Improvement: Stripe — Express Checkout settings are now disabled if taxes are enabled for the store. Fix: Not enough padding on file upload field. Fix: Stripe — The pre-approval payment status was being registered when it was not supported.
Fix: Registration form was not validating all fields. Tweak: Re-Organized the gateway list in settings. Tweak: Adjust SendWP setting description. Tweak: Removed Jilt callout in Advanced Email settings. New: Inform store owners of Recapture for abandoned cart recovery. Fix: Imported CSV files were not being properly deleted after the import was completed. Fix: The Colorbox JavaScript resources are no longer needed, but were still being enqueued.
Fix: Client-side validation of the discount field could cause unexpected issues with the checkout when applying a discount. Fix: The discount amount was incorrect in the sales API endpoint when it was applied to a variably priced product. Fix: When querying the customers API endpoint, it was possible for an undefined variable notice to be logged. Fix: The password fields on the profile editor had incorrect attributes. Fix: After a failed login, the reset password link always linked to the checkout page.
Fix: PayPal Standard: Negative fees were being applied twice. Fix: Account for an undefined index of edd-cart-downloads. Fix: The payment icons on checkout were missing alt tags.
Fix: It was possible to save a non-numeric value for a discount. Fix: Improve PHP 7. Fix: W3 Validation was failing due to duplicate id attributes. Fix: Some checkout customizations were not possible due to using. New: EDD Login forms now support plugins that limit failed login attempts.
Fix: When using PHP 7. Fix: The default return condition when determining if a purchase has reached its download limit was erroneously removed. Fix: When determining the discount amount for a cart item, it was possible to enter into a situation that caused a division by zero warning. Fix: Only count the number of downloads for a purchase when download counts are not unlimited. Fix: Fixed a typo in the settings text.
New: Added information about the Jilt integration into the email settings. New: Promotional elements added to EDD admin screens. Fix: Improved the compatibility of file downloads with hosting configurations that involve symlinks for uploads.
New: Added support for SendWP to help with email deliverability. Fix: Corrected an issue with multisite on versions of WordPress greater than 5. Fix: Made it possible to add products to product-less payments. Fix: Fixed the link to filter file download logs by customer.
Fix: Improved strength of file download link hashes. Fix: Improved local file location detection. Fix: Discount start times were not accounting for GMT offsets. Fix: Improved reliability of the State field when selecting different countries. Fix: WordPress 5. Fix: Corrected a conditional check typo when determining if settings page is EDD related. Fix: Slashes not removed when saving profile name field.
Fix: Item amount set to 0. Fix: Privacy policy text not shown if terms of use checkbox is disabled. Fix: Log messages not saved to debug log file if they contain non UTF-8 characters. Fix: Insert Download media button would not output expected plain text styles.
Fix: Adding a discount code on a cart with free products caused a division by zero error. Fix: Removed unnecessary clearfix rule from CSS. New: Repositioned and refactored the pagination in the [downloads] shortcode to allow better customization. Fix: Corrected an issue with mobile file downloads sometimes getting corrupted.
Fix: Prevent the vertical scrollbar in Firefox when hovering over tooltips. New: Added the date generated to system info. Fix: File Download Log Migration from version 2.
Fix: Saving an order in the admin when prices were inclusive of tax could cause incorrect item price amounts to be saved. Fix: PHP 7. Fix: The process of adding past purchases to a new user now verifies the user has an email address. Fix: The file download log export did not contain the name of the user who downloaded the file. Fix: Attempting to add a new customer to an order gave unexpected results when using the email address of an existing customer.
Fix: The Shop Accountant role was not able to manage the tax exclusion at a product level. Tweak: Easy Digital Downloads sessions can now be started when in the wp-admin path. New: When taxes are being recalculated at checkout, an AJAX indicator is now shown below the purchase button. Dev: Complete Checkout button is no longer required to be a submit input.
Fix: The toggle link to view the Privacy Policy was not working when the Terms of Agreement were not visible. Fix: Searching payments by discount code was not working. New: Added action hook above shortcode download list.
