WordPress with WooCommerce plugins or Shopify with apps can technically sell digital products — but they’re built for physical goods with shipping, not for file-based products with licences. Tradly is marketplace-first, which means digital product support, creator storefronts, and split payouts are native, not bolted on.
What Tradly does differently for digital goods
Most e-commerce platforms treat digital products as a checkout edge case. Tradly treats the marketplace model — with multiple creators selling to many buyers — as the primary use case:
- Native digital product activation — Go to SuperAdmin > Listings Features Activation > Enable Digital Products. One toggle, no plugins required
- File delivery — uploaded files are securely delivered to buyers after purchase confirmation
- Creator storefronts — every seller has a profile page with their full catalogue, reviews, and follow option
- Preview support — add preview images, audio samples, or demo files to listings
- Licence tiers — configure multiple listing variants for personal vs commercial licence at different price points
- Automatic creator payouts — platform fee deducted automatically, remainder goes to creator. Docs: Payouts
- Commission configuration — set different commission rates per category if you run a mixed marketplace. Docs: Commission
How to configure digital products on Tradly
- Sign up and choose a template
- SuperAdmin > Listings Features Activation > Enable Digital Products
- Set up your categories (templates, fonts, music, code — whatever your niche)
- Add listing attributes for your niche: file format, licence type, compatible software, etc
- Invite creators to register and upload their work
- Configure your platform commission rate
Why niche beats general for digital marketplaces
Competing with Creative Market or Envato on breadth is a losing fight. Niche digital marketplaces win because:
- Better curation — buyers find what they need faster
- Creator loyalty — specialists sell where their specific buyers are
- SEO advantage — you can own long-tail keywords the giants ignore
- Higher trust — a “Figma UI kit marketplace” converts a Figma user better than a generic marketplace
Digital goods marketplace examples you can build
| Platform | What it sells |
|---|---|
| Creative Market | Design assets |
| Envato Elements | Themes, templates, video |
| Gumroad | Creator products |
| Noun Project | Icons |
| Font Bundles | Typography |
| Motion Array | Video templates |
| Soundsnap | Sound effects |
| itch.io | Indie games |
All of these are buildable on Tradly’s no-code platform.
Advanced Features
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Product Collection
Organise your products into collections (Thematic, promotional, season etc)
Taxes (Advanced)
- Discounts
- Mini-tools (QR Code Generator, Barcode Generator, Short Link generator, UTM Generator)
Product Types
- Items with Variances
- Items with Bundles Read more about Variation Here.
Advanced Rules
- Limit number of items purchased on platform level (Stocks, Ticket Limits)
- Limit number of items purchased per user
- Limit Minimum Price, Minimum Quantity, Maximum Quantity
- Limit minimum total order size on Payment method level
Read more about how to use this rules here
Learn more about shipping methods.
Custom Fields (Attributes) for Product descriptions & Filters
You can easily add custom fields for your product adding page. And it can be customised to be shown on listing category level.
Monitoring Business
- Inventory report
- Sales report
Growing your Digital Marketplace
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On top of Tradly Free Creator tools. You can add 3rd party apps inside your store for further faetures.
SEO
SEO (Structured card image) & Search engine listing preview,
Email Tools
Integrating your online store with Marketing Tools (especially Mailchimp for emails)
Advertising Tools
Your hosted website can add integrations to run ads. Example: Facebook Pixel, Google Ads Conversion Pixel can be added through Native integrations. or you can use Google Tag Manager integration to do advanced pixel placement in specific pages or custom trigger condition.
Analytical Tools
Connect with Analytical Tools (like Google Analytics)
Feedback & Survey Tools
Connecting with Feedback & UX monitoring tools (like Hotjar, clarity) (By default, we have feedback form)
Promotion / Popup tools
Connecting Promotion / Popup tools
Advanced Growth Tactics
- Increase AOV by setting up minimum purchase
- Create Collection pages to get more exposure in Google Search results or thematic celebrations.
Scaling
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Established and looking to expand & Scale?
- Fleet Management System to manage your own deliveries thus reducing cost and providing end-to-end delightful experience for your customers
- Mobile Apps for your customers, so they can be in touch with you everyday
- Additional Integrations on backend level (Via API and Webhooks) to support with your internal systems
Digital & Marketplace Templates
Digital & Marketplace Templates
See AllSimple and FREE. Launch your project today!
- Launch Marketplaces, Online Storefronts, Booking Apps, Classifieds, Directories, Partner Portals, App Stores, etc.
- Tradly pricing starts with ZERO. You pay only when you grow.
- Free No-code Integrations, No-Code Editor
Checklist from start to end on what you need to build a marketplace using Tradly Platform.
Tradly Platform solution is catered to different groups separately
- For developers: Headless API solution. Using the API solution, developers can build apps on top of it.
- For no-code creators: A simple toggle based SuperAdmin Panel to configure features in the already pre-built apps (also called as storefront, front end apps, templated apps).
For developers
- Signup for a free account
- Get the API keys in the SuperAdmin > Settings > API section = Refer the API reference to start building the app
- Optionally Fork Open source app starter Kits
5 Steps for no-code creators and builders
Choose the templates Website or Mobile Apps
Do the branding customisation & business informations on launchpad
Prototype your app using our SuperAdmin builder and Visualise your app through test apps.
Launch
- Web App: By default when you register, you will get the production URL to use the app. And you can add custom domain.
- Mobile App: When you are ready to launch, Subscribe to our plans and get a white label app build
Advanced Informations
A. UI Customisation via SuperAdmin
Settings > App Customistion
- App Name
- App Primary & Secondary Colour
- App Icon
- Splash launch images
- Onboarding images, Onboarding Text
- Registration Text
- Sell Icon (optional)
- App title in Home Screen (Default will be app name) And others
B. Platform Fundamentals
You must configure the below things for the system to be able to open accounts, submit listings and make purchases.
Configure accounts: Settings > accounts(categories, attributes)
Configure listings: Settings > listings (Setting up listings information to be collected. Categories, attributes)
Stripe/other payment gateways configuration
Configure revenue model, commissions: Settings > commissions OR Settings > Subscriptions OR Settings > Special Fees
C. Integrations
App integrations
- Chat setup via Firebase ,
- Optionally referral / sharing features via Branch
- Optionally later legal informations (privacy, terms, etc)
System integrations
- Configure email if you want the emails to be whitelisted
- Configure domain if you want good deliverability of emails
- Configure Google Maps if you have location specific features
Website Integrations
Dozens of website integrations to help you with marketing, analytics and products. [Check here](https://tradly.app/integrations)Simple and FREE. Launch your project today!
- Launch Marketplaces, Online Storefronts, Booking Apps, Classifieds, Directories, Partner Portals, App Stores, etc.
- Tradly pricing starts with ZERO. You pay only when you grow.
- Free No-code Integrations, No-Code Editor
- More about Headless Commerce API
- Open source Repositories - iOS, Android, Web App
- Youtube Video series on how to build a marketplace
- VIDEO: Choosing the right stack and how to approach different solution
- Read: Why it’s better to use pre-built solution like Tradly
Also see: Peer-to-Peer Marketplace · D2C Meaning · How to Create a Marketplace Website · Digital product marketplace