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Protecting online course and E-book from those who did not make a purchase

GilaLife — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 17:47:47 GMT

Can anyone help me to learn to protect my online course and E-book from those who did not purchase it. I would like to protect my work, Thank you in advance for any and all suggestions.

Re: Protecting online course and E-book from those who did not make a purchase

VanKalkerFarms — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 20:46:21 GMT

An option would be to host it on a site where you can password protect a file.

This site allows you to password protect a link https://short.io/features/password-protection

I Have not used this or any sire but it is a good starting point to look at and google some other options.

Re: Protecting online course and E-book from those who did not make a purchase

GilaLife — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 23:57:56 GMT

Thank you I wlll take a look

Re: Protecting online course and E-book from those who did not make a purchase

Quetzalli — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 18:02:12 GMT

password protection does not help. Anyone can google your work and see it. Just not get to it directly from your website, but yes through a google search.

Re: Protecting online course and E-book from those who did not make a purchase

JK_Fiber_Art — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 19:20:03 GMT

Hi GilaLife,

Selling digital downloads is a unique service and unless you're a coder with access to server resources you can manage, you may want to consider a 3rd party service that's intended to do what you have in mind. Here's a link that highlights some of the various services. Note, there are additional costs to consider and most of these services seem to use PayPal or Stripe however, some do offer ACH transfers. Not sure if any of them can interface with Square direct for processing the transaction (that would be great). The main issue with digital downloads is that either your link and/or password can be shared if you're not using a 3rd party service that can prevent this from happening.