With PayPal Commerce enabled for your online store, you’ll provide a higher converting, more secure checkout experience for your customers than previously offered by PayPal. It’s also much simpler and less technical to set up than in the past.

Enable On-site Checkout for Multiple Payment Modes

One of the most important areas to optimize for all eCommerce sites is the checkout experience. With the PayPal Commerce Pro extension, you can configure your checkout to show any combination of the following buttons:

• PayPal wallet
• Debit or credit card
• Alternative payment methods (i.e. Sofort, iDEAL, giropay, etc.)

PayPal wallet payments keep your customer on your site without redirecting away to a PayPal page, which in itself can improve conversion rates. If the customer clicks the PayPal button, a modal popup will appear to prompt them to log in to their PayPal account and complete their purchase.

If the debit or credit card button is clicked, inline card fields will be displayed for the customer to complete.

Alternatively, the debit or credit card fields can also be configured to be displayed on the page immediately without an extra button click.

Note that the ability to display non-branded credit card/debit card fields directly on the page is currently subject to these country and currency limitations and an account evaluation by PayPal.

Alternative Payment Methods for Supported Countries

PayPal now supports alternative payment methods in various countries if that’s something you’d like to offer for your customers, such as Sofort, iDEAL, Bancontact, and giropay.

See the full list of supported alternative payment methods

Full Support for Subscription Sales

Our experience, and the experience of many other online sellers, has been that acquiring new customers almost always costs significantly more than retaining existing customers. By using PayPal Commerce Pro along with our Recurring Payments extension to offer subscriptions, you can dramatically increase customer retention.

This is extremely powerful for anyone selling licenses for software, services, courses, all access passes, and more. You can configure your products so that customers are charged on a recurring schedule until they cancel. Additionally, you can even connect recurring payments from multiple EDD sites to a single PayPal account, something that was not possible in the past.

With the PayPal Commerce Pro payment gateway and Recurring Payments extensions working together, there’s no need for customers to manually return and purchase again.

Approve or Decline Refunds Right Within WordPress

Refunds are never fun, but at least with PayPal they are easy. Instead of wasting time logging into your PayPal account to return funds to your customers, you can do it all with one click from your site’s dashboard. Edit any payment record, change the status to refunded, and Easy Digital Downloads will do the rest!

Easily Enable Test Payment Mode

If your store isn’t working properly, you are losing money. For this reason, testing every aspect of your site, especially any eCommerce functionality, is critical. Fortunately testing with PayPal Commerce is as simple as it gets. Just activate test mode and you’re all set to begin simulating customer actions and troubleshooting issues without it affecting your reports.

Simplified Setup for Connecting With PayPal

We know how busy you are. You have better things to do with your time than spend it installing, configuring, and testing your eCommerce software. Fortunately, connecting your store to PayPal with this Easy Digital Downloads extension is straightforward and painless. Once the plugin is installed and activated, connecting to PayPal is as simple as clicking the “Connect with PayPal” button in the settings. Once that’s done, you’re ready to start accepting payments. No more hassling with creating and entering identity keys, IPNs, and API keys.

Pricing

PayPal has a per-transaction charge which varies by country and payment type. See PayPal’s merchant fees page for more information.

The PayPal Commerce Pro extension for Easy Digital Downloads does not charge additional fees beyond your license purchase as long as this extension is installed and activated.

Global support

PayPal currently supports over 200 countries and 25 currencies.

• Currently supported countries
• Currently supported currencies

Note that the ability to display non-branded credit card/debit card fields directly on the page is currently subject to these country and currency limitations and an account evaluation by PayPal.

Learn more about PayPal and Easy Digital Downloads

If you want to better understand how our integration with PayPal works and how it can be configured, take a look at our documentation. If you still have unanswered questions, get in touch with us! We’re happy to help.

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With our Stripe integration, you can accept payments globally allowing your customers to pay by credit or debit card, ApplePay, GooglePay, AliPay, CashApp, Bank Transfer and more.

Easily Integrate Easy Digital Downloads With Stripe

Every version of Easy Digital Downloads come with our Stripe integration directly built in.

All you have to do is to click the Connect with Stripe button in the settings. Then you’ll be prompted to create a Stripe account or connect your existing account with your site. Once that’s done, you’re ready to start accepting payments!

Boost Sales Conversions With Intelligent Payment Methods

For any eCommerce site, the checkout page is the most important page on the entire site. Providing a simple, reliable, and fast way for buyers to give you money is critical. With Stripe, customers are never redirected elsewhere to complete their payments. All purchases are completed securely on your site.

The Easy Digital Downloads Stripe integration offers your users the ability to pay with a Credit Card, Bank Card, Google Pay, Apple Pay, Link by Stripe, AmazonPay, AliPay, Cash App and more, giving your store the ultimate in conversation optimization by only offering the payment methods the user has the ability to use.

Wallet based payment methods like Google Pay, Apple Pay, and Link allow your customers to check out via Touch ID, Face ID, and with payment cards saved to their digital wallets effortlessly, and you don’t have to write any code to make it happen.

Save Credit Cards for Faster Checkout

With the Link by Stripe integration that comes with Easy Digital Downloads, users can securely save their payment methods with confidence, manage their saved cards, and make follow-up purchases from your store by verifying their phone number. These cards are securely saved within Stripe’s Link service, so they can be used anywhere Link is supported.

Additionally, all customers who authenticate with Link can add, remove, and modify their saved cards right from your checkout, no additional details required. This makes the purchase process faster and easier, saving customers time and making you more money. And to ensure that customer data remains protected at all times, Link securely stores and presents the information, so that no sensitive data is ever stored on your site.

