WooCommerce and Download Monitor Integration

If you want to sell your downloads you can achieve this using our Download Monitor WooCommerce integration plugin and WooCommerce together. WooCommerce is a free eCommerce WordPress plugin that you can download from here.

Installation

  • Unzip and upload the plugin’s folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  • Activate the extension through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

For more information on installing and managing plugins see here.

Setup

Before you start setting up your products, you’ll need to create your downloads with Download Monitor. Please see our instructions on how to add downloads to your website and get started.

Once your downloads are set up, you can move on to setting up your shop and adding products in WooCommerce. WooCommerce is a very well-documented plugin, and you can check out their documentation on adding and managing products.

  1. You will need to edit your WooCommerce Products > go to Product Data > General > Downloads > Select your downloads.

  2. After you publish your download on a page by using this shortcode, you will notice that your users won’t be able to download that file without purchasing the product first.

    The message displayed after you click on the download button:

After setting up your WooCommerce shop and adding your products, you can easily link your downloads to these products. This ensures that users will only be able to download files after completing a purchase, giving you full control over your digital products.

If you want to learn more about Download Monitor please refer to our full knowledgebase. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us via our contact form here and we will help you ASAP.

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