Recapture for Easy Digital Downloads
Recapture is the easiest and most effective way to recover abandoned carts and do email marketing for your Easy Digital Downloads site. We also support WooCommerce abandoned cart recovery as well!
Safe pick
Yes — Recapture for Easy Digital Down… is a safe, well-maintained plugin to use in 2026. It runs on 600+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 2 weeks ago, and scores 82/100 on our health check.
- Actively developed — last update 2 weeks ago
- Tested with the latest WordPress (7.1)
- Momentum — downloads up 67.1% vs the previous 30 days
- Small user base (600+ active installs)
How does it stack up?
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Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Recapture for Easy Digital… stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| abandoned carts | #43 |
| cart abandonment | #38 |
| easy digital downloads | #7 |
| Email Marketing | #89 |
| jilt | #2 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 11 reviews
About Recapture for Easy Digital Downloads
From the official readme · v1.0.50Description
Recapture is the easiest and most effective way to recover abandoned carts and do email marketing for your Easy Digital Downloads site. We also support WooCommerce abandoned cart recovery as well!
NOTE:
Requires: EDD 3.0+ or newer and a free Recapture account
Recapture helps your store increase sales. This plugin connects Recapture to Easy Digital Downloads to send triggered emails to your customers to recover abandoned carts, win back old customers, or request reviews.
** Recapture has a long history of success with Abandoned Carts **
Recapture has already helped merchants generate over $280,000,000 in additional revenue since 2015. We’re recovering on average $1,000,000+ a week for stores like yours.
Recapture’s abandoned cart recovery for Easy Digital Downloads helps your ecommerce store recover lost revenue from abandoned carts. Recapture tracks when carts are abandoned on your store, then lets you send recovery emails to encourage the customers who abandoned these carts to complete the purchase.
You can set up as many campaigns and recovery emails as you’d like, and customize the text and design of every email sent.
Recapture has best-in-class email capture capabilities–using email popups, or our new “Add to Cart” email popup, where users enter an email before they add the item to the cart, ensuring easier recovery.
** Emails are Ready-to-go on Install, but easily customized **
You don’t need to spend a lot of time setting up Recapture before you can benefit from it.
Recapture’s emails are setup using best practices out-of-the-box so you can turn them on immediately. Or you can change them using our friendly drag and drop based editor, or even completely customize the content using full HTML. The choice is yours!
Campaigns come configured with ideal timings, but you’re free to set them as you’d like (e.g., send 3 recovery emails per abandoned cart, or a series of 4 emails in a winback campaign), customize their send timing, and use a drag-and-drop editor to change the content. Very friendly for non-technical users.
** Winbacks, Review Reminders, and Email Collectors, oh my! **
Installing Recapture gives you the features of 4 separate plugins with less hassle
Besides abandoned cart recovery emails, we support email popups to encourage list building, we support review reminder emails to get customers to provide a review after purchase (social proof increases sales!), and winback emails to encourage customers to be repeat buyers. All of these increase your average order value, making your store more profitable.
** Won’t drag your site down **
Average load time for Recapture’s JavaScript library is between 30-600 milliseconds, so your site won’t suffer
Tracking for orders and carts is done and stored in Recapture, not your site’s database. We send emails from our robust cloud infrastructure using best practices (SPF, DKIM, etc) to ensure maximum delivery and open rates. This means your site stays FAST for buyers while we track analytics and carts for you, allowing you see everything you need in a click or two.
Recapture is backed by a team with a long history of ecommerce success. Recapture for Easy Digital Downloads works on any store and scales automatically with our AWS load-balanced, multi-server infrastructure. We handle stores of all sizes. No need to worry as you grow!
** Friendly, responsive support **
We (heart) our merchants and ecommerce
Our #1 goal is to make your store more successful, and we love to do it! Contact us for support and find out what sets us apart from so many other WordPress plugins. Live chat available in the Recapture dashboard.
More Details
Translators: the plugin text domain is: recapture-for-edd
- Visit Recapture.io for more details on Recapture, and to see how our average merchant can boost revenue 10% or more in just 5 minutes.
- Browse the documentation for questions, FAQs and more.
- Contact us for support on our site
Installation
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Be sure you’re running Easy Digital Downloads 2.7.7 or newer on your site.
