--- title: "Quickly Sell a Digital Download with Teachery" description: "Sell a digital product download or digital service e.g. coaching sessions!" url: https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/229-quickly-sell-a-digital-download-with-teachery collection: "Quick Start with Teachery" updated: 2026-09-17 language: en --- # Quickly Sell a Digital Download with Teachery Sell a digital product download or digital service e.g. coaching sessions! Think of a Teachery _Course_ just as a container for information. That information can easily be a downloadable product, like a PDF, or a link to a private Notion Template, etc. (as opposed to or in combination with lessons). Depending on whether you’re using our new [_Payment Page Builder_](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/241-introducing-the-payment-page-builder.md) or our [original payment page template](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/212-creating-a-payment-page-and-editing-your-default-payment-page.md), you’ll want to jump to different sections below. 😉 ## Using the Payment Page Builder & Products If you’re looking to sell **just** a digital product, **without** a course, keep on reading! That said, _Products_ are not just for downloadable items, they’re for things like coaching sessions (or the like) too. That is, you don’t need to have a file attached to your _Product_. 😃 ### Create a Product 1. Navigate to the _Products_ tab of your [_Teach_ page](https://www.teachery.co/teach). 2. Click the **\+ Create new Product** button. 3. Walk through each step of our guided product-building process by populating some basic info: product name, description, pricing model, cover image, file download, and confirmation screen. We provide a provisional preview at this point but be sure to click the “**Open full editor**” button to arrive directly in your **payment page** (where you can edit or add to the details of your product offering) and get a more accurate idea of what your final product will look like. Think of the **payment page** as a two-in-one: **a simple sales page with a checkout**. ![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/ghelparticle/2325Us38gRQRi7Giddtc9LED1L2llcuK0JPgYsa8QjAzDWw9xSpU4C0I7H3FUKYXSeO7oM8lv1a.png) > **Info:** Seeking data related to your product’s sales? Either jump into the _Product Overview_ page, the _Payment Pages_ > _Analytics_ section of your product, or into your [**account-level _Analytics_** page](https://www.teachery.co/teach#analytics). Note that it’s possible for the same customer to make repeat purchases of products. So keep that in mind when comparing “Customers” and “Sales” data. ### Build Out Your Product Offering On your _Product Overview_ page, you’ll find the payment page that you created. Click the **Edit** button to jump back into it at any time or access if via the left sidebar menu. ![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/ghelparticle/MYJjMmIfZn6fUVN4iXMSAc5gCcRd1CfTdmAXhQllwWPrlYS2ag82uZPnlahzm64HkDg5L2lre0y.png) For more detailed guidance on how to make use of our more powerful _Payment Page Builder_, keep these help docs handy: - [**Introducing the Payment Page Builder**](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/241-introducing-the-payment-page-builder.md) - [**Building a Payment Page**](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/240-creating-a-payment-page-with-our-builder.md) - [**Using Stripe Tax in Payment Pages**](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/242-using-stripe-tax-in-payment-pages.md) You can create a clean, brief, elegant payment page (like the one pictured below) or [one with more _bells and whistles_](https://live-demo.teachery.co/demo-teachery-payment-page-new) (including your own custom CSS). ![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/ghelparticle/9BtAdQxbCxPMFCNeZqUz2e1Hd1hdsardr9ZOqAx9l75i2qAY1JKRLxoLp5IIxNdaBKrjm1rxQso.jpeg) > **Info:** It’s possible for existing buyers to **repurchase** a _Product_. This is ideally suited to creators who sell coaching sessions, therapy sessions, or a 1-on-1 virtual meeting of any kind. ### Prepare Your Welcome Email Ensure your [**_welcome email_**](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/152-setting-up-your-welcome-email-and-course-completed-email.md#heading-1-if-you-don-t-know-where-to-find-your-course-s-welcome-email) **is enabled and ready**. You’ll find it in your _Product Emails_. We include, by default, some basic purchase information and, if your offering includes a downloadable, our system will **automatically** include a link to it in the final version of the welcome email that the customer receives. If you chose to display a confirmation message after a customer successfully completes an order, our system will **automatically** include in the welcome email either a **hyperlinked list** of your downloads or **one single link** to your _Downloads_ page, depending on whether you chose to display a **list** of your downloads **or** a **button** to your downloads on that confirmation page. If your offering **doesn’t** include a downloadable (e.g. in the case of selling a coaching session), your _welcome email_ will only include some basic purchase info so feel free to use the _welcome email_ to also include as much additional info you believe might be useful to your customers e.g. how best to contact you for support, any links to other platforms