jQuery.bank
We recently open-sourced jQuery.bank— a library for building bank account forms, formatting inputs and validating the value of these inputs. At Gumroad, we use this library to collect our sellers’ bank...
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Selling Subscriptions with Gumroad
Gumroad is excited to announce Subscriptions, a simple way to sell a series of products to your audience. With Subscriptions, you can give your audience the opportunity to pay a recurring amount for...
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Google Analytics with Gumroad
With Gumroad + Google Analytics, you can now get even more data on conversion rates for each of your Gumroad products. Starting today, you can plug your Google Analytics account right into Gumroad!...
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From Crowdfunding to Gumroad
Thinking about turning a crowdfunding project into a product you can sell directly to your audience? We’ve put together a number of examples and a dedicated Gumroad Guide to step you through the...
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The Girl Talk Shop: Powering Album Sales with Gumroad
Greg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, has long been considered an innovator in his field. Through pushing the boundaries of music sampling, he has both inspired controversy and established a large...
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Making Test Purchases: Your Product from a Customer's Perspective
Once you finish setting up your product, you can make a test purchase to check that the entire payment and download process is ready for your launch. Test purchases can also give you a great feel for...
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Counting Your Eggs Before They Hatch: The Plus Sides of Pre-orders
Today, we’re really excited to announce pre-orders, a great way to start selling before a product’s release date.If your project is still in the works but you have a firm release date, pre-orders can...
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Gumroad Stories: Adii Pienaar
Adii Pienaar is the founder of PublicBeta, an educational platform by successful entrepreneurs for the benefit of other entrepreneurs. Before launching PublicBeta, Adii turned his one-man web design...
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Put on Your Sunday Best: Setting up Your Profile
Many of our users only sell a single item. Because Gumroad is so easy to use for sellers, those projects and products go online and get shared in Facebook and Twitter feeds with just a few clicks....
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Life after Trees: Your Print Run is Finished, but Your Work Lives On
Are you sitting on a stack of sketchbooks? Have a bunch of stories or poems without a home? An out-of-print comic or novel? If so, you’ve possibly found a great project that your fans and followers...
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Your Receipt Is in the Bag: Invoicing for Buyers and Sellers
It’s our ever-evolving goal at Gumroad to make buying and selling as seamless as possible. Creators should create. Simply.When you buy something on Gumroad, the email you get is very straight-forward....
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A Penny Saved: Psychological Pricing
Please note: This post is for sellers only. If you’re not a seller, please close this tab and go about your daily purchasing.Waiting.Okay, great. Now that it’s just the sellers, here’s some information...
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Picking the Right Niche — Sacha Greif
Sacha Greif is a designer, coder, and entrepreneur from Paris who lives in Osaka. Sacha graciously allowed us to publish a post about how he and JavaScript expert Tom Coleman dove into (small)...
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Six Months Later: Checking in on Kyle T Webster
Just over six months ago, we brought you a Seller Story from Kyle T Webster, an illustrator, graphic designer, and app maker who uses Gumroad to sell custom Photoshop brushes. At the time, he was...
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Gumroad Trip: The Embarkment and Lisa Yen
When I was brought on to head up content at Gumroad, the first thing I needed to do was get from Brooklyn to San Francisco. It occurred to me that between the two coasts were thousands of Gumroad...
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Last week, we brought you the first video in the Gumroad Trip series. For the second video, I had to leave the city and state of New York and travel to a place with streets so strange and narrow that...
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Who? What? When? Where? The Improved Customers Tab
The Customers tab in your dashboard is a great tool for easily reaching out to your audience. Give them an update, tell them about a new product, send them a thank you gift, and more.We’ve made a few...
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I Want This? I Want Options!
You’ve set up a profile. You’ve customized your background and highlight colors. Calvin Burns, not only do you make the best roasted corn salsa evarrr, but you’re really making Gumroad sing.We’ve got...
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Gifting with Gumroad
It turns out that Eminem fans are a generous bunch. Each Eminem product released in the last month has had a gifting rate between .5% and 1.79%. What’s that? You didn’t know that you could gift items...
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Just how easy IS it?
We caught this on Twitter and thought it would be fun to share a walk in a new seller’s shoes. Watch the timestamps!First, the query.Next, after a day or so of consideration, a decision is made.Then,...
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