Reviews (487)

Overall rating
2.6
Counts per rating level
  • 31% of ratings are 5 stars
  • 12% of ratings are 4 stars
  • 15% of ratings are 3 stars
  • 15% of ratings are 2 stars
  • 27% of ratings are 1 stars
Edited July 14, 2021

This works well to add a single file to a product. However, it is exceedingly irritating to have to make adjustments on the variant level instead of product level. Ex, to change the fulfillment settings from automatic to manual. Or to add files - you have to individually add each file to each variant. I feel like there should be a tick box, or something in the general settings, to choose to make these changes on the product level. If digital downloads are a core piece of your business and you have a wide inventory, I would look at using another app!

Beehive Wool Shop
Canada
Almost 2 years using the app
Shopify replied July 29, 2021

Thank you for providing your feedback to us here and I can appreciate why the suggestions you have made would make the Digital Downloads app a more intuitive and useful app to use for your Shopify store. I will be sure to pass your feedback onto our development team as merchant feedback is heavily considered when upgrading and improving the platform and our apps. -Victor, Shopify Support

November 18, 2014

Nice app for digital content downloads and eBooks.

VowFit
Canada
Almost 3 years using the app
Edited March 4, 2020

This app works did not work for us. It would be nice to be able to use an upload in more than one purchase option. I'm sure the support team will get it working soon.
https://avroliner.com
https://www.kinkytoy.store

Avroliner Project
Canada
Almost 2 years using the app
December 13, 2016

This is app is great! Makes uploading my ebooks much easier. Thanks I totally recommend
www.shoplife.store

Shoplife Store
United States
5 months using the app
January 2, 2015

We love this app. so glad we found it. It is super easy to use.

Virgin Hair Depot
United States
5 months using the app
September 10, 2018

I've only started using this app. I'm very happy with it. Thanks. Jason Newland.
https://jasonnewland.com/

Jason Newland - FREE Hypnosis mp3 Downloads since 2006
United Kingdom
5 months using the app
Edited August 8, 2022

This app is absolutely worthless and, just like everything else on Shopify, they don't have a clue how to fix anything and I always end up having to go spend money on an app that actually works. This app does not allow you to control when the digital download is sent to your customer, so if you're using this app as a add-on download to a physical product, it won't send it to the customer until the order is fulfilled. We need the download link sent when the order is paid for. Seems logical, right? Yea, not to Shopify. You also cannot edit the email that's sent. Nothing about this app is useful and Shopify gives you the same answer they give every time...."We will send this to our developers to have a look at it". Yea, right.

Dead Fly Zone
United States
7 months using the app
Shopify replied August 19, 2022

Thank you for taking the time and sharing this feedback with us. While you can enable automatic fulfillment for digital products (https://bit.ly/3pvcVMq), this isn't recommended for digital products with physical components involved. However, one option is to create your digital products separately, so that our app can send the download links as soon as the order is paid for.

If you're looking to edit the email template, then we've also got a step-by-step guide on how to do that here: https://bit.ly/3dD3RTb. We'd also recommend reviewing the notification variable reference (https://bit.ly/3AzpSLH) when editing your email template.

That being said, we understand that being able to automatically fulfill digital orders regardless of the physical components can be beneficial for our merchants, like yourself, and feedback like this can help our Developement team continue making improvements on future releases. Thanks again. -Elias, Shopify Support

May 2, 2017

very useful if you plan on selling virtual products.

Elegantgreatdanejewelry
United States
5 months using the app
July 18, 2016

So far so good.

- Simple and easy
- Handles product variants well.

Jester Frolic
United States
5 months using the app
December 7, 2017

Thank you for this! This has enabled me to sell my music digitally online!. One complaint I have received from a customer though, is that there is a popup advert after paying for a product with Digital Download, and the download page. Not sure if this is the app or if this is a shopify thing?

Tmacmusic
United Kingdom
Over 2 years using the app