Integrate Easy Digital Downloads and Firstgiving
Trexle connects Easy Digital Downloads to Firstgiving and 100+ other payment gateways using a single plugin for one time annual fee
Firstgiving and Easy Digital Downloads Integration Guide
API Authentication
In order to submit requests against Firstgiving API, you must first signup as a FirstGiving.com API partner. Firstgiving will give you what we call an “application id” and a “security token”. This is similar to a username & password. You will identify your requests with your application token and security id on each request.
Take the credentials you just obtained from Firstgiving and navigate to Trexle dashboard, click Payments Gateways and select Firstgiving from the drop down menu as shown below.
Fill into your Firstgiving credential and click Add Gateway. Click the Activate button next to Firstgiving, and it will give you a success message and the button will turn into green. You should see something like below.
To install Trexle extension to your Easy Digital Downloads shop, follow these steps:
- Download Easy Digital Downloads Trexle extension from Trexle GitHub repository.
- Log to the Administrator area of your site and navigate to Plugins → Add New.
- From there you’ll see an option to Upload Plugin.
- Select the file you have previously downloaded, click Open and then Install Now.
- You have successfully installed Trexle extension. After installation, click the Activate Plugin button.
To ensure the integration works seamlessly, create a test product, logout from your admin session and perform a checkout as a regular customer.
After placeing an order using a test card, you should see this.
Test Card Data for Sandbox
- ccNumber – 4457000100000009
- ccType – VI
- ccExpDateMonth – 01
- ccExpDateYear – 18
- billToAddressLine1 – 1 Main St.
- billToCity – Burlington
- billToState – MA
- billToZip – 01803
Firstgiving Supported Countries
Firstgiving Supported Payment Processing Actions
✖ Authorize
✖ Capture
✖ Void
✔ Credit
✖ Recurring
✖ Card Store
Key Features
About Trexle
Trexle is a powerful online recurring subscription billing platform that integrate Firstgiving and other +100 payment gateways with Easy Digital Downloads and other dozen of e-commerce platforms.
About Firstgiving
FirstGiving is an online fundraising service known for working with reputable nonprofit organizations. This fundraising site offers administration and reporting, branding, customized pages, event registration, social widgets, free fundraising webinars and more.
FirstGiving offers a variety of resources and tools for beginning campaigners and new users to its site. You can download calculators, fundraising guides, guides for involving young donors and case studies from other successful campaigns.
About Easy Digital Downloads
Easy Digital Downloads is a powerful, free e-commerce platform, based on Wordpress CMS that allows you to sell downloadable products such as documents, ebooks, music, software etc. It powers more than 60,000 e-commerce stores, ranging from single landing pages to large online marketplaces. It has a wide variety of addons that allows merchants to customize their stores to their own needs, so they can manage the whole purchase process from beginning to end.