help with selling virtual products

virtual products,ebooks

[wiredwheeler]

Hi all,

Can someone please point me to a thread or explain to me how to set this up.

I want to sell virtual products online like ebooks .
I want to put them in my site so people can buy them through paypal. how does it work? and How can I set this up? can someone please help.

thanks

[Marshall]

In general terms, first you would have to set up a seller account with PayPal. From them, you would get all the HTML coding for your ebooks by providing the minimum specifics of product name and price. Since it would be a virtual sale, I assume no shipping charge. You would them insert the codes provided into your web page along with whatever other information: description for example.

Here's the difficult part - making sure only buyers of the books can download them. Again, generally speaking, you wold put these products in a secure directory of on a secure servver. When a person would make a purchase, they would get a [b]unique[/i] password or product id number with a url to the download. Unfortunetly, I cannot advise you on the technical aspects of setting this up - I can only emphasize that it has to be secure and utilize unique id's or an individual could download as many copies as they want.

I would be remiss if I did not point out that once a person downloads a copy, unless there is some form of copyright protection, they could re-distribute it.

Hope this helps some.

Marshall

[wiredwheeler]

Thank you very much Marshel ,
yes that was very helpful i really appreciate it..good point

[Matt Probert]

For real simplicity, try swreg. We have used them for years, they provide security, direct payments into your bank, host the products and accept all credit cards.

Matt