FastSpring for Digital Sales

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For the new English-language Lightroom workshop, I once again looked for a way to make selling a little easier and came across FastSpring.

I must have considered it before: support told me I still had an account from five years ago. Mac users may have seen its storefront when buying iStat Menus or other shareware. (Do people still say “shareware”?)

After setting up the product and selling the first workshops, I’m pretty impressed with FastSpring:

• Freedom to build your own shop and use only checkout, or let FastSpring handle everything.
• FastSpring is a US-based reseller and handles US tax correctly. For EU customers, it calculates and remits the applicable local VAT.
• Custom pricing and discount scripts in JavaScript.
• That also lets you offer “pay what you want” with a minimum price.
• Rounded prices in foreign currencies.
• Credit card, PayPal, and bank transfer payments.
• Flexible coupons.
• Fulfilment: attach one or more downloads to a product.
• Downloads can be updated instantly. No mountain of work.
• License codes can be generated on demand or uploaded as a list.
• Optional webhooks notify your own server.
• Fair pricing: 8.9%, including payment processing and downloads.

And much more. FastSpring gets a lot right under the hood. Unfortunately, its website looks like 1997 and nothing like next-generation e-commerce.