Add Ecommerce To WordPress With Easy Digital Downloads Review & Setup

[@Beanaification]

Thank you so much! You are the sole reason I have a profitable subscription-based business, and now with the addition of digital downloads!

[@sherylm.franks4536]

You talk real plain and clear and make it easy for us to learn! Thank you so much!

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome Sheryl M. Franks! Thanks for watching.

[@jimjuris]

Adam, your videos are really fantastic. This video is exactly what I have been looking for. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[@mariuslevin5785]

Can you use EDD with Elementor pro, and is it good?

[@skpeng1]

Hi Adam, thanks for the awesome tutorial. Is it possible to use EDD to sell digital online video course with KZbin steaming video, by filling in the course page URL at the file URL field?

[@checkeredflagfilms]

Adam, how would you go about changing the white background from a bland white? Do you do that with a page builder or what?

[@WPCrafter]

You would need some custom CSS for that. I do have a few videos on it.

[@checkeredflagfilms]

pray tell...what might be the links?

[@WPCrafter]

I have a few tutorials on custom CSS. I am sure they will get you what you are after.

[@IreneYoungFoto]

Well done, Adam. However, I have watched three videos on Easy Digital Downloads, and not one of them said when, where and how the customer gets their download link. I have done everything, and after testing, the payment went through, but I received no download link. So, I am trying to find out what I did wrong. Technology can be such a time bandit.

[@ericalexander1246]

Does EDD provide password protection for the ebook ? Is it on an addon ?

[@wwattsmei]

Thank you for your great review. I will look how to implement this into my websites. I enjoy all of your videos and products. Peace and Blessings

[@AmrtasAcademy]

Nice and smooth presentation. Easy to understand. Thank you Adam.

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome Amrtas Academy! Thanks for watching.

[@FeleciaSParker_MS]

Hello Adam, I am a new subscriber as well as new to Wordpress. Thanks for all of your assistance. I used the restaurant wordpress theme and love it! It looks so professionally done. (Considering no previous web design experience).....Now I need to add a store since I didn't know at the time the theme I selected did not have one for my menu. I needed one to sell the food online. I have several menu items I need to add and a cart. Which video do I need to watch? I think What I need is called a store. "Help S.O.S."........ Thanx in advance, Adam!

[@WPCrafter]

Hi Felicia, I'm happy to hear that you successfully built a website for yourself using some of my videos. Now regarding taking orders on your website, I unfortunately do not have any videos on this and have only scratched the surface on looking into solutions for this. I know there are a few solutions out there, they are essentially WordPress plug-ins, but I don't have the experience with them to be able to confidently recommend one to you. I do plan on making a video on how to do this, but it realistically won't be for a few weeks unfortunately.

[@LVD1969]

Great review Adam..For a first timer, you have taken some of the stress off of my plate, Thanks.!!

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you, happy to be of any help.

[@Tylooo]

Thank you for this video. Quick question. Does this play nice with Beaver Builder?

[@WPCrafter]

Hey Tyler, yes it works really well with Beaver Builder.

[@Tylooo]

WPCrafter.com WordPress For Non-Techies thank you for the reply. Very cool!

[@WinnerSingh]

Can I use this plugin for food shopping website like pizza shopping cart where user want to add extra topping, replace topping etc ?

[@WPCrafter]

I wouldn't recommend it for that purpose.

[@davidmontgomery874]

Hi Adam, just watched your video thanks for the tutorial. Can you tell me why I would set up a Category? Also how would a Category work? Would I somehow take all the products that fit a particular Category, and then somehow put them into a page and then somehow get that page into a Category or..? Thanks for any help you can offer. New user.

[@reddragonsubliminal6440]

Could you tell me how to change the size of the add to cart using edd and elementor?

[@rngrover5956]

adam , can i customize the the pages added by EDD with a visual builder , i mean no theme nothing , just it , ???

[@WPCrafter]

Unfortunately not. I do know that it some point in the future you will be able to with Beaver Builder and Beaver Themer.