Full Support for Subscription Sales

Our experience, and the experience of many other online sellers, has been that acquiring new customers almost always costs significantly more than retaining existing customers. By using Stripe along with our Recurring Payments extension to offer subscriptions, you can dramatically increase customer retention.

This is extremely powerful for anyone selling licenses for software, services, courses, all access passes, and more. You can configure your products so that customers are charged on a recurring schedule until they cancel. Additionally, you can even offer a free trial before the subscription begins.

With the Stripe connected and Recurring Payments extension, there’s no need for customers to manually return and purchase again.

Fight Fraud before it happens!

Credit Card Fraud can have a huge impact on your business, and we want to help you avoid disputes and chargebacks. With the help of the Stripe team, you can be notified of payments that Stripe may determine to have ‘early fraud signals’, allowing you the chance to review the payment and refund it before a dispute or chargeback is filed. This helps you avoid any dispute fees and charges, saving you money.

Easy Digital Downloads comes bundled with an Early Fraud Warning email that you can configure to be notified when Stripe detects a possible fraudulent payment that they think might result in a chargeback.

Approve or Decline Refunds Right Within WordPress

Refunds are never fun, but at least with Stripe they are easy. Instead of wasting time logging into your Stripe account to return funds to your customers, you can do it all with one click from your site’s dashboard. Edit any payment record, change the status to refunded, and Easy Digital Downloads will do the rest!

Take Pre-orders Before the Products Become Available

If you need to collect and verify payment information from customers but wish to actually process the charge at a later time, this extension is the solution. This option is especially helpful for taking pre-orders. Customers can complete a normal checkout process when purchasing your products, and then you will be able to manually approve or decline the payments from your dashboard.

The Pre-Approval feature requires the purchase of an Extended Pass or higher, and the Stripe Pro Gateway add on be installed and activated.

Do I need to Upgrade to Easy Digital Downloads (Pro)?

Below is a list of features and what Easy Digital Downloads plan you need to be using to take advantage of them.

	Free	Personal	Extended	Professional	All Access
All Payment Methods
Fraud Warnings
Subscriptions
Pre-Sale Support*
Additional Fees	3% per transaction	3% per transaction	0%**	0%**	0%**

Easy Digital Downloads is a Verified Stripe Partner!

Easy Digital Downloads is a verified member of the Stripe Partner program. This program recognizes software that meets Stripe’s strict quality requirements and provides users of Easy Digital Downloads and Stripe with the confidence they need to trust us both with their payment integrations.

Earn More When you Connect with Stripe.

Our extensive research has shown that Easy Digital Downloads stores using Stripe earn 47% more revenue on average than those using PayPal.

What are you waiting for? Take advantage of powerful features such as subscriptions, on-site checkout, and saved cards to increase your conversions and make more money.

Get started with Easy Digital Downloads today!

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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:

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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All features. No hassle.

As an All Access Pass customer, you instantly gain access to every extension in our catalogue as well as any extensions we add in the future. You will receive one license key that can be used for any extensions.

Store owners, rest assured that we use several dozens of our own extensions to power this very site. We’d love to power yours as well.

Power users, have fun.

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When your customers purchase an All Access Pass, they can log in and browse your site for products they’d like to download. Instead of seeing the normal “Buy Now” button, they’ll see a “Download” button in its place. No more scrolling through long, un-searchable “purchase history” pages. Your products are already laid-out beautifully on your website and WordPress has built-in search functionality. All Access puts that to work by letting your customers download directly from each product’s sales page.

This makes for an amazingly smooth user experience when looking for a specific product from your store. In seconds, they can search, find, and download without needing to pay anything additional. They can download anything they want, whenever they want – and ONLY what they want. This makes it simple, easy, and useful to your customers.

Features:

• Set duration of access (any time length, from infinite down to a single day)
• Allow unlimited downloads or set download limits (for example, 1 download per day/week/month/year)
• Allow access to all products or limit by category(s)
• Allow access to specific price variations only
• Modify pass settings on a customer-by-customer basis
• Create unlimited “tiered” passes. For example “Gold”, “Silver”, and “Bronze” access levels.
• Restrict content (like embedded videos/text) on any page, post, or product.
• Allow products to be purchased one-by-one AND sell All Access.
• All Access Only mode so products can ONLY be downloaded using an access pass
• Accept early renewals
• Upsell to All Access beside any purchase button.
• Show “Login” link beside any product (useful for existing All Access customers)
• Tool to convert prior-to-installed purchases into All Access Passes
• Shortcode which shows anything to people WITHOUT an All Access Pass (useful for sales info)
• Shortcode which only displays products the customer can download using their All Access Pass
• Shortcode which tells customers all of their All Access Pass details (downloads left, etc)
• Discount Codes: require a valid All Access membership for specific discount codes to be used.

Integrations with other EDD extensions

• EDD Recurring: Sell auto-recurring access memberships
• EDD Software Licensing: Sell “Master Licenses” which work for all products and allows pro-rated upgrades
• Frontend Submissions & EDD Commissions: Split the profits from All Access fairly among Shop vendors.

Integrations with other WordPress plugins

• Restrict Content Pro (RCP): Migrate your members and their subscriptions from RCP to All Access in a single click

Duration periods

An All Access Pass will expire at the time interval you choose. When a customer’s All Access Pass expires, they won’t be able to download any more products unless they renew it by re-purchasing. This opens the door to recurring income as customers aren’t just paying for your files – but also the convenience of using your website. They can use your website like a utility “cloud” drive which saves them hard drive space and goes with them everywhere. This ease-of-use makes paying a recurring fee worthwhile. If you want to automatically accept recurring payments from your All Access customer (as opposed to making them manually repurchase each period), check out the EDD Recurring extension. It perfectly pairs with All Access.

