Ok, so you’ve decided that you want to create and sell digital products. Amazing! 

When it comes to choosing where you want to sell your digital products, there are quite a few choices. It’s easy to get overwhelmed, go down the research rabbit hole, and never actually take action. 

So let me break down some of the best platforms for selling digital products. 

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Etsy

Firstly, I’m a little biased. :) I’m a top 0.1% seller on Etsy and was able to make over half a million dollars within six months of opening my digital products shop, so of course, Etsy is first on my list! 

Etsy is an excellent platform for selling digital products because it is a well-known platform with a huge audience that is ready to buy (over 81 million buyers!). You can get a lot of eyes on your beautiful creations without having to build your own audience. 

You can sell everything from baby shower games to planner printables to social media templates and so much more. 

It is free to set up your Etsy shop (yay!). Each item that you list costs 20 cents. Then, when you make a sale, Etsy takes 6.5% as a transaction fee. There is also a small payment processing fee that is slightly different depending on your country. If you haven’t already set up your Etsy shop, feel free to use my link and get your first 40 listings for free!

Creative Fabrica

Creative Fabrica allows you to sell a huge range of digital products as well: KDP interiors, logos, fonts, teaching materials, SVG graphics, planner templates, coloring pages and more. 

The benefit for sellers is definitely that you can create a shop and list your products for free. 

Also, Creative Fabrica handles all customer service questions instead of customers communicating directly with the creator. If you just want to focus on creation, this is nice versus Etsy where you are required to handle the customer service within your own shop. 

However (and it’s kind of a big however), the commissions that sellers make are quite low. Creative Fabrica takes a big cut. Depending on how a buyer finds your products, you might get to keep just 50-75% of each sale. 

Creative Market

Creative Market is a platform for selling only digital products. On it, you’ll find things like graphics assets, stock photos, fonts, and templates. 

Creative Market is free to use and is full of high-quality designs. There is actually a vetting process for sellers to make sure that the quality of products stays high. 

Their fees are very straightforward, but also quite high. They take 40% of every sale. So if you sell $100 worth of designs, you only get to keep $60. 

Design Bundles

Design Bundles is another platform for selling all kinds of digital products. You’ll find things like clip art, sublimation designs, and craft patterns. 

To start selling on this platform, you have to be approved. You’ll give them a small portfolio of your work to start this process. 

Design Bundles gets 9 millions page views each month, so they’ve got a buying audience ready to go. 

Designers earn 50-75% of each sale, depending on if the customer was referred by an affiliate or not. 

Shopify

Along with being a platform for physical products, Shopify also lets you sell digital products. You simply provide a link to the digital product and the customer can access it right after they purchase. 

Shopify is not a free platform to use. You’ll pay a monthly plan fee as well as a transaction fee for each sale. 

Shopify works better if you have your own audience base already or plan to do a good amount of marketing to your Shopify shop. I would only recommend this option to those who have some type of marketing experience or your own audience ready to go!

Wix

While I first started out on Etsy only, I quickly realized the need for my own site as well. That way, should something (God forbid) ever happen to my Etsy shop, my hard work would not be lost and I chose Wix as the place to set up my own shop. You can set up a digital product store within your Wix website or a membership site like I have as well. You’ll need to pay a monthly fee for a Business/e-commerce account. 

You’ll want to build your own audience for your business as Wix won’t be directing customers to your products like some other platforms do and I teach students my exact process for building your own audience simultaneously with your Etsy shop in my course, Digitally Purposed.

Gumroad

Gumroad is one more platform for selling digital products. You can list any kind of digital download. 

There is no monthly fee and they take a fairly small percentage of your sales. It is quite simple to use as well. 

Customers will be able to find your work through the “Discover'' section on Gumroad, but you’ll definitely want to rely on your own marketing efforts to bring in sales. You can link to your Gumroad shop from your blog or social media account to sell to your current audience. 

There are a lot of good digital product platforms and each one has its pros and cons. 

I’ve had amazing success on Etsy and always recommend it, but you may prefer a different platform depending on your goals and how you want to run your digital product business. 

I hope this breakdown has reduced the overwhelm and helped you decide where you want to start selling your digital products. 

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