Sell a PDF on a static website.

SymphonyX

Ive been asked by a lady who wants to sell her guide online to put in place an automatic delivery of her PDF when someone buys it off her site.

Im finding it very difficult to figure this out.
At the moment I am selling it via PayPal but she is having to send the guide manually after the sale.

If anyone has any ideas on how someone can sell a PDF get it sent to a buyer automatically after the sale. I would be very grateful.

I dont mind using a 3 party site if it helps me out.

Regards,
G

Dave!

When you say a 'static' site, what do you mean? If you're allowed/capable of a bit of dynamism, maybe a lightweight solution would be to create a token/code of some sort on each purchase, store it in a DB (in a row with the location of the customer's PDF), send the customer an email with the token in a URL, and when they click the link check the token is valid and serve them the file.

Easy to do, not sure if it'd be robust enough though!

Procasinator

There are plenty of sites that do payment proccessing + digital delivery for a fee.

There are also sites like http://leanpub.com that specialise in self publishing.

komodosp

You could make the paypal return address be a page with a link to the file...

Not the securest though, if word got around... but probably the simplest. And just make sure you use noindex on that page!

OU812

Just out of interest, does she make much on it & what's it about?

Trojan

Much easier to use an off-the-shelf solution than attempt to build a custom solution that is secure, accessible, etc.