Digital Shopping Cart - A Simple and Cost Effective Solution

Imagine this ...

You've created a digital product and are ready to sell it online. So you create a sales page and a thank you download page and set up your sales button through PayPal. Anyone who clicks on that button and makes a successful payment through PayPal is sent to the download page.

Great! You're in business.

But did you know that online thieves can access your download without even paying you a dime?

• They can hack into your website and find the download page.
• They can get the link from someone who did purchase it and then shared the download link with all their friends.
• They can simply guess that you called your download page thankyou.htm and get your product simply and easily.

So how do you protect your intellectual property? You get a digital shopping cart.

Now there are lots of options you can choose from, but you have to make your choice wisely or you'll end up with a system that has all your products in it that you just aren't happy with.

At the high end of the price scale, there are the hosted digital shopping cart solutions such as 1ShoppingCart. With a service like this, you pay them a monthly fee to host your shopping cart.

At the low end of the price scale is a IPN redirect script that really only protects your download, but can't create a shopping cart for you.

I've even seen medium-price ranged shopping cart solutions that only let you create your shopping cart one way ... you have no freedom to brand the cart or even sell a variety of types of products.

Of course, you could give up a piece of each sale and use a downloadable product reseller system such as PayLoadz.com.

But if you're building a business for the long term, do you really want to send your customers to another website? And pay that website for the privilege?

Of course not!

That's why I recommend this simple, powerful and cost effective software solution that you host on your server, DLGuard.

I used this software to create my shopping cart and have used it to protect downloadable products that aren't in that shopping cart, as well. And this software program has a whole lot of amazingly useful features, too!

• You can use it with, currently, 11 main payment processors, including PayPal, Clickbank and PayDotCom.com.

• You can use it to create mini membership sites. In fact, I know that Copy 'N' Profit uses it to deliver its product.

• You can add extra bonus downloads to the secure download area it creates for your customers. And it is simple and easy to switch these out later, if you wish.

• You can track each of your customer's downloads individually. This information can be very handy when assessing possible attempted refund scams.

• Since DLGuard can collect important sales and visitor information, you can calculate sales and conversion rates. This information empowers you to improve your offers and increase sales.

• Is a particular customer proving to be a pain in the butt? DLGuard lets you ban them! You can ban a person by their IP address or email address. By banning an IP address, the customer will be blocked from purchasing through your purchase links. If choose to ban a customer's email address, the purchase will be made, but they'll be blocked from reaching your download area and you'll receive an email notifying you that a banned customer has tried to access the download area. This can help stop the wrong people from getting their hands on your products.

On top of all that, DLGuard is fairly easy to install and the customer service is very, very good. The business owner is very friendly and stands buy his product.

DLGuard is updated very often and new features are frequently added to improve the product even more.

And if that doesn't make you want to invest in this digital shopping cart software, then these features should put you over the edge:

• DLGuard's download areas are built using standard HTML templates. This means you can edit your download areas just like normal web pages. You don't need any advanced knowledge or PHP programming skills. And, while many software applications that offer customization, only let you customize certain parts of the page. DLGuard is different. They let you to modify the entire page!

• DLGuard was created with flexibility in mind. Regardless of your business model or online marketing experience, you can use this software to protect your download. This also means that DLGuard can continue to serve your needs as you and your business grows.

• If you have advanced needs, you can "poll" different details from your own script. For example, your software you can use DLGuard to verify customer details to make sure your customer is valid before gaining access to your product or service.

• DLGuard even allows you to add customers to your cart, it will then send a download email notice to your client.

• DLGuard plays well with all sorts of hosting companies, working fine on Windows and Macintosh servers, as well as Unix/Linux servers. DLGuard does use IonCube Loaders, however if your server doesn't have these already installed, DLGuard will install them for you. And, if you do have problems installing the software, which can occasionally happen, DLGuard's Customer Service will be more than happy to either help you through the installation or simply install DLGuard for you, free of charge.

You've got to try this out for yourself. You won't regret it.