Sell any link online. No storefront needed.
Paste any URL, set a price, and share your paywall. Buyers get instant access the moment Stripe confirms payment — no account required, no file uploads, no setup.
Start selling free4.5% per sale. No monthly fees. No credit card to list.
The problem with selling digital products today
You've made something valuable. A Notion system you use every day. A Figma UI kit. A Google Drive folder with resources you spent months building. A private Discord community. A GitHub repo with a boilerplate that saves hours of setup.
You want to charge for it.
The conventional path looks like this: sign up for Gumroad, spend an afternoon designing a storefront, figure out how to upload a Notion page as a file (you can't), work around it with a PDF, lose 10% of every sale forever.
Or you go the freelancer route: send an invoice, deliver the work, wait, follow up, follow up again, wonder why you bothered.
There is a simpler model. If your product has a URL, you can sell access to that URL directly. No storefront. No file hosting. No platform that charges you for distribution you're providing yourself.
That is what selling a link online means.
What it actually means to sell a link
When you sell a link, you are selling access — not a file, not a download, not a hosted product. Your content stays exactly where it lives: Notion, Figma, Google Drive, GitHub, wherever. You add a payment gate in front of the URL.
The buyer pays. The URL unlocks. That is the entire transaction.
The mechanism is a paywall link: a public-facing URL that holds your content URL behind a Stripe payment form. Your paywall link looks like unseal.link/@yourname/your-product. Anyone can visit it, see your title, description, and price. Only the people who pay get the destination URL — delivered instantly on screen and by email the moment Stripe confirms the payment.
Your content URL is never exposed in the page source. It travels over a server-verified path after payment confirmation only.
Content stays where it lives
Your Notion page stays on Notion. Your Figma file stays on Figma. Your Google Drive folder stays on Drive. You control who gets the link.
Instant access after payment
Stripe confirms payment. Buyers see the link on screen immediately and receive it by email as a backup. No waiting, no manual steps.
Money goes straight to your bank
Payments land directly in your Stripe account. unseal.link never holds funds. Payouts run on your schedule.
How it works
Get the shareable URL for your content
For Notion: make the page public (view only) and copy the link. For Figma: share with 'anyone with link can view'. For Google Drive: set to 'anyone with the link'. For Discord: create an invite. Same idea for any platform — get a link that works for anyone who has it.
Create your paywall on unseal.link
Paste your URL, write a title and short description, set your price (from $9.99). Add an optional preview image. Your paywall is live immediately — no payment setup required yet.
Share your paywall link
You get a link like unseal.link/@yourname/your-product. Share it on Twitter, your newsletter, your bio link, a Discord server, a Notion page, anywhere. It works everywhere a URL works.
Buyers pay and get instant access
Stripe handles the payment. The moment it clears, buyers see your content URL on screen — no waiting for email. The link also arrives by email as a permanent reference. No buyer account required, just an email address.
Keep 95.5%
We take a 4.5% platform fee. Stripe fees apply separately. No monthly plans, no hidden cuts.
What you can sell
Anything with an HTTPS URL. Here are the most common use cases:
Templates and design files
- Notion templates — make the page public (view only), paste the link. Buyers get the Notion URL and can duplicate it to their workspace.
- Figma files — share with "anyone with link can view", paste the link. Works for UI kits, icon sets, design systems, component libraries.
- Spreadsheet templates — Google Sheets, Airtable, Excel files in Drive. Sell financial models, dashboards, trackers, calculators.
- Canva templates — share the template link directly. Buyers open it in their own Canva account.
- AI prompt packs — a Notion page, a Google Doc, a plain URL with your prompts. Paste the link and sell.
Files and media
- Google Drive files and folders — set to "anyone with link can view", paste. Works for video courses, resource packs, full folder libraries, PDFs.
- Dropbox files — create a shared link, paste it. Clean for large files.
- Loom videos — share the private Loom link. Works for tutorials, explainer videos, recorded sessions.
- GitHub repos and releases — for public repos, paste the URL. For private repos, deliver access manually after payment or use a release download link.
Access and communities
- Discord server access — create an invite link, paste it. Use a role-gated server or a private channel invite.
- Course materials — a Google Drive course folder, a Notion curriculum, a video library. The "course" is wherever you built it.
Freelance deliverables
- Final files and deliverables — upload the finished work to Google Drive or Dropbox, paste the link behind a paywall. Client pays, gets the link. No invoice chasing, no delivery before payment.
What the buyer experience looks like
Buyers visit your paywall link and see your product title, description, price, and optional preview image. No account prompt. No forced registration. They enter their email address and pay via Stripe's hosted checkout.
The moment Stripe confirms payment, two things happen simultaneously:
- The buyer lands on a confirmation page with a prominent "Open link →" button. The content URL is right there, immediately accessible on screen.
- A transactional email delivers the same link to their inbox as a permanent reference they can return to any time.
