Automatic fulfillment of PDF information

[Bring-it-on]

Hi there, I'm a techno novice (retard actually) and am hoping someone can help. Have tried searching the forum and came up blank. My muse idea involves customers buying a PDF document selected from what will be quite a large list of different information products on offer. I ideally would like the PDF to be automatically delivered via email upon payment being received? Is this a simple thing to do technically?

[Jockstar]

I'm actually hoping to send out thank you letters and IRS donation receipts for a non-profit full of people with no time, but the concept would be the exact same. Did you have any luck with this? I'm currently using Google Checkout.

[FrozenCanuck]

The simplest way to deliver your PDF is to use eJunkie for $5 per month. They will host your PDF files and create custom download links for your customers. They do not charge a per-transaction fee but you still need a payment mechanism such as PayPal (who does charge a small fee).

The next alternative is something like DLGuard, or a wordpress content plugin such as Digital Access Pass. These are hosted on YOUR server and have no ongoing fees but cost up front money. THen your server will send out email download links to your customers.

[Sven]

Drupal (CMS) can probably pull that off but the pdf would need to be downloaded trough a link in the email.

[FrozenCanuck]

Drupal is JUST a CMS, like Wordpress.

On it's own, it doesn't handle the delivery of PDFs. Neither does WP.

[Sven]

With drupals Ubercart you can place orders for a product that has a pdf associated with it which can be downloaded after approval. I believe that approval can be automated through some of the available payment modules.

Edit:
I just realised that I have actually ordered a pdf this way from an ubercart/drupal powered website in the past.

[AlexMoen]

If you integrate your site with 1shoppingcart you can have them download your digital content immediately after payment. However, last time I used them, you needed their most expensive option ($100/month) to handle digital products. So, I'd recommend testing your idea first, or emailing the product yourself, until you're growing quickly enough to not be inconvenienced by the price or time required to set it up.

[FrozenCanuck]

No way !!! Don't even think of manually emailing stuff. You'll just piss off customers by making them needlessly wait while you manufacture work for yourself.

Ejunkie, DLG or a manually created download page are all easy choices. Automate!

[JasonKelley]

Since no one mentioned clickbank, I figured I should. I know that this is sort of their market so clearly it's an option. You can build the sales link into any site you've already got, as well.

[FrozenCanuck]

Again, Clickbank does NOT deliver the product to the customer. It's your responsibility (I sell on Clickbank and I am familiar with this).

You need to automate the delivery of your content to your customer and implement it within the context of your website.

It's very easy to do, and I created a big tutorial to help anyone who is going through this process.

Here it is:
http://outsourcefactor.com/digitaldownloads

[Musetester]

This is actually retardedly easy.

1) Get DropBox

2) Place product to be delivered in the public folder

3) right click said file

4) select dropbox-copy public link

5) create a download page on the same domain as your sales page

6) paste said link onto said page

7) Configure PayPal or ClickBank to direct the customer to the download page after purchase