How can I limit monthly digital downloads for a user?

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

Goal: limit how many digital items a customer can download per month, tied to a membership/subscription.

  • Existing functionality: Shopify’s Digital Downloads app can set a fixed download count per file/product (e.g., 2 downloads). Linked setup guide was shared. This controls per-product download attempts, not monthly quotas.

  • App suggestion: Wire app limits the number of downloads per secure link (e.g., 3 times) and offers a 14‑day trial. This is also per-link, not a monthly, per-user cap across multiple items.

  • Clarification of need: a subscription tier that grants access to a limited number of different digital items each month (e.g., $17/month for 4 sticker sets; $27/month for 6). This requires quota enforcement across a catalog, resetting monthly.

  • Outcome: No confirmed solution for monthly, per-user quotas within this thread. The last message asks if a solution was found.

  • Key open question: Which apps or workflows can enforce monthly item quotas tied to subscription tiers rather than per-file/per-link limits. Linked resources (Shopify guide and Wire app) are central to the proposed but insufficient approaches.

Summarized with AI on January 8. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi all,

Is there an app/feature for Shopify that can be used to limit the number of digital downloads for a user per month?

I’ve seen a number of people ask this question some time ago but not seen a solution for this.

Many thanks,

Pete

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Hey, @ee8prt

Are you looking to limit the number of downloads to a customer for a specific product? Within the Shopify digital downloads app you can enter the number of times that you would like the customer to be able to download this file. For example, if you enter 2, then the customer can download the file twice. We have a guide on setting this up here.

If there is anything else I can help you with, please let me know.

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Hi,

In case you’re looking for an app to limit digital download per link - That is, if you say 3, then customers could download only 3 times from that secure link

You could check out wire - https://apps.shopify.com/wire

It’s one of the most feature-rich and economical app out there. We also run a 14 day trial period for our new customers.

Would love to know if this serves your purpose

Regards

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Hello there

What he asking is : Is there a way or a shopify app that would sell a subscription where members would be limited to a certain amount of digital items per month, not the same items and not per link. For example I sell stickers and I would like to create a membership tier where my members would be able to download a limited amount of stickers sets per month , for example, $17/month would give access to 4 sets per month, for $27/month 6 sticker set.

If you have a solution it would be really amazing!

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Did you ever figure out how to do this?