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Hey pc! Is there a way to tie a digital delivery to the payment? Let's say you're selling an e-Book or an audio file or the latest collectable nonfungible (jk). Is there a way to have Stripe send a digital file or product upon successful payment completion without requiring a website backend to do that?

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We don't have plans for Stripe to help with digital delivery today out-of-the-box (you may want to check out some of the many Stripe plug-ins that assist with that: https://stripe.com/partners/apps-and-extensions?q=digital). If you want to roll your own email solution, you can listen for webhooks to trigger an email after a payment: https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks.

You can use Stripe Webhooks + a "no-code" solution like Zapier to make that happen in ~15 minutes.

But if you have a few hundred products then this doesn't become so easy. And where exactly does Zapier deliver that file from in a secure way?

If I'm going to go through all that trouble, I might as well just use a Wordpress electronic delivery solution or Woocommerce, in which case, what's the point of this website-less payment solution?

If I'm gonna go website-less, then it needs to do what the website would otherwise do.

pretty sure you can easily use shopify for that

Hi! Late to the party, but this is exactly the kind of problem that my startup, Trolley, solves.

Warning: shameless plug.

It's a no-code shopping cart that works with Stripe. We offer digital downloads that work as you describe.

You could check it out - https://trolley.link

(you can email me direct at rg@trolley.link if you want to know anything more)

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