{"id":3489,"date":"2026-09-16T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spiffystores.com.au\/blog\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:00:16","slug":"sell-digital-downloads-straight-from-your-spiffy-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spiffystores.com.au\/blog\/2026\/09\/16\/sell-digital-downloads-straight-from-your-spiffy-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Sell Digital Downloads Straight From Your Spiffy Store"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If you sell e-books, patterns, music, software, presets or digital artwork, you’ve probably wrestled with the same problem: how do you actually get the file to your customer once they’ve paid? Manually emailing zip files doesn’t scale, and it’s easy to send the wrong thing to the wrong person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital Downloads<\/strong> are now built into Spiffy Stores. Upload your files to a product, and we deliver them automatically through a secure, expiring download link. No zip files to build by hand, and nothing to change in your theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How it works for your customer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When an order is paid, each downloadable file on that order is issued its own download link. The links are grouped per line item, so a customer who buys one item containing several files gets a single link that lists every file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They can reach their downloads from the order confirmation email, or from a dedicated Digital Downloads email if you’ve enabled it. The link opens a page showing each file, its size, and how many downloads remain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every file is tracked separately, so a customer can download one file without eating into the allowance of another file in the same order. By default a file can be downloaded 5 times<\/strong>, and the link expires 120 hours (5 days)<\/strong> after purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adding files to a product<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Open the product you want to sell as a download (or create a new one).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Scroll to the Digital Downloads<\/strong> section.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Click Upload New Digital Files<\/strong> \u2014 you can select several at once, up to 5 GB each<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Once the upload finishes, the file appears in the product’s file list.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The product is marked with a digital<\/strong> status label as soon as it has a current downloadable file, so you can spot these products at a glance in your product list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Selling variations of the same download<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    If your product has options such as size or format, you can decide which files go with which variation. Click the Settings<\/strong> (gear) icon next to a file, choose the variation(s) it applies to in the Variations<\/strong> field, and save. Leave it on All variations<\/em> to make the file available with every option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Watermarking your PDFs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    For PDF files, you can stamp every copy with the purchaser’s own details. This is a simple and effective discouragement against sharing your work around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Open the file’s settings, tick Enable watermarking<\/strong>, then choose a position (Header, Footer or Tiled) and a template. You can insert the customer’s name, email address, phone number, the order number and the download date. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Do not distribute \u2014 Licensed to {{name}} ({{email}}) on {{date}}<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    Font size, opacity and colour are all adjustable, and the Preview<\/strong> (eye) icon shows you exactly what your customer will receive, with a sample watermark applied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Managing orders and supporting customers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Every order containing digital downloads shows a Digital Downloads<\/strong> section on the order page in your Toolbox. For each file you can see its status (Active<\/strong>, Expired<\/strong> or Revoked<\/strong>), downloads remaining, expiry date and file size \u2014 plus a full history of every download, including the date and time, the result, and the IP address it came from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Two things worth remembering when a customer gets in touch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n