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Easy Digital Downloads Software Licensing
Easy Digital Downloads Software Licensing extends an EDD store with license-key generation, activation controls, renewals, upgrade paths, API endpoints, and update delivery for WordPress plugins and themes. It can also support other software through its API, but implementation work is required outside standard WordPress integrations.
PluginNest file-validatedZIP downloadUpdated Jul 17, 2026
Overview
Software Licensing is intended for digital-product businesses that need more than file delivery after checkout. Store administrators can enable licensing selectively for individual products, define activation limits and expiration periods, manage sold keys, and provide renewal or upgrade paths. For WordPress plugin and theme vendors, the extension can connect valid licenses to update delivery through WordPress’s normal update interface, provided the product includes the required updater integration. The included API also supports custom applications, desktop software, and other integrations, although those use cases require developer-led implementation and testing. Site owners should confirm that Easy Digital Downloads is installed at a supported version, review the extension’s current requirements before deployment, and test activation, deactivation, expiration, renewals, failed API requests, and updates on staging. The extension is distributed as a paid EDD add-on rather than through the WordPress.org plugin directory, so access and update availability depend on the applicable EDD purchase and license arrangement.
Generates license keys for selected Easy Digital Downloads products rather than requiring every store item to be licensed.
Provides controls for activation limits, expiration periods, license status, and management of sold keys.
Exposes API requests for license activation, deactivation, validation, and retrieving product version information.
Supports customer license renewals, automated renewal notices, renewal discounts, and renewal reporting.
Allows configured upgrade paths between license levels or products, including optional proration and discounts.
Can deliver automatic updates for WordPress plugins and themes when the products include the required updater integration.
Supports beta releases, changelogs, ReadMe.txt parsing for WordPress plugins, and license export data.
Compatibility and setup context
- The product page lists WordPress 6.2, Easy Digital Downloads 3.3.8, and PHP 7.4 as minimum requirements; verify current requirements before installation.
- The extension is designed to work with Easy Digital Downloads and is configured from EDD’s Downloads settings and product-edit screens.
- WordPress plugin and theme updates require integration with EDD’s updater code; installation alone does not automatically update arbitrary products.
- The API can be used with non-WordPress software, but activation, validation, version checks, and download behavior require a custom integration.
- EDD’s documentation states that paid extensions are distributed from the EDD website rather than the WordPress.org Plugin Directory.
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- The official product page describes license-key generation, activation, validation, renewals, upgrade paths, WordPress update delivery, beta versions, and minimum requirements.
- Official usage documentation explains product-level licensing settings, activation limits, expiration, renewals, upgrades, reports, exports, and implementation workflows.
- The official API documentation lists activation, deactivation, license checks, and version-information requests, including use with non-WordPress software.
- Official installation documentation states that paid EDD extensions are not available through the WordPress.org Plugin Directory and require access through EDD’s website or account.
- Official minimum-requirements documentation explains platform-version checks for automatic updates and the updater integration requirements for WordPress products.
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Version 3.9.7
Product Details
Version
3.9.7
Last Updated
Jul 17, 2026
File Size
0.6 MB
License
GPL
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