Easy Digital Downloads Recurring Payments

Description

The Recurring Payments add-on turns Easy Digital Downloads downloads into subscriptions with automatic billing, creating recurring payment profiles in gateways such as Stripe and PayPal and renewing orders without manual intervention. Digital store owners gain a recurring billing flow, with renewal email notifications, a customer area for subscription management, coupons applicable to recurring plans, and dedicated recurring revenue reports in the EDD dashboard.

Key Features

• Recurring billing on gateways
  Integrates subscription profiles in Stripe, PayPal Standard, and other gateways compatible with EDD.
• Recurring variable pricing
  Allows you to configure monthly, quarterly, semiannual, and annual cycles for the same digital product.
• Automatic renewals
  Generates new orders on the defined cycles, with additional billing attempts in case of card failure.
• Customer subscription dashboard
  Adds a front-end area to cancel plans, update card details, and view billing history.
• Dedicated transactional emails
  Sends renewal, expiration, and payment failure notifications with admin-editable templates.

Benefits of Recurring Payments

• Predictable revenue
  Replaces one-off sales with a subscriber base that renews on its own month after month.
• Less operational work
  Eliminates the need to manually bill active customers at each new license cycle.
• Retention through convenience
  Customers enter their card once and keep uninterrupted access to their subscribed downloads.
• Financial visibility
  Recurring revenue, churn, and renewal reports are available right in the EDD dashboard.

Who Is It For?

• Plugin, theme, and software developers who sell renewable annual licenses.
• Creators of subscription-based digital content, such as courses, ebooks, and audio/video libraries.
• EDD stores that want to move from one-time sales to recurring subscriptions.
• Independent agencies and SaaS businesses that charge for continued access to digital services or platforms.

Designed for sellers of software, plugins, ebooks, and subscription content, Recurring Payments adds to Easy Digital Downloads the recurring billing layer missing from the standard version. In practice, the customer enters their card once, the gateway processes charges on the defined cycles, and the admin tracks recurring revenue without relying on external spreadsheets or manual reconciliation.

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