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DLGuard v4.5 released!

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

DLGuard v4.5 is now ready to download.

The changes are as follows:

NEW FEATURES:

- Added Click2Sell payment processor support

- Added Mal’s E-Commerse payment processor support

- Added REAL official Aweber automatic integration (Note: this is not the form processors that other systems pass off as Aweber integration - this was a real project between DLGuard and Aweber to integrate our two systems)

- Added multiple product support for 1ShoppingCart

- 1ShoppingCart offline orders now mark the customer as Pending instead of giving instant access to the download file

- Paypal sales are now automatically marked as refunded in DLGuard when such an event occurs

- LinkPoint now sends the price variable to the single item download page

- Individual membership groups can now have their own thankyou page template

- Individual membership groups can now have their own login template

- All product numbers are POSTed to the Cart Custom Script instead of just the first one

- If membership group email is left empty, no email is sent on signup (ie. Leave it blank to not send a welcome email from DLGuard)

- Added ability to list download products as a range for memberships rather than having to specify each product individually (eg. 1:10 will list products 1 through to 10)

- Better error checking and handling for database

- Export To Screen feature now has a “Refunded” mark next to each listing that has been refunded

- Added “Icon” display for Cart bonuses, instead of just in the table

- Added better support for Wordpress memberships and downloads within the blog

- Word-around added for a PayDotCom bug that doesn’t send correct info back to DLGuard for recurring payments that use a trial

- DLGuard now blocks Banned emails from accessing membership areas

- Customer’s email and receipt is now removed from the download page after their link expires

 

FIXES:

- Fixed issue where some setups would generate a new listing for refunded Paypal sales

- Fixed error where apostrophes were rejected in DLGuard admin

- Fixed issue where some setups would not block a Paypal member after their membership expires

 

Current DLGuard members can get this upgrade by logging in to their DLGuard membership area.

All DLGuard members have also been emailed upgrade details. Also, Follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with new DLGuard changes: http://www.twitter.com/DLGuard

DLGuard v4.4.1 released!

Monday, December 8th, 2008

DLGuard v4.4.1 has now been released!

DLGuard v4.4.1

The changes are as follows:

NEW FEATURES

- Added PagSeguro payment processor support (for Brazil)

- Ability to Import a customer as the buyer of multiple products in DLG Admin (ie. a cart customer)

- 2Checkout via DLGuard Cart uses extra variable names to log sales info in 2CO admin as now required by 2CO

- 2Checkout via DLGuard Cart passes purchase details to 2CO’s admin area via the oddly named “Unknown Parameters” section

- Added ability to delay download access for single products and cart (ie. Set Hours To Download to: 1,4 which means allow access after 1 hour delay, and then for 4 hours, for example)

- White line around Checkout box is now available via style.css file for DLGuard Cart

- Added Paypal “Auto Return ON” support for recurring Paypal payments (ie. memberships)

- Added Paypal “Auto Return ON” support for Paypal installment payments (ie. single products)

- Added Large File download method (selectable from DLGuard Config screen) allowing much better download stability for larger files or strict and/or unstable hosting providers

- Added ability to disable script timeout (selectable from DLGuard Config screen) for downloads, which can help large file downloads on some servers

- “Extra File” downloads in members area now uses the download options as set in DLGuard’s Config

- “Forgot Password” feature for memberships now sends the password for the latest purchase of the same membership by the same customer (ie. if a customer repurchases access to the same membership area)

- Added option for “Forgot Password” feature to ignore cancelled or expired memberships (accessed via DLGuard Config screen)

- “Pending” single item sales now don’t allow access to memebership areas until pending mark removed

- Display number of Cart Sales on “Cart Summary” page in DLGuard instead of download count

- Added “Donation” support for Paypal (just set Paypal price to zero in DLGuard’s Add Product page)

- Added better file type detection for downloadable files

- Better registration validation in the case DLGuard server is down (will still allow DLGuard admin access)

- Added version number to DLGuard admin page in more obvious position

- Membership downloads are now listed in the order their products numbers added to Edit Group page

- If a member is part of two membership groups, added option to display downloads from both groups in the one membership area

