Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy vs WooCommerce

The Best WordPress eCommerce Plugin to Sell Digital Products Easy Digital Downloads is the most powerful WordPress ecommerce plugin built specifically for selling digital products and digital downloads. Whether you sell ebooks, software, templates, music, photography, courses, or any other digital product, Easy Digital Downloads gives you everything you need to run your digital store – with unlimited products, unlimited transactions, and zero listing fees. Over 50,000 digital creators and online store owners trust Easy Digital Downloads to sell digital products on WordPress. With more than 30 million orders processed and hundreds of millions in digital sales, EDD is the proven ecommerce solution for your digital download store. Easy Digital Downloads Pro This plugin is the lite version of Easy Digital Downloads Pro, which comes with subscriptions and recurring payments, software licensing, content restriction for memberships, abandoned cart recovery, and 70+ premium ecommerce features. Click here to purchase the best premium WordPress ecommerce plugin for digital products now! Start Selling Digital Products in Minutes You shouldn’t need a computer science degree to sell digital products online. Easy Digital Downloads makes it simple to create your digital store and start selling within minutes. Run the Setup Wizard and you’ll immediately have access to an integrated shopping cart, flexible payment processing with credit cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay, a streamlined ecommerce checkout, customer management, detailed ecommerce reports, secure file storage for your digital downloads, discount code management, and more. Too often, creators must choose between powerful ecommerce features and affordable pricing. Easy Digital Downloads gives you both. Our free WordPress ecommerce plugin provides the foundation to sell digital products, while our Pro plans unlock advanced digital store features as your business grows. That’s why some of the most successful digital product businesses trust Easy Digital Downloads for their ecommerce store. Secure Digital Product Payments with Stripe, PayPal & More With 1-click connections to the most popular payment processors, you’ll be selling digital products within minutes. Your customers can checkout with ease using the most popular payment methods in their region of the world. With Stripe and PayPal powering your digital store, your ecommerce payments are ready to go global across 200+ countries. All of our official payment integrations are built to securely process payments for your digital store, connecting directly with trusted payment processors to keep your digital product transactions safe and reliable. 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, PayPal, and Square partner programs, so you can process ecommerce payments with confidence knowing that EDD meets their strict quality standards for selling digital products. Accept payments globally in your digital store with these payment methods available immediately: Credit Card Payments for Digital Products (via Stripe and Square) Apple Pay Google Pay WeChat Pay AliPay Amazon Pay GrabPay Bancontact EPS giropay iDEAL | Wero Klarna Przelewy24 PayPal PayPal Credit CashApp Link by Stripe Venmo and more! With our smart payment method integrations for your digital store, you get access to the latest payment methods as soon as they become available – without any code changes or updates to your ecommerce plugin. Powerful eCommerce Reports for Your Digital Store Unlock the full potential of your digital store with Easy Digital Downloads and its powerful ecommerce reporting features. Dive deep into the heart of your digital product business with tools designed to give you insights into what’s happening now and help you make decisions that grow your digital download sales. With the included date comparison tools, you can monitor trends in your digital product sales, revenue, customers, and other ecommerce data from one period to another. Some of the ecommerce data points you get access to include: Customer Growth for Your Digital Store Revenue and Digital Product Sales Filtering by Digital Product Detailed Tax Reports for eCommerce Detailed Category and Tag Reports Revenue and Digital Product Sales by Country Revenue and Sales by Payment Method Recurring Revenue Reports (Requires Pro) Sell Any Type of Digital Product Easy Digital Downloads lets you sell any file type as a digital product. Sell ebooks (.PDF, .EPUB), sell software and plugins (.ZIP), sell templates and design assets (.PSD, .AI), sell music and audio (.MP3, .WAV), sell video (.MP4, .MOV), sell documents (.DOC, .XLS), sell photography (.JPG, .PNG), or any other digital download. Create single digital products, product variations with different pricing, or bundle multiple digital products together – all with no listing fees and no limits on how many digital products you can sell. Digital Product Checkout That Converts Your digital