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Gumroad review: A complete payment processor?

Gumroad is a site that allows you to create free landing pages for a product you have built and developed. The product can be software, eBook, tutorial, image, etc.

Table of contents:
  • Why use Gumroad when you can use PayPal or payment gateways?
  • Creating a landing page for your product with Gumroad
  • Analytics
  • Discover
  • Payouts
  • Gumroad
  • Affiliate
  • Other features
  • Who can use Gumroad?

Why use Gumroad when you can use PayPal or payment gateways?

Well, getting a license for payment gateway is not easy. Even if you get an approval for the same, you’ll have to integrate it with your site. To be honest, this is not easy. Paypal does not allow users to create a landing page. You can only accept payments with it.

Creating a landing page for your product with Gumroad

If you have prepared a description, captured the screenshots of your item, and have thought about a price, it will take about 10 minutes to create a landing page with Gumroad.

Log in to the site as a seller and click on the Products option in the menu bar. Now, select a product type. GR supports two types of products – Digital and Physical. Digital and Physical products can have several subtypes.

After selecting a product type, follow the instructions displayed on the screen.

Gumroad enables you to upload the product file you’ve saved on the PC. You can also sync the file from your Dropbox account.

GR can generate license keys for your product. You can make use of this feature to prevent unauthorized distribution of your product.

Gumroad Add Product

Analytics

Gumroad allows sellers to see the list of users who have bought their products. It also lets customers follow the sellers. Gumroad sellers can filter data by the product, two dates, and total users who have bought the product.

Discover

This feature has been designed to bring the attention of buyers to your product listed on GR. When someone buys an item on Gumroad and the product is similar to your item, GR will recommend it to the buyer. This feature is optional. You can enable it from the settings interface.

Payouts

Gumroad will cut its commission from your earnings before transferring it to your PayPal account. You can make payments for premium features via Credit Card.

Gumroad discover

Gumroad

Gumroad provides an option to set an account type. No matter what account you select, you must enter the name, address, city, postal code, etc.

Affiliate

Gumroad makes launching an affiliate program for your product a breeze. While creating an affiliate link, you are asked to enter the amount the affiliates will earn if they drive sales.

Other features

GR enables you to select your preferred currency, language, and timezone. You can track your item’s performance with GA with GR. The option to add the GA id or code is present in the Advanced section of the settings UI.

If you upgrade your GR account, you can set up a custom domain instead of using gumroad.com URLs in case you don’t have a website, blog or you don’t want to promote Gumroad URLs on social networks.

Who can use Gumroad?

People who are searching for an alternative to payment gateways.

Creators/developers who can spend some time promoting their gr landing page on social networks or have a website that gets a decent amount of traffic from search engines.

Final thoughts: Gumroad is one of the most popular payment processing companies. It offers many features to the users free of cost. Gumroad isn’t a marketplace that will guarantee you a sale. You’ll have to direct traffic to your landing page by sharing its URL on social networking sites or by embedding it on your website.

Filed Under: Online Businesses Tagged With: marketplaces, Sell Software online

About the Author

Pramod has started this site to share honest reviews of WordPress products, hosting, and software. If you have any doubts about a product he has reviewed on this site, you can get in touch with him on LinkedIn.

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