Digital Products
Can I sell digital pintables like calendar, diary , kids coloring pages etc in digital form??
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Seller_ZJhFeE3tNKzfh
In short - no.
From Amazons Sell Software Page
Digital Download
In order to protect customers, sellers and rights owners from digital piracy, sellers are not allowed to sell digitally downloadable software by any means whatsoever, including by way of activation codes, registration links, licence keys, serial numbers or any other credentials related to software products. For the avoidance of doubt, this prohibition includes, but is not limited to, providing access/activation information by email, Amazon messaging system, third-party sites, any electronic channels, or by way of printed or physical form.
Seller_ZJhFeE3tNKzfh
considering this in more detail. You could argue that PDFs (for example) are not software.
With that in mind, I still don’t think there are the mechanisms available on Amazon to do this aside from including a download link with the printed product.
You can’t message them as amazon messaging would block any download links and there’s limits on attachments. Even if you could, customers often opt out of seller messaging so may not get the message.
You can’t ask for an alternative email
You are required to confirm despatch. I suppose you could confirm using Self Delivery but it’s a risky one.
You could to get around all of this provide a printed card as your product that houses the download to the PDF. But you should be prepared for negative feedback from customers expecting a colouring book and not getting one.
Truth be told, better to stick to Etsy where this method of delivery is common.
Maja_Amazon
Hello @Seller_weSJpUjxOiEg3!
@Seller_ZJhFeE3tNKzfh - thanks for your inputs in this thread.
@Seller_weSJpUjxOiEg3 let me link here the Help Page Other Products (Category, Product, and Content Restrictions. The products you are mentioning will fall into:
"Products made available by digital download: Amazon prohibits the listing of products that are made available by digital download, including "codes" that can be used to access content on other websites."
Please let me know in case of any other questions or doubts.
Best,
Maja