Fix: Stats API Endpoint requests were failing when pseudo-date ranges were used other than yesterday and today. Fix: There was a typo in Italian provinces. Genova should have been Genoa. Fix: Corrected an issue with showing payment method icons when using EDD in a non-standard installation. Fix: Corrected a CSS conflict in the customer card view for the additional emails section. Fix: In some cases, the customer list table could throw PHP warnings when calculating the pagination. Fix: Improved PHP 7.
Fix: Incorrect or missing textdomains were corrected or added. Fix: Corrected the setting title for completing free purchase button. New: Add support for a new Privacy Policy checkbox. New: Added a class parameter to [downloads] shortcode arguments. New: Fields are now auto-mapped during the CSV import. Dev: Many improvements to the return and access tags in DocBlocks.
Dev: Updates to our Grunt configuration. New: Support was added for resume and ranged download links. New: The customer name, email, and price ID was added to sales log export. New: Upgraded to the latest version of the Chosen library. New: Added the variable price ID to the download log entries.
New: Added a helper to retrieve and filter discount status labels. Fix: Download widget would cause PHP warnings when no tags were attached to a product. Fix: Improved support for payment method icons when not using a standard WP Install directory format. Fix: Prevent a possible corrupted download file by verifying no output buffers exists. Fix: Opt-in telemetry data was sending the incorrect Locale. Fix: Checkboxes on Advanced Settings of variable prices would not always save on the first try.
Fix: Prices were possibly incorrect when using the Quick Edit feature. Tweak: The customer UI now shows the country and state name, instead of their codes.
Tweak: The cart contents method returned boolean false instead of an empty array when the cart was empty. Tweak: Reduced the blocking calls in the opt-in telemetry requests to help with performance. Dev: Added filters for new user notification email.
Dev: Added filter and email heading to New Sale Notifications. Dev: Added hooks before and after downloads shortcode grid. Fix: Forced file data to be sanitized as an array. New: Added new filter to allow disabling X-Accel-Redirect when downloading files.
New: Enabled gateways are now included in the opt-in telemetry data. Fix: Changed span elements to div elements for the schema markup. Tweak: Added found payments to the hooks before and after the purchase history shortcode. Fix: Campaign strings on Integrations were not consistent.
Fix: Prevent an edge case around adding past purchases to new users. Fix: Searching by custom order number only worked if a suffix or prefix is included. Fix: Corrected some translation issues. Tweak: Removed MercadoPago from list of extensions in readme. Fix: Invalid translation line while processing purchase. Fix: Improved the verbiage of the discount code amount description. Fix: Improved the new Debug Log View usability. Fix: Custom date ranges for detailed product earnings break on multi-month views.
Fix: Discount validation errors could occur when recovering pending payment. Fix: The product notes div was being rendered when no product notes added to download. New: Added link to ipinfo.
Tweak: Update library for array2xml. Tweak: Added filters to allow modfiying the payment list table gateway filter selector. Tweak: Corrected some spelling errors. Please verify any variable priced bundles you may have configured. Fix: File download errors could occur if the stream type was no longer registered.
Fix: During purchase, the customer name was set to email if last name was empty. Fix: Corrected many non-numeric value and data handling issues in PHP 7. Fix: Corrected an issue with Chosen placeholders. New: The country name has been added to the payment export. New: Hyphens are now allowed in discount codes.
New: The Customer ID is now included in the sales report. Tweak: Added better responsiveness in WordPress admin. Tweak: Fixed a typo in the docs for the payments create CLI command. Tweak: Wrapped discount fields in tags. New: Made URLs included in payment notes clickable links. Fix: Deleted products could not be removed from payments. Fix: Incorrect pagination was being used when viewing sales logs. New: Added support for Angola country, municipalities, and currency.
New: Increased the width of the discount amount field when adding or editing discounts. Tweak: Updated form styling for login and register forms. Tweak: Removed clearing divs from the [downloads] shortcode. Fix: Negative product fees were not properly affecting subtotal used for tax calculations.
