Podcasting How To FAQ

Using Podbean to sell digital downloads is simple all you need to do is the following:

1. Upload your files, mp3, PDF or MOV etc. by clicking on the “Upload” tab situated in your Podbean account “Dashboard” menu.

Optionally, you may upload files via FTP. After ftp uploaded your files, click “Import to eStore”, in the “FTP Upload” page.

2. Once uploaded files in the Podbean “Upload” page, click the “eStore” button situated on the right side of the file that you wish to sell. This will move this item to the Podbean secure file server to ensure that it is protected.

3. Then click on the “eStore” tab located in your main “Dashboard” menu and the “Add Product” tab located in the sub-menu and select the product file to sell from the drop down list as pictured below.

4. To add the “Buy Now” and “Shopping Cart” buttons or text links code to your blog click on the “Manage Product” tab located in your eStore sub-menu.

Then click on the plus sign located to the right of either “Show HTML Code using a Button Image” or “Show HTML Code using a Text Link” and copy and paste this code to your blog.

5. Simply paste the html code of “Buy Now” button into your blog post, you are ready to sell the product. Optionally, you may create a static ‘My eStore’ page in blog to list all products.

6. Monitor/manage your eStore transactions in “Purchase Log”