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To install the plugin, you can do one of the following:
- (Recommended) Search for “Recapture for Easy Digital Downloads” under Plugins > Add New
- Upload the entire
recapture-for-easy-digital-downloadsfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Upload the .zip file with the plugin under Plugins > Add New > Upload
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Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
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Click the “Configure” plugin link or go to Recapture from the main menu to connect your store to Recapture quickly.
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Save your settings!
Frequently asked questions
Do I need anything else to use this plugin?
Yes, a free Recapture account is required to recover abandoned carts for your Easy Digital Downloads store (we’ll create one for you on install, automatically!). You can recover up to $500 completely free, You can learn more about Recapture pricing here for our paid accounts.
When do you consider a cart “abandoned” and how do you get emails from my customers?
A cart is considered abandoned if a customer has added items to the cart, but has not checked out or shown any cart activity for at least 30 minutes. At this point, Recapture starts the timers for your recovery emails.
How do you get emails from my customers?
Recapture can get an email in a few different ways–First, any logged in customer who abandons a cart will receive recovery emails because of their WP profile. Any guest customer who has entered a full, valid email address somewhere in the site (e.g. email popup, our Add to Cart popup, even OTHER plugins that collect emails–Recapture can track that, easily) will receive recovery emails too. Our success here comes from a few secrets in our JavaScript library that makes Recapture so powerful.
Can I include unique coupon codes in my emails?
Yep! Recapture can find and include Easy Digital Downloads coupon codes in your automated emails. This gives you a proven and powerful means of increasing conversion rates and generating more orders!
Are you GDPR compliant?
Completely. As of May 25, 2018, we are fully GDPR compliant. Details here.
Changelog
1.0.50
- Fix reviews being recorded as awaiting approval after they had been published
- The review notification email setting now takes effect; previously a notification was sent for every review regardless of the setting
1.0.49
- Fix the cart recovery URL removing a discount code that was already applied to the cart
1.0.48
- Implement the delete discount code endpoint for EDD.
- Support for WordPress 7.1
1.0.47
- Fix incorrect discount calculation on multi-quantity EDD orders that could produce negative product prices
1.0.46
- Support for WordPress 7.0
- Raise minimum PHP to 7.4 (matches WP 7.0 requirement)
- Fix wp_register_script and wp_register_style argument order in admin enqueue (removes PHP 8.x deprecation warning)
- Raise minimum EDD to 3.0 and migrate cart-id persistence onto the EDD 3.0 custom orders API (edd_get_order_meta / edd_update_order_meta)
- Replace deprecated edd_insert_payment hook with edd_built_order
- Migrate remaining deprecated EDD_Payment / EDD_Customer / edd_get_payment_* calls to the EDD 3.0 equivalents
1.0.45
- Add recapture_order_item_name filter for customizing product names in order conversion data
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FAQ
Recapture for Easy Digital Downloads: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 27, 2026
Is Recapture for Easy Digital Down… free?
Yes. Recapture for Easy Digital Down… is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Recapture for Easy Digital Down… safe to use in 2026?
Yes — Recapture for Easy Digital Down… is a safe, well-maintained plugin to use in 2026. It runs on 600+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 2 weeks ago, and scores 82/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Recapture for Easy Digital Down…?
Recapture for Easy Digital Down… is active on 600+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 31,317 times since it launched in March 2019. It was downloaded 1,193 times in the last 30 days.
Does Recapture for Easy Digital Down… work with WordPress 7.1?
Yes. The developer has tested Recapture for Easy Digital Down… up to WordPress 7.1.2, the latest release. It requires WordPress 6.2 or newer.
What PHP version does Recapture for Easy Digital Down… need?
Recapture for Easy Digital Down… requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was Recapture for Easy Digital Down… last updated?
The latest version, 1.0.50, was released on September 10, 2026 (2 weeks ago).
Who makes Recapture for Easy Digital Down…?
Recapture for Easy Digital Down… is developed and maintained by Recapture Cart Recovery and Email Marketing.
What are the best alternatives to Recapture for Easy Digital Down…?
The most popular alternatives to Recapture for Easy Digital Down… are CartBounty (10K+ installs), Abandoned Cart Reports For… (1K+ installs) and Spoki (700+ installs).
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