[@glorialynn6478]

Thank you! Very helpful to someone just starting out.

[@WPCrafter]

Yes, it couldn't be any easier to have a beautiful ecommerce store.

[@Tiffers963Hz]

Hi Adam, Can I have your their advise please? I have very large video courses I want to sell from my Wordpress website but DONT want to store the files in Wordpress to save bandwidth load. What external storage location option do you suggest that can integrate with EDD or any other plugin even? I need the storage location to be unlimited, secure, and with a big bandwidth. Thanks in advance.

[@WPCrafter]

There is no such thing as unlimited storage online. With that said there are numerous places for you to store it. I think the most popular is Amazon's servers.

[@Tiffers963Hz]

Well there is such a thing as unlimited storage as i've seen platforms such as Teachable and Thinkific offer 'unlimited' storage, i.e no limit of say just 5GB size per downloaded product as per SendOwl and similar. Thanks for the Amazon suggestion anyhow.

[@WPCrafter]

Thats totally different. You can store anything you want with those learning platforms. You can store a video for a lesson, but you can't store anything you want. With web hosting, how can they prevent you from using it as a computer backup system, or some other online storage repository, the only way they can is by limiting what you can store. Its a total apple to orange comparison.

[@patrycjasmietana]

Hi Adam! Thank you for this video! Can I integrate it into my existing website? I have a travel and lifestyle blog and just wanted to add a shop page to my menu. I don't need a theme as my page is existing. Can I just use some widgets or blocks to make the shop look clean and decent? Thank you!

[@ogamov]

WP+EDD or Magento for multivendor webstores? which platform out these 2 better and faster?

[@WPCrafter]

There are far more experts with WordPress than there are with magento. I think WooCommerce would be better option.

[@ogamov]

thanks for you answer but Woo isnt a better solution for digital then EDD. Im still debating whether to choose EDD or magento

[@WPCrafter]

Well I would challenge you on that. There are WAY more WooCommerce resources and experts then EDD. In fact, there are many websites with EDD that are switching to Woo. Perfect example is Yoast, they stopped using EDD because it wouldn't scale.

[@ogamov]

what bothers me with Woo is that it's originally designed for shipment products. Way too many fields such as SKU, shipping addresses, availability in stock etc. Its too complex and all these are not usable for digital products.

[@WPCrafter]

Well that is a part of it, but it was also developed for digital goods.

[@JaneUnsworth]

Thanks Adam, can I use a url from google drive instead of uploading to my site?

[@KBlakK]

I'm trying to enhance my customer's experience by designing my website with Elementor Pro and Easy Digital Downloads. Do you have any tips on how to do this? EDD can be tricky and it has broken on me several times, probably because I did something wrong or had a plugin that crashed everything. I love this tutorial, as I do all of your tutorials. I also have the variable product extension, but it makes the customer process unwieldy. Rather than dropdowns, because I have more than 20 variable music licenses, I'd prefer a flyout window that displays the licesnes on the side on the same page as the product page as more of a sidebar to compress the information the customer has to look at while trying to process their order. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!!!

[@JWCinPDX]

Great tutorial Adam. But, can you answer a question for me? If I set up Easy Digital Downloads with PayPal Standard, will that take care of payment as well as product delivery. In other words, after the payment is made, will it pass my customer on to wherever I choose to download my products?

[@Wpexplorer]

Easy digital downloads requires the buyer to create an account with your site so after purchase they are redirected back to your site where they can log in and go to their downloads page and click the link to download their purchase. Some more info here: docs.easydigitaldownloads.com/article/234-creating-a-customer-account-page

[@WPCrafter]

Yep, it will do everything. Handle everything post purchase for you. It couldn't be any easier!

[@CefaCaton]

I know it's been a while since you created this video. I do two questions... Can I edit my EDD page with Elementor? Can I change the image size of the image I upload for my product? Thanks for the information and the video.

[@schraderwebsolutions5713]

What about the security of customers entering credit card data on the site? Is this PCI compliant?