store checkout is where sales happen, and Easy Digital Downloads gives you a responsive, optimized ecommerce checkout that converts. The included Checkout Block is fully customizable and designed to reduce friction so customers complete their digital product purchases. Works with Gutenberg, Elementor, and other popular page builders to match your digital store’s design. Sell Digital Products for Specific Industries Easy Digital Downloads is the perfect ecommerce solution for creators across dozens of industries. Here are just a few ways digital creators use EDD to sell digital products: Sell Ebooks & Digital Publications – Sell ebooks, PDFs, digital guides, whitepapers, and publishing content. Sell Software & WordPress Plugins – Sell software with license keys, automatic updates, and activation tracking for WordPress plugins, themes, and SaaS products. Sell Online Courses & Digital Learning – Sell courses and access to educational content, training materials, and learning resources. Sell Templates & Design Assets – Sell Canva templates, Photoshop files, graphic design assets, UI kits, and digital design resources. Sell Music & Audio Downloads – Sell music, audio files, sound effects, podcast episodes, and audio production resources. Sell Photography & Digital Art – Sell photos, digital art, stock photography, illustrations, and creative digital assets. Sell Memberships & Gated Content – Sell access to membership sites, premium content libraries, and subscriber-only resources. Build a Digital Marketplace – Create a multi-vendor digital marketplace where creators sell digital products and earn commissions. Manage Your Digital Store Customers Easy Digital Downloads includes a complete customer management system for your digital store. Track customer lifetime value, view purchase history, manage profiles, and understand your digital product buyers. Every ecommerce interaction is tracked so you can make data-driven decisions about your digital products and strategy. Protect Your Digital Downloads Your digital products are safe with Easy Digital Downloads. When a customer purchases your digital product, EDD generates a secure and unique download link that only authorized customers can use. Set expiration times on download links, limit the number of downloads per purchase, and track IP addresses for fraud prevention. Your digital downloads stay protected while your customers get instant access to the files they purchased. Full Easy Digital Downloads Feature List Secure Payment Processing – Accept credit cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and 20+ payment methods in your digital store. Stripe Integration – 1-click Stripe setup to sell digital products and accept credit card payments instantly. PayPal Integration – Sell digital products with PayPal, PayPal Credit, and Venmo payments. Optimized eCommerce Checkout – Responsive checkout form built to convert digital product shoppers into buyers. Digital Product Management – Create unlimited digital products with variations, bundles, and flexible pricing. eCommerce Reports & Analytics – Track digital product sales, revenue, customers, and store performance with detailed reports. Discount Code Management – Run digital store promotions with customizable discount codes, expiration dates, and product limits. Secure File Downloads – Protect digital downloads with unique links, expiration times, and download limits. Customer Management – Track customer lifetime value and purchase history in your digital store. Email Receipts – Fully customizable email receipts branded to your digital product store. Shopping Cart – Built-in shopping cart for selling multiple digital products per transaction. Customer Profiles – Let customers view purchase history and manage their digital download access. Refund Management – Automated refund and dispute handling to keep your digital store records accurate. Global Selling – Sell digital products in 200+ countries with multi-currency support. Subscriptions & Recurring Payments – Sell digital product subscriptions and build recurring revenue (Pro). Software Licensing – Sell software with activatable license keys, update delivery, and activation tracking (Pro). Content Restriction – Restrict content to customers who purchased specific digital products for membership sites (Pro). Revenue Optimization – Abandoned cart recovery and AI-powered product recommendations to increase digital store revenue (Pro). Customer Reviews – Collect and display reviews on your digital products to boost social proof and sales (Pro). EU VAT Compliance – Automatic EU VAT rate management, customer VAT number verification, and compliance exports (Pro). Invoices – Generate and deliver professional PDF invoices for digital product purchases (Pro). Frontend Submissions – Build a digital marketplace where vendors submit and sell their own digital products (Pro). Commissions – Pay vendors percentage or flat rate commissions on digital product sales (Pro). Free Downloads – Use free digital products as lead magnets to grow your email list (Pro). Recommended Products – AI-powered digital product recommendations at checkout to increase average order value (Pro). 