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Gumroad Goes Physical
We build Gumroad to enable creators to make a living doing what they love. As we grow, that mission evolves. From the beginning, we’ve aimed to be the best solution for selling ebooks, films, albums,...
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Look: Multiple Cover Photos
A picture is worth a thousand words. So what about three pictures? Or more?You now have the option of uploading multiple cover photos to your products. When you go to a product’s edit page, hover over...
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Brolin’s Road to the Olympics
Brolin Mawejje has two dreams. First, to become a surgeon (he’s currently a pre-med student). And second, to represent Uganda in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Brolin emigrated...
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Pay with PayPal
We want the entire purchase flow for your products to be safe, simple, and smooth, and we’ve found that credit and debit cards have been the best option and most secure payment method. Additionally,...
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Subscription Payment Options
Subscription and membership products are great ways to keep your audience close, as well as drive volume and revenue.You can now allow your subscribers/members to choose payment frequency. For example,...
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Project: Cover Makeover
We’ve talked about cover photos (and cover videos and cover audio) a lot lately, from what’s grabbed our attention at Gumroad HQ to our multiple covers feature. The response has been great, and we’re...
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Printful + Gumroad
You are the CEO of an apparel company. Your shirts and hats are printed and embroidered at a top-notch facility in California that runs so smoothly that you never have to check up on it. When orders...
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Download All
If you have products with multiple files, you no longer need to worry about your buyers downloading file after file after file after file after file. They now have the option to download all of their...
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The Small Product Lab
As creators, it’s incredibly hard to build a platform, a reputation, and a living from scratch. The only real way to do it is to start—to put something out into the world. Oh, sure. Just put something...
View ArticleThank You Crate: A Subscription Done Write
The handwritten note is a dying morsel of gratitude and kindness. It’s too easy to send a thank you email, and even easier to send nothing at all. Enter Thank You Crate. Thank You Crate delivers four...
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Quick Tip: Call to Action on Facebook
If you’re the admin for a professional or business page on Facebook, you should set up a call to action button. It’s simple.When you’re logged in and on your page, you’ll see a button on your cover...
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Lessons from the Small Product Lab (So Far)
We’re wrapping up the first Small Product Lab, and we’ve been amazed at all of the great work coming out of the group. Some major lessons and takeaways have surfaced that we wanted to share here. The...
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Small Product Lab: The Winner!
The Small Product Lab is a ten-day course that walks you through the creation, planning, and launching of a small product from scratch.Over 2100 people went through or are currently going through the...
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Gumroad Picks: Landing Pages
Here at Gumroad, we’re big proponents of landing pages. Whether you’re a week away from launching a product or you’re still figuring out how to turn your creative passion into something you can make...
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Give it 20%
In 1948, 3M started their “Time to Think” program, which is still going strong. It allows employees to spend around 15% of their work week on their own projects. Art Fry and some coworkers created...
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Project: Cover Makeover Results
Last month, we put out the call to creators in need of cover image makeovers. The response was fantastic, and the design team went through and decided who could use the most help and what projects they...
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Making Words: Your Product Descriptions
We’ve talked about the importance of covers recently, and we’ve even done makeovers for a bunch of covers to make them more enticing and attention-grabbing. And, sure, while a picture is worth a...
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Introducing Affiliates
Part of our mission of helping creators connect directly to their audiences is seeing where and how we can improve those connections. It’s not always as simple as A to B. Sometimes C helps A get to B,...
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Third-Party Analytics and Gumroad
Many services, such as Perfect Audience, Facebook, Twitter, and Google, provide you with ways to track your conversions, set up retargeting, see how your ad campaigns are doing, and more. This usually...
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Alison Faulkner’s Tips for Creating an Awesome Online Course
In June, we teamed up with Alison Faulkner of The Alison Show to teach a workshop at Alt Summit, a business conference for bloggers and creatives. Alison’s topic? Creating an Online Course That’ll Make...
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