A merchant previously forced to migrate off Shopify's Digital Downloads app after data loss and abandoned development is hesitant to return to the rebranded version despite paying $300 a year for...

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        "author": "Moyopal",
        "excerpt": "Stay on your paid third-party app if your library is already set up and working. We tested the rebranded Shopify Digital Downloads app on a small bundle earlier this year and it is still the exact same bare-bones tool underneath, with no PDF stamping, no clean way to push silent file updates to past buyers, and zero real support when a customer download link fails. Paying 25 dollars a month for a",
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        "excerpt": "I’ve used it for four years with hardly any issues. I think they just renamed it “Digital Products”, but it’s essentially the same.\n\n I’ll add that it’s also barely changed at all in those four years, It’s the bare minimum basically. Would love to see more features/support for digital product stores in the future.",
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      "[comment u/Moyopal] We tested the rebranded Shopify Digital Downloads app on a small bundle earlier this year and it is still the exact same bare-bones tool underneath, with no PDF stamping, no clean way to push silent file updates to past buyers, and zero real support when a customer download link fails."
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