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Upload the file once, price it, and let every sale deliver itself through a private link with limits you set, so a purchase in the middle of the night is finished before you have seen it.
14-day free trial. No card required.
Upload the file to Crate, price it and publish it as a product. When somebody pays, delivery happens without you: the buyer is given a private link tied to their purchase, rather than a copy of your file sitting at an address anybody could guess. You decide how many downloads that link allows and how long it stays alive, which is the difference between selling a file and publishing one. There is no stock to count and nothing to post, so the same product can sell once or a thousand times without anything changing on your side. Replace the file later and the people who already bought can take the new version, so a correction reaches them without you finding every buyer by hand.
Four steps, in order. Each one is a screen you can open on the first day, not a project.
Attach the file to a product, set the price and publish. There is no stock figure to keep in step because nothing runs out, and the same product serves the first buyer and the thousandth identically.
The buyer is given a private link the moment the payment clears. You are not in the loop, which is exactly the point: a sale at three in the morning is complete before you wake up, and nobody is waiting on a message from you.
Decide how many times the link works and how long it stays valid. A link with no limits is a file you have published rather than a file you are selling, and the limits are the boundary that makes the difference.
Replace the file on the product and the people who already bought can take the new version. A correction reaches every buyer without you assembling a list of who they were.
Every kind of product has a detail that decides whether the software fits. These are the ones that decide it here.
Nothing is picked, packed or posted, and the buyer expects the file before they have closed the tab. What you are selling is the file plus a delivery that is immediate and private, and a link tied to one purchase is the thing that makes it private rather than merely fast.
A download link with no expiry and no count is a public address waiting to be pasted into a group. A capped number of downloads and a window that closes is not distrust of your buyer, it is the ordinary boundary that makes a file a product somebody has to pay for.
One sale and one thousand sales are the same amount of work at your end. What actually grows with the volume is the questions and the money, which is why the customer record and the payout matter far more on a digital catalogue than any inventory screen ever will.
Digital work is discovered where the work itself is shown, which is usually a feed. Put a real product behind the post so the link goes straight to a checkout and a delivery, rather than to a message asking how to pay and a reply you have to write.
In your market that usually means Your store, Instagram and In person.
Every channel above runs off the one catalog you set up once.
Buyers pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or bank transfer and the delivery follows the payment automatically, so nothing goes out on trust and nothing waits for you to check. Automatic payouts to your bank. Because there is nothing to ship, the payment rails and the payout are very nearly the whole of the operational side of this business.
Money from card sales lands in your bank account on a rolling two-day schedule. Nothing to claim, nothing to withdraw.
Delivery is a private link tied to the purchase, carrying a download count and an expiry you choose. Nothing goes out as an attachment, nothing sits at a guessable address, and replacing the file re-delivers it to the people who already paid for the old one.
One subscription covers the store, the catalog, the order queue, the customer records and the counter. There is no separate charge for selling in chat, and no charge per kind of product.
Priced and paid in US dollars. Every plan opens with a free trial and no card.
You have the price and the plan now. Standing the shop up is about fifteen minutes of work.
Named plainly, and each one has a page of its own if you want the detail.
Through a private link created for their purchase as soon as the payment clears. It is not a public address and it is not an attachment on an email.
You can cap how many times it works and how long it stays valid, which is what stops a link being useful to somebody who did not pay for it.
Replace it on the product and existing buyers can take the new version. You do not have to find them yourself or send anything by hand.
No. A file does not run out, so the same product sells any number of times with nothing to keep in step.
Yes. They are products in one catalogue and a single order can carry both. The file delivers itself and the physical item goes into the shipping queue.
Yes. Each purchase sits on a customer record with its order, so you can see what somebody already owns before you answer their question about it.
Every answer above was written by the people who build crate. If yours is not among them, the Help Center goes deeper, and a person reads what you send.
The same platform underneath, told in the language of the thing you make.
Free for 14 days, no card required. Upload one file, set the limits and take a sale while you are asleep.
