Marketing Archives – Easy Digital Downloads https://easydigitaldownloads.com Sell Digital Products With WordPress Fri, 04 Jul 2025 05:29:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://easydigitaldownloads.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/cropped-new-favicon-1-32x32.png Marketing Archives – Easy Digital Downloads https://easydigitaldownloads.com 32 32 Recapture https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/recapture/ Sat, 20 Mar 2021 18:32:29 +0000 https://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=1664541 Recapture tracks when carts are abandoned on your store, then lets you send recovery emails to encourage the customers who abandoned these carts to complete the purchase. These carts are lost opportunities for your EDD store. Recapture has already helped merchants generate over $150,000,000 in additional revenue since 2015. The average store recovers an additional

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Recapture tracks when carts are abandoned on your store, then lets you send recovery emails to encourage the customers who abandoned these carts to complete the purchase. These carts are lost opportunities for your EDD store.

Recapture has already helped merchants generate over $150,000,000 in additional revenue since 2015. The average store recovers an additional 10% of gross revenue with Recapture with no additional traffic to your store.

Start recovering lost carts!

With Recapture you get:

  • Abandoned cart recovery. Automatically send personalized, responsive emails to customers who abandon their shopping cart. Every email includes links that regenerate the customers exact session on your store, regardless of the device they are on.
  • SMS messages for abandoned carts and order notifications. Recapture now supports SMS messages to do cart recovery and order/shipping updates. Recapture lets you use the right channel to reach your customers.
  • Segmented, targeted campaigns. Build segments for each campaign to send highly relevant and targeted emails to each customer. Sending relevant emails will result in higher open rates and more conversions. Segments are intuitive and quick to create!
  • Email collectors, Add to Cart popup & exit intent popups. Deploy a fully responsive email collector popup to build your email list and help identify more carts. Choose from their customizable templates or provide your own, then decide exactly when and where to show a popup to each customer.
  • Amazing analytics. Know exactly how your campaigns perform, down to the email.  Stay in the loop with daily, weekly, or monthly email reports. All the numbers you care about, delivered right to your inbox.
  • Watch your customers, LIVE. Recapture has a Live Cart Feed, letting you watch your customers in real time add and remove items from carts. No one else has this feature!
  • Ease of use for everyone. Drag-and-drop email editor built with non-technical folks in mind. And they support custom HTML too, if you want to get fancy.
  • All the heavy lifting with delivery. Fully responsive emails, pre-tested on all major email clients. Mail delivery issues are a thing of the past (Recapture handles DKIM, SPF, blacklists, reply-to, etc). And they support custom sender domains, too.
  • Integrations you can use. Automatic sync to your Mailchimp lists. Connect to Zapier, too, which opens thousands of triggered actions all supported from Recapture.
  • Reliable to the core. Built on Amazon Web Services for reliability and speed. No need to worry if they can handle your traffic!
  • Painless setup and excellent support. 5-minute setup, no joke — that’s all it takes. And if you run into issues, they have responsive live chat and email support.

Here’s a screenshot from the Recapture demo store (a real, live store that’s been anonymized) to show you what’s possible:

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Recapture is backed by a team with a long history of ecommerce success. Recapture for Easy Digital Downloads works on any store and scales automatically with an AWS load-balanced, multi-server infrastructure. They handle stores of all sizes from $2,000 to $20 million. No need to worry as you grow!

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ConvertKit https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/convertkit/ Fri, 06 Nov 2015 21:37:41 +0000 https://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=648002 This extension integrates your Easy Digital Downloads store with ConvertKit by letting you automatically subscribe customers to forms and courses based on what they purchased, and allowing customers to opt themselves into a subscription during checkout. Once activated, you will have the option to enable a “global” form subscription that all customers are given an option of subscribing to during checkout. You can also

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This extension integrates your Easy Digital Downloads store with ConvertKit by letting you automatically subscribe customers to forms and courses based on what they purchased, and allowing customers to opt themselves into a subscription during checkout.

Once activated, you will have the option to enable a “global” form subscription that all customers are given an option of subscribing to during checkout. You can also enable automatic subscriptions to one or more forms for purchasing specific products.

ConvertKit is one of the premier solutions for email marketers. It’s simple to use yet exceptionally powerful. When combined with Easy Digital Downloads, you can step up your marketing efforts, resulting in more sales and happier customers.

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Recently Viewed Items https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/recently-viewed-items/ Wed, 03 Jun 2015 18:36:31 +0000 https://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=538717 Recently Viewed Items for Easy Digital Downloads allows you to show your visitors the items they’ve previously viewed on your site as they move around your site, much like Amazon does. This is useful for increasing your sales by showing customers the things that interest them most. You can show the recently viewed items on

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Recently Viewed Items for Easy Digital Downloads allows you to show your visitors the items they’ve previously viewed on your site as they move around your site, much like Amazon does. This is useful for increasing your sales by showing customers the things that interest them most. You can show the recently viewed items on single product pages, on the checkout page, and by using the included widget in any of your widget areas.

