Random user comments: "I am just amazed how great this shop script is. I have tried and paid for several scripts for my bookshop, but NEVER could I get it really done or have been satisfied 100%." "Amazing all this for only a few Euros." How does it work?You need a free PayPal account to receive payments. PayPal is similar to an online bank, you can make payments and receive payments once you have registered and your account is confirmed. PayPal will be the intermediary between your customers and your Digital Shop. Your customers do not require a PayPal account, they can pay using a credit card. A customer visits your site and purchases one or more products from your shop. The payment is handled by PayPal, this is a free service, you pay a small percentage over the sale to PayPal to handle the payment for you. Once PayPal confirms the payment back to the shop your customer will receive an email containing a download key. With this key the customer is able to download the product from your webshop. The key automatically expires after a period of time or number of downloads. The shop works completely autonomously, once it is up and running no action is required from your end! You can check some screenshots here: Screenshots or visit our 'live' online shop here to purchase the script!  The Digital Shop PHP script is XHTML 1.0 strict compliant! The Digital Shop in more detailIt is possible to upload or FTP new digital content to the shop. You can write a short description for the product (html tags and links are allowed) and set a price. The system keeps track of email addresses, order codes, download keys, PayPal transaction ID's, number of downloads and the expiry period of the keys. It is possible to delete keys, reset or reactivate them and edit descriptions and prices for the products in the shop. You can remove products from the shop or temporarily disable them. Updating digital content (for example a new version release of a software product) is possible by uploading the new file which will replace/overwrite the old file and optionally mass-email all customers using this product that a new (free) update is available. By using the mass-email option you can reach all customers or specific customers for a product from your webshop. You can inform them about a special promotion or if an update for a software product has become available. Optionally you can 'reactivate' the download keys so your customers can download the update for free by using their old keys. Another option to keep your customers updated is the shops RSS feed. The option to add a manual sale improves your flexibility as a shop owner to grant customers complimentary free downloads, or cope with the rare occasion that a PayPal transaction was not properly confirmed back to your shop. Selling photos from photoalbums is a unique feature to Digital Shop and creating an album is as simple as it gets, FTP your thumbnail size photos and original photos to the webserver and enable the photoalbum feature! Optionally it can stamp a watermark on your thumbnails and present a age disclaimer for albums with explicit content. The 'most popular' and 'featured product' option can be used to attract more customers to specific products. By using icons for your product it greatly enhances the look of the shop. Another option to attract visitors is the 'Add This' button which is displayed below the main menu to allow visitors to share your shop URL with many others. The Digital Shop is available in 2 languages for it's front end (English and Dutch - more languages can easily be added, UTF-8 encoding is not supported - use HTML entities/coding instead), the administration interface is in English. The layout of the shop is customizable, you can select different table borders, colors, add your own borders or use custom headers or footers. In addition a configuration file allows you to modify standard options, such as expiration time for download keys, maximum amount of downloads, standard language, text-only shop, login and passwords and much more. Programming skills are not required, you simply provide your details in the configuration file using a text-editor like notepad or textedit, and the Digital Shop script will take care of everything else. The basic skills you require are: you should be able to FTP files to your website, edit the configuration file in a text editor to provide your passwords and details, visit the PayPal website to create an account, and on some webservers it might be required to set the 'privileges' to the uploaded files (the read/write access).
Some notes on security, costs and taxes:Security The files from your shop are protected by a special webserver file called .htaccess. In addition filenames have been modified to a series of letters and numbers which are impossible to guess. The modified filename is only used on the server and will never be revealed. A purchase is presented as an on-the-fly download without using a direct URL to the file (large files of hundreds of MB's are no problem, the server keeps the connection alive during the download). This should adequately prevent unauthorized access to your files. Should you be in full control of your web server you could enhance security further by moving the files outside the public web folder, however this is not deemed necessary. The download key consists of 15 randomly selected characters and numbers, which will make a key very hard to guess as the script will block access for 24hrs after 3 failed attempts. The PayPal transaction is checked on 7 points before a download key will be issued and implements the latest security recommendations from PayPal. Costs The only cost to get started is the purchase of the Digital Shop script. The PayPal account is free; you pay a small percentage to PayPal over each sale they handle for you. Of course you need a web server to host the Digital Shop script, so you have monthly costs for your hosting provider. Taxes The Digital Shop script does not calculate taxes or generate invoices. In most parts of the world digital downloads are tax-free. You need to check the tax laws of your country/state to make sure you comply (in some countries PayPal will add the taxes for you automatically) and don't forget to add your 'online income' to your annual income for tax purposes ;-) Purchase the Digital Shop script today and start making money!
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