🆚 Easy Digital Downloads vs. WHMCS

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

E-commerce platform
E-commerce platform

About

Easy Digital Downloads is a WordPress plugin for selling digital products online, providing product management, checkout, and payment processing tailored for downloadable files.

It supports unlimited digital products, bundles, and variations, generates secure expiring download links, includes discount code controls and detailed sales reporting, and has more than 100 extensions and integrations with third-party solutions such as Stripe, PayPal, Slack, Dropbox, and Zapier.

WHMCS is a self-hosted recurring billing and automation platform used by web hosting providers to manage clients, services, and payments.

It offers automated invoicing and subscription management, domain registration and lifecycle management, configurable products, bundles, and pricing, a ticket-based customer support system, fraud screening, and tax and VAT handling.

It also provides provisioning modules for cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, and various cloud platforms, and integrates with more than 80 payment processors, including PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net, Skrill, 2Checkout, and BitPay.

Headquarters

Hutchinson, Kansas, United States
London, United Kingdom

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️Limited number of payment gateways and extensions
Extended
(1 site, subscriptions, EU VAT, Authorize.net, 2Checkout)
$139.65/year
Professional
(2 sites, wish lists, physical product shipping)
$209.65/year
All Access
(3 sites, fraud prevention, product comparisons)
$349.65/year
Free version ❌
Plus
(250 clients)
$29.95/month
Professional
(500 clients)
$44.95/month
Business
(1,000+ clients)
$69.95+/month

Categories

E-Commerce › Rank #16
E-Commerce › Rank #36
WordPress Plugins › Rank #89

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Easy Digital Downloads e-commerce platform is 2.7 times more popular than WHMCS.
Total websites

Market share

E-Commerce

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Easy Digital Downloads is more popular in the United States, Iran, and the United Kingdom, while WHMCS is more popular in Turkey, Brazil, and Ukraine.
United States
Iran
United Kingdom
Germany
Australia
Italy
India
Spain
France
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Easy Digital Downloads is more popular than WHMCS in all market segments.
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Software/Hardware
Travel
Recreation/Hobbies

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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