DLGuard Review – Download Sales Management Software For Selling Ebooks Online
The DLGuard set of scripts allow anybody with their own web server to sell digital products over the internet through providing secure download links after administering the checkout and handling payment processing of sales. This DLGuard review principally highlights the products use in selling ebooks online, but the product can handle any digital file type that can be uploaded.
The application is primarily a PHP script with functionality to protect on-line sales. The script covers a multi or single step checkout process, handling the secure payment processing with the majority of the large providers and also inventory administration.
The checkout phase in DLGuard is able to handle a number of possible sales types. The simplest sales type is the sale of a single product or item. If your ebook business follows a publisher style business model then the application facilitates customers with a shopping basket to store items before checkout. Lastly selling website memberships (monthly sales) can also be managed. If you have free downloads then you could also use the single-item sales approach (omitting the payment step) in order to capture customer email addresse.
My own experience with the product started three years ago and the initial intention was to start selling ebooks online (both my own books and ebook reselling) and some sales of software applications (principally add-ons for larger applications).
Installing the product back in 2007 on a single server took about 20 minutes. The time consuming part was adding links and buttons on my sites where customers could buy my ebooks. A good recommendation is to start out with a single website and one or two ebooks you wish to sell so that you can fine tune the buttons, links and cart design.
Long term, I will expand out my sites with membership areas using DLGuard and provide some value-added eBooks in detailing my approach to writing plug-ins for application and how to sell software on-line. DLGuard facilitates this advanced functionality out of the box and the current trend toward membership sites highlights the benefit of receiving such a passive income stream regularly.
Originally I looked into selling ebooks through one of the large on-line distributors. My objection to this was that I not be able to create my own customer sign-up lists during the checkout process. Having to pay a sales commission also made the deal a little one sided.
From my analysis, the one constraint using the product is the 2 web domain license limit. This states that the product can only be installed on 2 servers from the one product purchase. In truth though, any sales made will pay for a license quickly enough as the product is quite competitively priced.
In summary, DLGuard ticks all the boxes for the functionality most users would require from a download sales management tool. Its ease of installation and use means I can spend less time administering my websites and more time writing ebooks. The addition of the membership sales feature is one web trend that is definitely worth further investigation.
If you enjoyed this DLGuard review, then be sure to check out our site for articles on writing ebooks and sofware and selling them online
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