Audit Your Easy Digital Downloads Store Before Launch with AI
Get a plain-English pre-launch check of your store: test mode, payment gateways, checkout pages, taxes, and products that are not ready to sell.
Prerequisites
A connected site running Easy Digital Downloads 3.7.1 or newer on WordPress 6.9 or newer. The audit is read-only, so nothing needs to be switched on.
I run my store on Easy Digital Downloads and I want a pre-launch audit. Use the Easy Digital Downloads abilities, and only the read-only ones: do not create or change anything. Run the store health check, read the store settings, and read the tax rates. Then give me a checklist with a clear pass, warning, or fail for each of these: whether the store is in test mode, which payment gateways are enabled and which is the default, whether a checkout page and a purchase confirmation page are assigned, whether taxes are enabled and whether any tax rates exist, the currency and how prices are displayed, whether AI write access is on, and the versions of Easy Digital Downloads, WordPress, and PHP. Then list my products and flag any that are still drafts or have no price. For every warning or fail, tell me in one line why it matters and the exact wp-admin screen where I fix it. Do not guess at anything the abilities do not return; say it was not checked. End by reminding me to place one real test purchase, since enabled gateways are not proof that payments work.
Skip pasting the full prompt. Drop this into your AI on a site that already has WPVibe:
Run the “Audit Your Easy Digital Downloads Store Before Launch with AI” recipe from the WPVibe cookbook on my connected site.
Stores do not fail at launch because of something dramatic. They fail because test mode was still on, or the checkout page was never assigned, or taxes were meant to be switched on and were not. Each of those is one setting on one screen, and the only way to catch them is to remember to look at all the screens.
The AI reads your store's configuration through Easy Digital Downloads' health check, settings, and tax abilities, and turns it into a checklist: is the store in test mode, which gateways are enabled and which is the default, are the checkout and confirmation pages set, are taxes on and are there rates, are there products still in draft. Every lookup is read-only. It reports and recommends, and you make the changes yourself in the admin.
Paste the prompt as it is. Run it once before you launch and again after any big change, like switching gateways or moving hosts. One honest limit: the audit sees which gateways are enabled, not whether your Stripe or PayPal account is fully verified on their side, so finish with one real purchase of your cheapest product. That test is the only thing that proves money can move.
Outcome
A short checklist of what is ready and what is not, with the exact settings screen to fix each problem.