Limit All Access to specific products

By default, All Access gives access to all products in the store. However, you can limit an All Access Pass so that it gives the customer access to just a specific category of products, or even specific product variations.

Sell Membership Levels

This also makes it possible to sell membership “levels”. For example, you could create 3 All Access Products called “Gold”, “Silver”, and “Bronze”. Then you could set the “Bronze” product to only give access to “small” product variations, “Silver” to give access to “medium” product variations, and “Gold” to give access to everything. Customers can then choose the membership level that works best for them and their budget.

Download limits

If you’d like to limit the number of downloads the customer can use per day, simply enter the number when creating the All Access Pass product. When the customer uses up their downloads per day, they will no longer be able to download anything else that day. You can limit their downloads on daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly periods.

Restricted embedded content

If you want restrict the viewable content of any page, post, or product so that only your valid members can view the content (like embedded videos or text), All Access does that as well. It includes easy-to-use shortcodes which you can wrap around embedded content so that only valid members can view it.

The content restriction shortcode built-into All Access goes much further than simply restricting content to your valid members. It also improves the user experience by smartly outputting a login form alongside the purchase button (only when needed – if the user is logged out). Your existing members won’t have to go hunting for login forms and non-members can easily purchase access. Once they have purchased and logged in, the restricted content is unlocked so they can view it.

Examples of how All Access could be used

Just about every Digital Shop could greatly benefit from using this extension. Here are a few that stand out:

– Photographers selling their own photos
– Stock media websites
– Multi-vendor marketplaces
– Royalty-Free media websites
– Websites selling software
– Video rental websites (like mini-Netflix sites)
– Music lesson websites
– Online training websites
– Selling courses
– Band/Artist websites (VIP content)
– Selling eBooks or audio books
– Selling sheet music, quilting instructions/templates, PDFs, etc.

Photographers selling their own photos

Selling images gains a whole new earning possibility with the ecosystem provided by EDD All Access. As a photographer, now your customers can use your website like a “cloud” – logging in and downloading photos whenever they need and paying you every month for access to your photo files. The convenience (searching, organization, etc) provided by your website will be well worth the price to customers who need your photos. Plus, customers who might have only purchased 1 or 2 photos have the option to pay more than they might have otherwise, while getting an extremely improved experience and access to way more photos.

Royalty-Free media websites

The same benefits that Photographers get can be applied to any type of media being sold. Whether you sell music, sound effects, video clips, or any other type of downloadable file, your customers get this same “cloud” experience which means they don’t need to clutter up their own hard drives with files they might need for a project. Instead, they simply log into your website and download what they need, when they need it. Your site can turn them into a recurring customer and your customers get a much improved experience. It’s a win-win situation for both you and your customers.

Stock websites/multi-vendor marketplaces

All Access is perfect for “Stock” marketplace websites with thousands of photos, songs, videos, graphics, or files from different vendors. Because of the integration with the EDD Commissions extension, splitting up a customer’s All Access Payment is handled automatically. By only paying commissions to vendors whose products were actually downloaded by the customer, you will attract high quality vendors who consistently make great products – and weed out vendors just looking to make easy money. You won’t be paying vendors unless they actually add value to your digital shop.

Large bundles

With a single click, any of your store’s categories can become “bundles” that are for sale. For example, a music website could sell an entire “Songs” category as a bundle. You don’t need to re-upload product files and your bundles can have an unlimited number of files in them.

Video rentals

Websites selling video rentals, video tutorials (like Lynda.com), music lessons, or any other type of restricted video content are simpler than ever. By using the included shortcodes to make embedded video content available only to active, paying, All Access customers, you can sell access to your already-hosted videos in minutes.

Integrations with other EDD extensions

Powerful integrations have been built with the major EDD extensions to unlock amazing new possibilities for your digital shop.

Sell recurring All Access passes with Recurring Payments

All Access has seamless integration with the EDD Recurring Payments extension, allowing you to sell All Access Pass memberships that automatically renew when the customer’s automatic subscription payments come in.

Split profits earned from All Access fairly through Commissions

If your digital shop has products from many different Vendors and you want to pay fair commissions to them, the All Access extension also integrates with the EDD Commissions extension to perfectly calculate a fair, weighted commission based on which Vendor’s products the customer chose to download with their All Access Pass. See how it works.

Sell master licenses through Software Licensing

Sell Software and use the EDD Software Licensing extension? It completely integrates there as well – allowing you to sell All Access Licenses. That means your customers can purchase a single license that works for all of your products and you don’t need to change a single line of code. When the All Access Pass expires, so does the license key. This is also great for Bundles of software that need to share a single license key.

For Easy Digital Downloads, this is the ultimate eCommerce membership solution. Transform your Digital Shop and start selling All Access Memberships today!

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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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Open the app to the Dashboard and immediately see your store’s sales and earnings.

Along with being able to view earnings for any time period, you can also view a list of recent sales, including the details for each individual sale, as well as your customers.

Search has been integrated for sales, products, customers and discount codes.

The app supports all of the endpoints of the EDD REST API as well as our extensions which support the EDD REST API such as Recurring Payments, Commissions and Reviews.

Price: Free

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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 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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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.

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!

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:

• ConstantContact
• CovertKit
• Sendinblue
• Drip
• Hubspot
• AWeber
• Mailchimp

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

Learn more about how Free Downloads works on our Docs

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Invoices can be viewed from your customer account page and/or from the email receipt. The generated invoice can be printed or downloaded as a PDF.

