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Easy Digital Downloads – Drip

Built for our own use at FatcatApps.com, Easy Digital Downloads – Drip integrates two of our favorite tools: Easy Digital Downloads and Drip.

Active installs10+10+ tier
Downloads · 30d83▲ +36.1% vs prev. 30d
Rating5/52 reviews
Health score30/100At risk
All-time downloads6.6KSince Sep 2014
Support resolved—No recent threads
RequiresWP 3.9.1PHP any
Downloads · 7d20▲ +17.6% week over week
Our verdict

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Easy Digital Downloads – Drip shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 10+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 9 years ago, and scores 30/100 on our health check.

  • Small user base (10+ active installs)
  • Very few reviews so far
  • No update in 8 years
  • Only tested up to WordPress 4.9 (latest is 7.1)

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

134Jul 8Aug 21Oct 5
Yesterday2
Daily average (1y)2
Peak day17May 4, 2026
Last 12 months798

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where Easy Digital Downloads stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
drip >100 226 Best drip plugins →
edd >100 496 Best edd plugins →
email >100 10,000 Best email plugins →
Email Marketing >100 2,711 Best Email Marketing plugins →
marketing automation >100 963 Best marketing automation plugins →

Version adoption

Share of active sites per release.

  • 1.4100.0%

Rating breakdown

★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 2 reviews

  • 5★100.0%
  • 4★0.00%
  • 3★0.00%
  • 2★0.00%
  • 1★0.00%

About Easy Digital Downloads – Drip

From the official readme · v1.4.1

Description

Built for our own use at FatcatApps.com, Easy Digital Downloads – Drip integrates two of our favorite tools: Easy Digital Downloads and Drip.

Features

1. Purchase Tracking
When a customer checks out, the following event will be fired:
Made a purchase

The plugin also tracks the following properties:

  • value (Price of the product bought)
  • product_name (Name of the product bought)
  • price_name (The price_name [if you’re using variable pricing])

All in all, the API call to Drip will look like this:
{ “events”: [{ “email”: {email}, “action”: “Made a purchase”, “properties”: { “value”: {price}, “product_name”: {name}, “price_name”: {price_name} } }] }

2. Refund Tracking
When a customer refunds (payment status = “Refunded”, the following event will be fired:
Refunded

The plugin also tracks the following properties:

  • value (Price of the product bought)
  • product_name (Name of the product bought)
  • price_name (Name of the price_name [if you’re using variable pricing])

All in all, the API call to Drip will look like this:
{ “events”: [{ “email”: {email}, “action”: “Refunded”, “properties”: { “value”: {price}, “product_name”: {name}, “price_name”: {price_name} } }] }

3. Cart Abandonment Tracking
When a payment’s status has been “pending” for at least 30 minutes, or when a payment’s status changes to “abandoned”, the following event will be fired:
Abandoned cart

The plugin also tracks the following properties:

  • value (Price of the product)
  • product_name (Name of the product)
  • price_name (Name of the price_name [if you’re using variable pricing])

All in all, the API call to Drip will look like this:
{ “events”: [{ “email”: {email}, “action”: “Refunded”, “properties”: { “value”: {price}, “product_name”: {name}, “price_name”: {price_name} } }] }

4. Lifetime Value (LTV) Tracking
This plugin tracks your customer’s lifetime value in a custom field called lifetime_value.

If a customer makes a purchase:
lifetime_value+={price}

If a customer refunds:
lifetime_value-={price}

For more information, please refer to this blog post.

Contributors Welcome

Thanks to Chris Simmons from WP BackItUp and Phil Derksen from WP Simple Pay for Stripe for contributing.

Do you want to see further improvements? Please consider contributing. You can submit a pull request here: https://github.com/davidhme/edd-drip

Setup

Please go here to learn how to set up this plugin correctly.

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Go to Downloads -> Settings -> Extensions -> Drip Settings and enter your “Drip API Key” and “Drip Account ID”.

Changelog

1.4.1

  • Fix: A bug in 1.4.0 removed price_name from the Made a purchase event

  • Fix: first_name custom field didn’t get saved.

1.4.0

  • Added first name to drip properties: This is useful for outbound emails vs full name

  • Added is_renewal to event: This is useful for segmenting renewal customers from new purchases.

1.3.1

  • Removed quantity value for the “Made a Purchase” event

1.3

  • Changed behavoir of “Abandoned” – event. “Abandoned Cart” will be triggered if the payment status is pending for at least 30 minutes.

1.2.0.2

  • Fix: Purchases weren’t tracked properly with some payment gateways (PayPal)

1.2.0.1

  • Fix: Only trigger the “Made a Purchase” event when the payment status is “complete”

  • New feature: Fire an event when EDD payment status = “Abandoned”

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

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FAQ

Easy Digital Downloads – Drip: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 6, 2026

Is Easy Digital Downloads – Drip free?

Yes. Easy Digital Downloads – Drip is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is Easy Digital Downloads – Drip safe to use in 2026?

Easy Digital Downloads – Drip shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 10+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 9 years ago, and scores 30/100 on our health check.

How many websites use Easy Digital Downloads – Drip?

Easy Digital Downloads – Drip is active on 10+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 6,617 times since it launched in September 2014. It was downloaded 83 times in the last 30 days.

Does Easy Digital Downloads – Drip work with WordPress 7.1?

Easy Digital Downloads – Drip is officially tested up to WordPress 4.9.0, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

When was Easy Digital Downloads – Drip last updated?

The latest version, 1.4.1, was released on November 21, 2017 (9 years ago).

Who makes Easy Digital Downloads – Drip?

Easy Digital Downloads – Drip is developed and maintained by fatcatapps.

What are the best alternatives to Easy Digital Downloads – Drip?

The most popular alternatives to Easy Digital Downloads – Drip are Drip for Gravity Forms (500+ installs), Upscribe (10+ installs) and Drip Email (10+ installs).

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