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Guide · Beginner · 8 min
Product photography for digital and physical goods
How to produce listing images that show the real product clearly, consistently, and in the formats marketplaces want.
- Listing images decide whether a buyer reads the rest. This guide covers the two cases a store meets — screenshots of digital products and photographs of physical ones — with the rules that keep every image honest, consistent and usable across platforms.
- The first image shows the product
- Consistency across the catalogue
Checklist · Beginner · 10 min
Store launch day checklist
The morning-of checks before a store or product line goes public.
- Launch day problems are almost always on this list.
- ☐ Checkout tested with a real card in the last 24 hours
- ☐ Library delivery tested for a new account and a guest
Items 10
Playbook · Advanced · 8h
Migrate a store to a new platform: playbook
Move a store's products, customers and orders to a new platform without losing search rankings or customer access.
- The store live on the new platform with rankings, accounts and order history intact.
- Step 1: Map the data
- Step 2: Import to staging and check counts
Steps 6Deliverables 3
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
Ecommerce launch cheat sheet
The essentials of a digital store launch, in one place to keep open. 4 sections, 16 entries.
- Before launch
- Delivery
- Launch week
Entries 16
Checklist · Beginner · 10 min
Product listing before publishing checklist
What every listing needs before a buyer sees it.
- Thin listings get returns and questions. This list is the minimum for a listing that sells and stays sold.
- ☐ Name says what it is and for whom
- ☐ First image shows the real product
Items 10
Guide · Beginner · 8 min
Digital delivery and licensing basics
How digital products should be delivered and licensed so buyers get access, sellers keep control and disputes are rare.
- Digital goods have no shipping, which means delivery and licensing are the whole customer experience after payment. This guide explains the delivery model that works, what a licence must say, and how to handle the disputes that still happen.
- Deliver to an account, not a link
- A licence in plain words
Playbook · Beginner · 2h 30m
Launch email and social plan: playbook
Announce a store or a product line with a sequence that builds interest, launches, and follows through without discount pressure.
- Launch week orders from an audience that was told what to expect.
- Step 1: Tease with the problem
- Step 2: Launch with the products
Steps 5Deliverables 3
Playbook · Beginner · 3h
Catalogue setup that scales: playbook
Set up product data, categories and images so adding the hundredth product is as clean as the first.
- A catalogue structure that needs no rework at a hundred products.
- Step 1: Design the category tree from buyer questions
- Step 2: Write the product data template
Steps 5Deliverables 3
Playbook · Intermediate · 8h
Launch a digital products store: playbook
Open a store selling digital files with delivery, licensing and support settled before the first order.
- First ten orders delivered without a support ticket about access.
- Step 1: Settle delivery before design
- Step 2: Write the licence in two sentences
Steps 6Deliverables 3

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