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WCDPUE Lite

Description

WooCommerce Downloadable Product Update Emails. This plugin can be used to send emails to customers who bought a WooCommerce downloadable product; letting them know that there’s been an update to their download. Never let customers guess if an edition of the e-book they bought or other product they bought has been updated. No more need to manually email customers about downloadable product updates or creating a new product.

Pro Version

Take a look at the Pro version for more functionality including HTML Emails, Variable Product Support and more!

Go to Pro plugin page.

Donations

Buy the Pro version 🙂

Screenshots

  • Plugin UI on product page (button turned off).
  • Plugin UI on product page (button turned on).
  • Plugin Settings page.
  • Update email sent to buyers of the product.
  • Customable email body, more customization soon.

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
  3. Use the Settings->Product Update Emails screen to configure the plugin

FAQ-e

Installation Instructions
  1. Upload the plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
  3. Use the Settings->Product Update Emails screen to configure the plugin
Email sends as wordpress.example.com

I used wp_mail in the plugin so you could easily override the default send from email using an SMTP plugin such as: https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-smtp/

HTML Email Templates?

Available in Pro version of plugin.

What are Email Bursts?

Used for setting the amount of emails addresses to grab and send emails to every time the scheduled time hits.

What Happens if I set the email bursts amount to more than 10?

In theory there should be no problem with this. But if you are on shared hosting it’s recommended that you keep the bursts count at a decent amount.

Reviews

21 March 2017
This plugin allows me to automatically send notices to customers who’ve purchased my downloadable items whenever I update the products. I’ve seen other plugins that do this, but they are way out of my budget and have all sorts of other capabilities that I don’t need. This plugin is simple and does the job. It also comes with great support. Even though I hadn’t purchased the PRO version, the plugin author made a plugin fix to correct a problem I was having. I am definitely going to buy the PRO version after being taken care of so well when I ran into an issue with the lite version. This plugin is WELL worth the download and I am happy to purchase the upgrade. It is going to save me so much time and work having to notify customers of updates. My customers love being notified of free updates, and I love how this plugin lets me do the job with a flip of a virtual switch. Seriously, this is probably one of the best (and much needed) plugins for Woocommerce that I’ve found.
10 January 2017
Plugin works perfectly with WooCommerce without need for additional plugins to manage downloads on your website. Never let your users wonder if there’s an update to their product, now you could simply let them know via email with this plugin.
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Contributors & Developers

“WCDPUE Lite” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Interested in development?

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Changelog

1.1.8

  • Fixed an issue with the status message on the Metabox
  • Brought back send immediately option, user will have the option to control this in future versions
  • Tested on WP 4.9

1.1.7

  • Compatible with WooCommerce 3.2
  • Removed redundant field on setting page
  • Added clear queue button on settings page
  • Removed immediately send option
  • Plugin now shows how many emails were scheduled
  • Plugin will not send the same email to an address even though they ordered the same product multiple times; customer will only get one email for that product.
  • Minor changes

1.1.6

  • Fixed an issue where the plugin would incorrectly count the amount of buyers with access to the download.

1.1.5

  • Output admin notice if WooCommerce not active.
  • Metabox text changes
  • Tested WP 4.7
  • Other minor changes

1.1.4

  • Pro version now available.
  • Plugin name change.
  • Other minor changes.

1.1.3

  • Fix changelog

1.1.2

  • Metabox now only shows if product is a downloadable product.
  • Metabox will not show if is a downloadable variable product.
  • Minor metabox text changes
  • Minor source code changes

1.1.1

  • Fix a bug which caused the schedule feature to not work.
    Please go back to any previously updated product and click update again if you used the plugin scheduling feature during version 1.1.0

1.1.0

  • Tested with WP 4.6.1
  • Removed “Current schedule” from settings page, dropdown menu will now stay at the selected schedule.
  • Added custom email footer option.
  • Metabox now only appears when editing an already published product.
  • Minor default changes.

1.0.1

  • Small CSS fix

1.0.0

  • Initial release