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 checked. Each one
is a refund you are choosing not to receive.


[ ]  1 · 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 · INSTRUCTIONS — ONE PAGE, AT THE FRONT, IN PLAIN WORDS
        The page people skip, and the cheapest quality in this business. Give
        the product to one person who is not you and say nothing. Every question
        they have to ask you belongs on that page. Fix the top two before you ship.

[ ]  3 · OPENS — IN THE SOFTWARE THE BUYER ACTUALLY HAS
        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 · EXAMPLE — ONE FILLED-IN VERSION, SHOWING WHAT GOOD LOOKS LIKE
        A blank template is a puzzle. One completed example shows the buyer
        the finished result in seconds and answers half their questions before
        they ask them.

[ ]  5 · NAMED — SO THEY CAN FIND IT AGAIN NEXT WEEK
        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 check 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.

And before you list it: state the license in one line, in the file and on
the listing (chapter 5 — see the license-wording sheet).

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