At Easy Digital Downloads (EDD), one of our main goals is to make digital eCommerce as simple as possible. With this in mind, we’re incredibly excited to announce the release of EDD 3.1! 🎉 This is a HUGE update with a handful of significant changes and additions that make working with Easy Digital Downloads easier and more enjoyable than ever. From adding and showcasing digital products to streamlining the checkout experience for your customers, EDD 3.1 can help enhance all aspects of managing your eCommerce store. Let’s walk you through the highlights. What’s New? One of the biggest updates with
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Experience higher conversation rates and more reliable payments with the PayPal Commerce integration for Easy Digital Downloads.
With the Easy Digital Downloads Stripe integration you can accept credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Microsoft Pay without the need for a separate extension.
We’re thrilled to bring you the Easy Digital Downloads Stripe Pro Payment Gateway 2.8 release, which introduces the ability to accept payments using Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Microsoft Pay using Stripe’s Payment Request Buttons.
Today we have released an important update for our Recurring Payments extension to account for an upcoming change to merchant accounts by PayPal. If you sell subscriptions through PayPal, please update to version 2.9.3 of Recurring Payments.
Today, we’re announcing the beta of our initial wave of support for the Strong Customer Authentication (or SCA for short). This initial beta consists of support for the Stripe payment gateway. Update: Stripe Gateway 2.7 and Recurring Payments 2.9 are officially released, offering SCA Support for Stripe payments. I’m pleased to let you know that the following extensions have betas available that enable accepting payments that require SCA: Stripe Gateway 2.7 Beta 1 Recurring Payments 2.9 Beta 1 So without further delay, here are the big changes coming in each of these releases How to test beta releases In order
With the arrival of the new WordPress editor (also known as Gutenberg), we have released a free plugin that adds a Downloads block to any post or page. Learn more about Easy Digital Downloads Blocks!
After an extensive beta period and four release candidates, Software Licensing version 3.6 is now available! This new version is the next iteration in a series of plugin updates we have been releasing that introduces dedicated database tables for eCommerce data. The migration of data into dedicated database tables significantly improves performance and adds greater flexibility and control for future enhancements.
The newest version of our MailChimp extension has been released after an extensive beta period. This new version introduces support for many of MailChimp’s latest eCommerce tracking features, giving store owners more valuable insights about the effect email marketing has on their store’s revenue performance. Along with the enhanced eCommerce reporting available, this update also introduces support for many of MailChimp’s automated eCommerce emails, such as order and refund receipts.
A little over a year ago, we announced a Easy Digital Downloads extension called Free Downloads that improved the customer experience when ‘purchasing’ a free item. Over the last year we’ve received substantial feedback from users and improved many existing aspects of the extension, as well as added some key features that will make distributing free products even easier for store owners.
These days, businesses can’t run without great software. No one knows this better than all of us at Easy Digital Downloads. After all, building awesome software to help businesses succeed online is exactly what we do. Every aspect of our business requires great software and every application matters. When it comes to impact though, there’s not much that does more for us than Slack. Everything happens in Slack. We live in Slack. Our team is constantly communicating via this powerful, real time team chat app. Whether it be holding virtual meetings, collaborating on support problems, coaching colleagues through development challenges or
Today, we’re happy to announce the next major update to the Commissions add-on for Easy Digital Downloads. Commissions for Easy Digital Downloads allows you to easily record and split revenue between multiple users. Version 3.4 brings many enhancements, including the migration to custom database tables, which will improve the performance of your commissions-enabled Easy Digital Downloads store.
If you’re a freelancer or do custom work for clients like logo design, modifying video templates, touching-up photos, copywriting, custom music, or any other digital work that requires the delivery of custom files, the brand new Custom Deliverables extension for Easy Digital Downloads is the perfect solution for you. It empowers freelancers to run their own business on their own website – with no middleman. It’s extremely simple to use and allows your customers to pay up-front using the robust payment environment provided by Easy Digital Downloads. Your customers can order and pay for your custom work right on your
After a month long beta period, Easy Digital Downloads 2.8 has finally arrived! This most recent version of Easy Digital Downloads closes nearly 60 issues including 18 bugs and 34 enhancements, many of them refining some of the core behavior of the platform.
Reviews for Easy Digital Downloads makes it quick and easy for your visitors and customers to review the products offered on your website. We’re thrilled to release version 2.1; a significant update for Reviews that we’ve been working on for a few months now.