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EDD – Coming Soon https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/edd-coming-soon/ Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:54:32 +0000 https://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=508530 This extension allows downloads to be “Coming Soon” or have Custom Status text, and prevents them from being added to the cart. It does a few things: Adds a checkbox to the download configuration so you can set the download to Coming Soon / Custom Status. Adds a text field to the download configuration so

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This extension allows downloads to be “Coming Soon” or have Custom Status text, and prevents them from being added to the cart. It does a few things:

  • Adds a checkbox to the download configuration so you can set the download to Coming Soon / Custom Status.
  • Adds a text field to the download configuration so you can set the text to show (default “Coming Soon”).
  • Replaces the download’s price in the pricing admin column with “Coming Soon” or the Custom Status text.
  • Displays “Coming Soon” or the Custom Status text instead of the price when using the [downloads] shortcode, and anywhere else where the edd_price() function has been called.
  • Prevents the coming soon download from being purchased. The plugin will remove the purchase button and stop the download from being added to cart via the edd_action. Eg ?edd_action=add_to_cart&download_id=XXX

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External Products https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/external-products/ Wed, 22 Apr 2015 17:17:22 +0000 https://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=504244 This simple extension allows you to specify an external product URL for a Download product. When you have specified a URL, the add to cart and buy now buttons will, instead of purchasing the item, send the customer to the external site. This is great for sites that both sell and list affiliate products.

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This simple extension allows you to specify an external product URL for a Download product. When you have specified a URL, the add to cart and buy now buttons will, instead of purchasing the item, send the customer to the external site. This is great for sites that both sell and list affiliate products.

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Acquisition Survey https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/acquisition-survey/ Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:55:43 +0000 https://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=483834 Acquisition Survey allows you to gather information from your customers during purchase about how they found you. Once activated, a new “How did you hear about us?” will be added to the checkout screen. The options displayed in the field can be customized to best suit each site the extension is installed on. Store admins also

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Acquisition Survey allows you to gather information from your customers during purchase about how they found you.

Once activated, a new “How did you hear about us?” will be added to the checkout screen.

The options displayed in the field can be customized to best suit each site the extension is installed on.

Store admins also receive the option to view reports on what customers are selecting from the options, giving you a better idea of where your customers come from.

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AffiliateWP https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/affiliatewp/ Mon, 23 Mar 2015 02:32:31 +0000 https://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=473463 Affiliate Marketing for WordPress and Easy Digital Downloads AffiliateWP is a sibling project of Easy Digital Downloads and is created and maintained by the Sandhills Development team. AffiliateWP was born out of our own frustrations with existing platforms. We wanted a platform that was reliable, worked effectively, and one that we loved to use. When it

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Affiliate Marketing for WordPress and Easy Digital Downloads

AlfAffiliateWP is a sibling project of Easy Digital Downloads and is created and maintained by the Sandhills Development team. AffiliateWP was born out of our own frustrations with existing platforms. We wanted a platform that was reliable, worked effectively, and one that we loved to use.

When it comes to affiliate marketing, a potentially vital part of your business, you should never dread logging into the system to view your affiliate stats or to pay your affiliates. It should not be a chore to do anything with your affiliates. Creating a system that is a joy to use and that works reliably has been our goal since day one.

Some of the core features of AffiliateWP:

  • Direct integration and support for Easy Digital Downloads
  • Efficiently tracks referral links from your affiliates
  • Complete affiliate area for affiliates to log into and view their stats
  • Works out of the box on all hosting companies, even those with aggressive caching systems
  • Extensive reporting on referrals, affiliates, and visits
  • Affiliate registration and moderation system
  • An extensive code base that’s ready for other developers to extend

Have a full look at what AffiliateWP has to offer.

View AffiliateWP

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EDD Purchase Rewards https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/edd-purchase-rewards/ Mon, 23 Mar 2015 02:14:51 +0000 https://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=473440 EDD Purchase Rewards allows a site owner to reward customers with a discount code once a purchase is made. This will not only lead to repeat sales by the customer, but build customer loyalty. The discount code can either be a preselected discount code that you create, or you can choose to automatically generate a

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EDD Purchase Rewards allows a site owner to reward customers with a discount code once a purchase is made. This will not only lead to repeat sales by the customer, but build customer loyalty.

The discount code can either be a preselected discount code that you create, or you can choose to automatically generate a unique, one-time use discount code (percentage or flat rate).

A minimum purchase amount can be set, and you can also force the customer to share to at least 1 social network before the discount is given to them. The discount code is shown on the purchase confirmation page but can be optionally emailed to the customer.

Features:

  1. Offer a discount code to your customer for purchasing
  2. Force the customer to share to at least 1 social network before receiving their reward
  3. Set a minimum purchase amount before the customer receives the discount
  4. Select between an existing discount code, or auto generate one, flat or percentage
  5. Choose to send the discount to the customer via email
  6. Customize the reward email
  7. Customize the twitter message
  8. Customize the default sharing title
  9. Customize the default sharing message
  10. Customize the reward title
  11. Customize the reward message
  12. Customize the reward sharing title
  13. Customize the reward sharing message
  14. Customize the reward sharing thanks title
  15. Customize the reward sharing thanks message

Take a closer look

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Free Downloads https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/free-downloads/ Tue, 03 Mar 2015 03:45:26 +0000 https://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=453004 Do you want to increase sales on your online store? Of course you do! One proven method is to engage site visitors by offering a lead magnet (aka freebie) with Free Downloads). What Is a Lead Magnet? A lead magnet is a free resource available on your website that users can easily download by simply

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Do you want to increase sales on your online store? Of course you do! One proven method is to engage site visitors by offering a lead magnet (aka freebie) with Free Downloads).

What Is a Lead Magnet?

A lead magnet is a free resource available on your website that users can easily download by simply sharing their contact information (usually an email address).

Use Free Downloads for Lead Magnets

With our Free Downloads extension it’s delightfully easy for users to download your lead magnets. Users will get a modal window pop-up for quick downloading. This allows them to skip the standard cart and checkout process.

Animated Screenshot: Free downloads modal

🧲 Use Free Downloads to grow an email list of leads. Click here for a full tutorial on creating a lead magnet.