[@WPCrafter]

You need to have an SSL certificate on your website if you're going to take payments on your website. However your website does not store payment information, it gets passed through immediately to the payment processor and it never touches your website.

[@schraderwebsolutions5713]

Great to hear! Thanks Adam for all your great videos!

[@reddragonsubliminal6440]

Hi . Could you tell me can I create a single download for one customer and make it private? TY

[@H2theU2theG2thH]

Very good review. Quick question: can Easy Digital Downloads be used for auto-renew purchases of monthly services?

[@DaveHayesTV]

Nice video Adam. What is the Zip file you mention and where do I / we get one from please

[@jahbeatline5801]

i like the review and help step by step video. Q: im having a hard time find a theme that will go with my music digital down load theme for Elementor can you help me or give suggestion on a one?

[@WPCrafter]

You mean you're having a hard time finding a theme that you would like that works with easy digital downloads?

[@orestto]

Thanks Adam. Would love to see a Thrive Themes + EDD video, or a more in depth EDD where you customize the 4-5 pages of the transaction process.

[@WPCrafter]

I'll be creating a ton of Thrive content when they release Thrive Architect in 30 days.

[@orestto]

Looking forward to it. 👍

[@WPCrafter]

They have agreed to give me advanced access so I can have all my videos ready for the day that it's released.

[@ElmainEssadiq]

Woocomerce can do the work too. Why did you prefer EDD?

[@bibitaylor7384]

Hey! Would you know a good alternative to Easy Digital Downloads? Preferably a plugin where users can automatically download PDFs/files without having to be taken to the checkout page? (A free one)

[@Khordmaster]

Did you find anything?!?!!!

[@alamm1714]

Hi, I want to keep all the digital downloadable products (suppose, test.zip) in a new folder (downloads) that will be outside of the public_html. Suppose, /home/WPCrafter/downloads/test.zip, then what will be the URL of the test.zip file that I can put in the woocommerce product? I am using shared hosting. If I upload all the files in the WP media, then undoubtedly my site size will be huge that I don't want. Hopefully, you can understand the situation and give me a great solution. Bye, Take Care.

[@yungmaestro]

Thank you! Great video, thanx for sharing!

[@calderdalemediaworks6301]

Thanks Adam, Just the job.Ace Guy

[@peterassanfulkwame852]

can you use it for a tour website?

[@michaelgovers8036]

Thanks for the tutorial Adam, it all looks so easy ;)

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome! Yeah I was pretty easy. I might have to switch from WooCommerce to this.

[@gergemall]

Super helpful Adam . Thank you.

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome JON Gergeceff! Thanks for watching.

[@hridoyvaraby]

hey, is there any inventory management plugin for WordPress? It will help me a lot, i have a small shop but i don't sell online, i have a wordPress site where its like a landing site, its shows all my product, i want a inventory management system.

[@WPCrafter]

I think I answered this question in a different video.

[@schraderwebsolutions5713]

Hi Adam, I did a test purchase via Paypal...but was not auto directed to the 'download' page. I had to hit the 'Return To Merchant' button....how can I fix this? Thanks!

[@holixservices]

please Adam, am looking forward to build a two way services website like micro jobs on wordpress .currently using astra theme but am lost for free plugins/themes that can allow users to add or hire services on the website. Please i need help.

[@JamesEvansAgileInsights]

Hey Adam. What software did you make this youtube video with?

[@WPCrafter]

I use Camtasia for a Mac these days, but this one was Screenflow.

[@dortyfocker]

Great information thanks.

[@WPCrafter]

Thanks so much!

[@halitsanr4439]

Thank you so much Adam

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome, thank you for watching!

[@chimdiokoye257]

Thanks so much, After payment, it does not show the downloadable link for customers to downloads, pls how do i fix this issue

[@holixservices]

please Adam, am looking a tow ways services website like micro jobs on wordpress .currently using astra theme but am lost for free plugins that can allow users to add or hire services on the website. Please i need help.

