A Series on Creating a Digital Product Distribution System with Paddle

I chose Paddle as a merchant of record and digital product distribution platform. While Paddle provides a powerful API and webhooks for integrations, they do not actually distribute the digital products you sell! I also found their documentation scattered and unclear. So what was supposed to be a quick integration has turned out to be a much bigger task, and much more challenging than I thought.

This brief guide summarizes how I handled setting up a “simple” system for selling digital products from my static hugo sites using Paddle.

What we are building

• Hugo Static Frontend + Paddle.js overlay checkout
• An API server (go server running on localhost for this example)
• Digital Product Storage (Cloudflare R2 or other S3 compatible storage)