Lead Magnet Ideas

Entice site visitors to sign up for your email newsletters with:

  • eBooks
  • PDFs (reports, case studies, infographics, white papers)
  • Lite versions of your software or free trials
  • Free sample stock image, vector or video
  • Sample or free music track
  • Exclusive training resource or tutorial

Share your lead magnet offer on your home page, landing pages, product pages, blog posts, social media or with pop-ups or sliders. Check out OptinMonster for creative and effective ways to increase the conversion rate of your lead magnet offers.

Email Integration

Our Free Downloads extension integrates with popular email marketing platforms.

  • Mailchimp
  • ConvertKit
  • ActiveCampaign
  • Campaign Monitor
  • GetResponse
  • AWeber
  • MailPoet
  • Mad Mimi

These integrations allow you to automatically subscribe users to email lists when they complete a free download.

🔎 View all our Email Extensions

Don’t Have An Email Marketing Platform?

You don’t want to email these leads one-at-a-time from your personal email account. That takes too much time. Also if you send an email from your personal email account, to a large list of recipients, your email will likely go to the spam or junk folder.

When you are emailing lots of people, you need a professional email marketing platform. Some people refer to these as email service providers (ESPs). These allow you to:

  • Manage your lists of contacts (leads)
  • Send emails from trusted servers so they don’t go to junk or spam folders
  • Send emails that are professional-looking, and
  • Integrate with your website and store
  • For example: you can configure EDD to automatically subscribe customers to a certain email list when they make a purchase or download

Check out this guide and choose one of the 7 best email marketing services (There are discount codes!)

Configuration options

  • After a user enters their information into the modal you can choose to:
  • Redirect to the ‘Success’ page for download link
  • Do a custom redirect to a page of your choosing
  • Have file automatically start downloading
  • You can tailor what information and actions you want from the user:
  • Require first name and/or last name
  • Require user to set up an account
  • Require email verification
  • Display custom message

Track Leads

Each site visitor who fills out the download modal for a freebie or lead magnet becomes a ‘Customer’ on your store. Go to Downloads » Customers. Here you will see a list of your new leads!

Screenshot: customer list page

This list of leads useful for many reasons:

  • You can keep track of everyone who’s downloaded a free resource
  • Update their customer record or contact info
  • Leave notes
  • Resend confirmation emails
  • Send them a new download link
  • Export a list of those who’ve downloaded a lead magnet

Note: even though they are called ‘customers’ within EDD, you can track which ones are ‘leads’ by how much they have spent. Look for the column labeled Total Spent. A ‘customer’ who has not spent any money on your site is a ‘lead’.

What should you do with these leads?

Stay in Touch with Your Leads

Keep in touch with your leads and try to convert these potential customers into paying customers.

  • Send a welcome email. Thank them for downloading your free lead magnet.
  • Over time, send more emails. Share more about your company, values, and products.
  • You can also set up an email newsletter. Share industry news and trends with your leads.

Continually staying in touch with leads from your target market is called content marketing.

Your main goal with emailing leads is to show them how you can help solve their problems.

Read this guide on how to create an email newsletter.

Set Up an Email Marketing Platform

You don’t want to email these leads one-at-a-time from your personal email account. That takes too much time. Also if you send an email from your personal email account, to a large list of recipients, your email will likely go to the spam or junk folder.

When you are emailing lots of people, you need a professional email marketing platform. Some people refer to these as email service providers (ESPs). These allow you to:

  • Manage your lists of contacts (leads)
  • Send emails from trusted servers so they don’t go to junk or spam folders
  • Send emails that are professional-looking, and
  • Integrate with your website and store
  • For example: you can configure EDD to automatically subscribe customers to a certain email list when they make a purchase or download

Which email marketing platform should you use? Here are some of our top recommendations:

For more information, here’s an article on the 7 best email marketing services.


🔎 Learn more about how Free Downloads works on our Docs


Screenshot: EDD Free Downloads Settings
Screenshot: Free Downloads Settings

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Discounts Pro https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/discounts-pro/ Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:29:26 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=292272 Discounts Pro gives you the ability to create advanced discounts that are automatically applied to the checkout screen based on specific conditions. In just minutes, you can create a discount that automatically gives 20% off to all logged in users, or all logged in users that have a certain user role. You can create discounts that

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Discounts Pro gives you the ability to create advanced discounts that are automatically applied to the checkout screen based on specific conditions. In just minutes, you can create a discount that automatically gives 20% off to all logged in users, or all logged in users that have a certain user role. You can create discounts that give a discount to all customers that purchase specific products together, or even customers that purchase 5 or more products at once. With seven distinct discount types, you can create just about any kind of automatic discount you can imagine.

Discount types:

  • Fixed Price – give a flat discount (such as $5) to any customer that meets the defined conditions
  • Percentage Price –  give a percentage discount (such as 5%) to any customer that meets the defined conditions
  • Product Quantity – give a flat or percentage discount to any purchase that has a specific quantity of items in the cart
  • Each X product – give a flat or percentage discount for every X number of products in the cart
  • From X products – give a flat or percentage discount on every part after a specific number
  • Products in cart – give a flat or percentage discount for all purchases that contain X number of products in the cart
  • Cart Threshold – give a flat or percentage discount if there are at least X number of products in the cart.

Along with the discount type, you can also control exactly who the discounts are applied to and / or which products they are applied to. You can easily restrict the discounts to specific products, product categories, certain user roles, and even specific user accounts. The start and end date for discounts can also be specified in order to enable discounts only for a particular period of time.

