PayPal Green Downloads – WordPress Plugin

PayPal Green Downloads is a powerful WordPress plugin that allows to sell files and accept PayPal payments. Workflow is handled by smart CSS3 button: customer click the button, complete the payment through PayPal and download the file instantly. Pretty simple workflow.

Each payment button can be easily embedded as shortcode into any page (even 3rd party non-WordPress page). Moreover, you can add functionality of the plugin to any existing link, button, menu item (any <a>-element).

Features

• PayPal integration. Easily configure the plugin to accept payments through PayPal.
• Native button or any link. Use native button or attach functionality to your own link, button and menu-item (any <a>-element) using “href” attribute.
• Button styling. Easily style payment button with overall styling settings. Tons of options for any needs.
• Encrypted download link. Plugin generates encrypted download link that is valid for limited time. It’s up to you how long the link is valid.
• Various file sources. Host files in secured folder or anywhere on your server.
• Amazon S3 supported. If necessary, host files in Amazon S3 bucket and generate temporary link to access them.
• X-Sendfile supported. Download huge files through X-Sendfile mode if mod_xsendfile module installed on your server.
• Free downloads. Let your visitors to download some files without payments.
• Email notifications. Send custom email notifications to buyer and administrator after successful payments.
• Button/file statistics. Collect statistics of button impressions, payments and downloads for any file for any period.
• Remote use. Easily embed any payment (download) button into 3rd party sites (just copy-paste couple JS/HTML-snippets).
• CSV export. Export all download links, payment transactions and details into CSV-file for further processing.
• Performance optimized. Plugin is well optimized for better performance. It doesn’t affect the Google PageSpeed Insights score.

Front-End Demo

Visit demo page and try the power and simplicity of the plugin.

Back-End Demo

Try the power of admin panel by yourself.
Admin panel: https://halfdata.com/green-downloads/…
Login: demo
Password: demo

Installation

PayPal Green Downloads is a WordPress plugin and it is installed as regular WordPress plugin.

1. Go to WordPress dashboard and click left side menu “Plugins >> Add New”.
2. Click “Upload” link and upload zip-archive downloaded from CodeCanyon.
3. Activate uploaded plugin.

If you have any difficulties with uploading zip-archive, please do it manually using FTP.

1. Use any FTP-client to connect your server.
2. Unzip archive downloaded from CodeCanyon.
3. Upload unzipped folder to plugins directory: /wp-content/plugins/
4. Go to WordPress dashboard, click left side menu “Plugins” and activate uploaded plugin.

Once installed and activated, form builder creates “Green Downloads” menu section in left side menu. All further actions, related to plugin functionality, are done through this menu section.

Updates

Download latest version of the plugin from CodeCanyon and overwrite exiting files in folder /wp-content/plugins/halfdata-paypal-green-downloads/ by new ones.

You won’t lose data and settings. They are stored in MySQL database.

Requirements

Your WordPress-driven website and server must match the following requirements. All modern servers already do it.

• WordPress version 4.2 or higher.
• PHP version 5.5 or higher.
• MySQL version 5.0 or higher.

Support

If you have problems regarding using the plugin, please contact us and we’ll help you ASAP.

Changelog

Please visit Changelog and check out what we added/fixed in latest version of PayPal Green Downloads.