- Added all Paypal currencies to Recurring Memberships setup

 

 

FIXES

- Paypal Cart products were listed twice in Customer Search page

- Paypal Cart sales weren’t being listed in Export Customers page

- Paypal split payments weren’t registering when a coupon was used

- Fixed Clickbank recurring payment cancellations not always being validated

- Receipt wasn’t passed to the download email correctly for when Paypal payment installments used (for Single Item products)

- Cart product display issue for when first product has been added then removed

- Cart page number display issue for when first product has been added then removed

- Authorize.Net validation issue

- Removed references to a thankyou page for free products

- Ebay’s IPN repost fixed so it only runs when a matching product is found

- JVM GetCode missing a slash in “include” URL

- Removed “Must Add Paid Product To Cart” message on Cart checkout screen if the whole cart is empty

- PayDotCom sales now stores the customer’s IP address instead of server IP address

- Typo in Getting Started for Memberships Help document

- Typo in Cart Edit page

Current DLGuard members can get this upgrade by logging in to their DLGuard membership area. All DLGuard members have also been emailed upgrade details.

DLGuard v4.3 released!

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

DLGuard v4.3

DLGuard version 4.3 has been released!

This new upgrade, which is free for all DLGuard v4 members with current upgrade and support memberships is jammed full of new features and a few fixes.

 

New Features in DLGuard v4.3:

  • 1ShoppingCart integration for Single Item Products
  • Clickbank “Instant Notification” integration: refunded and membership cancellations will be automatically handled by DLGuard
  • Full GetResponse integration: your customer can now be added to GetResponse mailing lists automatically
  • Authorize.net integration added to DLGuard Cart
  • “Search” feature added to DLGuard Cart
  • Cart products by default are now listed in order of DLGuard Product Number
  • Cart products listing order can now be set by user
  • Ability to set the number of cart products that should be listed per page in your cart
  • Cart page selector added to bottom of cart pages
  • DLGuard Cart product listing can now use commas for decimal points (for certain European countries)
  • Clickbank capitalized customer name and email is now forces to Title Case for names, and lowercase for emails for correct and easy to read formatting
  • Better Ebay listing title matching added
  • Addition of extra download page variable: %%paymentamount%% which lists the actual amount paid by customer (ie. when a coupon is used, for example)
  • When selling via a Paypal payment plan, the total price is now shown in price variables
  • With-holding download until Paypal eChecks clear is now option (can be set via DLGuard “Config” page)
  • Alertpay now offers multiple payment currencies
  • Removal of Alertypay “Test Mode”, as they no longer support setting this variable via payment button
  • Alertypay uses IP tracking rather than cookies tracking to return customers to download pages
  • $signupdate variable is now availible in members area to list your customer’s signup date (uses timestamp format)

 

Fixes in DLGuard v4.3: 

  • Removal of http_session_vars variables that cause problems with some newer servers (now uses standard $_Session variables)
  • Cart thankyou page template mentinoned “membership” insead of purchase
  • Members.html template has correct image paths
  • Out Of Time error on single item download page now uses the text from language file

The new update can be downloaded from the DLGuard v4 members area.

We’d like to thank our members who have made this latest release possible by your continued support.

Thank you!

DLGuard v4.2 released!

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

DLGuard v4.1.2 Upgrade

DLGuard version 4.2 has been released!

This new upgrade, which is free for all DLGuard v4 members contains a lot of new features that have been requested by DLGuard members, as well as a number of fixes.

 

New Features in DLGuard v4.2:

