How To Enable Milestone Sales Alerts for Easy Digital Downloads

Are you looking for a way to enable milestone sales alerts for Easy Digital Downloads? While there’s probably a plugin for this, we have created a quick code snippet that you can use to enable milestone sales alerts for Easy Digital Downloads in WordPress.

Instructions:

Add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin.

function sumobi_edd_milestone_sales_alert( $purchase_id ) {
   // ID of download to check
   $download_id = 8;

   // sales milestone to reach
   $milestone = 100;

   // email/s to send the notification to. Add more emails to array if necessary
   $send_to = get_option( 'admin_email' );

   // get the current number of sales for the download
   $sales = get_post_meta( $download_id, '_edd_download_sales', true );

   // message to be included in the email
   $message = sprintf( 'Congratulations, you have just reached your milestone of %s sales for %s! View this sale here: %s', $milestone, get_the_title( $download_id ), admin_url( 'edit.php?post_type=download&page=edd-payment-history&view=view-order-details&id=' . $purchase_id ) );

   // send email is milestone is reached
   if ( $milestone == $sales ) {
      wp_mail( $send_to, 'Milestone reached!', $message );
   }
}
add_action( 'edd_complete_purchase', 'sumobi_edd_milestone_sales_alert' );

You will need to change the $download_id in line 3 to the ID of the download and then change the $milestone variable in line 6 to the sales milestone you want to use. You can also set the notification email in line 9 to an array of emails or leave it as is.

This code was created by Andrew Munro.

Note: If this is your first time adding code snippets in WordPress, then please refer to our guide on how to properly copy / paste code snippets in WordPress, so you don’t accidentally break your site.

If you liked this code snippet, please consider checking out our other articles on the site like: 7 best download manager plugins and how to Create an Online Store.