How to Sell Digital Products Online with Google Drive and PayPal

The web has made it incredibly easy for everybody to sell  there digital products directly from their websites , social networking sites or even through email newsletters. The world is your marketplace and you can sell PDF books, MP3 music, software programs, video courses, website themes, and everything else that can be downloaded through various resources.

While there are quite a few web services that let you sell digital content online for a commission (around 5% per transaction). As today's world is cleanly look for online marketing and promoting items online has become a huge market.

The workflow uses Google Drive for storing files, PayPal for payments and Gmail for delivering content to the buyer. There’re no limitation on the size of files or the number of products that you can sell. There’re no bandwidth restrictions. There’s no middleman fees except for the usual PayPal charges. As paypal is most secure these days people can purchase your stuff through PayPal or using their debit or credit cards.

Sell Digital Downloads with PayPal and Google Drive

And now here is where things get more interesting and important too 

First, create a “Buy Now” button in your PayPal account for the product that you wish to sell online.for more in detail steps look into the above image.

PayPal will now offer you the HTML code for the purchase button that you can embed in your website.so go ahead and paste it on your site or as said before embed it in your website Alternatively, you can copy the direct link – to share your product over email or for selling on Twitter,Facebook etc.,

The next thing you need to do is upload the corresponding file to your Google Drive. When someone makes a purchase, the Google script will pull this file from Drive and send it to the buyer via Gmail as an email attachment.and consider if the file which you are going to send is of size greater than 20 are 30mb it will will automatically share the file with the buyer and sends the shared link instead of the actual file.

The final we are at the last and important step that is to run the Google Script that will monitor your Gmail mailbox for any PayPal related transactions and sends the digital files to the buyer.

The  Google script will read your Gmail for every 5 minutes and will process all PayPal related emails. Once the files have been delivered to the buyer, the PayPal emails will moved to the archive.

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