Online software store license generation?

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Can someone give me an overview of what is involved in building a simple 1 product online store for a software product.
Basic functions are:

  • Homepage with product info, embedded YouTube tour and usage info video.
  • User account creation and management (name, email, phone#, purchase status, etc).
  • Paypal payment processing
  • Payment status updating from Paypal for each user email.
  • Software license file generation based on user hardware ID string up to 2 hardware IDs.

I’ve seen these types of sites to do user self service for license generation and payment. I’m trying to get an idea on how much is involved in building this site from Wix users that have done this before. Trying to determine if Wix has simple, elegant solutions for me, or if I’m going to be home growing most of it myself, learning as I go along by building my own from scratch and just getting an IIS or Apache server hosted.
Ideally I would love if Wix has some sort of Online store module that maintains the user database and does all the username/ password stuff already, so I don’t have to build that.
And also some way to write an object class that takes in a hardware ID and spits out a License file and then posts it to an individual user’s download area on the user’s dashboard page.

I’ve seen many of these types of websites, but are they all home grown one-off’s? They seem so common that I don’t want to reinvent the wheel and I am hoping that Wix has these tools already built and ready to use.

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Hi,

You are welcome to try WixStores
There’s an option to sell digital/downloads products (in different format, also zip)
The customer gets the file after completing the purchase (also available in his private Customer’s account)
Check it out… maybe you don’t even need code

Hope this helps :slight_smile:

Thanks

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Yes, I’m aware of the stores with digital download products.
But what if a digital product needs a license generation to complement a license check embedded within the software download?
I’m a C# developer and can handle the product side decryption and license check classes.

But does Wix even have some facility to execute a Class or Module or some Routine that I write on the server side to generate the license details and do an asymmetric encryption?
Or is Wix not that flexible and only allows a digital product to just be downloaded with no automated license generation action to be taken?

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did you succeeded with that? I’m also interested.

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Old post from 2018 being closed.
Please add a new forum post with link to refer back to post if still need help.