THE FIVE-ITEM FINISHING CHECKLIST
From "Digital Products — Basics", chapter 4
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A product is not finished when you are tired of making it. It is finished when
a stranger can buy it, open it, and get the result — with you nowhere in sight.

Print this. Do not list the product until all five boxes are ticked. Each one
is a refund you are choosing not to receive.


[ ]  1 · IT DELIVERS THE ONE THING YOU PROMISED
        Read your own product sentence (the "so that..." line). Does the file
        actually produce that outcome? Not "contains information about" it —
        PRODUCES it. If the promise is "your tax return in an evening", can a
        buyer follow it start to finish and get there?

[ ]  2 · A STRANGER CAN USE IT WITHOUT YOU
        Give it to one person who is not you and say nothing. Watch where they
        hesitate. Every question they have to ask you is a question every buyer
        will have and cannot ask. Fix the top two before you ship.

[ ]  3 · IT OPENS, ON A DEVICE THAT IS NOT YOURS
        Open the actual file you will deliver on a different device or account.
        Wrong format, a broken font, a missing image, a template locked to your
        login — all invisible to you, all obvious to the buyer. Test the file
        they get, not the file you have.

[ ]  4 · THE LICENCE IS STATED
        One line in the file and on the listing saying what they may and may
        not do with it (personal use? client work?). Silence here is the most
        common dispute in this whole business. (See the licence-wording sheet.)

[ ]  5 · IT IS NAMED AND PACKAGED LIKE A PRODUCT
        A sensible filename, not "final_v3_ACTUAL.pdf". A cover or first page
        that says what it is. The buyer's first ten seconds decide whether they
        feel they bought something real or downloaded a mess.


⚠️ If you cannot tick box 1, stop. The other four polish a product that does
not yet do its job, and no amount of polish sells a thing that does not work.

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