I Tried MadeThis for 30 Days — Here's What Happened

Thirty days ago I made a deliberate decision: I was going to run my digital product business exclusively through MadeThis for one month and document everything honestly. No cherry-picking the good moments. No hiding the parts that didn't work. Just a real account of what it's actually like.

Here's what happened.

Week 1: Setup and First Impressions

I came into this with a small catalog — three PDF guides I'd been selling on a different platform for about four months. Importing them into MadeThis took less than an hour. Product pages were set up, checkout was live, and I'd added a custom domain by the end of day one.

My first impression: the interface was cleaner than what I was used to. Everything I needed was in the left sidebar — products, orders, analytics, settings. No digging through sub-menus to find basic functionality.

The thing I noticed immediately was how product pages look. Clean, modern, and they load fast. On my previous platform, the pages felt dated. These looked like something I'd actually want to buy from.

What I didn't love in week one: I couldn't figure out how to set up a discount code for my email list. It took me about 20 minutes of poking around to find it. That's not a dealbreaker, but it's the kind of thing that should be easier to discover.

First week revenue: $87 from two sales. Both were existing customers who I'd pointed to the new store link.

Week 2: Getting Organic Traffic

Week two was about driving new traffic. I wrote two SEO blog posts targeting questions people search when looking for my type of product, linked them to my MadeThis store, and waited.

I also discovered that MadeThis had a built-in products page where stores are sometimes featured to browsing users. I'm not sure exactly how much traffic that drove, but I noticed a handful of sales that came from referral sources I didn't recognize — which I took as a good sign.

By day 14, I'd made four more sales. Revenue for week two: $214.

The more important thing I tracked: the purchase experience from a buyer's perspective. I went through the checkout myself using a test product. It was clean. Card entry, confirmation screen, download link — no friction, no confusion. That matters more than most people realize.

Week 3: The Honest Frustrations

Here's where I'll be fair: MadeThis isn't perfect.

The analytics dashboard gives you a solid overview of sales and revenue, but I found myself wanting more granular data. I wanted to see which traffic sources were actually converting — not just where my traffic was coming from. It's possible this data exists somewhere I didn't find, but it wasn't obvious.

I also ran into a small issue where one of my product files was listed as an older version. Updating it was straightforward, but I had to manually notify customers who'd already purchased that they could re-download the updated file. I'd like to see MadeThis handle that automatically.

Neither of these things made me want to leave. But they're real friction points.

Week 3 revenue: $312. Starting to feel like something real.

Week 4: The Final Stretch

The last week was the most interesting. I'd gotten comfortable with the platform. I published a third blog post, set up a basic email sequence using an external tool (not a MadeThis feature), and let things run.

I also added a fourth product — a template bundle I'd been sitting on for two months. Getting it live took about 20 minutes, including writing the product description. The publish-to-live time on MadeThis is as fast as any platform I've used.

By day 30: total revenue from my MadeThis store was $891.

Is that because of MadeThis specifically? Partly. The platform got out of my way and let me focus on product and traffic. But a lot of that revenue came from my own SEO effort and existing audience momentum. The platform didn't create the business — it supported it.

My Final Verdict

What MadeThis does well:

• Clean, professional product pages that load fast
• Checkout experience is frictionless for buyers
• Setup is genuinely fast — you can go from zero to live in an afternoon
• Pricing is fair — no percentage fees eating into every sale

What could be better:

• Discovery within the dashboard (some features are hard to find)
• More granular conversion analytics
• Automated customer notifications for updated product files

Would I keep using it?

Yes. I'm still on it today.

The test that actually matters for any platform is: do buyers trust it enough to buy? Every customer who hit my checkout completed the purchase without contacting me with questions about payment security or delivery. That's the job, and MadeThis does it.

If you want to read a more detailed breakdown of my thoughts compared to what else is out there, I have a longer writeup at /reviews/madethis.

For anyone who's been sitting on the fence: Start your free trial on MadeThis →

Thirty days is enough time to know. It works.