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Gravity Forms Checkout https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/gravity-forms-checkout/ Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:50:33 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=194070 Gravity Forms Checkout combines the tremendous power of Gravity Forms with the ease and simplicity of Easy Digital Downloads. The extension allows you to create purchase forms for any of your products through Gravity Forms. With a purchase form created through Gravity Forms, customers purchase the product simply by filling out the form, completely bypassing

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Gravity Forms Checkout combines the tremendous power of Gravity Forms with the ease and simplicity of Easy Digital Downloads. The extension allows you to create purchase forms for any of your products through Gravity Forms. With a purchase form created through Gravity Forms, customers purchase the product simply by filling out the form, completely bypassing the standard EDD checkout page. This allows you to take advantage of Gravity Forms amazing conditional logic, calculation fields, and more.

The power of Gravity Forms combined with the reporting and file delivery of Easy Digital Downloads.

In short, Gravity Forms Checkout lets you create the perfect purchase form for your website, whatever your requirements are.

Gravity Forms Checkout Features

  • Create dedicated purchase forms for any product
  • Use with any Gravity Forms payment add-on
  • Purchase multiple products through a single form
  • Place purchase forms on any page
  • Supports all Gravity Forms field types
  • Uses Gravity Forms’ powerful calculation fields
  • Supports all Gravity Forms conditional logic
  • Supports Gravity Forms notification settings
  • Limit the number of purchases allowed
  • Limit when purchases can be made
  • Use EDD’s powerful reporting
  • Use EDD’s digital file delivery system

Who Should Use Gravity Forms Checkout?

Anyone that wants complete control over the form used to purchase their products, but here are a few specific examples:

  • Hosting services that allow customers to choose optional features that impact the final purchase price.
  • Website maintenance services. Let customers choose the features they want with the service.
  • Event ticketing managers. Create powerful registration forms where attendees can fill out all required information.
  • Software distributors. Give the customers the option to choose the version they need.
  • Digital print designers. Allow customers to give exact specifics on the kind of print they want.
  • Website template designers / developers. Give customers a choice of template to purchase.

All of these examples can greatly benefit from the sheer power that Gravity Forms provides for form building capability, and all of them benefit tremendously from the reporting and file delivery of Easy Digital Downloads.

Demonstration Video

Answers to Common Questions

Why do I need this extension, couldn’t I just use Gravity Forms by itself?

Gravity Forms has amazingly powerful form building capability, but when it comes to e-commerce, the reporting features of Gravity Forms are a bit weak when compared to the reporting included in Easy Digital Downloads. This extension not only lets you add purchase forms to any page on your site, it lets you leverage the tremendous form building power of Gravity Forms and the superb reporting functionality of Easy Digital Downloads.

Does Gravity Forms for EDD support subscription payments?

Not at this time.

Can customers access their purchase history for purchases made through Gravity Forms Checkout?

Yes, purchases are stored in exactly the same way, regardless of which method customers use to purchase the product(s). If customers have an account, they will be able to access their complete purchase history and download links from their account page.

Can I use the Gravity Forms add-ons, such as MailChimp or User Registration with Gravity Forms Checkout?

Yes, Gravity Forms Checkout works perfectly with all Gravity Forms add-ons.

Can I use standard EDD payment gateways with Gravity Forms Checkout?

No, since the purchase process is handled through Gravity Forms, you need to use one of the payment add-ons for Gravity Forms.

Can I use discount codes with Gravity Forms Checkout?

The standard EDD discount codes do not work with Gravity Forms Checkout, but the Coupons add-on for Gravity Forms works perfectly.

How do customers get their download links?

After completing the purchase, customers are sent a purchase receipt via email containing all download links and purchase information. This is the same purchase receipt that EDD sends for the standard checkout procedure. Using the {receipt_link} template tag in the emails, you can also allow customers to view the receipt and download links directly on the website.

Can I use the EDD tax system with this?

No, the EDD tax options are not supported for purchases made through Gravity Forms Checkout.

What version of Easy Digital Downloads and Gravity Forms is required?

This extension requires Easy Digital Downloads version 1.9 or later and Gravity Forms version 1.8 or later.

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Discount Code Generator https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/discount-code-generator/ Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:47:30 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=143801 Allows site admins to generate discount codes in bulk and then export them directly to CSV. You can generate an unlimited number of discount codes and control the exact options for the discount codes that are generated, including required products, minimum amounts, one time use, etc., just like standard discounts in Easy Digital Downloads. After

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Allows site admins to generate discount codes in bulk and then export them directly to CSV. You can generate an unlimited number of discount codes and control the exact options for the discount codes that are generated, including required products, minimum amounts, one time use, etc., just like standard discounts in Easy Digital Downloads.

After discounts are generated, they can be immediately exported to a .CSV file.

If you need to import discounts in bulk, look at the CSV Coupon Importer extension.

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Per Product Emails https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/per-product-emails/ Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:27:47 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=90781 Improve your customer onboarding with the Easy Digital Downloads Per Product Emails extension. Designed for precision and convenience, this tool enables store owners to create tailored email notifications for individual products, improving the customer experience with essential product-specific information. Upon purchasing a specific item—let’s call it Product X—customers will receive a customized email concerning Product

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Improve your customer onboarding with the Easy Digital Downloads Per Product Emails extension. Designed for precision and convenience, this tool enables store owners to create tailored email notifications for individual products, improving the customer experience with essential product-specific information.

Upon purchasing a specific item—let’s call it Product X—customers will receive a customized email concerning Product X. This ensures they receive all the information they need without cluttering their inbox. You can choose to only send the email for Product X, or send it in addition to the standard EDD Purchase Receipt.

