False review! Updates do work like for any other WP plugin, this plugin is free.
You seem to review the Pro Addon instead of the free plugin available here! So this is actually the wrong place for that.
Updates of the Pro Addon can be downloaded as a zip file and installed. I am currently in the process of figuring out why auto updates do not work with the easy digital downloads support, this issue came up after I switched host to pantheon and they refused to help me with this.
Nextgenthemes.com uses the “Stop Spammers” plugin that is pretty aggressive in stopping spammers and sometimes there are false positives, I regularly check allow requests and approve them so I think its pretty unfair to blame me for trying to keep spam bot off my site. All you needed to do is to apply to the allow lists or find out my mail or even try to contact me on the support forum here. Did you do any of this before you wrote a negative review? My guess is not.
I also would love to see this “better solutions”, would love to compare the ARVE Pro features, with other plugin. Not saying there is none, but I heard at least someone else make that claim but never named names either.
