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There are a lot of ways that store owners can receive notifications of new sales in Easy Digital Downloads, but none of them are as comprehensive, as flexible, or as powerful as Zapier. Through Zapier you can easily connect customer and order data from Easy Digital Downloads to more than 400 different web services, such as Slack, Twitter, MailChimp, Xero, SugarCRM, InfusionSoft, and so many more.
Easy Digital Downloads provides robust sales and earnings reports out of the box, though sometimes you need to go a little bit further and build even more comprehensive reports. Let’s look at a few of the options available to you.
Knowing how visitors arrive at your site is important, doubly so when you’re running an eCommerce site. Find out how the new Campaign Tracker extension for Easy Digital Downloads can help you quickly and easily visualize how Custom Campaigns are affecting your sales.
Building an email list from scratch is no easy task and it certainly doesn’t happen overnight. Using free downloads to incentivize sign-ups is an exceptionally simple way to build up a large subscriber base while simultaneously providing immediate value in return to your customers.
You have spent countless hours and sleepness nights preparing your product for the world. You have written a blog post and are ready to hit publish. But what’s next? How do people find your blog post and brand new, shiny product?
Staging sites are used to ensure that everything works properly before it is presented to the customer. Likewise, they can be used for troubleshooting issues found on the live site without running the risk of interfering with your users or breaking even more functionality.
The MailChimp extension for Easy Digital Downloads is the easiest way to get your customers into your MailChimp account. Through the extension, you can easily add an opt-in option to your checkout screen and even automatically subscribe customers to specific lists when they purchase certain products. As of version 2.5, released earlier today, you can
Frontend Submissions (FES) is one of the most popular extensions for Easy Digital Downloads because it gives store owners the ability to accept product submissions from vendors. That means customers will benefit from not only the products of the store owner, but also the surrounding community.
If you would like to create your own payment gateways for Easy Digital Downloads, then you should read through the tutorial I have just published on Pippin’s Plugins. The tutorial walks through the process of registering your payment gateway, creating (or disabling) custom credit card forms, setting up the processing functions, and creating the gateway