FAQ
Keycodes
I want to limit my software to a single computer.
My customers complaining they have not received the keycode or download link?
How do I stop people accesing my keycode generator directly?
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I want to limit my software to a single computer.
This is not a good idea for commercial software as many companies will not purchase software restricted to a single computer for various reasons, many of the extremely valid. However in some markets this is the only solution.
The way you might handle this is to incorporate software like Armadillo or ASProtect as a shell. The potential purchaser will download a trial version of your software and when ready to purchase will have the software generate a pre-purchase key that is a value based on the unique components in the computer.
You would accept the sale on your own website request the key in advance of the sale. You then append that key to the URL the customer needs to link to us in the form of free text (refer to Intermediate Level linking).
The order is completed and that value is passed back to you in both the sales notification e-mail and also straight to your online keycode generator (as supplied by one of the above parties).
The key will only generate such that it will only work on that one computer. WEe grab that key from the keygen and imbed it into the emailed receipt to the customer. He enters it into the program et voila - he is licensed. If he changes computer he has to come back to you for a replacement key.
Why are my customers complaining they have not received the keycode or download link?
It is down to psychology! If you got your copy they were sent theirs. Look at the subject field of your e-mail (see services about editing emails) and see if you can improve the subject field so they actually read it - use words like "Receipt and Keycode for XYZX". Avoid using capital letters as some spam filtering programs will assume it is spam. Tell them to look in their Junk Inbox if still not arriving.
How do I stop people accesing my keycode generator directly and stealing my keys?
Ask yourself another question. How would they do this? How will they know what the URL to your keycode generator is? We are not going to tell them and the customer has no way to find out. Even if they found it how will they know the formula for providing information to it?
As we handle several hundred GB of data a month they are unlikely to be able to grab it form our traffic but if really paranoid you use https (SSL).
We are unaware of any third parties accessing keycode generators on our vendor's websites.