Grainline — sell a file

A shop for something the buyer cannot hold: a long sales page, a four-row catalogue, and a product page that carries the specification.
The businessDigital downloads
They arrive asking"What exactly am I buying?"
Switched onDigital products · Instant delivery · Changelog in the CMS
Needs the planBusiness

Selling a file is a trust problem. The buyer cannot pick it up, so the product page has to carry the specification — what it contains, what it opens in, what it does not do — before anybody types a card number.

The file itself is held privately and released the moment the payment clears. Nobody emails a link and hopes. The changelog is a content type, because a customer deciding whether to buy version four wants to see what happened to versions one to three.

grainline-downloads shown at its home page

Products arrive without deliverables. Upload your own file and it is a working shop.

Open this one in the editor

A designer holding a fabric sample up to the light against a wall of drawings in a studio

Every one of these was somebody’s Tuesday afternoon.

Twelve starting points
True of all twelve

You are copying a site, not a wireframe.

Whichever one you pick, it lands in your account with its pages, its brand tokens, its content and every module the design depends on already configured. Nothing is shared with the original — change the prices on day one and no other site moves.

Pages, navigation, footer and 404Colours, typefaces and spacing as tokensBookings, products, forms and content entriesYours to export, or to hand to a client

Change the words.
Keep the machinery.

Or start from an empty page and build it yourself — by hand, or by describing it to an agent.

A working site the same afternoonSwap starting points before you publishCancel and take the site with you