[@reddragonsubliminal6440]

Could you tell me how long before a customer receives a download link of the product purchased?

[@WPCrafter]

Should be instantaneous.

[@reddragonsubliminal6440]

@@WPCrafter I found out the downloads are going to the spam folder. Is there a way to change that? Thank you for the reply .

[@nightshad30]

how big the size of the file i can use if i want to sell a video or software ? 1,,,2,,,3 gig ???

[@edkefj]

Would be nice if you talked more about what the limitations of the free version are. For someone just getting started the big question is, "Can I start selling stuff in the real world with this for free or will I have to pay?"

[@SreejithS]

Hi if i want to edit and give the product , how to give that to ordered customer later

[@sparkforme22]

can you show us...how to design edd single product page using elementor pro

[@bradd9926]

good video, but can EED sell digital and physical item and how?

[@WPCrafter]

Yes you can do any type of e-commerce down with easy digital downloads. Too bad they are locked into that main because it does more than just digital downloads.

[@gfreccht]

THANK YOU. GREAT VIDEO

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome!

[@williamzambonelidasilva7740]

how about a new video 2021 for this theme with S3 as font of storage and easy digital download or woocommerce as storebase ... also how to protect files from steal

[@Nolimitsteames]

Thanks for the review!

[@WPCrafter]

Your welcome, EDD is rock solid and easy to use.

[@Katana50cc]

Awesome, thank you : )

[@WPCrafter]

Your welcome.

[@ZERMELOmusic]

Solid video man!

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you ZERMELO & thanks for watching.

[@annieclore9443]

I purchased the Extended Pass and need to know where and how to upload the license key. Sitting through all these tutorials just to find out that the information is not there is getting annoying. Please help.

[@DestructiveBurn]

Can you make a video on a comment box that works for Easy digital downloads. The only one I found that works is Facebook comments. I want a proper comment box that works on those download pages.

[@WPCrafter]

So you want a comments section on the download pages or the products you sell with the digital downloads?

[@DestructiveBurn]

On the product pages. So if they want to comment, it would be nice. Sure i can copy a shortcode, create a new post or page and wallah comment box. But that creates a problem. Example: Create a product download page named: DB song "I know horrible example name" copy the shortcode to blog/page named: DB song. Someone using the search and you get two of the same pages. Looks unprofessional. So having a comment box on the same product page makes sense. People can read what others say before they hit that checkout button. I seen a post about "Adding Comments Support to Downloads - Easy Digital Downloads" Otto talks about injecting that code into functions.php or create a new custom plugin but that code don't work. So I spent hours looking for a solution and I found nothing. I'm currently using WPDISCUZ and that wont work, and even if it did it's not designed to run on those pages. I'm out of ideas. I need another head that can figure this out. That's why I asked you.

[@WPCrafter]

Go watch my video on how to add a custom function to your website and then paste in the custom function from this link docs.easydigitaldownloads.com/article/274-adding-comments-support-to-downloads

[@DestructiveBurn]

That code does not work. Try for yourself.

[@Wpexplorer]

Great work!

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you, and welcome to any of your website visitors to my channel!!!

[@Pankajpmith9011]

which builder does he use ???

[@digitalsketchguy]

Would i require SSL for paypal?

[@WPCrafter]

No you don't but it's a really bad idea not to use a SSL certificate.

[@digitalsketchguy]

Oh yes i see. Buyers see the shttp URL. BTW is it possible to make my own product pages with elementor? I would really like to craft my own page, thanks.

[@hmdnat]

Another great tutorial. Thanks :)

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you so much!

[@faithwielder7415]

Is there any free websites that are secure and good to use and get paid? Or is it only possible to get paid by buying a host?

[@WPCrafter]

There is always PayPal.

[@faithwielder7415]

@@WPCrafter Yes, but you need money in paypal to use paypal

[@vodvandorin9454]

This video was not very good as I can't get my paypal to work with easy digital downloads