Easy Digital Downloads

The go-to WordPress ecommerce solution for sales and distribution of digital products

Kommentare: There aren't a lot of choices in this space so we're kind of stuck with EDD. It works. It does a lot of you're willing to pony up. I'm just not impressed with the backend at all anymore. It's powerful but couldn't it be a little friendlier?

Vorteile:

Creating a download using Easy Digital Downloads for WordPress is in fact easy to do. Add a download, set a price, limit stock, add tags and categories if desired, hit publish. There it is. However, see below. The free version does allow two payment gateways: PayPal basic and Amazon Payments. Any site owner other than a hobbyist will want to upgrade. There are a myriad of integrations and extension for making EDD more powerful and lots of support from dozens of companies. EDD is the standard are there are no lack of solutions.

Nachteile:

I've yet to have a client who understood the relationship between the set up on the backend and the results on the frontend. Most can create downloads and then wonder, well, now what? The Now What? is definitely for WordPress pros because the plugin, curiously, has no onboarding of any kind, no tooltips, no inline documentation. It's kind of up to the user to figure out WTH is going on. Such as, how does anyone buy anything? This confusion is good for WP implementers like me but it seems a little primitive considering some of the sophisticated onboarding systems plugin authors have been able to build recently. Also, all the extensions and their interactions can get confusing. And very expensive. The Personal Pass, the cheapest subscription, is not cheap.

EDD is the only choice for Digital Products vs Others

Kommentare: We are using the EDD for almost 5+ years and using it continuously. We never face any issues related to Security, Product Management. Only I have concerns related to Return order management and sometimes the Extension related issues from 3rd party vendors. But overall it's worth it to use for Medium scale businesses.

Vorteile:

EDD has everything you need for Digital Products. They have lots of Extensions which are suitable for your Product needs. Thumbs up for these - Easy Interface, Reports, Order Management, Review, Product Management, Discounts, SEO.

Nachteile:

Maybe Migration from WooCommerce or any other Digital Store needs a workaround for EDD. The pricing is somehow expensive for those who just started out their career or a small business owner. But it also depends on your business strategies.

Worst Checkout Experience Ever

Vorteile:

It is very stable and reliable in terms of license management and product delivery.

Nachteile:

easy digital downloads is a software that lets you create and sell digital products but if you look at how the whole checkout experience is built and works from the customer point of view then you'll easily see that the makers totally forgot about the most important part the checkout experience. On a scale from 1 to 10 the checkout experience is a 1 it's that bad. Furthermore, no cross sells and upsells engine that works well enough so that it can be used and the product upgrade feature also is very low quality. Not having the ability to design a great looking and highly converting checkout experience made us loose a lot of revenue over the years. They practically forgot to build the most important part of the app.

Easy Digital Downloads Review

Kommentare: I have been using this plugin since 2014. My experience overall has been great. Bought the Amazon S3 and Mailchimp plugins to improve my store. I used mostly to sell video specials and using paypal only as a payment method.
Renewing the license every year might be quite expensive, even with the discount for old customers.
A cheaper basic license with one-time purchase for small businesses would be great

Vorteile:

I liked the easy integration with WordPress and being able to customize from the very beginning without no previous knowledge.

Nachteile:

I think it's quite expensive when you want to add some of the addons available after installing the free plugin

Easily set up an ecommerce site for digital goods

Kommentare: Overall, my experience with Easy Digital Downloads has been fantastic. On occasion, I will run into an issue where I need to reach out to their support staff for help. Every time they have been very helpful, and stuck with the issue until it was resolved.

Vorteile:

What first turned me on to Easy Digital Downloads was the ease of use when getting my store set up. In just a few minutes I was able to have a fully functional online store - all for free. As the store grew, and my needs evolved, it was easy to find add-ons that enhanced my store's functionality. Over time I've set up several stores with Easy Digital Downloads, and it has always been an easy process to get everything up and running.

Nachteile:

At first, I didn't like that I had to purchase several add-ons for things like my preferred payment gateway, email provider integration, and a number of other features. The thing I didn't like about that was that I felt cornered into using a certain 3rd party provider whether that was for email marketing, or payments, since I already spent money on an add-on to integrate with those providers. However, as Easy Digital Downloads has evolved as a company, their offerings have changed to provide their customers with all access passes, which gives us access to every product they offer. Now for one, very affordable price, I have access to all of their add-on plugins and don't feel like I'm tied to any one product.