The web is a wonderful place. You can find or buy nearly anything your heart desires. However, only the truly lucky know that you can sell almost anything as well! We've seen lots of stuff sell that we would have never guessed a market existed for it. One of the more interesting areas is documents.

Selling Information via Documents

The inherent beauty of selling documents is their ability to transfer information. It doesn't matter if you are selling directions to build a parabolic sun tracking solar charger for your laptop or selling information on how to write and design your own programming language. In the eyes of the internet (and BitBuffet), it's all data and can be sent and received as such.

In fact, the most popular format by far is PDF's, although we often see Word and Excel documents popping up here and here as well as scanned images. PDF's make it easy to open and view documents without any hassle worrying about fonts or layout: everyone sees what you see.

How does it work?

It's a simple process that we employ. We take your files and place them on a secure server. We then make sure your PayPal account is communicating with BitBuffet. All you have to do now is place the button on your website and wait for the sales to roll in! Once we get a notification from PayPal that there was a sale, we send off an email with a custom, one-time (or three-time) download link that expires after a few days.

What's the alternative?

An alternative is emailing the files one-by-one for each sale. This can be a hassle because of the need to always be working and ready to send an email otherwise you risk upset customers because their download link or email was late! With BitBuffet, we automate this and send out the email instantly.