Fix: Editing item price on a payment caused incorrect calculations when item price contained thousands separators. Fix: Resuming payment for guest payments while logged out could incorrectly prompt the user to login. Tweak: Quantities no longer show on the cart widget when they are disabled. Tweak: Improvements to the consistency of settings descriptions. Fix: Discounts with multiple exclusions could be applied to excluded products.
Fix: Customer query pagination did not work correctly. Fix: Removed custom widths on the primary column of list table.
Fix: Prevent plain text purchase links from looking like buttons still. Fix: Revert adjusting purchase amount when quantity changes. Fix: Variable pricing bundle purchases gave access to incorrect product files.
Tweak: Update to 1. Fix: Start date not set properly in reports all pre-set ranges. Fix: Recovering a guest payment prompted user to login to complete the purchase.
Fix: There was a typo in the link to our site when showing an error message for a license key. New: Redesigned and improved functionality of the purchased downloads when viewing a payment.
New: The applied tax rate is now saved in the payment meta. New: Created a tool that generates CSV earnings report. New: Reduced number queries run during reports, improving performance. New: Added a link to the discount edit screen when viewing a payment. New: Added an option to the cart widget that allows it to be hidden when empty. New: Created tool to export all Logs. New: Quantity fields can now be disabled on individual download products. New: Added parent theme name to System Info when a child theme is detected.
New: Added lost password URL to log in form on checkout. New: Moved edd-ajax. New: Variable priced bundles can now fully support a variable priced item being bundled. Tweak: Default gateway can no longer be set to a disabled gateway. Tweak: Adjusted error message returned when a discount code is not yet active.
Tweak: Removed loading of the icon-font in the front end. Tweak: Improved the metabox for managing the customer when editing a payment. Tweak: Settings, Reports, Tools admin page now have headings. Tweak: The gateway selector is now shown when a user has an error during checkout. Tweak: Improved the layout and responsiveness of the customer details screen. Tweak: Buy Now options and buttons are now disabled if multiple gateways are enabled.
Tweak: Improved the markup for the shortcode-login. Tweak: Unit tests no longer hit the network. They are so much faster now. Tweak: Fixed some links in the readme. Tweak: Fixed unit tests to work with the new WordPress core 4. Fix: Earnings by Category estimates were not correct. Fix: Item card views customers, licenses, subscriptions, etc size improperly.
Fix: The wrong class name was on the Checkout state input. Fix: Amazon Gateway settings are now checked before loading the scripts for Amazon Payments. Fix: The payment notes were included in normal comment count. Fix: Disabling API request logging was not working.
Fix: Undefined index notices could be triggered during the login process on checkout. Fix: Undefined index notice was shown on the dashboard widget. Fix: The history-downloads. Fix: When adding fee to cart, we now preserve the decimal precision. Fix: Recounting store stats now resets the report transients. Fix: Improved the fault tolerance and error handling of creating discount codes. Fix: Product import now defaults to the main admin user if the author does not exist. Fix: Multi-option purchase mode and variable prices work better with buy now buttons.
Fix: Supplying an invalid date range on reports could produce an incorrect graph. Fix: Variable Pricing options were inconsistently being shown and hidden when toggled. Fix: When single day ranges were used on Payments list table, order status counts were not loading. Fix: When changing report years, the report data could have been incorrect. Fix: Payment counts were incorrect on the Payments list table when custom dates were used.
Fix: Certain hosting configurations caused the usage tracking notice to be improperly escaped. Fix: Admin scripts were not requiring jquery-form. Fix: Upgrade routines could calculate incorrect number of total steps. Fix: The notice about being in test mode was not linked to the correct settings page. Fix: Checkout could require a state even if the country had no states associated with it.
Fix: Creating a discount would not save the product requirements and exclusions on first save. Fix: PHP Warning was being caused by the new beta setting in the extension updater.
New: Add framework for the new Software Licensing beta support. New: Support iOS app one-click configuration. New: Add hook after cart quantities are updated. New: Allow exporting the file download history of a specific product. New: Add action after discount is added to the cart. Tweak: Correct branding of necessary assets.