In many cases, digital purchases do not require certain details, such as an address. An optional button can allow customers to enter information they wish to appear on the invoice.

Frequently asked questions

Is this extension compatible with EDD Recurring Payments?

Yes it is! Customers can download invoices for their initial payments and all renewal payments.

Does this extension allow customers to update the billing details for an invoice?

Yes it does! Customers can generate a new invoice at anytime with updated billing details, including name, address, and tax ID number. However, this option can be disabled via the Invoice extension settings.

Does this extension support sequential order numbers?

Yes it does! It includes full support for the standard sequential order numbers in Easy Digital Downloads and the Advanced Sequential Order numbers extension.

Can site admins access the generated invoices?

Yes, an invoice can be accessed by the admin via the order details.

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A simple and powerful way to integrate your Easy Digital Downloads store with 5,000+ third party web services, including Highrise, Twilio, Campaign Monitor, MailChimp, Xero, Zendesk, Dropbox, Google Docs and more!

Sample use cases

• Email & SMS: Send notifications when a new purchase is made (e.g. Twilio, Gmail)
• CRM: Add leads/contacts and notes to your CRM (e.g Highrise, Salesforce)
• Accounting: Create invoices and contacts in your accounting system (e.g. Xero)
• Mailing List: Update your mailing list through MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, AWeber, SendGrid, and others
• Spreadsheets: Add orders to a shared spreadsheet or CSV file, perhaps through Google Docs, Dropbox, or Google Drive
• Contacts: Add customer details to your address book (Google Contacts)
• Help Desk: Add a ticket to your help desk system powered by Zendesk, Desk.com, or others
• Team Chat: Send an instant message to your team’s chat room using Hall, Slack, Hipchat, and others

Unlimited possibilities. With over 5,000 webapps and services supported by Zapier, there really is no limit to the things you can do with Zapiar and Easy Digital Downloads.

Make managing your online store easier by automating common tasks with Zapier.

Note: To enable Easy Digital Downloads as an integration in your Zapier account, click this link to gain access to the zap. You will need the extension and the connection in Zapier to use this integration.

Need a Zapier account? Signup via this link!

Requirements

• Easy Digital Downloads v2.0 or later
• a Zapier account
• WordPress 3.8 or later

The following Easy Digital Downloads core triggers are available:

• New customer
• Updated customer
• New order created
• Pending order created
• Order failed
• Order abandoned
• Order refunded
• Order revoked
• Pre-approved order created
• File downloaded

When using Recurring Payments, the following additional triggers are available:

• New subscription created
• Subscription renewal payment processed
• Subscription renewed
• Subscription completed
• Subscription expired
• Subscription failing
• Subscription cancelled

When using Software Licensing, the following additional triggers are available:

• New license key created
• License key status changes to active
• License key status changes to inactive
• License key expired
• License key disabled
• License key activated
• License key deactivated

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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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For this reason we’ve created the Dropbox extension for Easy Digital Downloads. It integrates your store with Dropbox so you can store and deliver files from a file-hosting service instead of your web host.

Store files separate from your web host

Your website and your digital product are different from each other. Why store them both in the same place? By using Dropbox along with Easy Digital Downloads, you can keep your website on your web server and your digital product files in your Dropbox account. Your customers will never know the difference but you will definitely appreciate the benefits of being able to manage your files where they belong.

Select existing files or upload new files from the download edit screen

Your product files will be stored separately from the rest of your site’s media, but it won’t affect your workflow. With this extension, you can use the standard media management popup to browse, select, and insert files from Dropbox into your download product.

Fast, secure delivery regardless of file size

Easy Digital Downloads automatically generates unique download links for every customer with configurable expirations to prevent unauthorized file sharing. This feature still works perfectly with the Dropbox extension. Plus, Dropbox makes it much easier to support large product files which otherwise commonly cause issues when uploaded directly to a site’s media library.

We are Easy Digital Downloads, developers on the Dropbox API and makers of Easy Digital Downloads File Store for Dropbox. “Easy Digital Downloads”, and “Easy Digital Downloads File Store for Dropbox” are not affiliated with, or developed, produced, or endorsed by Dropbox, Inc.

All trademarks, service marks, logos or trade names used to identify Dropbox or its products or services are the property of Dropbox, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions.

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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?

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Give your customers the ability to save and share their favorite products on your site with the Wish Lists extension. Increase your sales by giving potential buyers a great user experience – a pressure-free way to save products to review later or share with their friends and family. Check out the live demo below, and scroll down for more information on how Wish Lists will help grow your site traffic and customer base.

Take a closer look

Shows integration with the default WordPress 2013 theme

Why you need EDD Wish Lists

Customers

• Quickly add a product to a wish list, and create new wish lists without leaving the product’s page
• Create an unlimited number of wish lists. Guest users can store a list for 30 days (or until cookies are cleared). Registered users can store lists indefinitely
• Privacy controls. Users can either create a public or private list. Public lists can be shared and are viewable by anyone. Private lists are only viewable to the user.
• Share lists to various social networks via a unique short url. Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn
• Share lists via email to your clients, friends, or family.
• Add 1 or more price variations to a wish list at the same time (variable pricing and with multi-check supported)
• Add all items from a specific list to the cart in just 1 click. Only appears when users have more than 1 item in their list.
• Visual indication if a product in a list has already been purchased by them (must be logged in)
• Visual indication if a product (or price variation) is already in another wish list

