We have reviewed quite a few eCommerce providers like Alice.com, MadeItMyself, Plastic Jungle and IdoNowIDon't.com in the past. We've also brought you reviews on various applications, internet tools and fun websites. Today we bring you a review on a new service called Digital Delivery App that provides 'Buy Now' or 'Pay Now' buttons for merchants who wish to sell their digital products online. A platform that integrates with PayPal or Google Checkout for payments.
Launched in October 2010, Digital Delivery App explains that “In designing Digital Delivery App we targeted people who want to setup digital delivery and not have to login each day to manage it. Zero management was the term we coined and it ended up driving all development.”
Here's a brief overview on this latest service:
Highlights
- If the merchant is unable to make any sales during a month, Digital Delivery App does not charge for their service for that particular month.
- They provide unlimited bandwidth, unlimited sales and fixed monthly price that does not change if the sales increase.
- Digital Delivery App works with PayPal and Google Checkout for payments and Clickbank for their affiliate program.
- PDF stamping feature is available in their $15 plan.
- Their basic plan starts with $9, with product limit of 10, with 1 GB storage. Other plans are Plus, Premium and Max costing $15, $24 and $39 respectively. Premium account lets you host a website, whereas Max plans lets you host 3 websites and your own domain.
- They also provide a dashboard (which looks very much similar to Google Analytics) where merchants can have an overview of the products that they're selling, sales figures and their latest orders. One can download reports as a CSV file as well.
- They allow merchants to sell packages, enabling them to offer a combination of their products sold as at a different price as a package.
Pros
- No sale-No subscription fee guarantee across all plans.
- Ability to send updated product files to buyers of a specific product with one click.
- Ability to view sales data as graphs and reports.
- Ability to have websites served from their servers but hosting feature is included only in the top 2 plans i.e. in the $24 and $39 plans.
- Ability to test the amount of interest in a future product by using the Test Mode. This captures the amount of "buy now" clicks for a product and then saves the prospective buyers email.
- Weekly or Monthly Sales Report by email
- Feature to sell combination of products as packages.
- Pay 1 month's subscription as fee to re-sellers.
Cons
- Digital Delivery App provides 'Buy Now' buttons only, currently they do not have the provision of a shopping cart that allows buyers to buy multiple products in a single click.
- Provision to sell only digital goods i.e. no physical/tangible goods.
- No provision to have variations within a product.
- No provision for configuring taxation rules; although this can be configured in the payment processor settings.
- PDF stamping starts only with the $15 plan.
- Affiliates management feature starts only with the $15 plan.
- Supported currencies are only USD, Euro and GBP.
- Google Checkout and PayPal are the only payment processors supported by Digital Delivery App.
- No ability to serve files from self hosted or remote servers.
- Resellers only get the referral fee once the customer starts selling goods and paying the subscription fee (because of the no sale-no fee condition).
UPDATE:Apart from adding the ability to sell tangible goods DDA has stopped offering the No Sale No Fee guarantee that they were offering earlier. So basically plans start at $9 per month.
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More importantly the update function is included in the monthly subscription price. I've never understood why e-Junkie charges for this functionality.
Hi Bob,
When we send out Newsletter/Update mass emails, we do require payment of a nominal surcharge to cover our additional overhead costs in providing those optional services, which also discourages abuse of our service to send out spam and/or excessive free-download links with potentially unlimited demand, either of which could compromise our primary services. This help page covers the subject in further detail:
http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/faq.updates.surcharge.htm