reason you have a problem and the
customer doesn't get the email tell them
the download link and so on you can if
you want to click on the copy link that
will copy the link you can then send
that through to them and they can
download that file directly from the
email you send through to them you've
also got a customer download log so we
can click and view on their and every
time that's been downloaded you'll find
out all the information to do with that
particular order the downloads and so on
has been associated with that customer
so you can see the some additional
information in there and a couple of
extra steps that you'd have to a normal
product and non downloadable product but
hopefully what you've seen is is
incredibly easy to set up digital
products to sell for your WooCommerce
based store and then we go that's how
easy it is to start selling digital
products as part of your wall commerce
online shopping experience it's very
very easy and hopefully those videos
demonstrated is how quickly and easily
you can set things up to start selling
your digital products well I hope you
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