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Sell Digital Products From Your Blog (No WooCommerce)

Presets, an ebook, a template pack — you don't need WooCommerce or Shopify to sell it. VeloCMS has a real store built in. I list a download, wire up delivery, and follow it from the shop all the way to the buyer's inbox. Start your 14-day free trial (card required) → https://velocms.org

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If you want to sell a digital product — presets, an ebook, a template pack — you do not need WooCommerce, and you do not need Shopify. VeloCMS has a real store built in. I'll list a download, wire up the delivery, and follow it from your shop all the way to the buyer's inbox.

It starts under Products, then New. I'll give it a name — Cinematic Lightroom Presets — set the price to twenty-four dollars, and choose Digital as the type. Watch what happens: all the shipping fields disappear, because there's nothing to ship.

A digital product needs one real thing: the actual file. I attach the preset pack right here, and that's the file every single buyer gets automatically. I never touch it again after this — set it once, and it delivers itself forever.

The second it's saved, it's live in your shop — and your shop already matches your theme, not some bolt-on checkout that clashes with your site. Here it is on Salas Film Lab, in exactly the same look as the rest of the blog.

Buyers pay by card through Stripe, or with PayPal — both are built in, no extra plugin to install. They get a clean checkout on your own domain, and you keep the sale instead of handing it to a marketplace.

Here's the part that saves your evenings. The moment a payment clears, VeloCMS emails the buyer a private download link that expires on its own — so nobody's passing your file around, and you're never manually sending anything at midnight.

A real digital store — products, checkout, and automatic delivery — with no WooCommerce and no Shopify. Try it at velocms dot org.

Related help article: How Do I Sell Physical and Digital Products Together?