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Pulley vs Spike

Pulley vs Spike is a pasted button versus a room. Pulley sells downloads from a link, a blog, or a Big Cartel stall. Spike is the folder they open: a treated preview, a price, a download on that URL.

Ritva Kallio

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Pulley vs Spike is a buy-now habit versus a door. Pulley made a simple promise to artists: upload the MP3, the pattern, the PDF, paste a button, they get a secure link in email. It sits next to Big Cartel for people who already had a stall for objects. That still works. It is also how a wedding gallery becomes a button that expires after three attempts.

Spike assumes the link is the room. They look without taking the master. They pay there. They download there. You do not maintain a button code, a Big Cartel variant, and a Pulley product that can drift apart. How to sell a folder online is the unit.

A Buy Now on a stall. A button on a blog. The folder URL is the till when neither paste was the product.

What Pulley is for

  • Buy now links on a site, a blog, or social.
  • Digital delivery next to a Big Cartel merch stall.
  • Artists who think of a file as a button, not a page.
  • Email with a secure download after PayPal or the stall checkout.

What the button does not do

A treated unpaid view. A library that is still yours when the email is gone. A client pack that is not a product variant. Sites like Big Cartel if you were choosing stalls. Pulley will not become a gallery because you imported a SKU.

What you getPulleySpike
Buy now linksYes, the jobThe folder is the page
Beside Big CartelA common stackNot merch
Treated previewNot the usual jobBlur, watermark, samples
Download in emailYesOn the same URL
Named client packNot designed for itA private folder

  1. Keep the stall if you sell objects

    Big Cartel. Pulley will not ship a tee.

  2. Keep the button if the domain must host the sale

    Pulley. A spike.zip URL is a different building.

  3. Put named jobs on a folder

    Galleries and commissions should not be Buy Now codes.

If you needed a button, Pulley is the extra. If you needed a page, the paste is furniture.

Payloadz vs Spike if the cart you remember is PayPal-shaped instead of artist-shaped. You can sell prints on Big Cartel, keep a public track on Pulley, and still send the session files on Spike. Three rooms. One button doing all three is how a client pack becomes a listing.

Pulley's email link is a delivery, not a preview. Three attempts and an expiry are fair for a public MP3. They are a leak for a client who will come back when the art director changes. Spike Free shares last three days, which is the wrong costume for a standing Buy Now. Pro and Business leave the folder up until you turn it off. Keep Pulley for the track that strangers should buy from a paste. Move the session, the stems, and the named job. The stall can keep selling objects. The folder can keep handing off the pack they already chose in the inbox this week.

Questions

Good to know

Yes when you want preview, pay, and download on one page. No when a buy button on a site or a Big Cartel product must stay the till. Sites like Big Cartel if the leftover job was the stall, not the file pipe.

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