Why is ELA™ technology a step beyond ESD?

There are many advantages of using Electronic License Activation™ (ELA) in your software activation. This is what makes the SoftwareKey Licensing System one step above, one step beyond an ESD or "buy and download" e-commerce provider. ELA offers you so much more than simply delivering software electronically. ELA allows you to control how your software is used because you create and control the licensing options available to your customers.

For example:

• In many cases, your customer already has your software as demoware and they simply
  need to enable it.
• Customers are not forced to re-download software from the Internet with ELA - so it saves them time (they will like you for this!).
• Customers are not forced to install the real software over the demo software - saves even more time!
• With ESD alone, a customer could e-mail the real software to a friend for free, or a software distributor could inadvertently give the software away.
• With "buy and download" sites, you as a developer cannot tap into the
  power and flexibility of sending software keys (ELA) to your application in
  the future (pay-per-use, renting, multi-user licensing, etc.) With ELA there
  is more to it than just giving the customer the real software. You are
  actually establishing a license-based relationship with your customer and
  offering a value added customer service. Using ELA-commerce in the long
  term provides continuing income.
• With ESD, if you want to implement Software Licensing features, you must
  do this in addition to giving the download site an unlocked copy of
  your software. SoftwareKey SOLO™ and Protection PLUS™ add one more
  layer of protection and control to the developer and the distributor.
• Many buy and download sites allow repeated downloads using their Order
  ID, essentially allowing the customer to download an unlimited number of
  times by paying for it once. This one Order ID could be shared, sold OR
  hacked to allow unauthorized downloads. Why give your software away if
  you don't have to? Using SoftwareKey SOLO to not only download but also
  unlock prevents these illegal copies. One buy = one unlock .