PayPal Setup?

Hi there –

I am testing the pros/cons between Easy Digital Downloads and your WordPress Download Manager. Right now I am in the free versions for both during this testing phase. While testing the paid downloads portion of WPDM, I cannot find any place for me to setup any sort of payment gateway. I plan on using my PayPal Business Standard account or Stripe, whichever is easier to setup, to handle paid downloads. Easy Digital Downloads provides the PayPal Standard gateway bundled with their free download, so I am assuming that WPDM does as well (in order to remain competitive), but I can’t find it. I’m sure it’s something I am missing. Please point me in the right direction so that I can continue testing your features before making a decision.

Thanks!

This was so helpful! I was a little confused with the instructions to go to “wp-admin” since I read that as going to my WordPress Admin section, but I stumbled through it. For anyone else reading this, it’s:

Downloads > Settings > Click the Premium Package tab on the left

Then click through the tabs along the top to make sure you’re set up properly.

I will say that the “Premium Package” tab on the Downloads Manager Settings screen made me think it was an advertisement for premium packages rather than the payment gateway setup. Maybe something more clear would help there?

Either way, thanks again for the help on this. So far I am preferring WPDM over Easy Digital Downloads in just about every category! I’ll do a full blog post on it once I make a decision and I’ll definitely include how helpful support was as a free customer.