Shop Managers

• View and manage your customer’s lists from the WordPress admin.
• Show a plain text link or button
• Choose from 5 different icons (works with both plain text link or button) or have no icon at all
• Disable guests from creating wish lists
• Easily modify the text for the “add to wish list” link
• Easily modify the text for the “add to cart” links when adding items to the cart
• Enable only the social sharing services that your customers can share to
• Supports both pretty/non pretty permalinks

Developers

• Extremely flexible layout. Use any page on your website to display a user’s wish lists, display individual wish lists, to edit wish lists, or to create new wish lists
• Collection, Light Box, Watch List, Wish List or Want List. Easily change the terminology
• Fully localized/translation-ready. Easily translate and use the plugin in your native language
• Super flexible links. Create your own add to wish list buttons with a simple function call and arguments
• Easily customize the different pages by copying the templates (5 total) into your child theme’s edd_templates folder
• Easily customize the CSS and/or fonts by copying into your child theme’s edd_templates folder
• Easily change the various messages displayed throughout the plugin from 1 simple filter
• Easily move the icon to the right of the add to wish list text by using 1 simple filter
• Easily change the size of all add to wish list links (plain or button) by using 1 simple filter, or by creating your own link and passing in a size.

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22 different file types supported

• First Name
• Last Name
• Email
• Text
• Textarea
• Dropdown
• Date
• Multi Select
• Radio
• Checkbox
• File Upload
• URL
• Repeat Field (multi column supported)
• HTML
• Honeypot
• reCaptcha 2.0
• Terms and Conditions
• Country
• Email
• Hidden
• Select
• Action Hook

Collect more information

Want more information about the company or people purchasing your products? Checkout Fields Manager makes it easy to collect additional information that can help you manage your orders more effectively.

Collect information like company name, bio, and business contacts:

Add conditional logic to fields

Checkout Fields supports conditional logic on almost all of the available form fields available. Customize the checkout form based on the cart total, items in the cart, or the user’s behavior so that you only ask users for the information when you need it.

Custom design services

Do you offer custom design services, such as logos or t-shirts? Checkout Fields Manager allows you to collect design proposals and mock-ups from customers when they submit an order.

Using conditional logic, only show the file upload field when one of your design services products is in the cart.

Ask your customers to upload things like logo sketches and project descriptions:

If you are selling custom services like this example, you might also want to take a look at the Custom Deliverables extension which makes it possible to send files to customers once the work has been completed.

Order notes and special requests

Want to enable customers to submit information about specific needs or requests when making a purchase? Easily add a simple “Notes” or “Special Requests” field:

Additional features

• GDPR compliance, allowing you to choose how submitted data is stored and allowing customers to view it and request its removal
• Integration with Zapier so you can use values submitted through custom checkout fields in Zaps
• CSV export support which makes it possible for customer records from EDD to be exported and include values of custom checkout fields
• Insert custom code with the Action Hook field for limitless possibilities
• Stop bots and spammers in their tracks with the reCAPTCHA 3 integration

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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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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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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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Vendor dashboard

With Frontend Submissions, users can register to become a vendor from the frontend and then, once approved, have complete access to their vendor dashboard. From the dashboard, vendors can create new products, update existing products, view orders, access earnings stats, communicate with customers, and edit their account details.

Commission tracking

Vendors that sell products through your marketplace need to be paid. Frontend Submissions is perfectly integrated with our Commissions extension to allow store owners to easily track and record vendor commissions on products sold in the marketplace. Earnings are available to vendors in their dashboard.

Paying vendors for their commission earnings is simple too! See our documentation for more information.

Vendor and product moderation

All great marketplaces include thorough review processes to ensure vendors and products on the site are high quality. To assist in keeping your marketplace full of top quality vendors and products, Frontend Submissions includes complete review processes for new vendor registration and product submissions.

Email notifications

To help site administrators stay aware of new product submissions and vendor registrations, Frontend Submissions includes complete email notification options. Emails can be sent when products are submitted, products are updated, vendors register, commissions are earned, and more. Each email can be configured separately to include exactly the information you want.

Drag-and-drop form builders

Frontend Submissions includes a complete drag-and-drop interface for building forms for vendor registration, product submission, and vendor account profiles, giving site administrators complete control over the form fields shown to vendors.

Vendor and customer communication

Communication between customers and vendors is important to maintaining a vibrant marketplace. Comments and questions left on products are available to vendors inside their vendor dashboard. Vendors can reply to pre-sale and support questions directly from their dashboard as well.

Store administrators can provide vendors with even better communication tools by utilizing the EDD Message extension, which provides vendors with an option to send email messages to customers directly from the vendor dashboard.

Product reviews and vendor feedback

Frontend submissions is fully integrated with the product Reviews extension, allowing vendors to easily get access to reviews left by customers on their products. The Reviews extension also allows customers to provide feedback on vendors, giving site administrators valuable insight into how happy customers are with vendors in the marketplace.

Extensive documentation

Frontend Submissions, and all integrated extensions, include thorough documentation to assist you in setting up your multi-vendor marketplace. You can find more information in our documentation portal.

Overview video

Screenshots

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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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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.

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

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.

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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This extension is designed primarily for those people selling mostly digital products (as EDD is designed to do) with a few physical products on the site, perhaps DVD versions of your video downloads, or perhaps CDs of downloadable audio files. Perhaps even t-shirts to complement your digital brand.

With this extension you can easily collect shipping info from your customers during checkout, set shipping rates for domestic and international orders, and mark payments as being shipped or not.

Shipping can be enabled on a per-product basis and can even be enabled on a per-price basis for products with multiple price options.

To make shipping orders even easier, a new option to export all unshipped orders is also added to the Downloads → Reports → Export screen.