or next steps, etc. ### What Customers Can Expect If your offering **includes** a downloadable of any kind: - You can configure a confirmation message to display on the page your customers will see after successful checkout. With this message, you can include a list of your downloads or a button to your downloads. - The _welcome email_ a customer receives will automatically include a link to their download(s) - [see](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/229-quickly-sell-a-digital-download-with-teachery.md#:~:text=our%20system%20will%C2%A0automatically%C2%A0include%20in%20the%20welcome%20email%20either%20a%C2%A0hyperlinked%20list%C2%A0of%20your%20downloads%20or%C2%A0one%20single%20link%C2%A0to%20your%C2%A0Downloads%C2%A0page) section above. (Your _Product_ comes with its own dedicated _Downloads_ page, which is essentially where customers will find their files. An example is pictured below. The _Downloads_ page is also accessible via a customer’s Teachery [_Learn_](https://www.teachery.co/learn) page - clicking on your _Product_ there will take them to this page.) The link in their welcome email is unique and tied to their purchase. ![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/ghelparticle/veCPs4inlY86EHuACIQGsJTzVhk10996JWecE5DUVOLgS0Ylchvdu46mOQqYDewROP68vJ3dvIC.png) > **Info:** Please note that, as the creator, you **cannot** view this _Downloads_ page, only customers. And, currently, the _Downloads_ page is **not** editable/customisable. We recommend including a note in your confirmation message for your customers to **also check their emails for a direct link** to their file(s) - see the next point below! - A “generic” link to your _Downloads_ page is available in your _Product URLs_ page (in case you need to share it with a customer). It follows this format: your course URL followed by **/downloads** e.g. _https://mycourse.teachery.co_**_/downloads_**. - If a customer needs to retrieve their downloads long after their initial purchase, they may be prompted to log into Teachery first (especially if they use the “generic” link above). Customers who are brand new to Teachery just need to reset their password before they log in. Existing Teachery users can simply use the same login credentials they use throughout Teachery. - We recommend encouraging customers to keep their _welcome emails_ so they always have their download links accessible (or you can [resend](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/152-setting-up-your-welcome-email-and-course-completed-email.md#heading-5-need-to-resend-a-welcome-email-to-a-customer) it to them) so that they can use their own custom downloads link, which, again, is tied specifically to their purchase. If your offering does **not** include a downloadable (e.g. you’re selling coaching sessions): - On successful checkout, a customer will either see a simple confirmation message or be redirected elsewhere (depending on what you configured in your payment page). - The _welcome email_ a customer receives will simply serve to confirm their purchase. If you did set a redirect on successful checkout, you can include that same redirect URL in your _welcome email_ by popping in the placeholder **%redirect\_url%.** ### **Recommendation: Test Your Payment Pages** Despite offering _Test Mode_ (see above), we still cannot stress this recommendation enough: If you want to see the exact experience (you and) your customers will have (and to ensure that taxes are being captured correctly or email provider integrations are working), **making a real purchase** of your own course will be useful. You will get to see both sides of the transaction and ensure everything is working as it should. > **Warning:** When you do attempt a real purchase through your payment page, **switch to another browser** or incognito mode and be sure to use an email address that is **NOT** your course-creating Teachery account email address (use, for example, any other personal email address you might have) or ask a colleague or friend to test. - Click the **Share URL** button in the top right of your payment page - Click the **Copy to Clipboard** in the popup that appears - Open that link in an **Incognito** or **Private Window** - Put the payment page to the test (e.g. if you have multiple payment plans available, confirm the page reflects your selection) and complete the checkout If you want to [refund your purchase](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/129-revoking-access-refunds-deleting-customers-and-other-customer-actions.md#heading-4-refund-course-payment) at any point, you can do so via your test customer’s _Customer Profile_ via the _Customers_ page. > **Error:** _Stripe_ (or your chosen payment processor) will, like in any standard transaction, still **charge you fees** and refunding does **not** reverse these. Instead of making a real payment, you can create yourself a 100%-off promo code just for testing purposes (be sure to make it a tricky promo code and/or consider limiting it to one use). But we still **strongly recommend placing an order with a real payment** to ensure welcome emails, Stripe receipts, refunds, taxes, etc. are all rendering/working as they should. ### Disable a Product’s Payment Page If you very quickly want to disable access to the **payment pages** of your _Product_, navigate to _Product Settings_ > _Manage Options_ and scroll down to the **Turn Product On/Off** setting. Turn your _Product_ “**Off**” and click **Save Options**. > **Warning:** **Note**: If any customers try to access your _Product_’s payment page links, they will see a 404 error page. Alternatively, you can [**expire**](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/240-creating-a-payment-page-with-our-builder.md#:~:text=disabled%20by%20default.