Easy Digital Downloads Manual Purchases Addon 2.0.5
Wordpress Plugins Easy Digital Downloads 4.8 (1.6K reviews)
Easy Digital Downloads is a popular system for selling digital products, and like any sales platform, it is built around the normal checkout flow. Customers arrive at your store, complete a purchase, and the order is recorded automatically. But there are plenty of situations where that standard flow doesn't fit. Maybe you receive a payment through a bank transfer, close a sale over the phone, or want to grant a product to a user as a courtesy. The Manual Purchases Addon fills that gap. It gives administrators the ability to create a purchase record directly from the dashboard, completely bypassing the checkout process. This is not a workaround or a hack; it is a straightforward extension of Easy Digital Downloads, developed for the official EDD ecosystem. With this addon, you can record a sale exactly as if it had happened through your normal storefront, but without requiring the customer to go through the purchase steps themselves.
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Creating a manual purchase is a simple administrative action. From the admin area, you select the customer, choose the product they should receive, and the addon logs the order in the same way as any other transaction. You can attribute the purchase to any registered user on your site, which means their existing account immediately shows the new item in their purchase history. Alternatively, you can create the order for a guest, using just an email address and a name. The addon also supports variable prices. For products that have multiple price tiers or user-defined amounts, you can specify the exact price that applies to this particular manual order. This is especially useful when you have negotiated a custom rate with a customer, or when you are issuing a credit or replacement for a previous order. Everything else stays consistent with the rest of Easy Digital Downloads, so there is no separate set of rules to learn.
The practical value here is most visible in daily store operations. When a customer makes a purchase with a payment method that settles outside the normal gateway flow, you have always been able to mark an existing order as complete. But that requires an order to exist first. With manual purchases, you skip that step entirely. You are not editing something that came from a checkout; you are creating the order from scratch. That means you can handle sales made over email, through a physical invoice, or during an event. For a store that issues license keys or downloadable files with each purchase, the manual order works just like a normal one, so those assets are generated and delivered as expected. The addon was built specifically for Easy Digital Downloads, so it fits naturally into the existing order management interface and uses the same records as all your other sales.
This addon is distributed as a standard plugin package, the exact .zip file that you would receive from the original developer. It is not a reworked or modified version, so you can install it just like any other Easy Digital Downloads extension. That means no extra configuration steps are needed beyond uploading the plugin and activating it. From there, the manual purchase option becomes available in your dashboard, right where you would expect it. The addon does not attempt to replace your existing workflow or change the way you sell; it simply adds one missing piece. For administrators who regularly deal with out-of-band payments, account credits, or direct grants of digital goods, this tool removes the need to invent awkward workarounds. If you run a store on Easy Digital Downloads and have ever wished you could just create an order yourself, this is the addon you have been looking for.
- Item type
- plugin
- Category
- Wordpress Plugins
- Version
- 1.11.0
- Availability
- In stock
- Delivery
- Digital
- Last updated
- August 3, 2026
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