What's the best way to sell PDFs online?

[StephenCampbell]

I have a very simple website up, created in iWeb, and it's simple enough to put in the "Add to cart" buttons from paypal, but I can't figure out how to make the customer automatically get a download of the file, rather than me having to email it to them after receiving notification of payment.

I just looked around a bit and found bitbuffet.com and payloadz.com, but they both charge money for the service. I'm pretty sure there's a way to do this without signing up for such a service. My mom's website has mp3 products available for download, and as far as I know her webmaster didn't have her sign up for anything like bitbuffet or payloadz.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[Giovannino]

You may want to have a look at Chapter 3: An easy but not safe solution to sell digital products (E-Books, Music, ...) with PayPal of this page:
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWeb_Business_solutions.html
I may also recommend you to have a look at Chapter 5.

 

[Melrose]

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