Easy Digital Downloads vs WooCommerce Amazon Pay
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| Feature | Easy Digital Downloads v3.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | WooCommerce Amazon Pay v2.6.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 2.5/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 40,000+ | 10,000+ |
| Last updated | October 14, 2026 | July 22, 2026 |
| Editions | Easy Digital Downloads · Easy Digital Downloads Pro ($) | Amazon Pay for WooCommerce |
| Pros | Built for selling digital downloads, with checkout and customer downloads; Stripe, PayPal and Square payment gateways; Discounts, reports and blocks for checkout pages | Shoppers pay with address and payment details saved at Amazon; Amazon widgets keep the buyer on the store during checkout; Block checkout blocks for changing the address and a logged-out banner |
| Cons | Subscriptions, recurring payments and recurring revenue reports need Pro; Pro requires a licence key from the vendor | Needs an Amazon Pay merchant account and Login with Amazon client ID; Relies on Amazon widget scripts loaded on checkout pages; Includes legacy code paths for older Amazon API versions |
| Mentioned in our posts | 2 | 1 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Digital product downloads, Checkout and purchase blocks, Discount codes and claims, Stripe payments, PayPal Standard payments, Square payments, Sales and download reports, Email summary of sales, Pro licence connection from the Lite edition ($) | Login with Amazon and checkout session handling, Amazon address and wallet widgets, Amazon payment notifications handler, Blocks for changing the address and a logged-out banner, Recurring payments with WooCommerce Subscriptions (legacy), Buyer index table for Amazon buyers, WPML compatibility, Drip email marketing compatibility, Alexa delivery notifications |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe, PayPal, Square | Amazon Pay |
| Amazon SES, SendGrid, Mailgun | Drip | |
| Analytics | MonsterInsights (Google Analytics for WordPress) | — |
| E-commerce | — | WooCommerce |
| Plugins | Elementor | WooCommerce Subscriptions, WPML |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile | Alexa delivery tracker |
| Requires WordPress | 6.7 | 5.5 |
| Requires PHP | 8.0 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.0 | 7.0.1 |
| Phones home | Only if you agree | No |
| External services | services.easydigitaldownloads.com, easydigitaldownloads.com, downloads.wordpress.org, challenges.cloudflare.com, www.google.com, api.stripe.com, connect.squareup.com, opencollective.com, ipinfo.io, plugin.easydigitaldownloads.com, static-eu.payments-amazon.com, static-na.payments-amazon.com, sellercentral.amazon.com, payments.amazon.co.uk, payments.amazon.de, www.paypal.com | static-na.payments-amazon.com, static-eu.payments-amazon.com, static-fe.payments-amazon.com, origin-na.ssl-images-amazon.com, payments.amazon.com, payments-eu.amazon.com, mws.amazonservices.com, mws-eu.amazonservices.com, mws.amazonservices.jp |
| Blocks | 16 | 2 |
| Shortcodes | 14 | — |
| Custom tables | — | 1 |