An alternative site to use for immediate access to digital files is Patreon. You're on the hook for promoting yourself. But you don't have any of the listing fees, files can be up to 200 MBs each, it supports a decent selection of file types without having to .ZIP them. You can of course use .ZIP files to deliver file types not openly supported (like .exe program files). You can choose from the entire shop being:
01) Priced per item
02) Priced per tier as subscriptions
I believe both lets you setup differently priced tiers. Plus each tier can have its own set of rewards, prices, features, and you can envelope different types / levels of tiers into a bundle arrangement. For instance higher priced tiers can be made to include lower priced tiers (at your selection) to include the same features, rewards, items, etc. You're in control of most of how your Patreon shop works. Your patrons have a place where they can talk/chat with you by leaving posts, give "likes" to show support, can listen to whatever audio you've uploaded, watch any videos you've uploaded, there are public and private spaces as well. You have management controls that show you who has joined, how long they've been a patron, where they leave likes or comments, and so forth. The site allows you to setup automatic tracking of Patron rewards that require some sort of action on your part. This can be tangible and digital services of items. So it may mean collecting their email address, their preferred mailing address, phone numbers, etc. It really is geared more at your ability to run your shop the way you want to. Heck they even let you control what gets taxed or how to apply a taxation ratio to certain American states! General support tiers don't get taxed unless you want them to. They don't get taxed because a service or good isn't furnished.
But if you were to operate as a remote printing service those don't get taxed either. Unless local laws have changed. There may be creative legal loopholes around The Tax Man.
I use my Patreon to host downloadable galleries that can be viewed with any web browser. I do it this way so customers who use a capped data plan or cellular data can download the entire gallery, unzip it to their local storage, then take their time to look through tens of thousands of images without further dinging their data plan or data cap. Then it is a matter of choosing the images they want, choosing the product to have it made into, choosing their quantity, and sending it to me on Etsy for a custom order. No issue of fee avoidance.
But I also have direct digital downloads on my Patreon covering two years worth of Jigsaw Puzzles for Windows Personal Computers and cross stitch pattern .PDFs. I'm going to boost that to nearly everything I have when I have more free time. This is just an idea to give you of other ways to serve your customers. Oh, and Patreon charges the patron's credit card the moment they sign up if you go the subscriber route. After that at the start of each month the patrons are billed again. Patrons can pause payments and access at any time without having to cancel. But they can cancel anytime.
Basically Patreon is a blog with local file hosting and paywall.
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