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Creating digital products

Creating digital products

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Creating digital products

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- [Patrick] WooCommerce isn't just good for physical products, it's also good for digital products. Even a mostly-physical goods store may still have a few digital products like a PDF guide, a training video, or even exercise files. At H+ Sports, we have a guide that we want to sell for $5. I've created a new product and given it a title. Let's go ahead and set a price of $5, and now we can look at those settings at the top of the Product data panel. The Virtual and Downloadable checkboxes. These initially sound like similar terms, but they do different things. Virtual means an item doesn't require shipping. Since this is a downloadable guide, we want to skip shipping so let's check this box. Notice that the Shipping tab disappears when we do this so if we uncheck it, there's the Shipping tab, and if we check it, it disappears. Downloadable means you're sending the file to the customer. Since this guide is definitely downloadable, we want to check that box and notice that now we have…

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