Alva Digital Downloads is a Shopify app that delivers PDFs, videos, audio, software, license keys and private URLs to customers automatically after purchase. Different sellers face different fulfilment problems — these pages cover ten of the most common shapes in detail.
Sell beats, stems, sample packs and loops with automatic signed delivery the moment a Shopify order is paid.
Sell PDF and EPUB ebooks direct to readers with per-buyer watermarking and a custom author-domain sender.
Deliver Notion, Figma, Canva, Webflow and Framer templates as files or signed private URLs with version updates for past buyers.
Sell Procreate brushes, Photoshop actions, Lightroom presets and high-res print files with commercial licensing tiers.
Bundle PDF workbooks, 4K video modules, audio meditations and bonus downloads under a single Shopify product.
Sell Lightroom presets, mobile DNGs, LUTs, photo packs and tutorial bundles with PDF stamping per buyer.
Ship Unity, Unreal, Blender, Godot and STL packs up to 20 GB direct to buyers with multi-engine bundles.
Leave Teachers Pay Teachers and sell worksheets, lesson plans and full unit bundles direct to buyers.
Etsy alternative for wall art, planners, wedding suites, stickers, coloring pages and party printables.
Productize coaching with bundled workbook PDFs, audio tracks, video intros and Notion frameworks.
Side-by-side feature, pricing and limits matrices for every alternative.
Same Free / Basic / Pro / Enterprise tiers across every ICP. Storage scales, bandwidth never costs extra.
Niche-specific tactics, migration playbooks and post-purchase automation patterns.
Alva Digital Downloads is a Shopify app that delivers any file type — PDFs, video, audio, software, fonts, 3D models, code, license keys, signed URLs — automatically after a Shopify order is paid. The ten ICP pages above are the most-searched shapes; the underlying delivery, license-key, fraud and email infrastructure is identical across every niche.
Font foundries, plugin authors, recipe-pack sellers, pattern designers, podcast networks, voice-actor sample sellers, AI-prompt-pack creators — all run Alva today without a dedicated landing page. 5.0 stars across 2,340+ Shopify merchants. Install on Shopify and the same engine starts delivering whatever you sell.
The underlying engine is identical — signed delivery, fraud check, license keys, custom email domain. The difference is shape. Music producers ship 4–6 GB stem packs and lean on 20 GB file ceilings, exclusive-vs-non-exclusive license pools, and POS for gig merch tables. Template creators ship sub-100 MB files (or just signed Notion duplicate URLs), care most about version updates flowing to past buyers, and split personal vs commercial license tiers. Same Alva, two ICP pages.
Plan choice depends on storage, not on what you sell. A PDF ebook catalogue often fits inside Free (1.5 GB) or Basic (35 GB). A video course library with 4K modules typically needs Pro (350 GB) or Enterprise (1.5 TB). Every plan ships with unlimited bandwidth and unlimited orders, so a viral video course on Basic does not generate overage charges — it just runs out of storage room as you upload more modules.
Yes. Most Alva merchants sell across two or three of the ICP shapes — a photographer also ships a posing-guide ebook, a course creator bundles a Notion template, a template creator drops a sample-pack collaboration. Per-product email settings let one Shopify store run multiple brand voices. Per-product license key tags let different products use different commercial-rights wording. There is no surcharge for catalogue diversity.
Alva does not depend on a specific theme. Delivery happens through email, the thank-you page, the customer account portal, the order status page and Shopify POS — none of which the storefront theme controls. Alva ships checkout, customer-account and order-status extensions that load on top of any current Online Store 2.0 theme. Dawn, Sense, Refresh, Studio and most Shopify Theme Store themes work without configuration.
Alva replaces the fulfilment side. Discovery, the social layer and the marketplace browse experience still live on Etsy, Gumroad, Bandcamp, BeatStars, TpT or wherever your audience already searches. Most Alva merchants run a Shopify + Alva direct store alongside one or two marketplaces, take 95% margin on direct sales, and use marketplace listings as a discovery funnel. The dedicated ICP pages cover migration playbooks per niche.