What it is
I've sold ebooks and videos for a long time, and the selling part was never the hard part. It was the plumbing: products in Stripe, files on S3, a script that emailed links, and a support inbox full of "I lost my download".
In Kōlea, an offer is a title, a price, and a file. Set the price and Kōlea creates the product in your Stripe account. Upload the file and it goes on sale on your site.
01 Digital products
A price, a file, on sale
Your offers sit in one table with their price, their file, whether they're on sale, and how many people bought each one.
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Kōlea sets up the product and price in your Stripe, so you're not clicking around the Stripe dashboard copying IDs. Change the price and the old one is archived.
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PDF, EPUB, ZIP, gzip, or tar up to 1 GB, checked from the file's contents, not its name.
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It won't go on sale until it's ready, an offer needs a price on your connected Stripe and a file before anyone can buy it, so nobody pays for nothing.
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Buyers counted per offer, paid, live sales only, so you can see what's actually selling.
02 Digital products
Your Stripe, your money
Connect a restricted key and Kōlea reads your sales and opens Stripe Checkout for buyers on your site. The money goes straight to your account.
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One sales ledger, Stripe, the API, and imports in one place, with exact amounts and refunds marked rather than subtracted.
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Every sale traced to the email behind it, so you know which broadcast sold the course. See Sales attribution for how.
The short version
- Set a price in Kōlea and it sets up the product in your Stripe account.
- Buyers get a download link by email, and can get it again later if they lose it.
- You write the thank-you email yourself, so it sounds like you.
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