E-Junkie buttons in emails

[the_ace]

Hello!



I'm looking for a service to sell digital products, but I only invoice my customers through email. I'm looking for a service that will allow me to create "Buy Now!" buttons that link to my websites file repository. I will then email a "Buy Now!" button to a client. Does E-Junkie work well in that scenario? I noticed that clicking on the buttons opens a nice looking shadow box in my browser, but was curious what would happen if the button was in an email.



Thanks for your time,

[E-junkie_Guru]

You can find the href= URL in the standard cart or Buy Now button code we provide, and then simply email that URL to your buyer. In that case, a cart button URL would open the cart in a new window, or a Buy Now button URL would bypass the cart and take buyers directly to instant checkout for one item at a time.



If your standard Buy Now button code looks like this example:



<a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?i=XXXXXX&c=single&cl=135621" target="ejejcsingle"><img src="http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/x-click-butcc.gif" border="0" alt="Buy Now"/></a>



...then just this part would be the button URL you could put in an email:



https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?i=XXXXXX&c=single&cl=135621



You could even put that URL through a link-shortener like TinyURL.com, Bit.ly, etc.



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, or our digital-product plans of $18/mo or higher would allow you to store the file on your own server and just configure the product with that remote file's URL.



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. Every buyer would receive an identical copy of whatever file you uploaded (or provided via remote URL) for the product. Their download link(s) expire after the number of attempts or hours (whichever comes first) that you specify in each product's settings, and this would also cloak your remote file URLs if you're using that feature.

[the_ace]

Thanks so much for your response, E-junkieGuru.



Yes, I'm looking at the $18/mo or higher accounts just to get the ability to host my own files.



The thank you page is not on my site, correct? I've been wading through what seems like a metric-ton of information on this process and still have a bit of a hard time understanding how conversions are tracked. Can I use my own Google Analytics code on the E-junkie thank-you/download page so that I can track solid, monetary conversions? My research has seemed to show that it is possible, but I wasn't 100% sure.



Also, the ultimate thank-you page is the same regardless of if the purchaser chooses PayPal or Google Checkout, correct?



Thanks again for your time,

[E-junkie_Guru]

Normally, we generate a thank-you page with a unique URL for each buyer to download their own copy of the product file, so we can expire that URL after so many attempts or hours. However, since you're returning completed project files to your clients, rather than selling a digital product like a software program, ebook or music, you may not be concerned about your buyers sharing their download page with others.



In that case, you could set up a separate product for each client (as I explained in your other thread here), but using our product-specific Redirection feature to send them to their own project's "secret" download page on your site after checkout. With this approach, you wouldn't even need our $18 plan, since you wouldn't be serving the file itself through our download system, just using us to automatically disclose each client's secret download page to them after they have paid you:

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