Buyers never need an account. They can access their purchase history later via email lookup at unseal.link/orders.
This no-account model matters for conversion. Every account creation prompt loses buyers. The fewer steps between "I want this" and "I have this", the higher your conversion rate.
How this compares to the alternatives
Gumroad
Gumroad is the dominant digital product marketplace. It has genuine strengths: built-in buyer discovery, a browsable storefront, affiliate tools. The trade-off is 10% of every sale, a requirement to upload files (not just paste links), and a storefront setup that takes an afternoon.
If you rely on Gumroad's marketplace to find buyers, the 10% buys you real distribution. If you bring your own audience from a newsletter, social media, or a community, you are paying 10% for distribution you are providing yourself.
On 100 sales of a $49 product: unseal.link puts $269 more in your pocket than Gumroad, with no change to your price or marketing.
Full comparison: unseal.link vs Gumroad →
Lemon Squeezy
Lemon Squeezy is designed for SaaS and subscription billing. It handles VAT, merchant-of-record complexity, and recurring charges well. For one-time digital product sales with no subscription component, it is more platform than you need.
Full comparison: unseal.link vs Lemon Squeezy →
Stripe Payment Links
Stripe Payment Links processes a payment and sends a receipt. It does not handle content delivery. If you used Stripe Payment Links to sell a Notion template, you would manually email every buyer the link yourself. A paywall link automates that delivery entirely.
Building your own checkout
For a single product or a small catalog, building a Stripe integration yourself takes days and introduces ongoing maintenance. unseal.link gives you the same Stripe infrastructure with zero code and a 4.5% fee that scales down with earnings.
| Feature | Gumroad | unseal.link |
|---|---|---|
| Platform fee | 10% flat | 4.5% flat |
| File upload required | Yes | No — any URL works |
| Setup time | 30+ minutes | Under 5 minutes |
| Buyer account required | No | No |
| Marketplace discovery | Yes | No |
| Instant access on screen | No | Yes |
| Notion / Figma / Drive native | Workaround needed | Paste link directly |
When selling a link is the right tool
Use this when you:
- Already have an audience (newsletter, Twitter, Discord, community) who you're sending to a product
- Have a product that lives at a URL — a Notion page, a Figma file, a Drive folder, a GitHub repo
- Want to sell in the next 5 minutes without setting up a storefront
- Are a freelancer who needs clients to pay before you hand over deliverables
- Sell 1–10 products and don't need a browsable catalog
Consider a full platform when you:
- Have no existing audience and need marketplace discovery to find buyers
- Manage 20+ products that buyers need to browse together
- Need subscription billing or recurring charges
- Need VAT handling as a merchant of record
Frequently asked
Does the buyer need an account to purchase?
No. They enter their email address and pay via Stripe. Access is delivered on screen instantly and sent to their inbox. No signup, no passwords, no friction.
Can I sell any type of link?
Any HTTPS URL where the destination is accessible to anyone who has the link. Notion pages, Figma files, Google Drive files and folders, Discord invites, GitHub repos, Loom videos, Dropbox files, Canva templates, Airtable bases — all work. The destination should not require a separate login from the buyer.
How fast does the buyer get access?
Instantly. The moment Stripe confirms payment, buyers land on a confirmation page with a direct 'Open link →' button. The same link arrives in their inbox within 30 seconds as a permanent reference.
Can I sell the same link to multiple buyers?
Yes. Every buyer gets the same destination URL, just like selling a template — each person gets access. You set pricing once, share the paywall link, and each new buyer pays independently.
What happens if I update my content after selling?
All buyers who have the link automatically get the updated version because it is a URL pointing to your content, not a static file. Update your Notion page, Figma file, or Google Drive folder — buyers see the latest version immediately.
How do I get paid?
We create your payment account automatically — no existing Stripe account needed. Click 'Enable payouts' in your dashboard, complete the 2-minute setup once, and every payment lands directly in your account. Withdraw to your bank on your own schedule.
What does it cost?
4.5% per sale. No monthly fee, no listing fee, no payout minimum. Plus Stripe's standard processing fee (~2.9% + $0.30), which applies on every platform that uses Stripe.
Can someone share my content link after buying it?
You control that at the source. For Notion and Figma, set the permission to 'view only' — sharing the link won't give edit access. For sensitive content, you can duplicate and give each buyer a unique link, or use a time-limited invite for Discord.
Is this different from a Stripe Payment Link?
Yes. A Stripe Payment Link processes a payment. A paywall link processes a payment AND automatically delivers your content URL. With a Stripe Payment Link you would need to manually email every buyer yourself.
Do I need technical knowledge to set this up?
None. No code, no plugins, no integrations. Paste a URL, set a price, share the link. The whole thing takes under 5 minutes. Enable payouts in 2 minutes when you're ready to receive payments — we handle the setup for you.
Free to list. 4.5% per sale. No credit card required.
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