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Now you can buy completely anything you like, with a few clicks. But how about selling your own stuff?

Selling online has become a business adventure that many haven’t given up on and what could be more joyful than being able to sell your ideas, in a digital format to anyone. Theirs no limits on what you can sell online, the only real limitation could be the platform that you use for selling on.

So for this WordPress Wednesday roundup I’ve have collected some WordPress plugins that you can added onto your site that allows you to start selling digital products.

1. Easy Digital Download – Free

It’s probably on everybody lists and minds, as it should as this plugin is a complete eCommerce solution for selling digital and other non-physical products in a light, performant, and easy to use plugin. Rather than attempting to provide every feature under the sun, Easy Digital Downloads makes selling digital simple and complete by providing just the features you need.

2. WooCommerce Checkout For Digital Goods – Free

The WooCommerce Checkout For Digital Goods allows you to skip the unnecessary fields so orders can be placed faster. When selling downloadable digital products then you might not need customer’s billing and shipping address and customers expect to get the product as quickly as possible.

This plugin helps to remove any unnecessary fields from checkout page and make process smooth and easy for customer. You don’t need to do any setting up you just activate and that’s it.

3. Payhip – Sell Downloads – Free

Payhip lets you Sell Downloads and turn your WordPress site into an online digital store. Your buyers can find all your digital downloads in one place and buy direct from you. Payhip handles the transactions and the downloads for your customers. There is no monthly fee, you simply pay 5% when you make a sale. Sell Downloads with Payhip today!

4. Selz – Free

Selz allows you to build an online store directly to your WordPress blog. There aren’t no requirements of technical knowledge, just install and activate the plugin.

Selling isn’t limited to digital goods either, but physical items and services can also be sold using Selz.

5. Sell Digital Downloads – Free

Sell Digital Downloads plugin, emphasizes the difficulty of managing an eCommerce platform that provides the ability to sell both digital and physical products.

The main fact that this plugin focuses around PayPal downloads, so if you actively use PayPal than this plugin is great for your digital products using.

Files that you sell can be uploaded using default Media Manager there are very few limitations for the types of files that can be uploaded and sold through the plugin.

Once you’ve sold an item and the user confirms their payment and you receive the money, the customer will automatically be sent an email containing the download information.

6. Powr Digital Download – Free

POWr’s Digital Download plugin is a cloud based eCommerce solution for helping you sell more. It only takes few minute to install it but the process makes it easy to start selling the same day.

There aren’t any added external fees for any of the sales you make, you can configure up to three individual products, with the option to accept payments with PayPal. Subscription based models are also in-built, so if you’re looking to promote exclusive membership, this could be the plugin to try.

7. Paid Downloads Pro – $21

Paid Downloads Pro is a plugin that allows to sell any digital content. The plugin automatically delivers the product (temporary encrypted download link) to customer after completed payment done via PayPal, Payza/AlertPay, Skrill/Moneybookers, Authorize.Net, InterKassa 2.0 or EgoPay. Just upload files and insert shortcodes like [paiddownloads id=”XXX”] into your posts or pages.

8. Digital Paybox – $22

Digital Paybox (formerly Donate & Download) is a plugin that allows to distribute files through payments. People can decide how much to pay and what payment gateway to use for that (PayPal, Payza/Alertpay, Skrill/Moneybookers, Authorize.Net, InterKassa, EgoPay, Perfect Money, Credit/Debit Cards (via Stripe), Bitcoins (via BitPay)), but you always can set minimum limit of their payments or even set fixed amount for each file separately. Once payment completed, the plugin automatically sends temporary encrypted download link to payer’s e-mail address.

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WordPress Wednesday – Plugins for Selling Digital Products