Easy Digital Downloads Recurring Payments 2.11.9

Easy Digital Downloads Recurring Payments

Grow stable income by selling automated subscriptions with Easy Digital Downloads Recurring Payments.

You’re probably already selling one-time digital products to your customers. But do you also have products you can sell on a recurring basis to them?

Easy Digital Downloads Recurring Payments provides more predictable income and allows you to make better forecasts and major decisions for your business.

Why use Easy Digital Downloads Recurring Payments

• Billing is automated, which means no more hassle of requesting a renewal payment or sending invoices every month or year.
• With an automated system, there are fewer late or missing payments.
• The risk of fraud is reduced because there’s less circulation of sensitive information.
• Customer retention usually goes up because they don’t have to make a new buying decision or take the time to re-enter their payment information every month or year.

The truth is, setting up Easy Digital Downloads Recurring Payments with your online store might just be the most important business decision you ever make.

Multiple payment gateway support

Easy Digital Downloads Recurring Payments works with the following payment gateways:

• Stripe Standard (included with Easy Digital Downloads)
• Stripe Pro
• PayPal Standard (included with Easy Digital Downloads)
• PayPal Commerce Pro
• Authorize.net
• NETbilling Gateway (3rd party)
• Paddle Payment Gateway (3rd party)
• Payfast for Easy Digital Downloads (3rd party)

We highly recommend pairing Easy Digital Downloads Recurring Payments with our Stripe Pro Payment Gateway extension. It’s our most popular premium gateway for Easy Digital Downloads and how this site itself processes most of its transactions.

This is extremely powerful for anyone selling licenses for software, services, courses, all access passes, and more. Streamlined and fully integrated with the Easy Digital Downloads Recurring Payments extension, there’s no need for customers to manually return and purchase again.

In addition to Stripe being the preferred payment gateway for Easy Digital Downloads, we are also officially a Stripe verified partner. The Stripe partner program recognizes applications which meet their strict quality requirements and allows us to provide even better services to our customers.

Recurring Payments features

Flexible recurring payments

Easily set up recurring payments on any product, including daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, and yearly.

With Easy Digital Downloads Recurring Payments, You can easily adjust the recurring periods, the number of times they recur, and how much they cost. Products with variable pricing can have recurring and non-recurring price options.

Customer emails

Easy Digital Downloads Recurring Payments let you Deliver automated emails to customers when their subscription is nearing renewal, a renewal has been processed, a subscription has been cancelled, a renewal payment fails, and more.

By reminding your customers about anything related to their subscription you should see a drop in refunds and payment disputes. You can even include reasons they may want to renew, upgrade or subscribe to additional products from your store.

Multiple subscriptions

If you sell multiple recurring digital products, your customers can maintain any number of individual subscriptions to each one. This way they can easily cancel or renew as needed from their account area on your site.

Signup fees

If you want to charge your customers a larger up-front payment, simply add a signup fee. For example, to charge subscribers $50 up front for a $20 per month product, just add a $30 signup fee.

Subscription management

With a complete interface for viewing and managing subscriptions, taking care of your customers and keeping an eye on your subscriptions is simple. Search by customer or filter by subscription status such as active, pending, and cancelled.

Select a subscription to drill in and find their payment in Stripe, PayPal, or other payment gateways. Manually change a subscription’s status, add notes and record manual payments with a couple of clicks.

Renewal revenue reports

With Easy Digital Downloads Recurring Payments, Track your recurring revenue through beautiful, easy-to-read earnings graphs. See a breakdown of new purchases alongside renewal payments to get a better picture of your returning customer sales.

Limit file downloads

Optionally restrict file downloads of recurring products to just those customers with an active subscription. This way you can ensure customers who cancel their subscription no longer have access to your product downloads until they decide to purchase again or renew.

Discount codes

Discount codes can be set up to apply to the initial payment only or to each and every renewal payment.

Customer dashboard

Your customers can have a complete dashboard for viewing and managing their subscriptions. After logging in they can view their invoice, update their payment method, cancel their subscription, or even renew recently expired subscriptions.

When used with our Stripe Payment Gateway extension, your customers can quickly update their payment card without needing a store admin to do it.

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