Coming from Payloadz-a few questions

[dmanlamius]

Hello, everyone.



Well, i've been loyal to payloadz for years now, but i'm sick and tired of their service messing up, and losing me sales. It happens too much, and I just can't handle it anymore.



So i've done a bit of research, and your guys name has come up a few times. Before I set up with you, I have a couple of questions if that's ok?



I have about 200MB of educational videos that I sell. How much am I looking at a month for this?



Are there transaction limits on sales? Payloadz jumped from £15 a month to £60!, once I sold so many lessons. This leap was WAY to much for me, and is another reason I am considering you guys. This is a big issue with me, though.



Is the process similar to Payloadz? Set up product. Get link. Link to product? Once a sale is made, is the process easy for the customer to download their purchase?



I'll be using .Mov's and .zip's. Is this ok? Maybe mp3's as well?



Anyhow, there are a few questions there. Please excuse my paranoia. I'd just had a horrible time over at Payloadz.



Take care, and thanks in advance.



Kris.

[E-junkie_Guru]

Welcome to E-junkie! :^)



Our pricing plans depend only on the number of different products you need to sell and the total amount of space you'd need to store all your download files on our server:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/pricing.htm



If your needs exceed your current subscription plan, you can upgrade at any time to increase your capacity as needed. We do not impose any limits or surcharges on the amount of sales or downloads you can process. Our flat monthly fee is all-inclusive, with just one exception: to send out Newsletters/Updates by email, we do require payment of a nominal, prorated fee which covers our spike in overhead to provide that service, as described at the bottom of this help page:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.updates.htm



Once you set up your products in E-junkie Seller Admin, we provide you with ready-made HTML codes for your cart buttons, so you would simply copy the codes from us and paste them into the HTML source of your own Web site pages, wherever you want our buttons to appear among your own layout, text and images.



If your product will issue a file download, you would simply upload that file to our server when adding the product in your E-junkie Seller Admin. The file can be whatever format or quality you wish. Our system automatically issues each buyer a unique link to download an identical duplicate of whatever file you provide for each product.



After the buyer finishes checkout and the payment processor confirms the buyer's payment was good and completed, we grant the buyer access to a thank-you page where we present their unique download link(s) automatically, and we also issue them a thank-you email with a link to reach the thank-you/download page in case they did not proceed to the download page after checkout. Their download link(s) expire after the number of attempts or hours (whichever comes first) that you specify in each product's settings.



Our digital-product plans of $18/mo or higher will also allow you to store your download files on your own server, so you could configure your products with a Remote Product File URL rather than uploading the files to us. Our download links would cloak the remote origin of any files delivered from your server, so buyers have no way of even knowing the file did not originate on our server. Files stored on your own server and delivered through our service would not count against your plan's maximum storage allocation on our server (but you do need a plan that includes storage space in order to sell digital products at all).



Once again, welcome to E-junkie; we're sure you'll have a pleasant time with us. :^)

[dmanlamius]

Tyson:



Thankyou very much for your informative reply. I'll definatly be making the move over!



Sharon:



Eh!?

[dmanlamius]

This actually ends up being more expensive than Payloadz...

[E-junkie_Ninja]

What plan are you looking at? What are your needs? i.e. number of products and total size of those products?

[dmanlamius]

Hello, there. Thanks for the post.



Ok, after uploading all my vids (Only about 7-I have 11 on Payloadz as well as loads of mp3's under the tier i'm using) I have been offered the $125 option as my subscription. I don't know how many MB's I have used so far, but it's obviously over a certain limit.



$125 = about £75



Now, on Payloadz, this is the tier i'm currently using:



Premium III £15.085 50GB £362



So, I pay £15 a month for 50GB of room, and have a transaction limit of £362.



Although E-junkie has no transaction limit, it obviously doesn't rival Payloadz in the upload limit. No-where near.



You might think "If he's making that much a month, he can afford the fee." Well, it's only this month that I "may" reach that limit. It's Christmas.



I'm pretty gutted, because I really don't want to use Payloadz anymore. However, even though you guys have no transaction limit, are easier to use, are just generally nicer, I think i'm going to have to stick...

[sgt_bilko]

Perhaps I am missing something here but can't you just go for the $18 a month option and host the files on your own server? Hosting is cheap these days and I am sure you could find a good reliable option without spending much money. I know somebody else who has about 40 gigs of videos on his server at present and using ClickBank but he is planning a switch to e-junkie with this strategy in mind.

[E-junkie_Ninja]

Ashley is correct. You can use our $18 a month plan and store files on your own server, your files will still have the same protected links that expire as if they were stored on our server.

[dmanlamius]

That sounds like a plan.



Problem is that I have little knowledge with hosting. I have my own space, which is where my blog is hosted.



My previous sites have been made witn an "all-in-one" builder called moonfruit. There was no need for me to buy my own hosting, etc.



Is the process relatively simple?

[sgt_bilko]

Personally I make use of e-junkie's hosting because it's just one file that is under 30MB but in theory I think your only job would be to upload the files via FTP and then copy that url path into the e-junkie control panel. As long as your web host has enough space and adequate bandwidth limits it should be a piece of cake.



Your existing set up sounds rather particular, so if you can't do this through your current arrangement and don't want to mess with your site you could probably use a cheap hosting service and pay about $5 a month to simply store your files and then use that area purely for hosting the download files. I actually have a dedicated server of my own which is more expensive, but you can find places like Servage or Dreamhost that you could use for this. There are plenty of other options of course to store files reliably.