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Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Protect Your Content

If you are selling virtual products like ebooks, software or other applications that you don't really want shared, you need to have a solution to keep your products in the right hands and prevent unwanted file sharing. This is, unfortunately, not the easiest thing to do.

If you haven't used PHPAudit before, it is a great tool that provides store owners with an incredibly easy way to protect their content. It's also more than just a protection program, it allows you to easily take orders 24/7, and track exactly what’s going on in your store. Files are locked down to prevent sharing between friends, and or multiple installations, which is a really nice feature.

This product also integrates well with the IonCube suite to provide you with a complete solution. I really liked the fact that PHPAudit can be used to send out invoices, which is a really handy if you have products like ezines or perpetual subscriptions. This is an area that can be incredibly time consuming and it’s easy to lose a customer without an autorenew feature. PHPAudit can also be integrated with 2checkout, Authorize.net, BluePay, Paypal, WorldPay to make this process even easier.

If you have more than one store, you can easily run them all, right from a single interface, and use multiple brands. This is truly a solution that makes selling digital products a heck of a lot less painful. The admin page is straightforward, and easy to use, which will be a relief for store owners who aren’t as technical as others.

As someone who has lost a lot of sales due to file sharing, this is a solution I will definitely be implementing in the future. PHPAudit is on sale, but only until August 11th, so hurry over and take advantage of their special offer.