Digital product · Sell online with Vonza

Sell Ebooks Online from Your Own Store

An ebook is the simplest digital product to sell: one file, written once, delivered the moment someone pays. On Vonza you upload the PDF or EPUB to a Digital product, set a price, and your store, a checkout page or your link in bio sells it while buyers get private download links that expire.

See the product page

Included in every Vonza plan, 14-day free trial.

What people sell as ebooks

People sell ebooks in every subject that can be taught in writing: a recipe collection, a beginner’s guide to a craft, a workplace handbook, a short novel, a city guide, a study manual, a collection of essays or a report built from your own research. The best-selling ebooks on creator stores are rarely long. A focused 40-page guide that solves one problem outsells a sprawling book, because the buyer is paying for the shortcut, not the page count.

Ebook buyers expect four things. They want the file straight after paying, not after an email arrives hours later. They want it to open on the device in their hand, which is why PDF and EPUB are the two formats worth offering. They want to find it again a month later without searching their inbox. And they want to know the file they paid for is not sitting on a public link anyone can share.

What sells

Recipe books and meal plans
How-to guides and manuals
Fiction and short story collections
Study guides and exam notes
Research reports and industry guides
Devotionals and reflection journals

What buyers expect

The file the moment they pay
A format that opens on their phone, tablet and laptop
A place to find the download again later
A private copy, not a public link

How Vonza delivers ebooks

An ebook on Vonza is a Digital product. The product kind is built for exactly this: files delivered after payment, never shown in public.

Upload the PDF, the EPUB or both
A Digital product takes PDF, EPUB, Office documents, ZIP, images, video, audio or text. Add the PDF and the EPUB as two files and every buyer gets both. Each file can be as large as your plan allows, and nothing on any plan goes over 5 GB.
Private links that expire
Buyers never see a public file address. Each click on Download creates a fresh private link that lasts 15 minutes, so a link pasted into a group chat is useless a quarter of an hour later.
100 downloads by default
Every buyer can download the ebook 100 times unless you change it. Set a lower limit per purchase, or raise it, in your store’s Downloads settings, and set download links to expire after a number of days or never.
Access that can end
Leave the ebook available for good, or give access an expiry in days. A study guide for an exam season or a seasonal recipe book can close when the season does.
Release chapters over weeks
A long book can be dripped: group the files into weeks, and Week 1 opens straight after purchase, Week 2 a week later, with an optional email when each week opens.
Found again in their account
Buyers see “Download your files” on the thank-you page and the receipt, and the ebook stays in their Vonza account alongside every other order. You can resend it from the order if they ask.

Pricing options that fit ebooks

Most ebooks sell at one price, but three other pricing kinds suit a book better than you might expect.

One-time
One price, paid once. The right default for a single book.
Pay what you want
Set a minimum and let readers pay more. It suits a first book, a short guide or a cause, and some readers will pay well over the floor.
Compare-at price and a scheduled sale
Show a struck-through price next to the real one, and put the book on sale between a start and an end date. A launch-week price that reverts on its own needs no reminder in your calendar.
A free sample as a lead magnet
Price a sample chapter at Free. Readers click “Get it free”, leave their email and become a contact in your People list, tagged with the product’s name, ready for the paid book’s launch.
Subscription for a serial
Rarely right for one ebook, but a serialised book or a monthly report can be a Subscription charged weekly, monthly or yearly.

Bump: the audio version or the workbook

Add an order bump under the buy buttons: the audiobook version, a companion workbook or the printable checklist from the book, at its price or with an amount off. The bump is one tick box, charged in the same payment, and one bump sits on each order. After payment, a one-click offer can propose another of your products, charged to the card just used within 15 minutes.

How to start selling ebooks on Vonza

There are three ways to begin, and all three end in the same editor.

01
Blank
Choose Digital, name the book and upload the files. Nothing is public until you publish.
02
A template from E-books & guides
Pick a finished product page from the E-books & guides category, one of 18 categories with over 100 templates. The words, highlights and extras are written; swap in your title, cover and files.
03
Vonza AI
Describe the book in a few words, add the cover if you have one, and Vonza AI writes the product page and opens it in the editor. No cover yet? Vonza AI makes one. It uses AI credits.

Where to sell ebooks

The same ebook can sell in four places at once, each with its own link.

Your store
The book takes a photo-led product page on your store, on your Vonza subdomain or your own domain, with search, collections and a cart around it.
A checkout page
A one-product payment page with its own link, for an email or an ad that sells this book and nothing else.
Your link in bio
A buy button on your link-in-bio page, so a reader coming from Instagram or TikTok buys without leaving the page they landed on.
A funnel
Make the ebook the offer in a funnel: a landing page, the checkout and a thank-you page, with the book delivered the moment the order completes.

What your product page looks like

A Digital product page shows the cover, the price with any compare-at price struck through, your highlights, the Buy now and Add to cart buttons and the order bump beneath them. Buyers pay through your own connected Stripe or PayPal account, or Paystack for sales in Nigerian naira, with Apple Pay, Google Pay and Klarna through Stripe.

1Photos with zoom and a promo video from your Cloud library
2The price, with any compare-at price struck through
3Highlights with pictures and details sections
4Add to cart, Buy now or Get it free
5One order bump beneath the buttons
6Its own URL, page title and meta description

More things to sell on Vonza

Everything you can sell on Vonza

Sell Printables Online with Instant Delivery
Wall art, planner pages, worksheets and party kits as a PDF or ZIP, with every page size in one purchase.
Sell Templates Online: Canva, Notion and More
Canva, Notion, Figma, resume and slide templates, as a file or a private link revealed after payment.
Sell Digital Planners Online from Your Store
Hyperlinked PDFs for GoodNotes and Notability, with stickers and the import video in the same purchase.

Questions about selling ebooks

About selling ebooks on Vonza

Offer a PDF for people who read on a laptop or print pages, and an EPUB for phones and e-readers, which reflow text to the screen. A Vonza Digital product can carry both files, and every buyer downloads whichever they prefer.

Not usefully. Every click on Download creates a private link that lasts 15 minutes, and the file itself is never on a public address. Each buyer also has a download limit, 100 by default, which you can lower in your store’s Downloads settings.

Each file can be as large as your plan’s file size allows, and no plan goes over 5 GB. An illustrated PDF cookbook of a few hundred megabytes is well within that.

Yes. Set a compare-at price so the regular price shows struck through, then use “Put it on sale” with a start and an end date. When the end date passes, the regular price returns on its own.

Yes. Price a separate Digital product at Free. Visitors click “Get it free”, leave their email and become a contact tagged with the product’s name. You can then email them when the full book launches.

Through your own connected accounts: Stripe for card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Klarna, PayPal for one-time payments, or Paystack for sales in Nigerian naira. You choose which methods each product offers.

Yes. Courses live in the Vonza Courses app and the ebook in your store, and a checkout page can sell either. An order bump on the ebook can offer a companion product, and your emails can introduce the course to every buyer.

Yes. Use Release over weeks to group chapters into weeks that unlock one by one after purchase, with an optional email when each opens, or sell a serialised book as a weekly, monthly or yearly subscription.