  • When a membership is cancelled, member has access until the end of the current pay period
  • DLG detects MySQL database configuration changes, and will direct you to the Config screen to update these in DLGuard
  • Zero dollar items can be added to DLG Cart, and will be available to your customers when they purchase a paid product
  • Stop users from trying to checkout with just a $0 balance in DLG Cart
  • Alertpay now tracks sales process via IP address instead of session variable
  • Importing a customer now removes unsupported characters from receipt number automatically
  • “Forgot Password” link displays on the membership login page when your member gets their login details wrong
  • Checking for banned emails upgraded for better accuracy
  • Better ability to delete customers with corrupted data (from an incorrect import)
  • An easy to read error message is now displayed if your download URL doesn’t exist
  • DLGuard reminds you not to use a space in your filename if you try and do so
  • Ability to use a download message instead of a download link for bonus products listed in a table
  • Your DLGuard receipt number is now displayed (and changeable) via your Config screen
  • Cart purchases can now use the variable %%productname%% on the cart’s download template to list all the products a customer has bought
  • Products in DLGuard admin screen can be sorted by product number, name, and processor type, for both ascending and descending listings
  • Added a Search box in DLGuard admin screen for you to easily find an item or number of items you’re interested in
  • After importing a customer, a link to the customer details is now displayed
  • Added ability to set “date of purchase” when importing a single customer (defaults to current day)
  • Better security for membership download links
  • Various Help and Hint updates to give DLG user’s easier to read and more accurate instructions

 

Fixes in DLGuard v4.2: 

  • Download URL to relative path conversion more accurate when subdomains are used
  • Closing <font> tag in customer sign-up form fixed
  • Clickbank Membership sales link redirecting correctly
  • Updated Clickbank membership return variable to match Clickbank’s system change
  • Coupons for Clickbank auto-return now working
  • Blank emails being sent when Importing a customer into a membership fixed
  • Paypal recurring billing refund now handles date correctly
  • Fixed issue in sales statistics display when a customer’s purchase date is empty
  • Fixed validation issue for Paypal recurring payments when recurring number is set to 1

The new update can be downloaded from the DLGuard v4 members area.

We strongly believe our dedication to constant and quality updates will continue to keep us way ahead of the competition, as well as offering our clients the best value for money.

DLGuard v4.1.1: Ebay and E-Bullion

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

With the release of DLGuard v4.1.1 today, DLGuard members have welcomed a number of excellent new features.

These features are naturally free of charge to all DLGuard v4 members.

We have added E-Bullion support as a new payment processor integration in DLGuard.

 

Another exciting feature is the new Ebay Delivery System:

The ebay delivery feature is a new feature designed to make selling products on Ebay easier for you. An issue sometimes arises where the download emails you send to your customers are removed by spam filters.

By setting your product to a Digital Downloadable product when you list it in Ebay, you can set a Download URL - DLGuard gives you a delivery URL to put here. This means after your customer pays for your Ebay product there is a link that will take them to an input box.

In this box your customer will enter their Paypal email address and the item number of the Ebay product they just bought. They will then be transferred to their secure and expiring download page as usual.

This means your customers will no longer need to wait for their download link via email. They will, however, still be sent their download email as per usual.

With this new feature, DLGuard continues to be the most powerful and logical choice for people who sell digital products via Ebay (and other major payment processors).

We’d like to thank our members for making these upgrades possible.

 

DLGuard v4 released!

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

DLGuard version 4 has now been released!

The new version contains many new features that our members have been asking for, including:

Shopping Cart Updates:
Cart code has been heavily rewritten to dramatically speed up cart browsing for people with huge product lists

The shopping cart now displays 15 items per page (if you have more than 15 items, it will be split onto a second page). A drop-down box is displayed on your cart page so your customers can jump to a certain page

Cart categories are now listed in alphabetical order in the shopping cart’s side menu

Cart now works with Paypal’s Auto Return turned On

Cart purchase price is now available on the cart download page as %%productprice%% . This can be used for display purposes, or for scripts such as affiliate tracking

“Full Description” text now available in language file

 

Memberships Updates:
ClickBank recurring billing integration for DLGuard’s Memberships

LinkPoint payment processor added for DLGuard’s Memberships

PayPal recurring sales can now be limited to a certain number of billings. So, for example, you can bill your customer three times and then stop. This can also be used for demos - a customer signup’s up for a free trial at the end of which they’re automatically billed by Paypal.

Single purchase memberships can be limited to a certain access period. So for example you can link your membership group to a single item sale product, but then restrict the access to six months. This will allow you to sell different levels of memberships such as six months access for $10 or twelve months access for $15. This can also be used to give a trial period - someone buys a 3 month membership, then at the end of it they can choose to move to a recurring billing membership. At the end of the set period, access is blocked.

