WooCommerce Dropbox

February 23, 2024

WooCommerce Dropbox Plugin

Easily choose a Dropbox file to be used as a Downloadable Product for WooCommerce.

The Dropbox for WooCommerce extension gives you the power and ease of use of serving your downloadable products
through the Dropbox infrastructure.
Easily choose a file from your Dropbox account via the Choose from Dropbox button and the plugin will do the rest.

Please carefully read the installation instructions.

Before using this plugin:
Dropbox has usage limits on public links when using a free, pro or business account. Please be aware of this limitation before you use this plugin.

Basic accounts and accounts on a trial of Dropbox Business: 20 GB of bandwidth and 100,000 downloads per day
Plus, Family, and Professional accounts: 400 GB and unlimited downloads per day
Dropbox Business Standard accounts: 1 TB and unlimited downloads per day
Dropbox Business Advanced and Enterprise accounts: 4 TB and unlimited downloads per day

More information on the usage limits can be found here.

This plugin is in best use for PDF’s, Text documents, Excel Documents etc. (not for video’s or other large files).

Development

Development takes place at this GitHub Repository

Installation

Important: make sure you have installed and activated WooCommerce.

  1. Install the plugin through the WordPress admin or manually upload the woocommerce-dropbox folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the WooCommerce Dropbox plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Go to the Dropbox Developers app console
  4. Press the blue button Create app
  5. Choose ‘Dropbox API’ for Step 1
  6. Choose ‘Full Dropbox’ for Step 2
  7. Set a unique app-name (eg. [storename]-woocommerce) for Step 3
  8. While on the Settings tab, copy your app key (somewhere in the middle of the page)
  9. While on the Settings tab, add your domain to the field ‘Choose/Saver domains’
  10. Go back to your WordPress site
  11. Go to WooCommerce -> Settings
  12. Open the tab Integration -> Dropbox Integration
  13. Paste your API-key and save changes.

Dropbox for WooCommerce is now installed and configured.

Still having trouble with the installation? Plugin not working as you would expect?
Please open a support ticket in the support forums.

Screenshots

  1. Product detail page with 'Choose from Dropbox'-button

    Product detail page with 'Choose from Dropbox'-button

  2. Plugin settings page

    Plugin settings page

FAQ

{“error”: “Origin does not match any app domain”}

Please make sure you have entered the right domain while you’re at step 8 of the installation instructions.
You can find the right domain when browsing to your WordPress installation and copy the URL from your browser.
It is also possible to add multiple domain name’s to the Drop-ins domains field. This is especially usefull when working with multiple environments (local, dev, production).

Changelog

1.3.0

Release date: February 23rd, 2024

  • Tested plugin for WordPress version 6.4.3 and WooCommerce 8.6.1
  • Add support for HPOS (https://github.com/vjanssens/woocommerce-dropbox/pull/7)

1.2.5

Release date: September 9th, 2021

  • Tested plugin for WordPress version 5.8.1 and WooCommerce 5.6.0

1.2.4

Release date: December 28th, 2020

  • Fixed an issue where long filenames caused issues (thank you @JakePT) Issue #4
  • Fixed an issue where file name and url were not populated for variable products
  • Tested plugin for WordPress version 5.6 and WooCommerce 4.8.0

1.2.3

Release date: April 17th, 2020

  • Fixed an issue where the ‘Choose from Dropbox’ button was not visible

1.2.2

Release date: April 14th, 2020

  • Tested plugin for WordPress version 5.4 and WooCommerce 4.0.1

1.2.0

Release date: March 12th, 2020

  • Tested plugin for WordPress version 5.3.2 and WooCommerce 4.0.0
  • Fixed settings link on plugins overview

1.1.1

Release date: August 3rd, 2016

  • Tested plugin for WordPress version 4.6
  • Fixed a bug where the customizer was unable to load (thanks to tokegameart for reporting)
  • Improved onboarding experience when activating plugin
  • Added support links to plugin overview

1.1.0

Release date: July 27th, 2016

  • Tested plugin for WordPress version 4.5.3 and WooCommerce 2.6.3
  • It’s now possible to add a file from Dropbox for variable products

1.0.6

Release date: January 22nd, 2016

  • Tested plugin for WordPress version 4.4.1 and WooCommerce 2.5.0
  • Updated installation instructions
  • Added dutch (nl_NL) translation

1.0.5

Release date: April 9th, 2015

  • Fixed URL encoding bug

1.0.4

  • Tested plugin for WordPress version 4.1

1.0.3

  • Fix URL encoding bug

1.0.2

  • Bugfixes

1.0.1

  • Bugfixes

1.0

  • Initial version

Details

  • Version: 1.3.0
  • Active installations: 1,000
  • WordPress Version: 5.0
  • Tested up to: 6.4.5
  • PHP Version: 7.2

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