Key Features:

  • Personalized Email Content: Give product-specific details to improve customer onboarding and experience with your products.
  • Effortless Testing: Verify the appearance and content of your custom emails easily with the “Send Test Email” option.
  • Control Email Deployment: Simple management with an intuitive interface. Add as many custom product emails as you need.
  • Dynamic Product Tagging: Utilize the {download_name} email tag in your subject line or email body to dynamically include the product name, ensuring each communication is appropriately personalized.

This extension simplifies administrative workflows and significantly enhances customer engagement by delivering tailored information that adds value to each purchase.

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Conditional Success Redirects https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/conditional-success-redirects/ Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:19:18 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=84640 The EDD Conditional Success Redirects extension for Easy Digital Downloads is designed to streamline how customers are directed after making a purchase. It allows you to set up rules that redirect customers to different pages based on the specific product they have purchased. This helps you guide your customer through a crafted experience that you

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The EDD Conditional Success Redirects extension for Easy Digital Downloads is designed to streamline how customers are directed after making a purchase. It allows you to set up rules that redirect customers to different pages based on the specific product they have purchased. This helps you guide your customer through a crafted experience that you control and the customer’s immediate need after buying a product—whether that’s additional information, a related offer, the first course in your training, or a thank you page.

This feature is very easy to use: a redirect occurs only if the purchased product is the only item in the cart and has a redirect rule associated with it. This ensures that customers are not overwhelmed by multiple redirects when purchasing more than one product.

  • Send customers to the account dashboard immediately after purchase.
  • Redirect users to the first lesson in your course.
  • Ask users to complete a social profile after their purchase.
  • …endless possibilities.

The extension adds a new area in the admin dashboard where you can manage these redirects—creating, editing, and toggling them on or off. This gives you control over when and how customers are guided post-purchase. If you want to show the receipt on this page as well, you’ll need to include the Receipt Block ( or the [edd_receipt] shortcode ) to display the purchase receipt, maintaining clarity and convenience for the customer.

With EDD Conditional Success Redirects, you’re equipped to fine-tune the post-purchase experience, guiding customers in a way that complements your digital product or service.

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EDD Cross-sell and Upsell https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/edd-cross-sell-and-upsell/ Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:01:14 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=82097 Increase sales by cross-selling and upselling to your customers Cross-selling Cross-selling is suggesting additional products to your customers that complement what they have already added to their shopping cart. These suggested cross-sell products are shown on the checkout page. Upselling Upselling is suggesting similar, slightly higher value products to a customer than what they are

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Increase sales by cross-selling and upselling to your customers

Cross-selling

Cross-selling is suggesting additional products to your customers that complement what they have already added to their shopping cart. These suggested cross-sell products are shown on the checkout page.

Upselling

Upselling is suggesting similar, slightly higher value products to a customer than what they are currently viewing — for example, a bundle or package that also includes that product. Upsells are shown on an individual product’s page.

Custom headings

Personalise the headings that appear above your cross-sells and upsells. In the instance where multiple cross-sells are triggered at checkout and the custom heading is not relevant, a generic heading can be configured.

Reporting

See how well your cross-sells and upsells are performing with a summary of total number of sales and earnings for each product.

Enhanced payment details

View details of a specific payment to see exactly which purchased products were cross-sells and which were upsells.

Exporting

Export a history of both Cross-sells and Upsells in CSV format, for any month, any year, or any status.

Logging

Just like the other logs in Easy Digital Downloads, you can view logs for both cross-sells and upsells. Look under the hood and see all the cross-sells or upsells for a specific payment ID.

Fully localized/translation ready

Easily translate and use the plugin in your native language.

Documentation for this extension.

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Purchase Limit https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/purchase-limit/ Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:42:35 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=60693 This extension allows you specify purchase limits on a per-product basis, similar to inventory management for physical products. Want to disable a specific file after it’s been purchased ten times? Now you can! Simply install this plugin, set your purchase limit, and you’re done! It’s that simple! Purchase Limits also allows you to limit the

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This extension allows you specify purchase limits on a per-product basis, similar to inventory management for physical products. Want to disable a specific file after it’s been purchased ten times? Now you can! Simply install this plugin, set your purchase limit, and you’re done! It’s that simple!

Purchase Limits also allows you to limit the dates Downloads are available to be purchased by setting a start and/or end date.

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Restrict Content Pro Member Discounts https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/restrict-content-pro-member-discounts/ Thu, 02 May 2013 16:47:26 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=50065 The Member Discounts addon seamlessly integrates Easy Digital Downloads with Restrict Content Pro, empowering you to offer exclusive product discounts to your members. This addon allows you to create a dynamic discounting scheme that can apply to various membership levels within your organization. Set up is simple: define discounts that automatically apply to all Easy

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The Member Discounts addon seamlessly integrates Easy Digital Downloads with Restrict Content Pro, empowering you to offer exclusive product discounts to your members. This addon allows you to create a dynamic discounting scheme that can apply to various membership levels within your organization.

Set up is simple: define discounts that automatically apply to all Easy Digital Downloads purchases for your members. You have the flexibility to tailor these discounts as needed—exclude certain products or categories to better align with your sales strategies.

Whether you’re looking to provide a 10% discount to “Platinum Level” subscribers on all store purchases or a 5% savings for “Gold Level” members, our Member Discounts extension makes customization effortless. Enhance your membership experience by rewarding your subscribers with valuable savings on their purchases.

This extension requires Restrict Content Pro, a separate plugin.

