Digital Downloads are products customers can purchase – like PDFs, images, music, video files and other digital products – from your website which they can then download direct to their computer or smart device.
The main differences between a digital product and a physical product like a hat or t-shirt are:
You will want to disable any kind of offline payment methods your store may already accept, like checks. Because a link to the product is sent to the customer immediately following a purchase, if a customer doesn’t follow through on sending a check, or entered fraudulent check information, you won’t get paid even though the product is already in the customer’s hands.