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Congrats for shipping! I love the simplicity of the idea. It reminds me a lot to Drop to sell[0]. At first glance, both cover the same use case, or is there any significant difference? [0] https://www.droptosell.com/

Thank you very much! The service was actually not yet known to us. But it also looks very exciting.

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

#22
Is €0.49 for bookkeeping a competitive price? For a €1.99 product, that's more than the paypal fees at €0.40.

Apart from bookkeeping in their own system, paypal also has to handle fraud and regulatory obligations. How can they be cheaper?

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

#23
post #15

Congrats for shipping! I love the simplicity of the idea. It reminds me a lot to Drop to sell[0]. At first glance, both cover the same use case, or is there any significant difference? [0] https://www.droptosell.com/

Thank you very much! The service was actually not yet known to us. But it also looks very exciting.

We will handle the intl. taxation for sellers and hand out invoices to the buyers. With us you also don't have the hassle of creating your own Stripe account, API key etc etc. We learned the required expertise to set up multiple accounts when trying to sell a file was a huge pain point for creators.

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#24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, we do have a bookkeeping fee which is the fee we forward 1/1 from the accounting company currently connected. This allows us to handle payments in the sub- $10 area by not having losses whilst handling payments. We might consider removing the fee in the future once we see sales in the lower $10 area are not really relevant.

Typically when someone says "accounting" or "bookkeeping", they don't mean payment processing. Accounting and bookkeeping typically refers to tracking payments, invoices, credits, and debits, not actually taking payment. This could be an English German thing. I'd also say that the norm in this space is that your 7% fee should cover this (and if it doesn't, whatever fee you do set should cover it). Saying you charge a…

Very good points. Your feedback shows that we still have some things to adjust! We will take care of it as soon as possible.

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

#25
post #18

Any plans to make the download/payment page more customizable e.g. formatting/images in the description, or giving sellers control over the background?

Hi, one of the devs here - happy to answer any questions :-) We're currently working exactly on that feature - been requested a few times yet. To keep the product as simple as possible for the MVP, we stripped all initial features and will add them step by step in the coming days.

Sounds like a good idea. The "advertising" can be done in so many other ways on other platforms - I like that you only try to do one thing and do that well.

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

#26
post #11

congratulations on the launch! how does this compare to Gumroad?

Unlike Gumroad, our goal is not to offer sales pages for digital products - at least not initially.

We found out creators don't necessarily need a complicated landing page when selling content through e.g. tiktok or instagram or a newsletter that already provides trust. In addition, we will also process and handle invoices and credit notes

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

#27

How does this differ from Gumroad?

Unlike Gumroad, our goal is not to offer sales pages for digital products - at least not initially.

We found out creators don't necessarily need a complicated landing page when selling content through e.g. tiktok or instagram or a newsletter that already provides trust. In addition, we will also process and handle invoices and credit notes

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

#28
post #25
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, one of the devs here - happy to answer any questions :-) We're currently working exactly on that feature - been requested a few times yet. To keep the product as simple as possible for the MVP, we stripped all initial features and will add them step by step in the coming days.

Sounds like a good idea. The "advertising" can be done in so many other ways on other platforms - I like that you only try to do one thing and do that well.

Thanks <3

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

#29

Is €0.49 for bookkeeping a competitive price? For a €1.99 product, that's more than the paypal fees at €0.40. Apart from bookkeeping in their own system, paypal also has to handle fraud and regulatory obligations. How can they be cheaper?

Hi, we do have a bookkeeping fee which is the fee we forward 1/1 from the accounting company currently connected. This allows us to handle payments in the sub- $10 area by not having losses whilst handling payments. We might consider removing the fee in the future once we see sales in the lower $10 area are not really relevant.
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