Running a marketplace? Simple Shipping includes complete support for our Frontend Submissions extension.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Simple Shipping integrate with my preferred shipping company?

No, Simple Shipping doesn’t integrate with any shipping company. It simply collects the shipping location address and then the store owner is responsible for all shipping details.

Can I have variable shipping costs by weight?

No, Simple Shipping is flat rate only.

Can I have variable shipping costs by size?

No, Simple Shipping has no mechanism for dealing with product size.

Can I have variable shipping costs by distance?

No, Simple Shipping is flat rate only.

Can I charge a different rate for domestic and international shipping?

Yes, a single flat rate for domestic and a single flat rate for international.

Can Vendors set Shipping rates through Front End Submissions?

Yes.

Are shipping fees included in tax?

No.

Can I send tracking numbers and shipping confirmations to my customers?

Yes, tracking numbers can be added to each order and an email confirmation can be sent to the customer with the tracking numbers.

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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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Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

Does this Braintree Payment Gateway support the Recurring Payments extension?

No, not at this time but it will be added in the future.

Which countries does Braintree support?

Braintree is available in many countries and is constantly expanding to more. To see if your country is supported, visit the International section of the FAQ.

Does Braintree require that my site have an SSL certificate?

Yes, an SSL certificate should always be used with Braintree. All pages that include a payment form should be prefixed with https://, not http://.

Does this gateway support PayPal payments through Braintree?

No, this payment gateway does not support payments through PayPal.

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Recurring revenue provides more predictable income and allows you to make better forecasts and major decisions for your business.

Why use recurring billing

• Billing is automated, which means no more hassle of requesting a renewal payment or sending invoices every month or year.
• With an automated system, there are fewer late or missing payments.
• The risk of fraud is reduced because there’s less circulation of sensitive information.
• Customer retention usually goes up because they don’t have to make a new buying decision or take the time to re-enter their payment information every month or year.

The truth is, setting up recurring revenue with your online store might just be the most important business decision you ever make.

Multiple payment gateway support

Recurring Payments works with the following payment gateways:

• Stripe (included with Easy Digital Downloads)
• PayPal (included with Easy Digital Downloads)
• Authorize.net
• NETbilling Gateway (3rd party)
• Paddle Payment Gateway (3rd party)
• Payfast for Easy Digital Downloads (3rd party)

We highly recommend pairing Recurring Payments with our Stripe Pro Payment Gateway extension. It’s our most popular premium gateway for Easy Digital Downloads and how this site itself processes most of its transactions.

This is extremely powerful for anyone selling licenses for software, services, courses, all access passes, and more. Streamlined and fully integrated with the Recurring Payments extension, there’s no need for customers to manually return and purchase again.

In addition to Stripe being the preferred payment gateway for Easy Digital Downloads, we are also officially a Stripe verified partner. The Stripe partner program recognizes applications which meet their strict quality requirements and allows us to provide even better services to our customers.

Recurring Payments features

Flexible recurring payments

Easily set up recurring payments on any product, including daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, and yearly.

You can easily adjust the recurring periods, the number of times they recur, and how much they cost. Products with variable pricing can have recurring and non-recurring price options.

Customer emails

Deliver automated emails to customers when their subscription is nearing renewal, a renewal has been processed, a subscription has been cancelled, a renewal payment fails, and more.

By reminding your customers about anything related to their subscription you should see a drop in refunds and payment disputes. You can even include reasons they may want to renew, upgrade or subscribe to additional products from your store.

Multiple subscriptions

If you sell multiple recurring digital products, your customers can maintain any number of individual subscriptions to each one. This way they can easily cancel or renew as needed from their account area on your site.

Free trials

Want to let your customers try your product before they’re charged? You can set your subscription products to include free trial periods of any length. Billing details are collected during registration and customers are then charged automatically when the free trial is completed.

Signup fees

If you want to charge your customers a larger up-front payment, simply add a signup fee. For example, to charge subscribers $50 up front for a $20 per month product, just add a $30 signup fee.

Subscription management

With a complete interface for viewing and managing subscriptions, taking care of your customers and keeping an eye on your subscriptions is simple. Search by customer or filter by subscription status such as active, pending, and cancelled.

Select a subscription to drill in and find their payment in Stripe, PayPal, or other payment gateways. Manually change a subscription’s status, add notes and record manual payments with a couple of clicks.

Renewal revenue reports

Track your recurring revenue through beautiful, easy-to-read earnings graphs. See a breakdown of new purchases alongside renewal payments to get a better picture of your returning customer sales.

Limit file downloads

Optionally restrict file downloads of recurring products to just those customers with an active subscription. This way you can ensure customers who cancel their subscription no longer have access to your product downloads until they decide to purchase again or renew.

Discount codes

Discount codes can be set up to apply to the initial payment only or to each and every renewal payment.

Customer dashboard

Your customers can have a complete dashboard for viewing and managing their subscriptions. After logging in they can view their invoice, update their payment method, cancel their subscription, or even renew recently expired subscriptions.

When used with our Stripe Payment Gateway extension, your customers can quickly update their payment card without needing a store admin to do it.

Software Licensing integration

Recurring Payments is fully integrated with the Software Licensing extension to provide automatic license renewals anytime a subscription payment is processed. Customers can also view and copy their license keys from their dashboard at any time.

See our docs for integrating Recurring Payments with Software Licensing.

All Access integration

Recurring Payments is fully integrated with the All Access extension to make it possible for you to sell memberships to your customers which give them access to all of your store’s products. Recurring Payments will automatically renew an access period for the customer when it expires. If you need to limit access to specific products or set different durations for each pass, you can do that too! See all customizations.

