Tools from the guide
Every tool mentioned in Your First Digital Product, Honestly, what it costs, and whether we earn from the link. Prices checked 28 October 2026. They change, so check the tool's own pricing page on the day you sign up.
Sell your file
Guide chapter 6
Sells and delivers your file, and collects and pays EU and UK VAT for you.
Free plan: 5% per sale plus the Stripe or PayPal fee. Paid plans: $29 a month for 2%, $99 for 0%.
Affiliate link. Payhip pays us 50% of what it earns from you, not of your sales: about $2.50 a month if you sell $100 a month on the free plan.
Open PayhipSells and delivers your file, and handles sales tax worldwide as the seller of record.
No monthly fee. 10% + $0.50 per direct sale, 30% on sales through its Discover marketplace.
Plain link. We earn nothing.
Open GumroadSales page, checkout and email list in one place.
Free plan with no time limit: 2,000 email contacts, 3 sales funnels, 1 course, 0% fee on your sales. We did not check how it handles EU VAT.
Affiliate link. If you move to a paid plan, Systeme.io pays us 60% of it. The free plan earns us nothing.
Open Systeme.ioA link-in-bio store for creators.
$29 a month, no free plan, 0% cut plus card fees. A third-party comparison says the flat fee only pays off from about $400 to $600 of sales a month.
Plain link. We earn nothing.
Open Stan StoreBuild an email list
Guide chapter 8
Newsletters and automatic emails, such as sending your free sample the moment someone signs up.
Free plan. Paid features free for 14 days, no card needed.
Plain link. MailerLite turned down our affiliate application in October 2026, and we recommend it anyway.
Open MailerLiteEmail is part of its free plan, together with the sales page and checkout above.
Free plan with no time limit: 2,000 email contacts, 3 sales funnels, 1 course, 0% fee on your sales. We did not check how it handles EU VAT.
Affiliate link, same as above.
Open Systeme.ioResearch and write with AI
Guide chapter 2 and 4
The prompts in Chapters 2 and 4: list problems, group real questions, outline, draft from your notes, fact-check. We used it to research and draft this guide.
Plain link. We earn nothing.
Open ClaudeMake the PDF
Guide chapter 4
Write, then File, Download, PDF.
Plain link. We earn nothing.
Open Google DocsDesign pages and a cover, then download as PDF.
Plain link. We earn nothing.
Open Canva