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New: Subscribe to a Product Without a Gumroad Account

Previously, subscribing to a product on Gumroad required creating a Gumroad account.When Gumroad first launched, we were one of the first to allow sales to happen without accounts – just an email. It...

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API Notifications for Refunds and Cancellations

We’ve added notifications for refunds and subscriptions cancellations to our API – so you can build even tighter integrations with Gumroad.Read on: https://gumroad.com/api#resource-subscriptions

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Bad*ss product ideas that have turned into giants on Gumroad.

One question we get again and again over here at Gumroad is… What are some product ideas that will make me some moolah?It is a great question, a lovely question. It is the type of question we like to...

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Turn Off Product Ratings

Ratings stress you out? You can now turn them off for your products! (This turns off the display. Your customers can leave them privately, and you can turn them back on if/when you wish.)

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Multiple Images in Product Descriptions, Email Updates, and Workflows

You can now add multiple images to everything on Gumroad, including:Product descriptionsEmail updatesWorkflows

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Clarifying What is–and isn’t–Allowed on Gumroad

Yesterday, we shared on Twitter that we do not remove creators from Gumroad if they disagree with us:We may disagree with some of our creators. Actually, we know we do. But we’re not going to...

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Listen for Purchases Within the Gumroad Overlay

You can now listen for purchases being made within the Gumroad overlay and embed widgets.Here is some sample JavaScript on how to do that:     listener = function(ev) {       if (ev.data &&...

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Introducing: Gumroadians

After watching thousands of creators find success doing more of what they love with Gumroad, we got jealous.Gumroadians is our creative outlet. We want to tell stories about creators, and the problems...

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Meet a Creator: 5 Rapid-Fire Questions with Santiago “PitPit” Esparza

Santiago “PitPit” Esparza has been making webcomics like his SPAIN TRAVEL DIARYsince 2016. His motivation was the medium’s inherent challenges:“It seemed impossible to me, telling a story or joke in a...

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Meet a Creator: 6 Rapid-Fire Questions with Julia Evans

Julia Evans makes zines. But not just any zines – she makes zines that explain complicated computer programming concepts in simple terms. In 2015, after watching The Punk Singer, a documentary about...

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Selected Tags on Your Creator Profile

You can now select which tags are visible on your profile.Your top five selected tags will appear in the filter sidebar, with a “load more…” button that will show the rest.We prefer this a lot more...

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A New "Purchase Flow" Tab

There’s a new “Purchase flow” tab when you’re editing your products! And it comes with a real-time preview, so you can see how your changes will effect the customer experience.

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Filtering by Filetype

Your customers can now filter the products on your profile by filetype, making it easier for them to get to what they’re looking for!

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Responsive Creator Profiles

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Archiving Products from your Library

Got too many products in your library? You can now archive products you’re finished with! Just visit your library and click “Archive” on the top left of any product.

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Send Missed Updates to Customers

Have a customer sign up a day too late to get an update? Or added a new email and want to send it to only some of your previous customers? Now you can!View any updates a customer has missed and send...

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Just getting started as a creator? Do these five things to set yourself up...

If you’re just starting to sell the things you make, you’re probably also starting to feel a bit overwhelmed by all the things there are to do. Early on, everything seems equally urgent — so where do...

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Posts!

With posts, you can now use Gumroad as your blog as well as your storefront! Just select “Post to profile” when creating a post. Above and beyond other services, you can also add attachments your...

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Partial Refunds

Previously, it was only possible to refund customers in full. Now, we’ve made it possible  to issue partial refunds! Use this to give post-purchase rebates, offer discounts for certain actions, correct...

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Gumroad now auto-enables HTTPS on custom domains

Gumroad now auto-enables HTTPS on custom domains! Add a custom domain for your Gumroad profile that is more secure, that browsers will recognize as more trustworthy, and that will lead to higher...

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