When using Recurring Payments, Software Licensing, and All Access together, you can create “Master Licenses” which work for all products and allows pro-rated upgrades.

Content Restriction integration

Recurring Payments is fully integrated with the Content Restriction extension to make it possible for you to restrict posts, pages, bbPress forums, etc. to only those users who have purchased specific products and have an active subscription that is not expired.

Custom Prices integration

Recurring Payments includes complete support for Custom Prices, allowing site administrators to give customers the option of “pay what you want” subscriptions. This is a great solution if you’re accepting donations.

Learn more about Recurring Payments with Easy Digital Downloads

If you want to better understand how our Recurring Payments extension works and how it can be configured, take a look at our documentation. Lastly, if you still have unanswered questions, get in touch with us! We’re happy to help.

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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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This extension also includes options to alert you when discount codes are nearing expiration and/or max usage.

Pushover is a third-party service that can send notifications to your iOS and Android devices. This add-on integrates with the Pushover service to send you notifications any time a new sale is made through Easy Digital Downloads. It will tell you the item(s) that was sold and the amount of the purchase. It can also send daily alerts with a breakdown of sales and earnings.

This is a great add-on for keeping up to date with your store and knowing exactly when you have made a sale.

Requirements

There are several requirements in order to use this extension:

1. You must own an iOS or Android device.
2. You must have a Pushover account (free).
3. You must own a copy of the app ($3.99) for your respective device.
4. You must have the Pushover WordPress plugin (free) installed.

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License key management

Through simple, intuitive interfaces Software Licensing allows site admins to easily view and manage customer license keys.

Each individual license key includes a complete details screen that makes all relevant purchase and customer data easily accessible.

License key generation can be enabled on each product in your store separately and every product gets its own settings, allowing you to easily sell many different product variations and non-software products at the same time.

Licensing API

Software Licensing includes a complete and easy to use JSON API that can be used for activating, checking, and validating license keys. This provides software developers a way to remotely activate and validate license keys within software applications.

The API includes methods for the following requests:

• license activation
• license deactivation
• license validation
• latest version / update details

See the API documentation for examples.

License renewals

Included with Software Licensing is a complete renewal system to allow customers to renew their license keys when they are nearing expiration. The renewal system provides automated email reminders that can be sent to customers when a license is about to expire, and from the email customers can, with a single click, go directly to your store and renew their license key.

Renewal discounts can be configured by site administrators to help incentivize customers to renew their license keys.

Site administrators can also manually renew license keys on behalf of customers at anytime, or manually email renewal notices to customers.

Software Licensing also provides a complete reporting view that displays a graph of license renewals and earnings from those renewals over time so you can better understand how many customers renew their licenses.

The renewal system is also fully integrated with our Recurring Payments plugin, allowing you to set up automatic renewals with recurring subscriptions.

License upgrade paths

For sites that sell multiple versions of their software, allowing customers to upgrade from one level to the next is important. Software Licensing provides a complete system for creating upgrade paths for customers to upgrade between license levels.

Upgrade purchases can be prorated based on the customer’s existing purchase and can even include additional discounts. Upgrade paths can be configured to allow customers to upgrade between license levels of a single product or even to entirely different products.

Add one-click updates to your WordPress plugins and themes

With the complete API for providing automatic updates for WordPress plugins and themes to valid license key holders, this add-on will not only make your life as a distributor of products easier, but it will also thrill your customers by allowing them to update their themes and plugins to the latest version with a single click.

The automatic update system included with the add-on for both themes and plugins follows all of the core WordPress UI standards, so users won’t even know the difference.

Implementing the automatic upgrades into your theme or plugin is as easy as including a couple lines of code (all provided) in your theme or plugin files.

Software Licensing includes full support for parsing the readme.txt files for WordPress plugins, allowing you to include the same information in plugin update dialogs as plugins hosted on WordPress.org.

If you manage your plugin and/or theme development in GitHub or BitBucket, version releases can be distributed through Git with our Git Download Updater extension.

For WordPress and non-WordPress Products

Software Licensing has been built specifically with WordPress theme and plugin developers in mind, but can be used for any kind of software licensing through the included API. Included with the add-on are complete samples that illustrate how to implement license activation and checking in your theme or plugin, and how to setup automatic upgrades for your theme or plugin that are delivered through the licensing system.

Complete documentation for both WordPress and non-WordPress implementations are available. View documentation.

Beta versions

Successful software releases require testing and to properly test new versions developers need to release beta versions. Software Licensing includes support for releasing beta versions of your software so you can better test your releases before making them available to everyone.

Complete screenshots

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How much do you know about your customers?

• Do you know the exact path a customer took through your site before making a purchase?
• Do you know how they found your site?
• Do you know how long they waited before finally gaining the confidence necessary to give you their hard-won dollars?
• Do you know how much they’ve paid you over their lifetime as a customer?

With the User History add-on, you can know all of these things!

Learn From & Improve Your Customer Experience
This add-on makes it incredibly easy to review and then optimize visitor paths, taking out all the guesswork from improving your sales process and increasing conversions. Plus, it’s just downright fun to see where visitors are looking across your site before they decide to take action.

Get to know your top referrers and the search terms customers use to find your site (when available). Uncover the pages customers view most often before completing a sale. Figure out just how effective that email campaign really is!

Simple & Effective
There is absolutely no configuration necessary. The moment you activate this add-on it automatically begins tracking your customers’ browsing history as part of their completed purchases. You can view this history by navigating to the order details page, available in Downloads > Payment History. Additionally, you can also search your Payment History for pages that appear in customer browsing history.