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Recommended Products https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/recommended-products/ Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:29:48 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=47626 Recommended Products for Easy Digital Downloads allows you to show a cross sell of recommended products when viewing downloads or the checkout screen, with just a couple of checkboxes. These aren’t “related products” but specifically chosen products based off your stores previous sales. Every night, the recommendations are refreshed to include the day’s sales. You

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Recommended Products for Easy Digital Downloads allows you to show a cross sell of recommended products when viewing downloads or the checkout screen, with just a couple of checkboxes. These aren’t “related products” but specifically chosen products based off your stores previous sales. Every night, the recommendations are refreshed to include the day’s sales. You can manually run the update script as well via the Easy Digital Downloads Extensions Settings page.

Features:

  • Fully Templatable – Don’t like the built in templates? That’s okay, add your template to the edd_templates folder of your theme and you can style your own recommendations pod.
  • Integrates with Easy Digital Downloads Settings – No new settings pages to learn. Just use the Settings page and click on the ‘Extensions’ tab.
  • Imports pre-existing sales – If you’ve been using Easy Digital Downloads for a while, that’s ok. Upon activation Recommended Products looks through your past sales and determines the recommendations.
  • Restrict to only paid items – If you have free products, you can remove them from the recommendations pod in the settings.
  • User Specific Capabilities – Supply the recommendations function with a user ID and products the user has already purchased will be removed from the recommendations.
  • Cart Integration – If a user already has a product in the cart, it will be removed from the recommendations.
  • Detailed Logging – Each item purchased via a recommendation can be seen in the Easy Digital Downloads reports area. Filter by source and item purchased to visualize how well your recommendations are converting.

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Reviews https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/product-reviews/ Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:02:41 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=37976 Reviews for Easy Digital Downloads makes it quick and easy for your visitors and customers to review the products offered on your website. Customer reviews can be enabled or disabled on each product individually and options are included to control exactly who can leave reviews on products. Reviews can be limited to verified customers, logged-in users,

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Reviews for Easy Digital Downloads makes it quick and easy for your visitors and customers to review the products offered on your website.

Customer reviews can be enabled or disabled on each product individually and options are included to control exactly who can leave reviews on products. Reviews can be limited to verified customers, logged-in users, or even left open to everyone. Review submissions also include a moderation queue, giving store owners protection against spam and abuse.

Screenshot: leave a review interface

Store owners are given a complete management interface for moderating, approving, deleting, and replying to product reviews from within the WordPress admin area.

Screenshot: Reviews on backend

Provide incentives to reviewers

To encourage customers to both leave reviews and purchase additional products, the Reviews extensions includes an option to incentivize customers to leave reviews by automatically sending the customer a discount code after a review is submitted.

Reviewer Discount Code Email

Request a review

To help encourage customers to leave reviews on products they purchased, automated emails can be configured that get sent to customers after a successful purchase. Emails can be sent immediately after purchase or after a delay of several days.

The email sent to customers is fully customizable to provide store owners with complete control over the text and branding of the emails.

Integration with Frontend Submissions

Reviews integrates with Frontend Submissions by allowing all customers to submit feedback about the vendors of the products.

After making a purchase, if any of the products in that purchase were created by a FES vendor, customers can leave feedback for them. This allows store administrators and vendors to easily see what they’ve done well and what could be better.

Additional features

HTML5 Microdata – All reviews include HTML5 microdata for Schema.org, allowing Google and other search engines to pick up and display the product reviews in search results.

Enforce word limits – Minimum and maximum word limits can be set which are enforced on the content of the review (e.g. minimum of 50 words but a maximum of 200 words).

Easily embed reviews – Reviews comes with shortcodes and widgets which allow you easily embed reviews into posts and pages.

Close and disable reviews on a per-download basis – Reviews can be closed or disabled on downloads; disabling them will not show any reviews whatsoever. However, closing reviews will stop any new reviews from being accepted.

Live Demo

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GetResponse https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/getresponse/ Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:27:44 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=33826 This extension integrates your Easy Digital Downloads store with GetResponse by letting you automatically subscribe customers to specific lists based on what they purchased, and allowing customers to opt themselves into a list during checkout. You can also subscribe customers to specific groups within a GetResponse list. You can enable a “global” newsletter list, which all customers

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This extension integrates your Easy Digital Downloads store with GetResponse by letting you automatically subscribe customers to specific lists based on what they purchased, and allowing customers to opt themselves into a list during checkout. You can also subscribe customers to specific groups within a GetResponse list.

You can enable a “global” newsletter list, which all customers can have the option of signing up for during checkout. You can also select one or more lists that customers will be automatically subscribed to when purchasing specific products.

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Custom Prices https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/custom-prices/ Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:23:04 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=32001 Allow customers to enter a pay-what-you-want price. This extension adds an option to each download product that lets you enable a “custom” or “pay-what-you-want” price so customers can enter the amount they wish to pay. This is excellent for donation type products. Along with enabling custom prices, you can also set a minimum amount for

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Allow customers to enter a pay-what-you-want price.

This extension adds an option to each download product that lets you enable a “custom” or “pay-what-you-want” price so customers can enter the amount they wish to pay. This is excellent for donation type products.

Along with enabling custom prices, you can also set a minimum amount for each product.

Configuration

Check “Enable custom pricing” in the Download Configuration (under pricing options). Enter a minimum amount (optional).

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ActiveCampaign https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/active-campaign/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 04:55:10 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=22583 This email marketing add-on adds an option for your customers to join your ActiveCampaign email list during checkout. You can automatically subscribe customers to specific lists based on what they purchased, and allowing customers to opt themselves into a list during checkout. You can enable a “global” newsletter list, which all customers can have the

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This email marketing add-on adds an option for your customers to join your ActiveCampaign email list during checkout.

