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Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy
The #1 eCommerce plugin to sell digital products & subscriptions. Accept payments with Stripe & PayPal. Sell ebooks, software & more.
- Active installs
- 40,000+
- #875 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 6.2M
- 6,177,736
- Downloads, 30 days
- 68.4K
- 19.8K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5
- 591 reviews
- Last updated
- 2 days ago
- Oct 29, 2026
- Version
- 3.7.3
- 240 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 29, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.0.8Older than WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 6.7 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 8.0 or newer |
| First published | April 10, 2012 |
| Support, last two months | 16 of 17 threads resolved (94%) |
Reviews
4.7 / 5 from 591 reviews
| 5 stars | 537 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 11 |
| 3 stars | 4 |
| 2 stars | 4 |
| 1 star | 35 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
The Best WordPress eCommerce Plugin to Sell Digital Products
Easy Digital Downloads is the most powerful WordPress ecommerce plugin built specifically for selling digital products and digital downloads. Whether you sell ebooks, software, templates, music, photography, courses, or any other digital product, Easy Digital Downloads gives you everything you need to run your digital store – with unlimited products, unlimited transactions, and zero listing fees.
Over 50,000 digital creators and online store owners trust Easy Digital Downloads to sell digital products on WordPress. With more than 30 million orders processed and hundreds of millions in digital sales, EDD is the proven ecommerce solution for your digital download store.
Easy Digital Downloads Pro
This plugin is the lite version of Easy Digital Downloads Pro, which comes with subscriptions and recurring payments, software licensing, content restriction for memberships, abandoned cart recovery, and 70+ premium ecommerce features. Click here to purchase the best premium WordPress ecommerce plugin for digital products now!
Start Selling Digital Products in Minutes
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Where can I find complete documentation?
Full searchable docs for Easy Digital Downloads and all our extensions can be found at https://easydigitaldownloads.com/docs
Where can I ask for help with my digital e-Commerce store?
You can submit a support ticket via the support forum at anytime.
What type of products can I sell?
Any file type can be sold using Easy Digital Downloads. You can sell .PDF, .DOC, .MP3, .MOV, .EPUB, .PSD, .MP4, .JPG, or any other extension which exists.
Easy Digital Downloads also supports selling access to software, services, memberships, and content when you upgrade to Pro.
How can I increase conversions?
Due to its popularity, many ecommerce tools have built direct integrations with Easy Digital Downloads, such as OptinMonster. With the direct EDD integration, you can optimize your sales funnel using OptinMonster’s display rules based on the customer’s EDD cart contents and conditions.
Is an SSL certificate required to sell digital products?
The security of you and your customers’ data is very important, so we strongly recommend you have an SSL certificate for your store. Documentation here
What themes work with Easy Digital Downloads?
While nearly any theme will work with Easy Digital Downloads, we’ve worked with industry-leading theme developers to curate a list of themes that are specifically written for Easy Digital Downloads.
Latest changelog entry
- NEW: Customers – The customer screen now shows the date and IP address of the customer’s last login, and both are included in personal data exports.
- Security: Strengthened account verification when completing a PayPal order.
- Blocks: The Downloads block now validates its featured styling values in the editor, as the front end already did.
- Blocks: A malformed block editor preview parameter no longer causes a fatal error.
- Checkout: Personal Info fields on the block checkout no longer disappear when a page builder renders the page’s blocks more than once.
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.