Easy Digital Downloads Points Gateway add-on gives you the ability to use points types as a standard payment gateway (like PayPal or Stripe). As an standard payment gateway only support full cart payments.
Easy Digital Downloads Partial Payments add-on gives you the ability to enable points types for partially pay any purchase. Your users will be able to reduce a purchase total by using an amount of points at checkout and before proceed to complete the purchase by any payment gateway.
| Points Gateway | Partial Payments | |
|---|---|---|
| How are points used? | Points are used to fully pay a purchase | Points are used to reduce the purchase total |
| Points get refunded on refund the purchase? | Yes, points are refunded to the customer | Yes, points are refunded to the customer |
| Product vendor earns the customer points? | Yes, points are awarded to the product author (for marketplaces specially) | No, points are not awarded to the product author |
| Points appears on the purchase details? | Yes, as the payment method, in addition, an extra line is added displayed the points total | Yes, they appear on the fees section |
Summary
Easy Digital Downloads Points Gateway add-on use points in replacement of real money to pay a purchase.
Easy Digital Downloads Partial Payments add-on use points for a discount to reduce the purchase total.
