Top 5 Developer Preferences #2

All "Full Featured" Copy Protection Products Are Not Alike

Preference #2: Easy To Use

Easy to Manage. Most protection products offer little or no support for developers. Developers prefer protection that makes it simple to issue license keys to customers.

CrypKey is aware that developers appreciate the value of automating these processes. As such, Casper (CrypKey Automated Software Purchasing & Electronic Registration) gives you maximum control by providing your customers and prospective customers with online registration and authentication services 24/7. Casper saves you and your staff valuable time to spend on new projects, other work or activities. CrypKey SKGL (Site Key Generator Library) is also available for developers who prefer to create their own e-commerce enabled website, making the entire integration even easier.

Highly Customizable. Developers also seek software protection that is easy to customize, so their software looks and works the way it was intended it to. Most of the products tested by developers we surveyed were rated as too restrictive in terms of how functions worked, how they were configured and their inability to do what developers expected.

CrypKey Instant and CrypKey SDK rated at the top of their respective categories for providing all the features developers want and expect. These protection products offer the ability to customize how individual features will function with each software application.

Trials That Deliver

Part of the easy-to-use protection factor is the need for product trials that are easy to use and flexible. CrypKey empowers you with the right tools to offer your customers fully functioning software trials that are both easy and secure. Consider what you want. You want to protect your software against unauthorized copying and usage but there are other considerations. You want software protection that will…

• make it easy for your customers to obtain, install and sample your demo software;
• make it possible for all prospective customers to try any version of your software;
• permit customers to try different levels, options and versions for initial purchase and future upgrades/add-ons;
• give you the ability to “unlock” enhanced features for customers to try.

You don’t want:

• your potential customers to have any problems installing or configuring your demo, leading them to think your product are too complex;
• to offer trial options requiring extensive programming on your part;
• your potential customer to experience problems with your demo. If the demo version causes problems, you are less likely to make a sale; or
• an inflexible protection product that won’t cater to existing customers.

Product Trial Questions

Don’t choose a protection solution that won’t do what it claims to … or that won’t do what you want it to do. Be aware of the various questions you can ask concerning product trials. Click here for answers to some of the most common questions we’ve received from software developers like you.