September 20, 2016
Though Easy Digital Downloads is designed for selling digital products, it is not uncommon to provide services alongside or instead of digital files. This article is a brief overview of Easy Digital Downloads extensions created to help you sell services with ease.
September 13, 2016
The Upload File extension has come a long way since its initial release in late 2013. Designed to allow collecting specifications, images and similar from customers, Upload File has long served its purpose, but never really lived up to its full potential. All that changes with the recently-released version 2.0.0.
September 12, 2016
Our payment gateway for Stripe received a significant update this morning that adds several important features for site owners. We would love to briefly show you the new updates.
September 8, 2016
Communicating with customers and vendors just got a whole lot easier and more convenient. EDD Message is the latest extension for Easy Digital Downloads and it allows store owners to send messages from their dashboard, directly to individual customers and vendors as well as giving vendors the ability to message their own customers too. This will be super handy for stores selling any kind of custom service which requires a followup with the customer and delivery of additional information or even custom files.
August 23, 2016
Our Bookings extension provides a complete booking system for Easy Digital Downloads that allows customers to schedule meetings, appointments, consultations and other calendar and time based events. Today we’re excited to announce an update to the Bookings extension that adds an integration with Frontend Submissions, our full-featured marketplace extension. This means that store owners can now operate multi-vendor marketplaces with bookings!
August 9, 2016
Recurring Payments is one of our most widely used extensions, for good reasons, and has been the focus of a significant amount of our development time in the last 12 months. In February, 2016, we announced the first release of the new Recurring Payments plugin; today we’re excited to announce yet another release with another set of sweeping improvements.
August 3, 2016
It’s no secret that eCommerce marketing is a complex game demanding lots of time and patience. However, using discounts is a simple way to get started. Let us share a few tips on how you can boost your marketing efforts with discounts.
July 28, 2016
Every successful online eCommerce business has learned that email marketing is one of the most important assets in building a thriving eCommerce store, and ConvertKit is easily one of the best available options for building a strong email list and successfully marketing to that list.
July 27, 2016
After over a year in development, we’re super stoked to announce the release of Reviews 2.0! This is a major release with a lot of improvements, so let’s take a quick look at what’s new. Reworked reviewing system In Reviews 1.x, we extended upon the WordPress commenting system and took over the comment form on Downloads. We’re now […]
June 23, 2016
After more than six months in development, we are thrilled to announce that Easy Digital Downloads version 2.6 has been released! This is a major release that includes numerous significant improvements, which we would like to show you now.
May 26, 2016
No eCommerce system is complete without a checkout form. In most cases, checkout forms go hand in hand with shopping carts, allowing customers to purchase the items they have selected. But what if you need a checkout form that serves one specific purpose?
Together, Easy Digital Downloads and Gravity Forms do just that. In this article, you will learn how to make checkout forms that include features like dynamic price display, conditional field logic, and custom product grouping.
An affiliate marketing program can help you get more revenue and more exposure for your eCommerce store. It works for us, and it can work for you. Check out 6 reasons why this low-risk marketing technique is one of the most effective ways to make more money.
April 18, 2016
We hit one million downloads! It took four years to do it, but we’re thrilled! How about a discount code?
April 11, 2016
Email marketing has been proven over and over again to be a fundamentally important aspect of running successful eCommerce businesses. One particular part of email marketing is the process of sending post-purchase emails to customers to thank them, provide them extra assistance, and to encourage them to come back and become repeat customers.
April 7, 2016
Customer experience is about more than just how your product works. Use extensions to improve customer experience by making proactive decisions that address customer needs and concerns.
March 21, 2016
In eCommerce, there are several fundamentally important aspects of the online store, and one of the most important of those is the process of accepting payment from customers for the goods or services offered by the store. The system through which the payment is processed is often called a Payment Gateway, which is nothing more than a label used to describe the system that handles the transfer of money from the customer to the store owner.
March 15, 2016
Meeting and getting to know your remote team in person can fundamentally change how your team communicates internally and thereby change how they function.
February 24, 2016
Three years ago, soon after the very first version of Easy Digital Downloads launched, we released our Recurring Payments extension. The extension quickly became one of the most popular and widely used of all the extensions in our catalogue. Today, I am excited to announce that the new Recurring Payments is here. And it’s awesome.
January 28, 2016
Recurring Payments has been a staple in our extensions catalogue since it was released almost exactly three years ago. When first released, it provided some of the basic and necessary functions for processing recurring subscriptions through Easy Digital Downloads. It was not, however, without its limitations and shortcomings. We would like to show you a preview of the next version of the Recurring Payments extension that is the result of reevaluating the platform from the ground up and building the plugin how we wished it had been built from the beginning.
January 7, 2016
Easy Digital Downloads version 2.5 has been released! This update is a culmination of six months of development and the work of 14 different developers. We’re thrilled to bring this release to you today; let’s take a quick look at what is new.
According to the Baymard Institute, 68.55% of all online shopping carts get abandoned before the order is completed. As an e-Commerce store owner, one of the best things you can do for your business is start working to decrease the percentage of carts that get abandoned on your own site. CartHook is a service built specifically for that purpose and they recently released support for Easy Digital Downloads.
December 14, 2015
EDD Bookings is a brand new extension for appointment and session management. This extension adds a booking system to your Easy Digital Downloads store, allowing customers to purchase and schedule appointments for services, meetings, consultations, and other scheduled events that require a payment.
November 24, 2015
Extensions can make your site more powerful and unique. Here we showcase four free extensions that you can try today.
November 18, 2015
WordPress 4.4 is going to be released in approximately 3 weeks, on or around December 12, 2015. With this release will be included a change that has an adverse effect on certain versions of our Frontend Submissions extension.
