Easy Digital Downloads – Sell Digital Files & Subscriptions (eCommerce Store + Payments Made Easy)

eCommerce without limits

We believe that your passion for creating shouldn’t be limited by your choice of ecommerce software. Easy Digital Downloads gives you unlimited products with no hidden listing fees, unlimited transactions, and provides unlimited possibilities.

Too often, you must choose between powerful and cheap. Not with Easy Digital Downloads. It’s free and easy to start with limitless possibilities, which is why some of the most popular digital ecommerce businesses trust Easy Digital Downloads with their store.

Within minutes of starting the Setup Wizard, you’ll have access to all the features you need to start selling your digital products today, including an integrated shopping cart, flexible payments (like credit cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay), a clean and optimized checkout, customer management, detailed ecommerce reports, secure file storage, discount codes, and more.

Easy Digital Downloads Pro
This plugin is the lite version of the Easy Digital Downloads Pro plugin that comes with all the ecommerce features you will ever need, including subscriptions, custom payment forms, email marketing tools, additional payment processors, and more. Purchase the best premium WordPress ecommerce solution now!

Effortless payments with a checkout form

With 1-Click connections to the most popular payment processors, you’ll be selling within minutes, allowing your customers to checkout with ease with the ability to choose from the most popular payment methods in their region of the world. With Stripe and PayPal, your ecommerce store is ready for global payments.

What can I say? Stripe is my go-to payment processor, and without [EDD] I don’t know what I would do. Connect EDD to your Stripe account in seconds, and you’re done!
Matt Whiteley – Whiteley Designs

Easy Digital Downloads is a verified member of the Stripe partner program, so you can process payments with confidence, knowing that EDD meets their strict quality standards.

When you use the included payment processor integrations, you get immediate access to the following:

• Credit Card Payments
• Apple Pay
• Google Pay
• PayPal
• PayPal Credit
• CashApp
• Link by Stripe
• Venmo
• Sofort
• and more!

With our included integrations, new payment methods are added when they become available, usually without any updates or changes!

Make decisions with powerful reporting

Unlock the full potential of your digital store with Easy Digital Downloads — the best WordPress ecommerce solution renowned for its powerful reporting features. Dive deep into the heart of your digital business with tools designed not just to give you insights into what is happening in your business now, but also to help you make decisions that will help you grow your business.

With the included date comparison tools, you can compare your sales, revenue, customers, and other data from one period to another, giving you the insights to make informed decisions and accelerate your growth. Some of the data points you get access to include:

• Customer growth
• Revenue and Sales
• Filtering by product
• Detailed category and tag reports
• Revenue and Sales by Country
• Revenue and Sales by Payment Method
• and more!

Full Easy Digital Downloads Feature List

• Responsive Checkout Form – With the included Checkout Block, you get a responsive and customizable checkout form that is sure to convert.
• Digital Product Management – Create as many digital products as you want, with no added costs. Create single products, product variations, and product bundles.
• Discount Codes – Run sales and promotions with the built-in discount code management. Set start and expiration dates, product limitations, price limitations, and reward your best customers with custom discount codes.
• eCommerce Reports – Easy Digital Downloads provides the best reporting available in WordPress ecommerce with the included reporting features. You’ll get access to valuable insights into the growth of your ecommerce business.
• 1-Click Payment Setup – Go from Install to Selling in a matter of minutes with our official integrations with Stripe and PayPal.
• Flexible Payment Methods – With the included integrations for Stripe and PayPal, it’s even easier for you to collect payments and sell access to your digital products.
• File Downloads Protection – Your downloadable products are safe with Easy Digital Downloads. When a user purchases your product, we generate a secure and unique link that allows only your customers to download your files from your ecommerce site.
• Email Receipts – The included email receipts are fully customizable to ensure that your brand is represented in your receipts.
• Customer Management – Track your customer lifetime value and purchase history with the included Customer Management system. Quickly access a customer’s entire purchase history, add notes, and link to WordPress users.
• Refund and Dispute Handling – With our automated order management tools, EDD ensures that your records are accurate and customers only have access to files when they should.
• Customer Profile Editor – Give your users to their purchase history and profile management with the included blocks.

Extensible, adaptable, and open source — Easy Digital Downloads is created with designers and developers in mind. With our extensive list of integrations as well as the included hooks and filters, the possibilities are endless.

We’ve made it even easier, with 1-Click installation of code snippets via WPCode.

EDD gives me a solid platform out of the box, with the flexibility of being able to customize anything I want or need to. The best of both worlds!
Brian Hogg – SellingPlugins.com

Grow revenue by going Pro

With our Pro plans you can get access to additional features and super-charge your ecommerce business. Some of our most popular features in Pro are:

• Subscriptions – Build a sustainable ecommerce business and add recurring revenue to your store by selling subscriptions.
• Reviews – What better way promote your digital products than by having your happy customers do it for you! Schedule automatic review requests, show average ratings and rating breakdowns.
• Content Restriction – Restrict content on your site and only share it with customers who have purchased specific products. Content Restriction is great for membership sites and customer-only information.
• Software Licenses – Sell activatable license keys for software products, including WordPress Themes/Plugins, desktop software, SaaS solutions, and more.
• Frontend Submissions – Build a full-featured vendor marketplace and grow a community of creators.
• Commissions – Pay your vendors with percentage or flat rate commissions when their products are purchased.
• Free Downloads – Use free products as lead magnets to grow your email list.
• Recommended Products – Add automatically generated recommendations to your products and checkout experience.

…We’ve got over 70+ premium features and integrations!
These are just a few of the features available to help you optimize your digital store and sell more digital products. View our full list of premium ecommerce features.

Get help

Easy Digital Downloads is backed by world-class technical support from our globally distributed full-time support team. We also have an extensive documentation site available. If you’re looking for faster support via email, we encourage you to purchase an Easy Digital Downloads pass.

Looking to change e-Commerce solutions?

Easy Digital Downloads is the perfect digital e-Commerce alternative to Etsy, Gumroad, WooCommerce, Shopfiy, BigCommerce, or Wix.

You can use Easy Digital Downloads to sell your digital products with less fees than Gumroad or Etsy, and create unlimited products, and never pay a listing fee.

If Easy Digital Downloads doesn’t quite fit your needs, we suggest you try WP Simple Pay, the #1 Stripe Payments Plugin for WordPress.

Notes

A Message from our President

Since 2012, I’ve been helping build Easy Digital Downloads and making it the best eCommerce solution for digital creators. Now, as the President of the company, my commitment continues to be making Easy Digital Downloads the most effortless way to manage your ecommerce store, handle billing, protect your files, integrate with payment processors, and sell your digital products.

I’m proud of what we’ve built and our world-class customer support team that is here to help you succeed. I hope you enjoy using Easy Digital Downloads.

Thank You,
Chris Klosowski

Branding guideline

Easy Digital Downloads is a product by Sandhills Development, LLC. When writing about the digital eCommerce plugin by Easy Digital Downloads, please make sure to always reference us by full name before you use our short name of EDD.

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