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

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

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Post by peteconcrete »

logikblok wrote: post #8
omitmyname wrote: post #4

Could you show an example of how it will look like

+1 on this, looks good would appreciate a live/mock example

That would be the view for selling a digital file https://fruits.de/c/85nn9

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

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Post by notafraudster »

peteconcrete wrote: post #6
pcmill wrote: post #3

What is the "bookkeeping" fee in the price calculator for? https://fruits.de/en/payment/price-calculator

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 7% fee when actually you mean 7% + some amount is sort of shady.

I would consider hiring a professional English copywriter, generally, as the language page reads as ESL. ("digital contents", "where ever", missing comma after "fruits", generally prefer oxford commas, "where ever [sic] you want to super fast" oddly informal, "receive a link that leads customers to your product", "place your fruits link wherever your customers are", "content formats", redundant "files and content formats of all kinds", "where your customers are already", "every channel, really every one!", missing period at end of secure payment bullet point, missing period at end of automatic billing bullet point, "any open questions", "set itself the task", about us list also missing an oxford comma, "anyone who wants it", "for this purpose")

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

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Post by donjoe »

probabletrain wrote: post #12

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.

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