100+ Integrations – Connect your digital store with Mailchimp, Zapier, AffiliateWP, and dozens more. Extensible, adaptable, and open source — Easy Digital Downloads is created with designers and developers in mind. With our extensive list of ecommerce integrations as well as the included hooks and filters, the possibilities for your digital store 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 Digital Product Revenue by Going Pro With our Pro plans you can get access to additional ecommerce features and supercharge your digital product business. Some of our most popular features for selling digital products in Pro are: EU VAT Compliance – Easily manage EU VAT compliance for your digital store. Get automatic rate updates, collect and verify customer VAT numbers, export EU VAT data for compliance, and more. Invoices – Create and send beautiful PDF invoices to your digital product customers. Subscriptions – Build a sustainable ecommerce business and add recurring revenue to your digital store by selling subscriptions for your digital products. Reviews – Let your happy customers promote your digital products for you! Schedule automatic review requests, show average ratings and rating breakdowns on your digital store. Content Restriction – Restrict content on your site and only share it with customers who have purchased specific digital products. Content Restriction is great for membership sites, online courses, and customer-only content. Software Licenses – Sell activatable license keys for software products, including WordPress themes, WordPress plugins, desktop software, SaaS solutions, and more. Frontend Submissions – Build a full-featured digital product marketplace and grow a community of creators selling digital downloads. Commissions – Pay your digital marketplace vendors with percentage or flat rate commissions when their digital products are purchased. Abandoned Cart Recovery – Automatically recover lost digital product sales and increase your ecommerce revenue on autopilot. Free Downloads – Use free digital products as lead magnets to grow your email list and sell more digital downloads. Recommended Products – Add AI-powered digital product recommendations to your store and checkout to increase average order value. …We’ve got over 70+ premium ecommerce 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 for selling digital products. Built by the Digital Product Experts Easy Digital Downloads is built and maintained by a dedicated team of ecommerce experts who have been helping creators sell digital products since 2012. With 13+ years of experience building the best WordPress ecommerce solution for digital downloads, we understand what it takes to run a successful digital product business. Our world-class support team is here to help you sell digital products successfully. Whether you’re setting up your first digital store or scaling an established ecommerce business, we’ve got you covered. Better Than Gumroad, Etsy, Shopify & Other Platforms for Selling Digital Products If you’ve looked at platforms to sell digital products online, you’ve probably seen Gumroad, Etsy, Shopify, Payhip, Sellfy, SendOwl, Lemon Squeezy, Podia, Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi, Ko-fi, Whop, Paddle, and FastSpring. They’re popular for selling digital products, but they come with a catch. SaaS platforms charge monthly fees that eat into your digital product revenue. Marketplaces like Etsy and Gumroad take a large cut of every digital product sale, charge listing fees, and own your customer relationships. With Easy Digital Downloads, you own your digital store, your customer data, and your revenue. No monthly platform fees, no listing fees, and no marketplace commissions on your digital product sales. Easy Digital Downloads gives you the freedom to sell digital products on your own WordPress site with the same powerful ecommerce features as these platforms, plus the flexibility to customize your digital store. Stop renting your business on someone else’s platform. Branding Guidelines 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. Easy Digital Downloads (correct) EDD (correct) EasyDigitalDownloads (incorrect) easy digital downloads (incorrect) Edd (incorrect, this is our mascot’s name!) edd (incorrect) Get Help with Your Digital Store 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 Pro pass. Digital Product Selling Resources Check out some of our popular posts for actionable advice for running your digital product business and selling digital downloads on the web. The 12 Most Popular Digital Products You Can Sell Online How to Add Lead Magnets in WordPress to Grow Your Email List How to Successfully Launch Your Digital Product How to Sell Canva Templates with WordPress The Astonishing Benefits of Selling Digital Products Subscribe to our newsletter to get posts like these in your inbox as soon as they’re published.

