Easy Digital Downloads Review

Easy Digital Downloads is a self-hosted ecommerce software that can be embedded in WordPress as a plugin. Ideal for those who need to sell digital products online such as eBooks, PDF files, music, graphics, software and more, directly from their site. This program is free and enables you to create your online store without any investment of money. However, you should budget the time you’ll spend to understand the platform – which is quite complex – and how to create and publish articles on your site. To access more advanced features, Easy Digital Downloads provides you with a series of add-ons for a more professional experience.

HOW TO CREATE AN ONLINE STORE WITH EASY DIGITAL DOWNLOADS – TUTORIAL

Watch this video tutorial to understand how the program works:

EASY DIGITAL DOWNLOADS – FEATURES

Here are the main features:

• Marketing tools: create discount codes and offers that captivate your customers
• Complete shopping cart: allow your customers to purchase multiple items thanks to the shopping cart system
• Unlimited file downloads: let your customers download the purchased files unlimitedly
• File access control: files are limited to authorized customers only
• Customer account page: users have access to a purchase history report
• Activity monitoring: keep track of the products downloaded by your customers (date, time, IP address of all purchased files)
• REST API: Easily access sales and product information in jSON or XML format
• Integrated reporting platform: complete reporting of data and statistics to monitor the growth of your business
• Advanced features: integration with your favorite services (MailChimp, DropBox, PayPal, Slack, Amazon, Stripe etc.).