Can You Sell Digital Download Products on Thinkific? How to Create Digital Products Easily

As technology continues to advance, more and more of our daily activities are moving online.

During the past years, we have seen a growing demand for digital products.

What are digital products?

Digital products - or digital downloads - are intangible goods that exist only in digital form(and lack a physical component). Examples include eBooks, videos, online tools, and any other digital content that can be accessed online.

Thanks to their popularity, it is no surprise that more and more people want to create and sell their own digital products to generate a leveraged income stream online!

There are many platforms out there that allow you to sell digital products online. A popular choice for online course creators is Thinkific.

However, many Thinkific creators wonder:

Can you sell digital downloads on Thinkific?

No, there is no easy way to create and sell digital products on Thinkific. Thinkific is an online course platform that focuses mainly on the creation of online courses and communities.

While Thinkific advertises a workaround to sell digital downloads, there is not a straightforward way to do this on the platform, and it can be quite a hassle for creators who want to add an additional stream of income to their business with digital products (or for creators who might wish to start by selling some kind of digital download before they complete and launch their online course).

How to Sell Digital Products on Thinkific

Thinkific does not allow you to sell digital downloads directly on their platform.

To sell digital downloads on Thinkific, you have to resort to complex and unintuitive workarounds, as it’s not a native feature on the platform.

If you wanted to sell digital products on Thinkific, you'd have to create a new online course, add your digital product to a lesson and sell the course pretending that it is a digital download. This can be quite confusing for your customers, not to mention that it is not an ideal solution for any established business. Often with digital downloads you might need a way to allow your customer to purchase the same product multiple times if you were offering a licensing structure. This would be impossible if you were using the workaround above.

So there has to be another way for creators to easily and intuitively sell digital products online.

And you are right to think there is...

A Better Way to Sell Digital Products With an All-In-One Platform

Heights Platform is the all-in-one online course platform that lets creators build a complete online knowledge business. With Heights Platform, you can keep 100% of what you earn since there are no transaction fees charged.

As a creator using Heights Platform, you'll have the power to sell digital products, create engaging online courses, build membership programs, and connect with your private community.

Heights is the online course platform that has everything you need to build a thriving online business - and since we are on the subject: easily create and sell digital products for your audience!

Learn more about the differences between Heights Platform and Thinkific: Heights Platform vs Thinkific

How to Create a Digital Product Using Heights Platform

If you want to create and sell digital products (and online courses), Heights Platform is the perfect solution for you!

With Heights, you can easily showcase and sell your unique digital products, without any limits.

Anyone can use Heights to sell their digital products (plus online courses, communities and more) to their audience, with complete customization options to reflect your brand image and style.

Plus, once you start making sales, Heights gives you detailed analytics about your customers and their purchases, so you can optimize your sales and grow your business.

So let's see step by step how you can sell digital products online using Heights Platform:

#1: Create Your Digital Product

When you access your Heights account - which, by the way, is free to create! - you will be in your Creator Dashboard. Here is where you can access all the important places in your account, view your analytics, settings, create online courses and more.

Select "New Product" and choose "Digital Product".

#2: Edit the Digital Product's Settings

From here, you can give your digital product a name, add a compelling description, a cover image and start editing the digital product settings to customize it as you need.

In this example, we want to sell an eBook with smoothie recipes as an add-on to our audience.

We started building our eBook and gave it a name and description.

Now we can choose the settings of the eBook. What is great about the digital products feature in Heights Platform is that it is fully customizable to your needs.

If we weren't selling an eBook, we could choose to sell other downloadable files, access to an event, coaching calls and much more!

Learn more about the types of digital downloads you can sell: 9 Profitable Digital Product Ideas You Can Start Selling Online To Earn Extra Income

As you can see in the picture below, you can choose the product type to let your customers know what your digital product is about.

Here are what you can customize:

• Enable a landing page for your digital product: you can let Heights automatically generate a sales page for your digital product where potential customers can easily purchase it and learn more about it.

• Hide your digital product: if you don't want the product to be shown to your existing students, you can choose to hide it, and it will only be seen by people who have a direct link to the product or people who are granted access to it.

• Allow Multiple Purchases: for digital downloads it is common to sell licenses (think themes, templates, brush packs for digital illustrators, etc). In this case you might want to allow your customer to easily purchase the digital download multiple times to own more than one license to the product. 

• Set a launch date and expiration time: allow customers to get access to your digital download after a certain date, and expire their access a certain number of days after purchase, or give them lifetime access. 

• Apply a discount on the product: you can choose to display a sale on the digital product to let your customers know about a special offer.

• Offer an upsell: you can also link this product to an upsell, which will be shown at checkout. Generally, digital products make the perfect upsell for other online courses, so you could do the same with another product on your Heights account!

If you prefer, you also can edit the URL for this digital product. 

If you are selling digital downloads, security is important too! You might be wondering, how can I make sure someone isn't abusing the digital downloads I'm offering? Heights Platform will show you how many licenses a customer has purchased of your digital product, if they have downloaded the product and how many times they have downloaded it, and the IP address for each download. This way you can feel more confident in being able to understand who is getting access to your digital downloads and if you feel anyone might be abusing the system, you can always revoke their access or even block them from your program entirely. 

#3: Add the Content for Your Digital Product and Set the Price

Now that you have edited your preferred settings, you can add the content of your digital product and select the price.

The content of the digital product is what your customers will get after purchasing it. In this case, an eBook! But it can be anything you want: a link to a coaching call, details about an event, a PDF, a picture, an audio file... anything!

It could also be used as a donation for those who want to support your efforts.

So let's see how to set a price and add the file we want to share:

In our case, we want to sell the eBook for $29, and we simply uploaded the eBook file, as well as wrote a note with directions for our customers.

Not sure how to price your product? Check out this article from our blog:

How to Price Your Digital Products or Downloads: 6 Bullet-Proof Strategies

#4: Publish and Sell Your Digital Product

Now that we are all set, all left to do is publish the digital product and start selling it!

Here is an idea of what your digital product can look like:

As you can see, Heights gives you important stats about your products and online courses, as well as an easy-to-use interface for your customers.

It is this simple!

If you have enabled the landing page, your potential customers will be able to purchase the digital product easily and access its content right after purchasing it:

Why Should You Sell Digital Products?

Digital downloads and products can be a great addition to your online knowledge business.

As with online courses, these kinds of products have low-to-zero initial costs, offer high flexibility and control over the business, provide high-profit margins and leveraged income opportunities, and are easy to scale.

Creating digital products also allows you to showcase your unique skills and passions, and it is convenient for both you and your customers.

Additionally - compared to other business models like physical products - there are no shipping costs, and digital products last forever.

Learn more about the benefits of selling digital downloads here: Why You Should Start Selling Digital Products Now

Start Selling Digital Products With Heights Platform

Ready to create your own digital products and start earning leveraged income online?

Heights Platform is the perfect solution to sell online courses, create membership sites and thriving online communities, and sell digital products.

Unlike Thinkific, Heights is the online course platform that lets you easily create and sell digital downloads without the hassle of complex workarounds.

Try it for yourself, create your free Heights account today!