You can automatically subscribe customers to specific lists based on what they purchased, and allowing customers to opt themselves into a list during checkout.

You can enable a “global” newsletter list, which all customers can have the option of signing up for during checkout. You can also select one or more lists that customers will be automatically subscribed to when purchasing specific products.

This extension also integrates with Free Downloads to allow automatic subscription to newsletters when customers download a free product.

It is a easy and powerful way to grow your email list. You’ll be able to keep in touch with customers and drive repeat business for your online store.

 

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MailPoet https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/mailpoet/ Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:13:40 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=18200 This extension integrates your Easy Digital Downloads store with MailPoet by letting you automatically subscribe customers to specific lists based on what they purchased, and allowing customers to opt themselves into a list during checkout. You can enable a “global” newsletter list, which all customers can have the option of signing up for during checkout. You can

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This extension integrates your Easy Digital Downloads store with MailPoet by letting you automatically subscribe customers to specific lists based on what they purchased, and allowing customers to opt themselves into a list during checkout.

You can enable a “global” newsletter list, which all customers can have the option of signing up for during checkout. You can also select one or more lists that customers will be automatically subscribed to when purchasing specific products.

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EDD Social Discounts https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/edd-social-discounts/ Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:51:47 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=15930 Offer your customers a discount for sharing products Ever wanted to offer your customers a discount for sharing or liking products on your website? This plugin does exactly that. It also allows you to share standard posts and pages, and products from a completely different post/page on your website. By turning off the discount functionality

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Offer your customers a discount for sharing products

Ever wanted to offer your customers a discount for sharing or liking products on your website? This plugin does exactly that. It also allows you to share standard posts and pages, and products from a completely different post/page on your website. By turning off the discount functionality altogether, you can also use it as a simple sharing tool.

How it works

The plugin listens for events triggered by the various social networks. When it detects that a user has shared or liked your product, the discount is instantly applied, and a customizable thanks title and message is shown; all without the page refreshing.

By default, the sharing buttons will be shown automatically after the content on all your products. By using the included shortcode you can fine tune the placement on a per product basis, or even include the sharing buttons on posts and/or pages.

Take a closer look

Features

  • Instantly applies discount after user has shared, no page refresh necessary
  • Supports the Like feature for Facebook
  • Supports sharing for Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn
  • Customise sharing title and message
  • Customise title and message when product is shared (thanks message)
  • Download/post/page sharing
  • Fully localized/ready for translation
  • Shortcode with custom parameters ( custom post/page/download ID, tweet message, sharing title, sharing message)
  • See which product/post/page was shared on each purchase from EDD’s view order details page
  • Customise the button styles for each social network

Note on Twitter: On November 20th 2015 Twitter changed the way the “Tweet” button works. As a result, the discount is now applied when the “Tweet” button is clicked (not when the tweet is published).

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Mad Mimi https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/madmimi/ Tue, 31 Jul 2012 01:46:10 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=3318 Simple newsletter signups The Mad Mimi add-on for Easy Digital Downloads adds a simple checkbox to your checkout page, allowing users to sign up for your Mad Mimi newsletter right when they make a purchase. Get more subscribers When it comes to digital stores, it’s been proven that people sign up for newsletters more frequently

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Simple newsletter signups

The Mad Mimi add-on for Easy Digital Downloads adds a simple checkbox to your checkout page, allowing users to sign up for your Mad Mimi newsletter right when they make a purchase.

Mad Mimi checkout opt-in

Get more subscribers

When it comes to digital stores, it’s been proven that people sign up for newsletters more frequently at the checkout than anywhere else. Make the most of this critical interaction with customers and watch your mailing list grow!

Quick and easy setup

It’s quick and easy to get the Mad Mimi add-on up and running. Simply enter your Mad Mimi email address and API key, choose the email list to subscribe users to, and define the checkout field label – all within the Misc section of the Easy Digital Downloads Settings.

Simple customization

Want to add your own brand style to the checkbox? This extension gives you complete control over the text shown along with the subscribe check box. Use it to entice customers and persuade them to join your mailing list.

Customizing your checkbox text is a great way to show some personality, connect with your customers, and highlight the biggest incentives for subscribing. For example: “Join the movement,” “get exclusive deals in your inbox every week,” or “get inspired weekly with free design tips.”

About Mad Mimi

Mad Mimi is known for its user-friendly experience. From its intuitive interface and clean design, to its simplicity and affordability, Mad Mimi has been a long-standing email marketing choice for digital businesses of all sizes.

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Commissions https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/commissions/ Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:22:25 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=2990 This extension allows you to easily record user commissions when a sale is made. Want to split revenue between multiple users and have all of the math and complicated aspects handled for you? This is exactly what this extension will provide for you. Commissions is the perfect extension for sites that wish to create a

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This extension allows you to easily record user commissions when a sale is made. Want to split revenue between multiple users and have all of the math and complicated aspects handled for you? This is exactly what this extension will provide for you.

Commissions is the perfect extension for sites that wish to create a marketplace system that allows users to receive earnings on a commission basis.

When commissions are recorded, they will be listed on the new Commissions page added under the main Downloads menu.

This extension includes the ability to generate a CSV file of all unpaid commissions, or unpaid commissions over a specific date range, that you can then upload to PayPal’s mass payment system, or use to process the commission payouts however you wish.

Also included in the Commissions extension, is a new commissions-paid-per-month graph on the Reports page that allows you to see exactly how much you are paying out in commissions over time.

