Setting Up Your First MintLink Product in 5 Minutes
· 3 min read · creator tips
Most creators imagine that "setting up an online store" means weeks of work — buying a domain, hiring a developer, wrestling with payment gateways. With MintLink, it takes about as long as making a cup of chai. If you have a finished file and a rough idea of your price, you can have a live, shareable product link in five minutes flat.
Here's the minute-by-minute walkthrough.
Before the clock starts (30 seconds)
Have three things ready and the rest is effortless:
• Your file — the PDF, preset pack, template, or ZIP you want to sell
• A product name — short and benefit-led
• A price in mind — ₹29, ₹49, or ₹99 are great starting points
Minute 1: Create your account
Head to mintlink.in and sign up. Because MintLink is built for individual creators, you don't need a registered company, a GST number, or any technical setup — just your details and a bank account in your own name for payouts.
No company. No code. No website. Just you, your file, and a link.
Minute 2: Add your product details
Create a new product and give it a title and description. This is the part worth slowing down for — your description does the selling when you're not around.
Lead with the outcome, not the format:
Weak: "A PDF with study notes."
Strong: "The 12-page framework that helped 300+ students
revise UPSC Prelims in half the time."One line on who it's for, one or two clear benefits, done.
Minute 3: Upload your file
Upload the digital file you want to deliver. Once a buyer pays, MintLink sends it to them instantly and automatically — no manual emailing, no "DM me and I'll send it." This is the quiet magic of the platform: delivery happens even while you're asleep.
Minute 4: Set your price and payout
Enter your price — and here's where MintLink shines for Indian creators. You can sell via UPI from as little as ₹5, so micro-pricing actually works. Buyers tap, pay through UPI, and you're done.
Add your payout details so your earnings land in your own bank account. No foreign currency, no weeks-long holds, no middle-man confusion.
Minute 5: Publish and share your link
Hit publish, and MintLink gives you a single, shareable product link. That one link is your storefront. Drop it everywhere your audience already is:
• Pin it in your Instagram bio
• Add it to your YouTube descriptions
• Post it in relevant Telegram and WhatsApp groups
• Share it in a LinkedIn post about why you made it
That's it. You now have a live digital product anyone in India can buy in seconds.
What just happened
In five minutes, you went from "I have a file" to "I have a business." No developer, no company paperwork, no payment-gateway headaches — just a clean link, instant UPI payments, and automatic delivery handling the heavy lifting behind the scenes.
So if your work is still sitting in a folder, this is your sign. Open mintlink.in, set a five-minute timer, and follow these steps. The hardest part of selling online was never the setup — it was deciding to start. You're five minutes away from your first product being live, and far closer to your first sale than you think. Go hit publish.
Start selling digital products in India on MintLink — sell with UPI, get paid weekly.