DL­Guard 5 Fi­nally Available!

DL­Guard (short for dig­i­tal down­load guard) is truly one of the most beloved ecom­merce tools – which is a rare thing to say about soft­ware. The first ver­sion of DLG was cre­ated early 2005 by Sam Stephens, at that time called CB Down­load Manger. Since 2005 Sam has added nu­mer­ous up­grades and features.

DL­Guard is im­mensely pop­u­lar for small to medium sized in­ter­net busi­nesses to sell (and pro­tect) their dig­i­tal products.

An hour ago Sam emailed me that the brand new DL­Guard 5 is avail­able now. Own­ers of the pre­vi­ous DLG ver­sion can down­load the DLG5 up­grade free if their sup­port and up­grade li­cense is still valid. (If not, you can eas­ily re­new your license.)

If you don’t own it yet, you can get it (and read all about it) here:

DL­Guard Down­load Page Pro­tec­tor.

The new V5 is the biggest up­grade we’ve seen in years. It has lots of new fea­tures, en­hance­ments, and a re­vamped page design.

Be­fore we look at what’s new with DLG, a re­ally quick info for those who don’t know it:

You can use DL­Guard to eas­ily man­age your dig­i­tal prod­uct sales and down­loads, in­clud­ing man­ag­ing mem­ber­ship sites. The im­por­tant word in this sen­tence be­ing ‘easy.’ You prob­a­bly know I’ve been closely in­volved with a more ‘ad­vanced’ ecom­merce tool for sev­eral years. In the end I ditched it be­cause it was too com­pli­cated. I’m us­ing DL­Guard now, and never looked back.

  • DLG sup­ports sin­gle prod­uct sales (typ­i­cal for sales let­ter web sites pro­mot­ing one and only one down­load­able prod­uct) and sales via shop­ping cart, where the cus­tomer can buy sev­eral prod­ucts at once.
  • DL­Guard pro­tects your down­load pages and se­cures down­loads from thieves.
  • It keeps track of your sales, adds your cus­tomers to your au­tore­spon­ders, and you can eas­ily re­send prod­uct down­loads to cus­tomers who ask for sup­port. Full fea­ture list here.

DL­Guard 5 Up­grade – what’s new?

Great sup­port for WSO’s (War­rior Spe­cial Of­fers). DLG now supports

  • WSO Pro (War­rior Plus)
  • JV­Zoo
  • Di­giRe­sults

ClickBank’s 1 Click Up­sell is fully in­te­grated in DL­Guard 5!

Re­cur­ring billing sim­pli­fied for 2Checkout and Alert­pay (Payza)

DL­Guard now sup­ports 1Shoppingcart’s 1SC up­sells, al­lows non-DL­­Guard prod­ucts to be pur­chased in same 1SC cart.

New pay­ment processors:

  • SWReg
  • Plimus
  • CC­Bill (spe­cial­iz­ing in high risk products)
  • RevenueWire/SafeCart
  • Com­merseGate
  • Fast­Spring
  • Mul­ti­Safe­Pay (for Eu­ro­pean ven­dors - in­cludes iDeal)
  • Pay­pal Dig­i­tal Goods. For down­load­able prod­ucts only - dis­plays pay­ments and down­load link in light­box hov­er­ing over sales page. That sounds in­ter­est­ing, never heard of it before!

New Look and Feel for DL­Guard 5. The ad­min Dash­board, page tem­plates, and shop­ping cart have up­graded their web de­sign. DLG 5 looks more spa­cious and more 2012.

DL­Guard Cart (the shop­ping cart part of DLG) has been up­graded with lots of en­hance­ments. De­tails here.

SSL Cer­tifi­cates – you can now (op­tion­ally) use https:// with your web site to give your cus­tomers en­hanced se­cu­rity. This is a big one! It’s been proven again and again that higher se­cu­rity in­creases sales. Cus­tomers are still scared when buy­ing on­line, and any­thing that adds vis­i­ble se­cu­rity will make your sales go up!

These are just the high­lights from DL­Guard 5 that stand out for me. For a full list of fea­tures and V5 en­hance­ment visit the DL­Guard web site.