Digital products
Many store owners sell physical products such as shirts and mugs. But you can also sell downloadable files and virtual products, such as memberships. For this, WooCommerce lets you modify a product and give it additional settings.
Digital products aren’t a separate type of product (such as simple or variable) – they’re a modifier: something you can add to your simple or variable product. The new fields will appear in slightly different places, depending on the type of product. I’ll be showing a simple product with digital fields. If you want to create a variable product with digital fields, the settings will be almost identical but under the Variation settings instead of the General tab.
Defining digital products
Before we change our settings, we need to define some terms. WooCommerce uses specific terms with specific meanings. You can make a product virtual and/or downloadable:
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