DLGuard Review: Protection For Sales In Your Ebook Business
This DLGuard review is an introduction to using the download sales software to automate your own ebook business. The product is not limited to ebook publishing, but this serves as a good example of the products main benefits.
I was recommended DLGuard software in 2007 when I was writing ebooks and looking for a simple way of automating digital sales. In an effort to stay independent I was looking for a tool I could install on my own server that could manage the checkout process, interact with payment processors and email customers a unique & secure download link to their purchase.
DLGuard is simply a set of scripts that can easily be installed onto most web servers. The scripts provide forms and business logic to provide a standard shopping cart/checkout interface. This includes handling multiple product sales and promotional coupons along with being able to interact with PayPal, ClickBank, 2Checkout, Authorize.Net, WorldPay, AlertPay, Ebay, PayDotCom, E-Gold & 1ShoppingCart to finalize the sale.
After the payment is verified, DLGuard sends the customer an email with a download link to their ebook. The clever bit here is that the link is time limited and a cap on the number of download attempts permitted is also configurable. This is crucial to stopping the link being shared and your ebooks being mass-distributed without you benefiting.
To integrate it within your sites, most users will wish to customize the web forms for the checkout process to match their site’s branding. The scripts are written with this in mind so are easily modified by anyone with coding skills.
As an entry level download sales tool DLGuard is a secure and favorably priced piece of software which will suit webmasters wishing to maintain control over the marketing of their product and control over capturing customer data. This is a massive benefit over on-line ebook sales services where it is more difficult to capture customer emails for your mailing lists.
