Method 1 – Using a free Shopify product

This method works by creating a free Shopify product and allowing users to go through the checkout process and get a free digital download after checkout.

What do I need?

This works on all plans.

Step 1 – Create the free product in Shopify

Go to your Shopify dashboard
Click “Products”
Click “Add product”
Set the price to 0.00
Disable the “Track quantity” box
Uncheck the “This is a physical product” box
Click “Save”

Step 2 – Upload your file to the app

Go to the Upload page
Upload the file

Step 3 – Attach the file to your free Shopify product that you created earlier

Now, click on the uploaded file in the app. It will load a page with a drop-down search box. This is what you will use to attach the file to your free Shopify product.

Once this is attached, then you are good to go! A download email will be sent to anyone who has purchased the free product.

Altogether, you can deliver the downloads using three methods:

Via email – available on the free plan and paid plans
The Thank You page (checkout page) – available on all paid plans
The customer accounts – available on the Premium plan

Top tip:

The great thing about using this method is that you can use a post-purchase app to upsell paid products with an offer on the checkout page. It’s a great way to upsell current products.

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Method 2 – Using an email app sign-up form

This method works by adding an email newsletter-style entry box on your site, and then the downloads are sent via this email app once someone signs up with their email address.

What do I need?

An email app, such as Klaviyo or similar, that allows emails to be sent using sign-up forms

Step 1 – Sign up for the email app

In this tutorial, we are using Klaviyo. They have a free plan for up to 250 saved emails and 500 emails sent per month. Other email apps will have different pricing brackets.

Step 2 – Go to “Sign-up forms” > click “Install Code Snippet”

What we need to do is install the snippet of code that allows the sign-up forms to work on your store.



Copy the code snippet.

Step 3 – Place the code in your store

Go to your Shopify store
Go to “Online store” > click the 3 dots button > click “Edit code”



Find your theme.liquid file
Paste the code above the closing </body> tag

Note: this will place the code on all pages of your site. If you only want it on one page, just place the code on that single page.

Step 4 – Create an email list ready to collect emails

Go back to Klaviyo
Click “Audience” > “Lists & segments”
Click the “Create List / Segment” button



Follow the steps to finalise it and save it.

Step 5 – Create a signup form

Now you need to create the signup form.

Click on “Sign-up forms”
Click on “Create Signup Form”

Step 6 – Finalise the template

Simply just customise the template of the signup form in any way that suits you. Once you are done, publish it.

Step 7 – Paste the Signup form code onto your site

Now paste the signup form code onto your site wherever you want it to show.

Step 8 – Create the “Flow” in Klaviyo & add the download link to the new email template

Creating the flow will trigger an email to be sent to whoever signs up with their email address.

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Updated on: 15/12/2023