New and existing customers alike, please check out this release. You will be glad you did.

Continuing our march towards the most complete business automation software for SMB’s in the licensing and digital goods market, we’re pleased to announce the release of SPBAS v1.2. This is the culmination of over two months work, and we hope that you will all enjoy and appreciate the changes.

Two of the main highlights for this release are the beginning of our tax support and also a fully featured promotions module. We feel our promotions module is particularly impressive, giving you numerous options to create varied and exciting promotions (coupons) for your users. As well as fixed value discounts in multiple currencies, along with the ability to define “percentage off” promotions, the promotions module used in conjunction with our pricing sheet system allows you fine grained control over the price of individual products - you really do need to try this feature out yourself to see its power and flexibility.
Along with the new features, we’ve also had some very useful feedback on the SPBAS User Interface, and so v1.2 includes an updated navigation structure along with a new skin. Along with this, we’ve also started to make available lots of information and summaries at your fingertips, with the new per-module dashboards to help you understand and see what is going on with your business. We hope you find these changes improve your SPBAS experience.

SPBAS Promotion - 25% off with coupon code NewRelease

To celebrate the new v1.2 release and promotions feature, we felt this would be a great time to run our own promotion on SPBAS licenses. All SPBAS licenses (SPBAS 1000, SPBAS 2500 & SPBAS 5000) will be discounted by 25% from now until Monday 16 November 2009. To take advantage of the promotion, enter coupon ‘NewRelease‘ during checkout - this makes the cheapest SPBAS license only $149!

A fully supported product with great features including Paypal support; Google checkout; multi-currency support; a complete licensing, invoicing and product management system; along with new features like our knowledgebase, CMS, and promotions system; makes SPBAS the ideal solution.

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There are a few contenders for licensing/distribution software available online. The top two are SPBAS (also known as SolidPHP and PHPAudit) and PHPLicengine.

SPBAS by SolidPHP - they have discontinued PHPAudit and Iono. After reviewing both products we ended up choosing SPBAS. It seemed to offer more features and have a larger support and community behind it.	PHPLicengine - I’m not familiar with this one, but we downloaded the demo and tried it out. Great for those we cannot afford SPBAS and are looking for someone simple.
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These licensing/distribution systems usually use a couple of methods:

1.) A local key - Your clients are given a key file which they have to upload to their server. The key expires after a set time and they then have to upload another key. You can automate this and have your script fetch the key automatically and store it in the db. Clients will quickly get fed up with having to upload a license key file every month etc.

2.) A remote “call home” every so often. You’ll need to code it so that if your site is off line then your script still works, and also if you move servers or change domains etc you don’t want you clients’ sites to stop working.

Comparison

Comparison of PHPAudit, iono and PHPLicengine.

Note: PHPAudit and iono are now combined and called SPBAS

	PHPLicengine |	iono |	PHPAudit
Remote Licensing
Local Licensing
ionCube Licensing
Custom Key / Value Pairs
Dynamic Key / Value Pairs
Shopping Cart
Invoice Management
Order Management
Download Management
Client Management
Customizable Templates
Language Files
Email Templates
Kayako / eSupport
Cerberus HelpDesk v4.
Cerberus HelpDesk v3.
SupportTrio
Custom HelpDesk Integration
SMF Forums
phpBB Forums
MyBB Forums
Custom Forum Integration
minFraud
TeleSign
MaxMind Phone
API
Jrox Affiliate
iDev Affiliate
Testimonial Manager
News Manager
Google Analytics

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SPBAS

Order now to save $50 on SPBAS 1000 & 2500 and $100 on SPBAS 5000.

PHPLicengine