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Notes on selling digital downloads.

Playbooks, migration guides, and interviews with creators who ship. Written by the team, not outsourced.

Getting started · May 20, 2026 · 3 min read

Ship your first digital product in 30 minutes

From upload to first sale — file prep, pricing, and the email template that actually works. The walk-through for brand-new ABC merchants.

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Security · May 12, 2026

Watermarking PDFs without ruining the read

Strong piracy deterrent without compromising your customer's experience. The exact stamp positioning, opacity, and metadata fields we recommend.

Playbooks · May 3, 2026

From Gumroad to Shopify: a migration playbook

Step-by-step migration from Gumroad to Shopify + ABC. SEO redirects, customer email transfer, file backup, billing transition without a sales-day gap.

Written by operators, not interns.

Every post is written by someone who's actually shipped digital files on Shopify — usually a member of our engineering or support team. No SEO filler.

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