Easy Digital Downloads vs WooCommerce Elavon Converge Gateway
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| Feature | Easy Digital Downloads v3.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | WooCommerce Elavon Converge Gateway v2.14.9 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Paid Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 40,000+ | — |
| Last updated | October 14, 2026 | — |
| Editions | Easy Digital Downloads · Easy Digital Downloads Pro ($) | WooCommerce Elavon Converge Gateway ($) |
| Pros | Built for selling digital downloads, with checkout and customer downloads; Stripe, PayPal and Square payment gateways; Discounts, reports and blocks for checkout pages | Credit card and electronic check payments; Saved payment methods and end-of-day settlement; Block checkout support for cards and electronic checks |
| Cons | Subscriptions, recurring payments and recurring revenue reports need Pro; Pro requires a licence key from the vendor | Paid WooCommerce.com extension, not free; Needs Elavon Converge account credentials and an SSL certificate; Requires PHP 7.4 or newer |
| Mentioned in our posts | 2 | — |
| 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 ($) | Credit card payments ($), Electronic check payments ($), Saved payment methods ($), Capture of authorised charges ($), End-of-day settlement request ($), Nonce check on payment forms ($), Rate limiting for requests ($), Credit card block checkout ($), Electronic check block checkout ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Payment | Stripe, PayPal, Square | Elavon Converge ($) |
| Amazon SES, SendGrid, Mailgun | — | |
| Analytics | MonsterInsights (Google Analytics for WordPress) | — |
| E-commerce | — | WooCommerce ($) |
| Plugins | Elementor | — |
| Other | Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile | — |
| Requires WordPress | 6.7 | 5.6 |
| Requires PHP | 8.0 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.0 | 7.0.4 |
| 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 | www.convergepay.com, api.wordpress.org |
| Blocks | 16 | — |
| Shortcodes | 14 | — |