How to Use E-Junkie to Sell EBooks
Mechanics of Charging and Delivering Digital Products – Part II
If you haven’t read Part I yet, go to Setting up Google Checkout to Sell EBooks first.
How to Use E-Junkie to Sell EBooks
Have you noticed how hard it is to find information on How to Sell EBooks online? By that, I mean, how do you physically collect the money and provide the product? That’s what this two-part blog post is trying to shed some light upon.
When you sell an EBook online, you need to do two things to sell the book.
- Process a credit card to receive payment and verify the buyer is legitimate (Part I – Google Checkout)
- Have some service that automatically sends the product to the recipient (Part II -E-Junkie)
The goal is to not be involved in this process at all!!!
This is part 2 of the simple, must-have mechanics of how to sell EBooks online. Part One is about Setting up Google Checkout to Sell EBooks. You should read that first, and then come back to How to Use E-Junkie to Sell EBooks.
Setting up E-Junkie with Google Checkout to Sell EBooks
Let’s get this done so we can have an operating ‘EBook store’ running in no time.
Why E-Junkie for online EBooks?
It’s pretty simple really, E-Junkie works the best, is the most intuitive, and doesn’t charge much at all for its services. It only costs $5 a month to have up to 10 digital products for sale on E-Junkie. What does Clickbank charge for its (much inferior service) service? $50, just to start! That’s before they even do anything for you. Ok, enough trashing of Clickbank. Let’s move on…
I’ve used a few different digital download content providers, and E-Junkie is by far the best solution. In fact, the others weren’t solutions, they didn’t do everything I wanted them to do and I kept looking around until I found E-Junkie.
Step One: How to Set Up E-Junkie to Sell EBooks
- Sign up for their free 1-week trial at http://www.e-junkie.com
- In the Seller Admin screen, click on “Manage your Seller Account” and “Edit Profile”
- Under the Edit Profile, we need to fill in a few values.
Login Email : This should be filled in as the email you used to log into the account.- Display Name : This should match the “Credit Card Statement Name” you chose for your Google Checkout account.
- Display Email : This will be the email address that everyone sees and uses. So try and make it an account you actually check! ( I say this only cause I’ve done that before… )
- Password: Try something that’s not “passw0rd” or “1234″ please!
Good news, we’re done with E-Junkie for now! Well done (a good time to take a drink if you got one!)
Step Two: How to Set Up E-Junkie to Work with Google Checkout
- Ok, first, you need a Google Checkout account. If you don’t have one, go sign up for your own Google Checkout account.
- Then , once that account is set up, log in and go to Settings > Integration.
- Once there, copy your Merchant ID and Merchant Key onto a scratchpad, as you’re going to need them for E-junkie’s site.
- Enter https://www.e-junkie.com/gc/ResponseHandler.php in the “API callback URL” field
- Select “XML” as your “call Back Method”.
- Make sure you Save these settings!
See below for a properly filled out screen: 
- Now go to Settings -> Preferences in your Google Checkout account.
- Check “Automatically authorize the buyer’s credit card for the full amount of the order” under Order Processing Preferences. This will…well, automatically charge the customers credit card AFTER Google verifies that it’s a legit card. This way, we know we’re getting paid BEFORE we have E-Junkie create a download link and deliver our materials.
Step Three: Now go back to your E-Junkie Account…
1. Enter your Google Checkout Merchant ID and Merchant Key (from above) in your E-junkie profile. (Remember, you can find it under “Edit Profile” on the main screen, Step One #3)
2. Sweet, we’re all set to add Buy Now buttons and/or Shopping Carts to our webpage!
3. Go back to the Seller Admin, and click on “Get Buy Now / Carts”
4. This is pretty easy, just pick the type of code you want. Paste it right where you want it in your web page.
- You may want to center the Buy Now buttons or adjust the placement of them in your site. One of mine looks like this:
Guess what, you’re integrated! I suggest really testing the Buy Now buttons, or even get a friend to buy a product through your system. (E-Junkie and Google won’t let you buy from yourself…grrr!) And when they ask if you’ll pay them back, say “Heck no! You’re getting a good quality product and I gave you a beer last Friday, so we’re even now!”
That’s a ton of work we just did. I’m thinkin’ 24-pack and blocking out the next 24 hours of my life to celebrate our success!
Congratulations!