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How to set the affiliate rate on a listing
Three quarters of listings with an affiliate program sit on the 15% default, measured 19 September 2026. What the number does, and how to choose one.
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How to write a listing description that does the work
Description length is the one listing attribute that moves with price, measured 19 September 2026. What to write, in what order, and what to leave out.
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How to export a PDF that opens the same everywhere
Measured across 2,630 delivered PDF files on 19 September 2026: 59.32% embed no fonts and 7.41% carry no text at all. How to export one that travels.
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When two listings in one shop share a name
7.73% of listings carry the exact title of a neighbour in the same shop, and 12.79% match on the first 25 characters. Measured 19 September 2026.
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What the affiliate rate says about defaults
75.26% of affiliate programs sit exactly on the 15% default, and the second-biggest cluster is 50%. Measured 19 September 2026.
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The catalogue is portrait-shaped
45.07% of delivered images are portrait and the median is 1.57 megapixels - smaller than the screens showing them. Measured 19 September 2026.
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When a digital catalogue is actually built
Friday is the busiest weekday and 06:00 UTC the busiest hour, measured 19 September 2026 across 6,519 active listings. Not the hours you would guess.
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Three in ten listings show a struck-through price
29.43% of paid listings carry a compare-at price and the median claimed discount is 40.8%. Measured 19 September 2026, plus what a permanent one costs.
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The filename is part of the product
Measured on 19 September 2026 over 9,508 delivered files - 37.7% contain a space, 12.4% carry a date stamp, 5.8% still say v2 or draft.
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Half the catalogue stops at exactly ten tags
48.20% of live listings carry exactly ten tags, and 98.89% of the listings that exceed ten came through the API. The cap is a form, not a choice.
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Nearly nine in ten listings ship exactly one file
85.76% of live listings carry a single file. Crossed with price, the two-or-three-file listing holds the highest median on the shelf.
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Half the catalogue prices in whole dollars
Measured across 6,388 paid listings, 51.60% end in .00 and 35.18% end in .99. Twenty exact prices cover 61.83% of the shelf.
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Most of the PDF shelf still exports to a 2001 spec
We parsed 2,630 PDFs delivered by live listings. 59.05% declare PDF 1.4, the 2001 specification, and 59.32% embed no fonts at all.
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One percent of listings holds half the bytes
Median listing payload 1.68 MB, mean 20.26 MB. The heaviest 1% of live listings holds 56.65% of all delivered bytes. Measured 19 September 2026.
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Sellers edit the listing, never the file
89.94% of live listings were edited after publishing, but only 0.14% ever shipped a second file version. Measured 19 September 2026.
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Description length is the one thing price follows
Across 6,519 live listings measured 19 September 2026, description length climbs steadily with median price. Title length and file count do not.
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The smallest files carry the highest prices
Payload weight against price across 6,519 live listings, measured 19 September 2026. The curve is U-shaped and the cheapest band sits in the middle.
Comparison
Gumroad vs Lemon Squeezy: Fees, Tax and Payouts
Selling zip files, templates or workflows? Gumroad and Lemon Squeezy compared on the cut, sales tax, payouts and who can use them.
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How to create a discount coupon
Coupons are used by 99 stores out of nearly five thousand. Here is how to make one, the three settings that matter, and the mistake that turns a promotion into a permanent price cut.
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How to bundle products on Getly
Bundles let you sell several products as one purchase at a price you set. Here is how to build one, how the split works, and why only 40 stores currently use them.
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How to set up a pay-what-you-want price
A step-by-step walkthrough of pay-what-you-want pricing on Getly - where the minimum sits, what the buyer sees, and how to pick a floor that reads as confidence rather than uncertainty.
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The median product description runs 1,158 characters
Across 5,672 live listings, the middle description is about a page of text. The bottom tenth manages 262 characters. What the distribution says about how much you actually need to write.
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118 listings chose to sell here only
Getly Exclusive drops commission from 20% to 15% for a product sold nowhere else. It is a declaration, not a contract - and 118 of 5,672 live listings have made it.
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Selling a period instead of a file: the first ten days
Timed access lets a seller charge for three, six or twelve months rather than for a file forever. Ten days after launch, 44 live listings use it. What the early adopters have in common.
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95% of stores link no social account at all
Of 4,979 live stores, 250 list a single social profile. For a buyer deciding whether a stranger is real, that link is the cheapest evidence available - and almost nobody provides it.
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A digital catalogue speaks ten languages, and Arabic is second
5,495 live listings are written in English and 177 are not, spread across nine other languages. The second-largest is not the one most people would guess.