Tweak: Block self-pings in tracking check-ins. Tweak: Update the Insert Download media button icon to use Dashicons. Tweak: Allow download admin icon to be more easily customized.
Fix: Corrected translation for login shortcode redirect description. Fix: Improved the caching of stats transients for better performance. Fix: API Keys were not able to be copied from user profile. Fix: Corrected link to the iOS application. Fix: Use new iPhone icon. Fix: Tooltip styles had a conflict with Gravity Forms. Fix: Multiple instances of cart widget was causing conflicts when adding or removing items.
Fix: API Key list table was unreadable on mobile. Fix: Changed uses of jQuery. Fix: Z-index of tooltips needs to be increased. Fix: Products endpoint returns empty response on v2 of the API. Fix: Chosen dropdowns cause a horizontal scroll bug in RTL. Fix: New user email strips login link on plain text email. Fix: Country and state chosen fields on view order details broken. Fix: Billing address fields are not saving in the payment details page when edited.
Fix: Not all settings and data removed when uninstall is run. Fix: Payment date is not included in the payment history export. Tweak: Resend Receipt button allows selecting which associated customer email address to send receipt to. Fix: PHP notice caused by localized script loader.
Fix: Repeatable rows not properly adding data-key attribute for variable price select boxes. Fix: Undefined index warning when adding download details widget within the customizer. Tweak: Correct typo in country list for Philippines. Tweak: Upload file text is misaligned within the input field. Fix: Redirect to Checkout setting was not keeping custom query string variables when direct cart URLs. Fix: Cart Widget did not properly refresh the page when purchase links were present on the page.
Fix: Remove discount cron which could cause discount codes incorrectly changing to inactive without warning. Fix: Verify discount is in array before unsetting the discount.
Fix: Undefined Indexes when assigning new user ID to customer details. Fix: Local files not being properly found when on a Windows server. For many stores, none of these actually need to be changed. That is one great thing about EDD, is that it works right out of the box. But here are some of the additional options you have:. Remember, depending on what extension you use, this could also be services offered instead of physical files. Then give your download a price.
Variable pricing is also available with a click of a button. You can then upload your digital file, whether it is a. The next step is to ensure that your folder where your digital download files are kept is secured. Otherwise, someone could just browse to the location and download the file for free. Note: This example is for. Change accordingly for other file types.
If you are a Kinsta user, you can open up a quick support ticket with our team and we will add this for you. After adding the above code, users that try to browse directly to your download file will simply be redirected to your homepage. The last step is to add a way for users to purchase the digital download files on your WordPress site. By default, each download will have its own WordPress page with a purchase button.
But a lot of you are probably selling licenses in which you might simply want one pricing page. We recommend using a plugin like Easy Pricing Tables.
You can then use custom Add to Cart links , along with the pricing tables to create a perfect shopping experience. Here is an example of one which uses the download ID along with variable pricing. And here is an example of an EDD store pricing pages, along with custom add to cart links and variable prices.
Your EDD store will automatically walk people through the checkout process using the pages it created during installation.
It will generate an email to both you and the customer with their download file and license key if applicable , and create a WordPress account for them to be able to log back in and access their past purchases. Or if you later refund a product, it will automatically update EDD to show as refunded, as well as update your total earnings for that month.
Want to create discount codes for Black Friday? No problem. You can select a percentage off of your product or a flat rate amount. You can set an expiry date and even limit the use once per customer. Having a sale every now and then to pump up your product is super easy with EDD. It lets you launch an affiliate program in just a matter of minutes. Start letting your customers sell your product for you. It provides all the information you need to pay your affiliates monthly and provide them their own discount codes in which they can give to their readers to help better sell your product.
Taxes can be downright confusing when it comes to Easy Digital Downloads. Thankfully the following solutions can help make it a little easier. This includes things such as auto-invoicing, charging VAT to countries which require it, etc. While using an existing third-party shopping platform like Etsy may seem like the easiest option, creating your own site is always the preferred method for those wanting to take it to the next level. Easy Digital Downloads stands out as a great WordPress e-commerce plugin for a few reasons.