The extension includes several shortcodes as well:

  • [edd_commissions] – displays a list of the commissions for the currently logged-in user
  • [edd_commissioned_products] – displays a list of the products the user receives commissions on
  • [edd_commissions_overview] – displays an overview of the sales and earnings for the currently logged-in user
  • [edd_commissions_graph] – displays a filterable graph of earnings and sales for the user for a specific month and year

Integrates with Pushover Notifications to send push notifications to commission recipients.

Screenshots

Unsure about a feature? Check out our FAQ for Commissions.

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AWeber https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/aweber/ Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:50:45 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=2925 This extension integrates your Easy Digital Downloads store with AWeber by letting you automatically subscribe customers to specific lists based on what they purchased, and allowing customers to opt themselves into a list during checkout. You can enable a “global” newsletter list, which all customers can have the option of signing up for during checkout.

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This extension integrates your Easy Digital Downloads store with AWeber by letting you automatically subscribe customers to specific lists based on what they purchased, and allowing customers to opt themselves into a list during checkout.

You can enable a “global” newsletter list, which all customers can have the option of signing up for during checkout. You can also select one or more lists that customers will be automatically subscribed to when purchasing specific products.

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Campaign Monitor https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/campaign-monitor/ Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:39:25 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=974 This add-on will add an option to the checkout page that allows users to signup for your newsletter at the same time as purchasing. As just a simple checkbox, this is guaranteed to create more newsletter sign ups than a regular subscribe form placed elsewhere on your site. Once activated, you have a checkbox added

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This add-on will add an option to the checkout page that allows users to signup for your newsletter at the same time as purchasing. As just a simple checkbox, this is guaranteed to create more newsletter sign ups than a regular subscribe form placed elsewhere on your site.

Once activated, you have a checkbox added to your checkout screen that looks like this:

Screenshot of payment area with Checkbox for signing up to an email list highlighted

 

In the Extensions section of the Easy Digital Downloads Settings, you will have options to enter your Campaign Monitor API key, enter a Client ID, choose the email list to subscribe users to, and an option to define the checkout field label, as shown below:

Screenshot of Campaign Monitor Settings area, showing fields for API Key, Client ID, List, and Checkout Label

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Mailchimp https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/mailchimp/ Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:21:52 +0000 http://easydigitaldownloads.com/?post_type=download&p=746 Mailchimp is amazing. So amazing that we use it ourselves for all of our own email marketing and automation needs. It is one of the most important services we use to run and grow our business and we can’t recommend it highly enough. Subscribe customers to your lists With this powerful extension you can grow

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Mailchimp is amazing. So amazing that we use it ourselves for all of our own email marketing and automation needs. It is one of the most important services we use to run and grow our business and we can’t recommend it highly enough.

Subscribe customers to your lists

With this powerful extension you can grow and engage your audience by taking advantage of all the features Mailchimp provides. First and foremost, you can automatically subscribe customers to specific lists and groups based on the item(s) they have purchased. Plus, your customers can opt themselves into a list during checkout by simply checking a box.

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Settings screen where available Mailchimp lists can be selected

Detailed eCommerce reporting

With complete support for Mailchimp’s eCommerce tracking, this extension also provides you with access to the eCommerce reports and automation tools inside of your Mailchimp account. You’ll be able to see which products are driving more subscribers as well as which campaigns in Mailchimp are resulting in more sales.

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An eCommerce report in Mailchimp

Segment your lists in so many ways

With the eCommerce data sent from Easy Digital Downloads, you’ll be able to create segments and groups which you can then use for future email campaigns. For example, you can create automated followup campaigns upselling your premium products to only those subscribers who purchased your basic or free downloads. Or you can send surveys to subscribers who purchased only certain products. Or you can create one-time campaigns to send to all customers who bought your old product to tell them about your new one. The possibilities are endless!

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Option for selecting which lists to subscribe customers to

Pair Mailchimp with Free Downloads to grow your email list

This Mailchimp extension is fully integrated with our Free Downloads extension, making it even easier to grow your email list rapidly. With this combination, you can convert consumers of your free products into email subscribers, who are then much more likely to want your premium products once they discover just how awesome your free stuff is.

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Signing up for an email list when downloading a free product

Control your subscription process

You know your business and your audience best. This extension allows you to control how and when customers get subscribed to your list and whether or not they are sent a “double opt-in” email. That email gives them an opportunity to confirm their desire to join your list and helps ensure you are only sending your campaigns to people who want to hear more from you.

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Detailed settings screen

Send purchase receipts through Mailchimp

Easy Digital Downloads sends fully customizable purchase receipts automatically to customers after they buy, with no extensions required. But there are a few features offered by Mailchimp which can make it beneficial to rely on their service for delivering these important emails. These include:

  • Improved deliverability. Mailchimp’s email deliverability is second to none. If you’re sending a large volume of emails and/or are having deliverability issues, relying on Mailchimp to handle them will be a smart move.
  • Use Mailchimp email templates. The email templates offered by Mailchimp are beautiful and easy to customize. If you want your purchase receipts to look just like the rest of the emails you send your subscribers, this integration makes it possible.
  • A/B testing. With Mailchimp, any email campaign can be configured so that multiple alternate versions are sent and their results are compared so you can see which version performs better. By using this extension, you can run tests to figure out exactly how to optimize your purchase receipt emails.

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Mailchimp’s eCommerce automation options

Mailchimp is an incredibly powerful solution with many more features than we’ve mentioned here. To learn more about what Mailchimp offers, go here and see for yourself!

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