Pay & Play Service With Pay & Play, you choose what content and merchandise you want to sell and how, we take care of the rest. But you’re always in control... just clicks away from running a promotion or checking how your new release sold this week. Outsource the headaches, you’ve got enough to do, stay focused on what you need to get done.

Get up and selling with Pay & Play in three easy steps:

1. PROVIDE CONTENT & CATALOG

Support for Popular Digital Content Formats

Using the Dashboard, our web-based storefront management interface, upload your digital content and assets. Got a massive catalog? No problem, we can arrange to import it by other means. Need to digitize and encode? Send it to us and we can take care of it for you.

• Audio Formats: MP3, Windows Media Audio with DRM
• Video Formats: MPEG-4, Windows Media Video with DRM, QuickTime
• Print Formats: PDF

Unified Digital + Physical Storefront

There’s no need to have a separate storefront and disjoint user experience for the different types of products that you sell. With Pay & Play, you can finally offer a streamlined, unified shopping experience for all your products. If you want to sell physical merchandise, we’ll also need your product catalog. If you don’t have it available in electronic form, you can use our tools to enter and manage it online.

• Offer a uniquely user-friendly, one-stop online shopping experience whether you sell music, short films, audio books or physical merchandise.
• Merchandise like products together to give your customers ultimate choice in how they want to enjoy your work.
• Take advantage of the related products feature, and help your audience discover more of your catalog.

Manage Your Catalog in One Place

Chances are you may already be working with a digital distributor, in which case we can source your catalog and assets directly from them, and keep everything up-to-date.

• DownloadCentric has partnerships with leading digital distributors like IODA and IRIS Distribution.
• Check our ever-growing list of partners. Even if you’re working with another distributor, chances are we will still be able to source your content from them.

2. CUSTOMIZE & PROMOTE

Pick the Model That’s Right For You

Once we know what you’re selling, you need to decide how you want to merchandise, promote and sell it. We give you the flexibility of selecting the model that’s right for you.

• Pay-to-download in a variety of formats and encoding levels with either unrestricted playback or with digital rights management protections .
• Offer subscriptions with optional recurring billing.
• Set retail prices uniformly across-the-board, or for a given category of products, or at the product-level. Set up special rules such as restricting certain track to be sold only as part of an album.
• Market your products by marking them as featured or part of a promotion – price discounts, bundles, freebies and more at your disposal.
• Don’t have global licensing rights and need to restrict certain countries and territories? You can customize where your content can and can't be sold.

Build on Your Identity

With Pay & Play, you don’t have to sacrifice or compromise the brand and identity you’ve built. We offer a range of integration options that will suit the particular needs of your online identity.

• Select a predefined look-and-feel template or provide us with your own to integrate with the rest of your website.
• Decide if you want to have a separate section dedicated to the store, or use our LiveElements technology to merchandise your products in existing websites and blogs with just one line of HTML!
• Choose from our selection of dynamic elements to integrate into sections and pages of your website. Top downloads, charts, featured products, promotions... add them in once, to keep your store fresh and up-to-date.

3. GET PAID

Let Us Manage the Complexity

Once your storefront is live, we seamlessly take over. Your customers’ experience is still with your website as they browse, preview and shop in a secure environment. We take care of all the heavy-lifting behind-the-scenes, serving up content, processing payment and fulfilling digital orders.

• DownloadCentric backs your service with first-line end-user support and FAQ content that can be included on your website.
• Our web-based Download Station lets users download their tracks quickly in one easy step with batch downloading. And there's no software to download!
• Regardless of payment type used, we collect funds on your behalf and remit to you on a regular basis.
• Can’t wait until your next scheduled payment period? You can track how your storefront is doing in real-time using the Dashboard.

Contact us to Request Information and learn more about how you can get started with Pay & Play.