Easy Digital Downloads integration
Run an affiliate program on Easy Digital Downloads
Siren is the incentive layer for Easy Digital Downloads. Run classic affiliate programs, structured referral campaigns, and long-term partner deals around your digital products, licenses, and memberships, all from a single engine on your own site.
Free to start. Paid tiers from $229/year per site.
Can you run an affiliate program on Easy Digital Downloads?
Yes. Siren is a WordPress plugin that runs natively inside Easy Digital Downloads, reading order and license events so affiliate, referral, and revenue-share programs are tracked and paid the moment a download sells. Per-product rates, recurring commissions, and automatic payouts. Start free on Lite.
What running incentive programs on Easy Digital Downloads fixes
Most affiliate plugins track clicks and pay everyone the same percentage. That breaks the moment you treat creators and power partners differently.
Without Siren
- One flat rate across flagship products and experiments alike
- No clean way to reward creators or revenue-share partners
- Recurring revenue that only ever pays a partner once
- Commission math redone by hand every payout
With Siren
- Commission rules by product, category, or specific offer
- Affiliate and referral programs running in parallel
- Recurring commissions on subscriptions and memberships
- Payouts calculated and ready as store credit or real money
How Siren connects to Easy Digital Downloads
It is the same WordPress site, so there is nothing to connect. Install Siren alongside Easy Digital Downloads and it listens directly to EDD order, license, and refund events. No API keys, no middleware.
Easy Digital Downloads
A customer buys a download, renews a license, or is refunded.
Native plugin hook
Siren reads the EDD order event on the same site, instantly.
Siren attributes
Credits the right collaborator by link, coupon, or assignment.
Payout
Pays as store credit, or real money via Stripe Connect on Plus.
What Siren does with Easy Digital Downloads
Every capability this integration implements, and which edition supports it. Not all of them live in every edition.
Track downloads, licenses and renewals
Read Easy Digital Downloads orders, license renewals, and refunds as conversion events.
Per-product and per-category rules
Pay more on flagship products and less on lower-margin offers.
Pay as store credit
Issue automatic store credit that partners redeem at checkout.
Pay real money via Stripe Connect
Partners self-onboard Stripe Express and get paid automatically on the Plus tier.
What you can track, reward, and run on Easy Digital Downloads
The events Siren reads from Easy Digital Downloads, the rewards it can pay on them, and the program types you can build.
Events Siren tracks
- New download or sale
- License or subscription renewal
- Specific-product or bundle sale
- Refunds and clawbacks
- Sales made off your WordPress site
Rewards you can pay
- Flat or percentage commission
- Per-product or per-category rates
- Recurring on renewals
- Revenue share with creators
- Lead and signup bonuses (Gravity Forms)
Program types
- Affiliate program
- Customer referral program
- Creator revenue share
- Distributor or reseller network
- Multi-tier partner program (Pro)
Starter recipes for Easy Digital Downloads
Pre-built program setups to start from and adjust, not from a blank page.
Recipe
Pay on every license renewal
Selling software licenses or recurring access? Siren can reward the referring partner on the first sale and on a defined set of renewals, not just the initial purchase.
Recipe
Share revenue with product creators
Pay creators a percentage whenever their assigned products sell, so the people behind your catalog share in the upside.
Recipe
Different rates for flagship vs intro offers
Set commission rules by product or category so high-margin bundles and entry-level offers each pay what makes sense.
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Programs you can run on Easy Digital Downloads
Pre-built recipes that work on Easy Digital Downloads. Install one in a click, or open its page for the Easy Digital Downloads-specific details.
Affiliate Program
Percentage commission on every referred download sale.
Affiliate program on Easy Digital Downloads EssentialsRefer a Friend
Reward existing customers who refer new buyers.
Referral program on Easy Digital Downloads EssentialsContent Creator Profit Share
Split a monthly revenue pool among your blog writers by the traffic their posts earn.
Revenue share on Easy Digital Downloads EssentialsProduct Royalties
Creators earn a percentage when their assigned products sell.
Royalty program on Easy Digital DownloadsWhich edition you need
Easy Digital Downloads runs on the editions marked below. Here is what each gives you, what it costs, and what you will need to get going.
Editions
- WordPress Available
Self-host the plugin on the same site as Easy Digital Downloads and own your data. Tracks EDD orders out of the box.
Free Siren Lite tier. Paid plans from $229/year per site.
- Cloud Coming soon
Coming soon. The hosted, sign-up-yourself edition will run Easy Digital Downloads with the same capabilities as the WordPress plugin, with no site of your own to manage. Not live yet.
- Full-Service Available
Prefer it managed? Siren Cloud runs the same engine for your EDD store, hosted and supported by our team.
Custom. Hosted and managed.
What you will need
- A WordPress site with Easy Digital Downloads active.
- For renewal and subscription rewards: the Essentials tier plus EDD recurring payments.
- For automatic real-money payouts: Plus (Stripe Connect).
- No API keys and no developer setup. It is the same WordPress site.
- Recurring commissions require EDD recurring payments and the Essentials tier or higher.
- Multi-tier and cascading commissions are a Pro-tier feature.
Easy Digital Downloads questions answered
Will Siren work with my existing Easy Digital Downloads store?
Yes. Siren is designed to connect to an existing Easy Digital Downloads site. You do not have to rebuild your catalog, just connect your store, define your programs, and start tracking affiliate and referral activity.
Do I need a developer to set this up?
Most store owners do not. If you are comfortable installing WordPress plugins and configuring Easy Digital Downloads, you can get Siren online. If you are running a heavily customized stack, we can point you toward best practices.
Can I pay different rates for different downloads or licenses?
Absolutely. You can set commission rules by product, category, or specific offer. That makes it easy to pay more on flagship products or bundles, and less on lower-margin or experimental offers.
Can I run both an affiliate program and a referral program for Easy Digital Downloads?
Yes. Siren lets you run multiple programs in parallel. You might have a classic affiliate program for content creators and a separate referral program for existing customers, all inside the same Easy Digital Downloads affiliate integration.
Does Siren support recurring commissions for subscriptions or memberships?
If you are using recurring payments or membership add-ons with Easy Digital Downloads, you can decide whether commissions are paid on the first payment only or on a chosen number of renewals.
Can I migrate from another Easy Digital Downloads affiliate plugin?
In many cases, yes. You can import partners and start tracking new referrals in Siren right away. What you can bring over historically depends on what your current tool exports, and we can help you evaluate that.
What happens if someone cancels or gets a refund?
Commissions move from pending to payable on your schedule. If an order is refunded within your policy window, you can reject that commission, which prevents it from being paid out, keeping obligations clean for you and your partners.
Is Siren only for affiliates?
No. Siren is built for affiliates, referrers, creators, ambassadors, and joint-venture partners. Think of it as an incentive engine for your Easy Digital Downloads store, not just an affiliate tracker.
WordPress edition
Start your Easy Digital Downloads affiliate program free
Install Siren on your WordPress site, connect it to Easy Digital Downloads in minutes, and run your first program on the free Lite tier. Upgrade only when your program does.
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