WooCommerce is the open-source ecommerce platform for WordPress. Our core platform is free, flexible, and amplified by a global community. The freedom of open-source means you retain full ownership of your store’s content and data forever. Whether you’re launching a business, taking brick-and-mortar retail online, or developing sites for clients, use WooCommerce for a store that powerfully blends content and commerce. Create beautiful, enticing storefronts with themes suited to your brand and industry. Increase revenue with an optimized shopping cart experience that converts. Customize product pages in minutes using modular product blocks. Showcase physical and digital goods, product variations, custom configurations, instant downloads, and affiliate items. Sell subscriptions, bookings, or memberships, with our developer-vetted extensions. Rise to the top of search results by leveraging WordPress’ SEO advantage. Build on a platform that scales. Get flexible ecommerce for high-volume stores. ALL THE TOOLS YOU NEED TO SELL Built-in tools and popular integrations help you efficiently manage your business operations. Many services are free to add with a single click via the optional Setup Wizard. Choose how you want to get paid. Conveniently manage payments from the comfort of your store with WooPayments (Available in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Spain, France, Germany, and Italy). Securely accept credit cards, mobile wallets, bank transfers, and cash thanks to 100+ payment gateways – including Stripe, PayPal, and Square. Configure your shipping options. Print USPS labels right from your dashboard and even schedule a pickup with WooCommerce Shipping (U.S.-only). Connect with well-known carriers such as UPS and FedEx – plus a wide variety of delivery, inventory, and fulfillment solutions for your locale. Simplify sales tax. Add WooCommerce Tax or similar integrated services to make automated calculations a reality. Grow your business, add features, and monitor your store on the go WooCommerce means business. Keep tabs on the performance metrics most important to you with a powerful and flexible central dashboard built into WooCommerce. Expand your audience across marketing and social channels with Google Ads, HubSpot, Mailchimp, and Facebook integrations. You can always check out the in-dashboard Marketing Hub for fresh ideas and tips to help you succeed. Enhance store functionality with hundreds of free and paid extensions from the WooCommerce Marketplace. Our developers vet each new extension and regularly review existing extensions to maintain Marketplace quality standards. We are actively looking for products that help store builders create successful stores. Manage your store from anywhere with the free WooCommerce mobile app (Android and iOS). Spoiler alert: Keep an ear out for the slightly addictive “cha-ching” notification sound each time you make a new sale! Own and control your store data – forever With WooCommerce, your data belongs to you. Always. If you opt to share usage data with us, you can feel confident knowing that it’s anonymized and kept secure. Choose to opt-out at any time without impacting your store. Unlike hosted ecommerce solutions, WooCommerce store data is future-proof; you’re free to export all your content and take your site to any platform you choose. No restrictions. Why developers choose (and love) WooCommerce Developers can use WooCommerce to create, customize, and scale a store to meet a client’s exact specifications, making enhancements through extensions or custom solutions. Leverage hooks and filters to modify or create functionality. Integrate virtually any service using a robust REST API and webhooks. Design and build custom content blocks with React. Inspect and modify any aspect of the core plugin code. Speed up development with a lightning-fast CLI. The core platform is tested rigorously and often, supported by a dedicated development team working across time zones. Comprehensive documentation is updated with each release, empowering you to build exactly the store required. Be part of our growing international community WooCommerce has a large, passionate community dedicated to helping merchants succeed – and it’s growing fast. There are WooCommerce Meetups in locations around the world that you can attend for free and even get involved in running. These events are a great way to learn from others, share your expertise, and connect with like-minded folks. WooCommerce also has a regular presence at WordCamps across the globe – we’d love to meet you. Contribute and translate WooCommerce is developed and supported by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com and Jetpack. We also have hundreds of independent contributors, and there’s always room for more. Head to the WooCommerce GitHub Repository to find out how you can pitch in. WooCommerce is translated into multiple languages, including Danish, Ukrainian, and Persian. Help localize WooCommerce even further by adding your locale – visit translate.wordpress.org. Connection to WooCommerce.com You can connect your store to WooCommerce.com to manage your subscriptions on WooCommerce Marketplace and receive product updates without leaving WordPress admin. Connection also enables installation of purchased products right from WooCommerce.com and streamlines access to technical support. If you’d like to learn about what data is gathered and how it is used, please refer to our Privacy Policy.