All of that and much more, in one plan with no long-term contracts, assisted migrations, and a day-money-back-guarantee. Fantastic article thanks. A lot of people need to create private areas within Easy Digital Downloads — for example to create a members-only downloads store, client-specific downloads or a public EDD store with separate members area. It would be great if you could add a link to my tutorial Password Protect Easy Digital Downloads Categories: 3 Easy Ways to the resources section of your article.
This will help people to build on the advice in your tutorial and use Easy Digital Downloads in more advanced ways. Nice article. Thanks for a great informative article. You mentioned about traffic. Is WooCommerce problematic for high traffic?
EDD will load faster from the get-go and will need less performance optimization as you grow. The development team behind EDD is always fast to push out updates and patches as needed. That is just unheard of, at least for me.
That is more than a Shopify enterprise. I know they are also behind the RCP pro which is what I am considering as well. Looking also at Memberpress and they seem to offer a way of selling digital files as well.
It is a tough call, I guess, for everyone. I am planning to add a membership and also sell digital files and would have gone with aMember pro, had they provided more tutorials and had there been more developers familiar with it.
Thanks for the article. Plus today we ran into another massive bug that was supposed to be fixed with WooCommerce months ago. That was the last straw. Hopefully EDD will be a better experience. No problem Kyler!
The developers on the EDD team in my experience are much faster to patch and fix things. Their Software Licensing extension is awesome! The big downside of EDD for digital seems to be the difficulty in finding any simple way to get rid of the troublesome billing details section at checkout, which are not required for digital products and which are a major cause of cart abandonment.
When a paying member is logged in we want them to just click a link to download a file no cart and checkout. We do count the number of downloads and give them a limit based on membership. Please try again later. What does this paypal checkout message mean? You would be a massive help if you can fix this. It means you checked the box in paypal payment settings so that all data is encryted from your site. They have a freemium business model. Thanks for the great article! I am going to try EDD for my first app.
I would really appreciate if you guys can give the answer. Like Tom said above, we can download the free version from the WordPress repository. You may cancel your subscription at any time. Extensions subject to yearly license for support and updates. My question is, are the free version and premium the same except that the later one offer support and update?
I figured it out! The free version of the Easy Digital Downloads from WordPress only has basic features that allow you to create a store for selling your eBook or other downloadable files. However, if you want to sell License for your App, then you need to buy their premium plugin called Software Licensing. Hey Dr. Bob, The core Easy Digital Downloads plugin is completely free and always has been.
This is a great way to start out and test how EDD works before investing in an extension to take it to the next level. Very insightful article! Easy Digital Downloads Plugins are the best plugins for those who want to sell their products digitally. I recommend these Plugins because I have tried them. By submitting this form: You agree to the processing of the submitted personal data in accordance with Kinsta's Privacy Policy , including the transfer of data to the United States.
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Learn more. Kinsta Blog. Brian Jackson , April 1, Why Choose Easy Digital Downloads? EDD fast load times Another huge benefit of Easy Digital Downloads from a user perspective is that it is very easy to use.
You can easily ask for help on the WordPress support forums. Pippin himself is actually very active on there.
As of writing this, 30 out of 39 tickets had been marked solved over the last 2 months. They have helpful how-to videos, tutorials, and a very extensive and well-documented knowledgebase. EDD default payment processors EDD offers three payment gateways by default Paypal, Amazon, and manual but many others are available as extensions. Easily accept credit card payments and process them with the Stripe payment gateway extension without customers leaving your site.
EDD Social Discounts : This extension lets users give their customers a discount if they share links to the product pages on social media. It also has the option of turning off the discount function and then it becomes a simple sharing tool. Mailchimp : This is an outstanding extension for email marketing purposes as it automatically subscribes customers to a Mailchimp mailing list.
Subscriptions can be filtered according to the product purchased. Cross-Sell and Upsell : This marketing extension suggests additional products to customers during the checkout process. It can also give customers an upsell option, which suggests a similar but slightly higher valued product than they currently have in their cart.
For example, products can be bundled into a package that includes that product, plus additional products.
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