Technical and commercial support policy : 


The best way to solve technical or commercial issue is to follow the guidelines of the support page  (https://www.vso-software.fr/support.php).


Refund policy:  *** Try before you buy ***


We value customer satisfaction and provide free unlimited trial versions of all our products for our customers to evaluate the software before making a purchase. All our software comes with a 7 days hassle-free unlimited trial with a possibility of 7 extra days with a valid email address. In VSO Downloader 6, the fully featured trial time becomes unlimited. 

Due to the expenses involved in payment processing we do not accept refunds for being unsatisfied with the product. 

Refunds are possible only in the following cases :

1) For duplicate orders (ordered twice by accident), (warning: partial refund)

2) Unwanted license renewal or wrong product ordered (warning: partial refund. Click here for details).

3) Major technical issue. If in the first 6 months after purchase user faces a major technical problem that VSO support team -with the help of user- confirms based on reports and testing that no solution can be provided within reasonable time. If the user refuses to help the technical support team (not providing reports, not executing diagnostic tools, refuse remote assistance, unwilling to provide technical information or detail issue, insult or defamation), no refund will be issued. If the technical occur on a computer not matching the system requirements and the user refuse to upgrade his hardware or move the software to a computer that reach the minimal requirement, no refund will be granted.

4) No other refund has been issued in the past for the same product and to the same customer. 


Refunded clients keys are immediately cancelled and no longer unlock the product.

License management: 

Commercial licenses are managed by at least one unlock key, coupled with online verification of the license/key (since 2017). The customer receives by email the unlock key which once entered will remove all the trial limitations and activate all the benefits of the commercial license.

Unlock keys start with VSO_V4K_ , they are very long thus they should not be entered manually.  The copy/paste feature of the operating system need to be used to enter the key. With the online activation system, "Key is for another software" is something of the past. Any unlock key attached to a customer license(s) can unlock any of his licensed software. A customer can also use his/her registration email address for all software as a simpler alternative to the long unlock key. As a result, customer will receive a verification email with either an activation link to click, or a pin code to enter in the software to unlock.

Internet Activation :

Software operational modes : 

Software can work in 3 different modes: Unlimited Trial, Limited Trial and Licensed. Limited and unlimited trial modes are for evaluation purpose only. No commercial use of the software is allowed. Some usage data is collected by the software and send to VSO during the trial. No personnal data is included. 

Unlimited Trial mode: 

At first use of the software, a trial period with unlimited feature is given for a few days (typically 7 days). 

Limited Trial mode:

The limited trial mode leaves enough features to continue using the software for testing purposes.
Some limitations are introduced, such as (non exhaustive list):

For VSO Downloader 6, we have removed the time limit for trial. It can be used for free without time limit. Other limitations are:

For the time being, we do not include 3rd party ads in our software. 

Software switch automatically to limited trial mode in the following cases: 

Licensed mode : 

Software switches to licensed mode when it has been activated online, as described above. 
All the limitations introduced in the trial mode are removed.
Sending usage data is always optional and disabled by default.

Customer License termination : 

VSO permanently disable license and their attached unlock keys without compensation if: 

Licensing scheme:

License can be purchased either for limited time for updates, or unlimited time for updates. All the licenses have a limited time for support.

License with limited time for updates (typically 1 year) :


License without time limit for updates



Older software: 

PhotoDVD, CopyToDVD, Blindwrite are older software which are no longer under active development. As some of our customers still find them useful, they can still be purchased or offered in bundle with other software.
Their licensing scheme does not work as described above. They do not have internet activation and limited time for update does not apply.

PhotoDVD does not have the same key format (key has 26 characters in uppercase)

Limited technical support is provided for these software. The new technical issues discovered are not to be fixed anytime soon.