SitesPlaced now sells digital products — and takes payment worldwide
The biggest release we have shipped: digital downloads, four new integrations, and a checkout that finally works properly outside India.
You can now sell files as well as things, and take payment from customers anywhere. Digital products are live — upload a file, set a price, and every buyer gets their own download link that expires and can be revoked. Alongside that: Stripe and PayPal for international payments, Shippo for shipping labels, and Printify for print-on-demand merch. All included, all connecting your own accounts, and still 0% commission.
TL;DR
- • Sell digital downloads: ebooks, templates, presets, sample packs, art files.
- • Files sit in private storage; each buyer gets an expiring link with a download limit you set.
- • Stripe and PayPal added — cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, in dollars, pounds and euros.
- • Shippo buys shipping labels from an order at around 5c each, no monthly fee.
- • Printify prints and ships merch on your own account. Qikink still covers India.
- • Still 0% commission on every plan, including free.
Digital downloads
Add a product, choose 'digital download', upload the file. When someone pays, they get their own link — emailed automatically and shown on the thank-you screen.
- • Files are stored privately on Cloudflare with no public web address. There is no URL to guess or scrape.
- • Each buyer gets a signed link that expires within minutes, issued only after we verify their purchase.
- • You choose how many downloads each buyer gets and how long their link lives — five over thirty days by default.
- • Refunded someone? Disable their link from the order and it stops working immediately.
- • Send fresh links from the order any time, which resets the count and kills the old ones.
A cart of only downloads asks for a name and email, with no shipping address and no phone number. Add a physical item and the address fields appear. Same store, same checkout.
Payments, internationally
Stripe and PayPal are now first-class alongside Razorpay. Both connect your own account, so the money goes from your buyer to your balance without passing through us.
- • Stripe: cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay, using a restricted key that cannot move your money.
- • PayPal: the second button most shoppers look for, with live and sandbox modes.
- • Razorpay stays the best option for Indian customers because of UPI. You can run more than one.
Shipping and merch
- • Shippo — buy USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL and Royal Mail labels from an order at around 5c each, no monthly fee. Tracking flows back to the customer automatically.
- • Printify — link a product to your Printify catalogue and paid orders are sent for printing automatically. You keep the margin; Printify bills your own account.
- • Shiprocket, Shipmozo and Qikink continue to cover India exactly as before.
A checkout that works outside India
The checkout used to assume every buyer was Indian: it asked for a 'pincode', demanded a ten-digit mobile number, and had no country selector. That quietly blocked international orders.
- • A country selector, pre-filled from your store's currency.
- • The postal field is named and validated correctly — ZIP code in the US, postcode in the UK, and optional where a country does not really use one.
- • A proper state picker for the US, Canada and Australia.
- • Phone numbers are optional outside India, where cash on delivery and couriers genuinely need one.
An apps directory
There is now one page listing every integration, grouped by what it does, at /apps. If the app you need is not there, there is a form on the same page to ask for it — every integration on that list started as someone asking.
Frequently asked questions
Can I sell digital products on the free plan?
Yes — one live digital download on the free plan, with 0% commission. The paid plan at $14.99/month (₹499 in India) removes the limit along with the badge, and adds a custom domain.
How are my files protected?
They sit in private storage with no public web address. Each buyer gets a signed link that expires within minutes, works a limited number of times, and can be revoked from the order. Nothing stops a buyer sharing a file after downloading it — no platform can — but limits, expiry and revocation are the real controls.
Does this change anything for Indian sellers?
Nothing is removed. Razorpay, cash on delivery, WhatsApp checkout, Shiprocket, Shipmozo and Qikink work exactly as before, and the Indian checkout rules are unchanged. Digital downloads work on Indian stores too, through Razorpay.
Do you take a cut of digital sales?
No. 0% commission on every plan and every product type. Your payment provider charges its own processing fee, as it would anywhere.
What is coming next?
PDF stamping with the buyer's email, subscriptions, and marketing emails to your store's subscribers. If you need something else, ask on the /apps page — that list drives what gets built.
Start selling downloads today
Free to publish with 0% commission. Upload a file, set a price, and every buyer gets a protected link automatically.