-,Countdown%20Timer,-%3A%20Use%20this) your payment page. ## Using the Original Payment Page Template & Courses > **Info:** If you’re happy to rather sell your digital product as an **upsell**, then (instead of the steps below) you can make use of our new _Products_ feature (see section above) and then add it to your course’s payment page as an [upsell](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/175-introduction-to-upsells-and-course-bundles.md#heading-0-upsells-introduction). If you’re using our [**original payment page template**](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/212-creating-a-payment-page-and-editing-your-default-payment-page.md) and **using a course to sell a digital product/service**, here are some tips: 1. Create a new **_Course_**. 2. Link some **text or an image** that you add to one of the text areas at the top of your course **Overview** page (in the example below, an image in the right text block has been hyperlinked) to your downloadable item: 1. IF your downloadable product is under 50MB, [**you can host it with Teachery**](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/172-uploading-files-pdfs-and-other-downloadable-content.md). 2. IF your downloadable product is larger than 50MB, upload your file to your own Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. cloud storage provider. Then, grab a share link for the file and hyperlink text (or an [image](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/171-uploading-images-and-embedding-images-in-your-course.md#heading-9-want-to-add-a-link-to-your-image)) in Teachery to it! 3. 🎙 **Important**: selling an audio file? These files work differently (e.g. they won’t automatically download if you’re hosting them in Teachery, unless you compress them into a .zip folder), please read [this guide](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/179-adding-audio-to-course-lessons-using-soundcloud.md#heading-1-link-text-to-an-audio-file) carefully. 3. The course **Overview** page essentially serves as your **purchase confirmation screen**. Customize it with additional **text** and add a **header image**, if you like (in the example below, there is a header image) or even [**embed a video**](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/180-adding-videos-using-canva-wistia-vimeo-youtube-and-more.md#:~:text=There%20are%20plenty%20of%20other%20video%20hosting%20companies%20that%20you%20can%20use%20with%20Teachery). As mentioned in step (2) above, this is where you’ll include a link to your digital product/downloadable item, as the course **Overview** page essentially **serves as a confirmation or thank you page**. 4. Optional: You **don’t** need to have any course **lessons** set up (unless you’d like to add any other useful content/resources for your customers or promote other offerings, etc.). 5. Optional: In the _Landing Pages_ section of the left sidebar editor, create a landing/sales page using either our [old template](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/158-creating-a-landing-page-aka-sales-page.md) or our [new page builder](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/232-creating-landing-pages-or-sales-pages-with-our-page-builder.md). If you build a landing/sales page, you’ll still need to complete the next step in order to capture payment. You **don’t necessarily need** a landing/sales page, you can build a simple one by just using our payment pages (next step). 6. In the _Payment Pages_ section of the left sidebar editor, [**add a new Payment Page**](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/212-creating-a-payment-page-and-editing-your-default-payment-page.md) using our original payment page template, customize it, and set your price. 7. Finally, go into _Course Emails_ section of the left sidebar editor and [**customize the _welcome email_**](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/152-setting-up-your-welcome-email-and-course-completed-email.md) as needed. 1. 💡 **Pro-tip**: Link to your digital download in the welcome email as well, so it’s easy for your customer to get access in the future. Note again that this is only necessary if you’re using our original payment page template. 8. Optional: Style the course with colors/fonts if you want. ✨ ![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/ghelparticle/A6Hk2HmC8TpKFfXmVfNHC8gtjPl6IQyt8t0GdkiV6dAHpZShuiJcAgiKXqv0i3XTvu1Y3rf4Qhm.png) ### Test and Share Your Page We strongly recommend [testing the purchase workflow](https://help.teachery.co/en/articles/212-creating-a-payment-page-and-editing-your-default-payment-page.md#heading-11-recommendation-test-your-payment-pages) like any of your users would to ensure everything is working. Then all you need to do is share the landing/sales page URL **or** the direct payment page URL (**depending on your chosen setup**) with your community and you're off! (URLs can be found in the **Actions** menu at the top of the landing/sales page or payment page OR in the _Course Links_ section of your course’s left sidebar editor.)