Features

• View customer browsing history: See every page* the customer visited, in order, prior to completing a specific transaction.
• Referrer Information: Know which site referred your customer prior to making a purchase. If they searched for your site, and the search engine did not obfuscate their query (we’re looking at you, Google), you’ll be able to see the exact search phrase used as well.
• New in 1.5 – Time Spent & Time Elapsed: See how much time the visitor spent on each page prior to continuing in their purchase, as well as total time elapsed from start-to-finish.
• New in 1.5 – Actual Lifetime Customer Value: See all transactions completed by the same user, as well as their total spend across all completed, non-refunded, non-cancelled orders.
• New in 1.5 – Search by browsing history: See how many transactions included a particular page or referrer in the customer browsing history.
• New in 1.5 – Admin email notifications: This add-on includes two new email tags for use in your sale notification emails, {browsing_history} and {purchase_history}, making the data easily available to you no matter where you are!

A note about privacy:
This plugin uses a single cookie to keep track of the pages a visitor views on your site. The only data this add-on can access and store are the URLs of pages the customer browsed within your site along with a timestamp. No personal nor identifying data is ever gathered by this plugin in any way. In other words, neither you nor your customers have any reason to worry about privacy.

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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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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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This extension allows you to connect your Easy Digital Downloads store to your Amazon S3 account. Once the extension is activated and configured, you will be able to upload files to Amazon S3 through Easy Digital Downloads, connect products to files already hosted on Amazon S3, and rest easy knowing your customers will always have reliable and fast delivery of the download files they have purchased.

Extension Integrations

Frontend Submissions

This Amazon S3 extension features full support for our Frontend Submissions extension. When the Amazon S3 extension is activated and configured, all files uploaded by vendors through the Download Prices and Files field will be automatically transmitted to your S3 bucket.

Software Licensing

With full support for our Software Licensing extension, you’ll have peace of mind knowing your file updates will be delivered reliably, regardless of their size thanks to Amazon’s superior S3 infrastructure.

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Once activated, all posts, pages, forums, topics, and other posts from public custom post types will have a section added to the edit screen that allows you to select the product, or products, that the customer needs to have purchased in order to access the content.

Along with restricting the entire content of posts or pages, you can also restrict partial content areas with the [edd_restrict] short code.

Note: in order to access restricted content, customers must create accounts on your site during purchase.

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• Top Sellers – A list of EDD Top selling downloads.
• Related Downloads – A list of EDD related downloads. Works on a download’s single view.
• Most Recent – A list of EDD most recent downloads.
• Featured Download – A hand-picked featured EDD download.
• Random Download – A random EDD download.
• Most Commented – A list of EDD most commented downloads.
• Downloads Archive – A monthly archive of your site’s EDD downloads.
• Downloads Calendar – A calendar of your site’s EDD downloads.

Other Features:

• Carefully crafted with WordPress coding standards.
• Caches output for a better performance.
• It is possible to individually enable or disable the different widgets.
• Ready for internationalization.
• Languages: English, Spanish.

Click the thumbnail to view a screenshot of all widgets.

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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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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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This payment gateway allows you to connect Easy Digital Downloads to your 2Checkout account and process payments nearly anywhere in the world.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

What account type do I need to have with 2Checkout (Verifone)?

To use the gateway you are required to have a 2Sell or 2Subscribe account with 2Checkout. If you wish to offer recurring downloads (subscriptions) then your account should be 2Subscribe, otherwise, pick 2Sell.

Does this 2Checkout (Verifone) plugin support on-site purchases?

Yes, it does. You can process credit/debit cards on-site or send customers off-site and allow them to complete their purchase on 2Checkout.com

Does this 2Checkout (Verifone) Payment Gateway support the Recurring Payments extension?

Yes, it does!

Does this plugin support Inline checkout?

Not at this time.

Which countries does 2Checkout (Verifone) support?

The available Currencies can be seen here and a detailed list of Countries available can be seen here

Does 2Checkout (Verifone) require that my site have an SSL certificate?

If you use On-site purchases and process credit/debit cards, yes, you must have an SSL certificate. If you use the off-site purchase processing and direct all customers to the 2Checkout site to complete the purchase, all sensitive information is handled on the secure 2Checkout servers, so no SSL certificate is required but it’s recommended.

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When purchasing downloads through the Authorize.net gateway, users enter their credit card details during the checkout process and never leave your site, resulting in a better experience for the user, and more successful conversions for you.

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Note: The PayPal Pro and Express extension is a legacy product. If it’s supported in your country, we recommend using PayPal Commerce Pro for your PayPal gateway.

This two-in-one gateway add-on allows you to accept payment through PayPal Payments Pro and PayPal Express Checkout. When purchasing downloads through PayPal Pro, users enter their credit card details during the checkout process and never leave your site, resulting in a better experience for the user, and more successful conversions for you. When checking out with PayPal Express, the user experience is very similar to PayPal standard, except it is more secure.

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

Does this PayPal Gateway support the Recurring Payments extension?

Yes it does! However, customers with German PayPal accounts are not permitted to purchase subscriptions with PayPal.

Does this plugin support In-Context Checkout?

Yes it does! Since version 1.4, the In-Context Checkout for PayPal Express can be enabled from the Payment Gateways settings tab.

Which countries does this extension support?

PayPal Website Payments Pro is only available to merchants in the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia.

PayPal Express is available in most countries. See the complete list here.

Do I need an SSL certificate?

If using PayPal Pro to process credit cards, you must have an SSL certificate. An SSL certificate is not required for PayPal Express, though it is highly recommended. See our documentation for assistance with obtaining an SSL certificate.

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