PayPal Buttons and Digital Downloads
Yesterday, I spent some time working on a “Warrior Special Offer” (WSO). Having produced the necessary copy I had to integrate the PayPal button that I was planning to use for payments into my website so that I could automate the delivery of the digital product concerned. This proved to be far from straightforward.
When you place a PayPal button on a website any user of that website can view the underlying (X)HTML and access the parameters that you are passing to PayPal in respect of the transaction. Unless great care is taken, a less than honest person could gain access to your digital products for, say, $0.01 or even free.
You might have thought that PayPal would provide a packaged solution to this problem, but they do not. They do, however, provide a system that allows third party developers to provide such solutions.
The most well known product is probably DLGuard. However, for my purposes this is rather too complicated and at $147 more than I was planning to pay. I spent quite some time searching the internet and after a few false starts found a super package: the Quick PayPal Digital Download Manager (QPPDownload). As its name suggests it works with PayPal and is very straightforward to set up and use. And it’s only $19.95.
I believe that it’s a great product and support is good too. And if $19.95 is too much for you to pay, drop me an email and I will tell you how to get it for less than half price!
