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Easy Digital Downloads Fraud Monitor Addon GPL Overview:
Fraud is a very real threat to eCommerce stores and can be extremely costly to store owners. A single fraudulent transaction could easily cost you $150 or more. If you aren’t already proactively working against it, you should be.
Along with being costly to deal with, fraud can also be detrimental to store operations as merchant processors will often disable payment accounts if the fraud rate is too high. This can happen without warning and cause severe complications. Actively protecting against fraudulent transactions on your eCommerce site is one of the most important things you as a store owner can do.
Fraud Monitor is an extension that adds robust monitoring to your Easy Digital Downloads store and works for you to automatically detect possibly fraudulent purchases, allowing you to rest easy and focus on growing your business instead of fighting fraud.
Each time a purchase is made, Fraud Monitor runs the information through a series of checks and will automatically flag the purchase as needing further review if it detects anything suspicious.
When a purchase is flagged as possibly fraudulent, an email can be delivered automatically to the site admin and/or to the customer in order to request additional information necessary for verifying the purchase. Once the purchase is reviewed by a site manager, the receipt and download links can be released to the customer. If the purchase is confirmed to be fraudulent, Fraud Monitor allows you to easily reverse the payment, preventing costly chargebacks or fraud penalties in the future.
Fraud Monitor includes the ability to moderate payments when:
- An email addresses matches common fraud patterns.
- An IP address has already been flagged as possible fraud.
- A purchase comes from a country store owners identify as having high fraud rates.
- A purchase pattern contains product combinations that a typical customer wouldn’t purchase.
- A purchase has an unusually high total.
- A purchase has an unusually high number of items.
- A purchase is made from outside a certain radius in relation to the billing address.
- A store owner manually flags a payment to be reviewed or as fraudulent.
In addition to all those, Fraud Monitor can also flag a payment for review during the file download process when:
- The download request is originating from a country the store owner has identified as having high fraud rates.
- A download request is made within 24 hours of the initial purchase, and is from a different country than the purchase was made.
About Easy Digital Downloads – Fraud Monitor
Easy Digital Downloads – Fraud Monitor v1.1.5 is a premium WordPress plugin developed by Sandhills Development, LLC. An EDD extension that auto detects possible fraud based on some pre-defined rules and puts any payment that gets caught as potential fraud in a moderation queue It is distributed under the GPL v2 or later licence, which means you can install it on an unlimited number of websites — including websites you build and manage for your clients.
Compatibility & Requirements
Easy Digital Downloads – Fraud Monitor requires WordPress 5.0 or later, and has been tested up to WordPress 6.7, and requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Our team checks every version for conflicts and clean activation — what you download is what we tested. This listing reflects version v1.1.5, updated within 24 hours of the upstream release.
Your Rights Under GPL
Every product in our library, including Easy Digital Downloads – Fraud Monitor, is distributed under the GNU General Public License — the legal foundation of open-source WordPress. This means you are fully entitled to use it on personal websites, client projects, and staging environments without any additional cost or permission. The GPL was designed to keep software free; we built our store on top of that principle.
Our Promise to Every Customer
- Genuine, unmodified files – Easy Digital Downloads – Fraud Monitor v1.1.5 is distributed exactly as released by Sandhills Development, LLC, with no modifications.
- Use on unlimited websites – The GPL licence and our store policy both allow unlimited installations.
- Immediate access after purchase – No manual approval, no waiting — your link is sent the moment payment clears.
- Quality checked every release – Our team reviews each file for compatibility before it appears in the store.
- Secure and private checkout – Your data is protected by SSL encryption throughout the purchase process.
- No hidden costs – The price you see is the only price you pay. Ever.
Before You Download — Quick Answers
Will Easy Digital Downloads – Fraud Monitor break my existing site?
Easy Digital Downloads – Fraud Monitor v1.1.5 has been tested up to WordPress 6.7 and PHP 7.4. We recommend always testing on a staging site before installing on live production.
I build sites for clients — is one purchase enough?
One purchase covers unlimited installations. The GPL v2 or later licence that Easy Digital Downloads – Fraud Monitor is released under has no domain or site limits — neither does MySoftDeals.
My host uses PHP 7.4 — any issues?
None at all. Easy Digital Downloads – Fraud Monitor requires PHP 7.4 as a minimum version, so your hosting environment is perfectly compatible.
What if Sandhills Development, LLC releases an update next month?
Log into your MySoftDeals account and re-download for free. We keep our files current within 24 hours of any upstream release.
Is it safe to buy a GPL plugin from a third-party store?
Yes. The GPL licence was created specifically to allow this. Any developer who releases software under GPL grants everyone the legal right to redistribute it. That is the foundation of the open-source WordPress community.
Official developer page: https://easydigitaldownloads.com/downloads/fraud-monitor
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