Paypal’s IPN can now be replicated and re posted to your own URL. This can be used for any script that needs access to Paypal’s IPN for recurring payments, such as affiliate scripts. The Repost URL will receive the exact Paypal IPN data that it normally would if it was set up as Paypal’s IPN URL.

 

Single Item Sales Updates:
LinkPoint payment processor added for DLGuard’s Single Item Sales

Clickbank sales can now be directed straight to the download page without having to ask your customer for their name and email address.

Paypal Shopping Cart now supported in Paypal items. This means you can set up your own shopping cart on your website using Paypal’s cart feature. The cart code is available from a Paypal’s Get Code link in DLGuard.

Products listed on Single Item Summary screen can now be split into multiple pages for those people with large product lists.

 

General:
Search terms in DLGuard remove any extra trailing spaces on term

Paypal’s “Return To Merchant” link now returns your customer to your main domain name

DLGuard’s home page now lists “number of sales” for your products instead of raw download counts

Ability to change “Free Download” text via the language templates

Trailing spaces removed from coupon for better matching

Error message when no coupon is entered, but the coupon box is submitted is now more descriptive

 

Fixes:
Clone error when product included single quote

Extra Text wasn’t show on Cart Download Page

Cart Email link wasn’t working for 2Checkout purchases

Test Settings page now doesn’t list the pre-MySQL update files

We’d like to thank our members - it is you who allow us to continue to release new features that keep DLGuard a long way ahead of our competition.

 

Extra Scripts section opened for DLGuard members

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

An extra scripts section has now been opened in the DLGuard members area.

This section will offer free scripts that can enhance your DLGuard experience, and is our way of saying Thank you for the ongoing and growing support DLGuard is blessed with.

As an opening offer, the free script added is a One-Time-Offer coupled with AWeber automated signups for ClickBank. The AWeber automated signup form adheres to AWeber’s Terms Of Service that does not allow third party scripts to automatically add customers to AWeber mailing lists. This script solves this ongoing issue for ClickBank vendors, and is free for all DLGuard v3 (and greater) members.

We look forward to adding more scripts to this area in the future.

PostAffiliate Pro integrates DLGuard

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Popular affiliate script PostAffiliate Pro has now added DLGuard into it’s integration list.

What this means is that people using PostAffiliate Pro will be easily able to generate the tracking code that can be pasted directly into DLGuard. This code will track affiliate sales made through PostAffiliate Pro and DLGuard. When generating tracking code, the PostAffiliate Pro user will simply select “DLGuard” as the product type, and the correct code will be generated for them.

Sam Stephens from DLGuard and Martin Melisek from QualityUnit (developers of PostAffiliate Pro) are both excited about this new development, making integration faster and easier for their clients.

DLGuard goes MySQL with v3.1.1

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

With the release of DLGuard v3.1.1 yesterday, DLGuard has now moved to a MySQL database.

This database format will offer the power and speed that many large clients require, as well as offering access to the database for developers.

There are a number of other upgrades included in this release, including better Paypal support, more secure EGold support, support for non-downloadable products, and a lot more. A huge chuck of DLGuard source code was rewritten making this release the most powerful DLGuard ever.

DLGuard continues to stay way ahead of the competition with it’s continual upgrades and new features.

Some people may why MySQL wasn’t simply used in the first place. The answer basically this: it wasn’t needed. The addition of MySQL means there is an extra thing to setup when first installing DLGuard. MySQL is over-kill for many scripts out there, it’s only now that DLGuard’s features have grown that the future of DLGuard has turned to MySQL.

This is a very positive step to help guarantee that DLGuard stays the leader in download management and security.

256 Bit Encryption For DLGuard Customers

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

With the launch of DLGuard’s new help desk ticket system for customer support requests it was deemed appropriate to implement a secure SSL certificate for the site.

Using 256 bit encryption, a Secure Server Certificate has been issued and placed on the DLGuard website. This means that all information a customer may send and receive from the help desk ticket will be encrypted, dramatically increasing customer privacy, especially if sensitive information is shared.

This is the latest improvement made by DLGuard to help protect their valued clients.