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The one-line field 535 listings skip
A short description is the sentence that represents your product in search results, category grids and link previews. 535 of 5,672 live listings do not have one.
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Only one listing in fifteen has a product video
373 of 5,672 live listings carry a video. For a category of goods nobody can hold before buying, that is a strikingly low number - and the reasons are more practical than you would guess.
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BNB Smart Chain beats Tron 62/38 among sellers who chose
Of the sellers who set a crypto payout wallet, 398 picked BNB Smart Chain and 248 picked Tron. The split is not about ideology - it is about who pays the network fee.
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Nobody competes on the refund window
Sellers can set their own refund window, anywhere from the 30-day floor upward. Of 4,979 live stores, 4,973 sit exactly on the floor. Six do not. What that unanimity says.
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88% of stores never write a store description
Of 4,979 live stores, 4,373 have no store description or one under fifty characters. It is the cheapest unused field in digital selling, and here is what it actually does.
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173 product names collide in one catalogue
Across 5,672 live listings, 173 names are shared by more than one product. What collisions do to a buyer deciding between two results, and the cheapest way to avoid being one of them.
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Half a taxonomy is empty, and that is the opportunity
A marketplace with 708 categories has listings in 420 of them. The 288 empty ones are not a failure of the catalogue - they are a map of where a new seller has no competition.
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Pay what you want: who actually uses it
448 of 5,672 live listings let the buyer set the price. We looked at how those listings are built compared with fixed-price ones, and where the model earns its keep.
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What a digital catalogue actually weighs
117 GB across 5,672 live listings, and the median file is nothing like the average. Measured file sizes by format, and what they mean for the buyer on the other end of the download.
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Subscriptions for your own product: what we built and why
Getly Billing lets a seller charge their own customers on a recurring plan through the API - hosted checkout, card or crypto, five webhooks, a status endpoint. The design decisions behind it, including the one that surprised us in testing.
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Timed access: sell a period, not a file forever
New on Getly: sell 1, 3, 6 or 12 months of access on a one-time payment. Why we built it instead of another subscription, how the end date works, and what your own platform receives by webhook.
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How to add a Getly Buy button to your own website
Sell a Getly product from your own site with one script tag and one button. How to get the widget approved, copy the snippet, check it without paying, and why a sale through it is charged at 10%.
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How to set up crypto payouts on BNB Smart Chain
Get paid in USDT or USDC without a Stripe account. Where the setting lives, why BNB Smart Chain is the recommended network, what the $5 and $15 minimums mean, and when the money arrives.
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How to get a "Look inside" preview on your PDF product
A PDF product of ten pages or more shows buyers a watermarked excerpt automatically. What the rule is, how to arrange your file so the excerpt sells, and how to check what a buyer will see.
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Getly Exclusive: 15% for a product sold only here
A new seller declaration. List a product only on Getly and the marketplace take drops from 20% to 15%. What it is, what it is not, and how it sits next to the other rates.
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Eight tags is the median, and one listing in eight has none
19,043 distinct tags across the catalogue, 80% of them used exactly once. What tags actually do in search here, why the most common ones tell you about two sellers rather than the market, and which tags are worth typing.
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Every English listing now has a Russian and a German page
4,749 English listings are translated into Russian and German; 136 listings written in ten other languages now get the same treatment. How the translation works, what it changes for search, and the one language it refuses.
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Two in three stores have exactly one product
66% of active stores hold a single listing; 4% hold ten or more. What catalogue size does and does not tell you, why bundles belong to the 4%, and how the marketplace displays them.
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The median PDF for sale is eleven pages
We counted the pages of 2,252 PDFs on sale. Median eleven, a quarter are three pages or fewer, 7% are books of 100+. What the length tells a buyer, and how the new Look Inside excerpt treats each size.
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22% of product titles are longer than Google will show
The median product title is 36 characters; one in five runs past 60, and the longest is 499. What search engines do with the excess, why five characters is now the floor, and how to write the title buyers actually read.
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What digital products cost: medians in twelve categories
The median paid digital product is $6.99. We measured the price quartiles of every active listing by category, the share of free and pay-what-you-want items, and how many show a crossed-out price.
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Two thirds of digital products carry no licence
64% of active listings carry no licence type. We measured which licences sellers do choose, explain what each one means here, and show where the field lives.
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Half of all listings have exactly one image
49% of active digital products show buyers a single picture. We measured the distribution, checked what the image count does and does not change, and wrote down what the second image is for.
Comparison
Whop vs Gumroad (2026): Fees and Which to Choose
Whop vs Gumroad: a checkout with a storefront against a marketplace built on community access. Fees, payouts and which one fits you.