Working On Some Exciting New Software For Selling Digital Downloads

Over the last few weeks I have been working on some exciting new software to add to my portfolio, it is slightly different to the other two products I have as it is not a WordPress plugin but it is a stand alone piece of software.

During the time that i have been selling the datafeed import and amazon import plugins for WordPress I have been using some software that I bought to manage the sale of those digital download products. Although good, this did not do exactly what I wanted.

The main problem with the software I use is that it only managed digital downloads automatically via Paypal, I wanted software that would use both Paypal and Google checkout. In addition the interface for this software was not ideal, and managing updates to products was a little tricky.

I have therefore designed a product that does everything I require. It is currently in development and following that I will be testing it myself for my own products, however, I hope to get it launched as a product soon after that.

What will the new product do?

In simple terms it will manage the process of selling digital downloads via paypal or google checkout. It will allow you to create a product, upload the digital download and automatically create buy now buttons for paypal and google checkout.

When someone buys your product it will automatically check that the sale has been completed before emailing the buyer login details to download the digital download that they have purchased.

It will ensure that the correct downloads are given tot he correct people and that they have paid the correct amount for that product.

It will also give you statistics on the sales of your products so that you can monitor their performance.

When you update a product, rather than having to FTP that file to your server like the software that I use, all you need to do is upload a new file via the interface.

Also if you change a product price or description, rather than having the manually change the code for the buy now buttons like you do with the software I use, which becomes a real pain when you have buy now buttons on many different pages on your site, all you need to do is change the details in the interface and the software will update the buttons automatically its self.

There is still allot of work that I need to do on the software, and indeed there is allot of testing that I need to do. I will also be looking for some other people to test it, so if you are involved with selling digital downloads please do contact me telling me what you do and what software you currently use, in return for your testing I will give you a free copy of my software including free updates to new features when I create them.

I hope that I will be launching the new software within the next month, but I will keep you updated on its progress.

As a little side, if you have any ideas for a name for the product please do post a comment, if I choose your name for my product I will give you a free copy of either this software or one of my plugins.

I also intend to change my Digitalquill site to reflect more the work I am doing now which is more Internet software rather than websites and multimedia. Not that I will not do that work but the website has not been updated for over 5 years and as such it really does need an overhaul and quite possibly a website redesign.

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