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eSellerate Product Activation is our anti-piracy technology designed specifically to verify that your software has been legitimately licensed. It is a quick, simple and unobtrusive way to protect your software against casual software piracy and help increase your overall revenue through your existing sales channels. This powerful option allows you to limit the number of times your software can be activated - or made functional through serial number registration - on multiple machines.
How Product Activation Works
Ensuring the end user's privacy, product activation has been kept completely separate from product registration. Customers required to activate their software must complete a simple, straightforward and anonymous activation process that takes less than one minute to complete over the Internet. This process can be summarized in three easy steps:
- During activation, eSellerate looks at the computer's present hardware configuration, and to ensure the end user's privacy, uses a one-way mathematical algorithm to create unique hardware identification data.
- Once created, the hash information cannot be recalculated back to its original value, and is transferred only by the strongest encryption available to the eSellerate servers.
- eSellerate's server then generates a key based on that data and sends it back to the user's computer, activating the program on that system.
Using Product Activation
eSellerate Product Activation has been designed so that the software developer has complete control over how it is implemented.
Some options for deploying product activation include, but are not limited to, automatically activating the software at the time of purchase, activating the software when the user enters a serial number, and periodically validating that the software is being used on the machine where it was activated.
Benefits of Product Activation
eSellerate is confident that implementation of product activation will result in the increase of your product's revenue, but there are other benefits as well.
Over time, reduced piracy means that the software industry can invest more in product development, quality and support. This ensures better products and more innovation for your customers and end users. An added benefit for the end user is that they may also see a reduction in the initial cost of the software as well.
Is Product Activation Right For You?
Deciding if product activation is right for your software can be a difficult process as you balance your customer's wants and needs with that of your own. Asking yourself some simple questions may help you make that decision. Questions such as:
- Do you feel that you are losing sales due to casual software piracy?
- Do you want to increase the overall revenue of your product?
- Are your serial numbers appearing on "serialz" and "warez" sites?
LEARN MORE ABOUT ESELLERATE
To learn more about eSellerate, feel free to browse around the site. If you still have questions, you may contact us at 888-477-3269 or send us an e-mail at sales@esellerate.net. If you would like an eSellerate representative to contact you, please submit this form.
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